THE HOLY QUR’ANSayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi, Trans./Ed. Zafar Ansari (1st 24 surahs)
Surah-1 Al-Fathiha
Ayah 1-7
1. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
2. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the entire universe.
3. The Merciful, the Compassionate,
4. The Master of the Day of Recompense.
5. You alone do we worship, and You alone do we turn to for help.
6. Direct us on to the Straight Way.
7. The way of those whom you have favoured, who did not incur Your wrath, who are not astray.
Surah-2 Al-Baqara
Ayah 1-5
1. Alif, Lam, Mim.
2. This is the Book of Allah, there is no doubt in it; it is a guidance for the pious,
3. For those who believe in the existence of that which is beyond the reach of human perception, Who establish Prayer and spend out of what We have provided them.
4. Who believe in what has been revealed to you and what was revealed before you, and have firm faith in the Hereafter.
5. Such people are on true guidance from their Lord; such are the truly successful.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 6-16
6. As for those who have rejected these truths it is all the same whether or not you warn them, for they will never believe.
7. Allah has sealed their hearts and their hearing, and a covering has fallen over their eyes. They deserve severe chastisement.
8. There are some who say: ‘We believe in Allah and in the Last Day’, while in fact they do not believe.
9. They are trying to deceive Allah and those who believe, but they do not realize that in truth they are only deceiving themselves.
10. There is a disease in their hearts and Allah has intensified this disease. A painful chastisement awaits them for their lying.
11. Whenever they are told: ‘Do not spread mischief on earth’, they say: ‘Why! We indeed are the ones who set things right.
12. They are the mischief-makers, but they do not realize it.
13. Whenever they are told: ‘Believe as others believe”, they answer: ‘Shall we believe as the fools have believed. Indeed it is they who are the fools, but they are not aware of it.
14. When they meet the believers, they say: ‘We believe’, but when they meet their evil companions, in privacy, they say: ‘Surely we are with you; we were merely jesting.
15. Allah jests with them,eaving them to wander blindly on in their rebellion.
16. These are the ones who have purchased error in exchange for guidance. This bargain has brought them no profit and certainly they are not on the right way.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 17-24
17. They are like him who kindled a fire, and when it lit up all around him, Allah took away the light (of their perception) and left them in utter darkness where they can see nothing.
18. They are deaf, they are dumb, they are blind; they will never return (to the right way).
19. Or they are like those who encounter a violent rainstorm from the sky, accompanied by pitch-dark clouds, thunder-claps and flashes of lightning: on hearing thunder-claps they thrust their fingers into their ears in fear of death. Allah encompasses these deniers of the Truth.
20. It is as if the lightning would snatch their sight; whenever it gleams a while for them they walk a little, and when darkness covers them they halt. If Allah so willed, He could indeed take away their hearing and their sight. Surely Allah is All-Powerful.
21. O mankind, serve your Lord Who has created you as well as those before you; do so that you are saved.
22. It is He Who has made the earth a resting place for you, and the sky a canopy, and sent down water from above with which He brought forth fruits for your sustenance. Do not, then, set up rivals to Allah when
23. If you are in any doubt whether it is We Who have revealed this Book to Our servant, then produce just a Surah like it, and call all your supporters and seek in it the support of all others save Allah. Accomplish this if your truthful.
24. But if you fail to do this - and you will most certainly fail - then have fear of the Fire whose fuel is men and stones and which has been prepared for those who deny the Truth.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 25-29
25. (O Prophet!) Announce glad tidings to those who believe in this Book and do righteous deeds (in accordance with its teachings), that for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow. Their fruits will have such resemblance to those of the earth that whenever they will be provided with those fruits they will say: ‘It was this which was granted to us on earth before. For them there shall be pure spouses, and there they shall abide forever.
26. Behold! Allah is not ashamed to propound the parable of a gnat, or even of something more lowly. On hearing these parables the believers know that it is the truth from their Lord, while those bent on denying the Truth say: ‘What does Allah mean by these parables?’ Thus He causes many to go astray just as He directs many to the right way. He thereby causes to go astray only the transgressors,
27. Who break the covenant of Allah after its firm binding, and cut asunder what Allah has commanded to be joined, and spread mischief on earth. They are the utter losers.
28. How can you be ungrateful to Allah Who bestowed life upon you when you were lifeless, will later cause you to die and will again bring you Back to life so that you will be returned to Him.
29. It is He Who created for you all that is on earth and then turned above and fashioned it into seven heavens. He knows all things.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 30-37
30. Just think when your Lord said to the angels: ‘Lo! I am about to place a vicegerent on earth’, they said: ‘Will You place on it one who will spread mischief and shed blood while we celebrate Your glory and extol Your holiness?’ He said : ‘Surely I know what you do not know.
31. Then Allah taught Adam the names of all things, and presented them to the angels and said: ‘If you are right (that the appointment of man as vicegerent will cause mischief) then tell Me the names of these things.
32. They said: ‘Glory to You! We have no knowledge except what You taught us. You, only You, are All-Knowing, All-Wise.
33. Then Allah said to Adam: ‘Tell them the names of these things’. And when he had told them the names of all thingsAllah said: ‘Did I not say to you that I know everything about the heavens and the earth which are beyond your range of knowledge and I know all that you disclose and all that you hide?
34. And when We ordered the angels: ‘Prostrate yourselves before Adam’, all of them fell prostrate, except Iblis. He refused, and gloried in his arrogance and became one of the defiers.
35. And We said: ‘O Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat abundantly of whatever you wish but do not approach this tree or else you will be counted among the wrong-doers.
36. But Satan caused both of them to deflect from obeying Our command by tempting them to the tree and brought them out of the state they were in, and We said: ‘Get down all of you, henceforth, each of you is an enemy of the other, and on earth you shall have your abode and your livelihood for an appointed time.’
37. There upon Adam learned from his Lord some words and repented and his Lord accepted his repentance for He is Much-Relenting, Most Compassionate.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 38-48
38. We said: ‘Get you down from here, all of you, and guidance shall come to you from Me: then, whoever will follow My guidance need have no fear, nor shall they grieve.
39. But those who refuse to accept this (guidance) and reject Our signs as false are destined for the Fire where there shall abide for ever.
40. Children of Israel! Recall My favour which I had bestowed on you, and fulfil your covenant with Me and I shall fulfil My covenant with you, and fear Me alone.
41. And believe in the Book which I have revealed and which confirms the Scripture you already have, and be not foremost among its deniers. Do not sell My signs for a trifling gain, and beware of My wrath. 42. Do not confound Truth by overlaying it with falsehood, nor knowingly conceal the Truth.
43. Establish Prayer and dispense the Purifying Alms (Zakah) and bow in worship with those who bow.
44. Do you enjoin righteousness on people but forget your own selves even thought you recite the Scripture? Have you no sense?
45. And resort to patience and Prayer for help. Truly Prayer is burdensome for all except the devout
46. Who realize that ultimately they will have to meet their Lord and that to ‘Him they are destined to return.
47. Children of Israel! Recall My favour which I bestowed upon you exalting you above all nations.
48. Fear the Day when no one shall avail another, when no intercession will be accepted, when no one will be ransomed, and no criminal receive any help
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 49-57
49. And recall when We rescued you from the slavery of Pharaoh’s people who had afflicted you with dreadful suffering, slaying your males and sparing your females. That was a tremendous trial for your Lord.
50. And recall when We split the sea, providing passage for you,and thus saved you and caused Pharao’s people to drown before your very eyes.
51. And recall when We summoned Moses for a term of forty nights, and then you set up the calf as your god in his absence. You indeed committed a grave wrong.
52. Yet We pardoned you that you might be grateful.
53. And recall (that while you were committing this wrong) We gave Moses the Scripture and the Criterion that you are guided to the right way.
54. And recall when (on returning with this favour) Moses said to his people: My people! You have wronged yourselves by taking the calf for god, so turn in repentance to your Creator and kill yourselves. This will be best for you in your Creator’s sight. Thereupon He accepted your repentance. Indeed He is Much-Relenting, Most Compassionate.
55. And recall when you said: ‘O Moses, we will not believe in you until we clearly see Allah (speaking to you).’ Thereupon a tremendous thunderbolt struck you before your very eyes.
56. Then We revived you after your extinction, that you might be grateful.
57. And We caused a cloud to comfort you with shade, giving you manna and the quails, (saying): ‘Eat of the good things that We have provided you as sustenance.’ And by their sinning (your forefathers) did not wrong Us: it is they themselves whom they wronged.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 58-61
58.And recall when We said: ‘Go into this town and eat abundantly of its food; but enter the gate prostrate, saying, “Repentance”. We will forgive you your sins and shall bestow more favour on the doers of good.’
59.Then the wrong-doers substituted another saying for that which had been given them; and so We sent down a scourge upon the wrong-doers from the heavens for their transgression.
60.And recall when Moses prayed for water for his people and We replied: ‘Strike the rock with your staff.’ And there gushed out from it twelve springs and each tribe knew its drinking place. (then you were directed): Eat and drink of the sustenance provided by Allah, and do not go about acting wickedly on earth, spreading mischief.’
61And recall when you said: ‘O Moses, surely we cannot put up with one sort of food, so pray to your Lord to bring out for us what the earth produces - its herbs and its cucumbers and its corn and its lentils and its garlic and its onions.’ Then Moses said: ‘Will you take a meaner thing in exchange of what is better? Go down to some city and there you shall get what you ask for,” And ignominy and wretchedness were pitched upon them and they were laden with the burden of Allah’s wrath. This was because they denied the signs of Allah and slew the Prophets unrightfully. And all this, because they disobeyed and persistently exceeded the limits (of the Law).
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 62-69
62.Whether they are the ones who believe ( in the Arabian Prophet), or whether they are Jews, Christians or Sabians - all who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and do righteous deeds - their reward is surely secure with their Lord; they need have fear, nor shall they grieve.
63.And recall when We made a covenant with you and caused the Mount to tower above you, (saying): ‘Hold fast to the Book that We have given you, and remember the directive and commandments in it, that you be pious.’
64.Then you turned away from your covenant, and had it not been for Allah’s grace and mercy upon you, you would have long been utter losers.
65.And you know the case of those of you who broke the Sabbath, how We said to them: ‘Become apes, despised and hated.
66.And thus We made their end a warning for the people of their own time and for the succeeding generations, and an admonition to the God-fearing.
67.And then recall when Moses said to his people: ‘Behold, Allah commands you to slaughter a cow.’ They said: ‘Are you jesting with us?’ Moses answered: ‘I seek refuge in Allah that I should behave in the manner of the ignorant.’
68.They said: ‘Pray to your Lord that He make clear to us what she is like.’ Moses answered: ‘He says, she is a cow, neither old nor immature, but of an age in between the two. Do, then, what you have been commanded.’
69.They said: ‘Pray to your Lord that He make clear to us of what colour she is.’ Moses answered: ‘He says, she is a yellow cow, with a bright colour which is pleasing to those who see!’
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 70-76
70.They said: ‘Pray to your Lord that He make clear to us what cow she is. Cows seem much alike to us, and if Allah wills, we shall be guided.’
71. Moses answered: ‘Lo! He says, she is a cow unyoked to plough the earth or to water the tillage, one that has been kept secure, with no blemish on her!’ Thereupon they cried out: ‘Now you have come forth with the information that will direct us aright.’ And they slaughtered her although they scarcely seemed to do so.
72. And recall when you killed a man and then began to remonstrate and cast the blame (of killing) upon one another even though Allah was determined to bring to light what you were hiding.
73. Then We ordered: ‘Smite the corpse with a part of it.’ Thus does Allah bring the dead to life and thus does He show His signs that you might understand.
74. Then (even after observing this) your hearts hardened and became like stones, or even harder. For surely there are some stones from which streams burst forth and some that split asunder and water issues out, and some that crash down for fear of Allah. Allah is not heedless of the things you do.
75.Do you hope that these people will believe in the message your are preaching, even though a party of them has been wont to listen to the Word of Allah and after they had fully grasped it knowingly distorted it.
76.And when they meet those who believe [in Muhammad] they say: ‘We too believe in him.’ But in their intimate meetings they say to one another: ‘How foolish! Why should you intimate to them what Allah has revealed to you, for they will use it as argument against you before your Lord?
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 77-83
77.Are they unaware that Allah knows all that they hide and all that they disclose?
78.Among them are also the unlettered folk who do not know about the Scriptures but cherish baseless wishes and merely follow their conjectures.
79. Woe, then, to those who write out the Scriptures with their own hands and then in order to make a trifling gain claim: ‘This is from Allah.’ Woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for what they thus earn.
80. And they say: ‘The Fire will certainly not touch us except for a limited number of days. Say (to them): ‘Have you received a promise from Allah- for Allah never breaks His promise - or do you attribute to Allah something about which you have no knowledge?’
81. Those who earn evil and are encompassed by their sinfulness are the people of the Fire, and there they will abide;
82.Those who believe and do righteous deeds are the people of the Garden, and there they will abide.
83.And recall when We made a covenant wit the Children of Israel: ‘You shall serve none but Allah and do good to parents, kinsmen, orphans and the needy, you shall speak kindly to men, and establish Prayer and give Purifying Alms (Zakah). And yet, except for a few of you, you turned back on this covenant, and you are still backsliders.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 84-88
84. And recall when We made a covenant with you, that you shall not shed one another’s blood, and shall not turn out one another from your homelands; you confirmed it, and you yourselves are witnesses to it.
85.And here your are, killing one another, turning out a party of your own from their homelands, aiding one another against them in sin and enmity, and if they come to you as captives you ransom them although the very act of expelling them was unlawful to you. Do you believe in a part of the Scripture and reject the rest? What else, then, could be the retribution of those among you who do this than that they should live in degradation in the present life, and that on the Day of Resurrection they should be sent to the severest chastisement? Allah is not heedless of what you do.
86. These are the ones who have bought the present life in exchange for the World to come. Their chastisement shall not be lightened, nor shall they be helped.
87.And We gave Moses the Scripture and caused a train of Messengers to follow him and then sent Jesus, the son of Mary, with clear proofs and supported him with the spirit of holiness. But, is it not true that every time a Messenger brought to you something that was not to your liking, you acted arrogantly: you called some Messengers liars and killed others?
88.They say: ‘Our hearts are well-protected. No! The fact is that Allah has cursed them because of their denying the Truth. So, scarcely do they believe.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 89-93
89.And now that there has come to them a Book from Allah, how are they treating it? Even though it confirms the Truth already in their possession, and even though they had prayed for victory against the unbelievers, and even when that Book came to them - and they recognized it - they refused to acknowledge its truth. Allah’s curse be upon the disbelievers.
90.Evil indeed is what they console themselves with. They deny the guidance revealed by Allah, grudging that He chose to bestow His gracious bounty (of revelation and Prophethood) on some of His servants whom he willed. Thus they have brought on themselves wrath after wrath, and a humiliating chastisement is in store for such unbelievers.
91. When they are told: ‘Believe in what Allah has revealed’, they say: ‘We believe only in what was revealed to us (Israel)’. They deny everything else even though it be the Truth which confirms the Truth already in their possession. Say (to them): ‘If indeed you are believers, why is it that in the past you killed the Prophets of Allah (who were from Israel)?’
92. Moses came to you with clear proofs and yet you were so wont to wrong-doing that as soon as he was gone you took to worshipping the calf.
93.Recall the covenant We made with you and caused the Mount to tower above you stressing: ‘Hold to what We have given you with full strength and give heed to it.’ But their forefathers said: ‘We hear, but we disobey’ - for their hearts were overflowing with love for the calf because of their unbelief. Say: ‘If you are men of faith, then evil are the things that your faith enjoins upon you.’
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 94-101
94.Say to them: ‘If indeed the Last Abode with Allah is yours, in exclusion of other people, then long for death if you indeed speak truly.’
95.But they shall never long for it because of what their hands have already wrought, and Allah is well aware of the wrongdoers.
96.You will certainly find them most eager to cling on to life, indeed even more eager than those who associate others with Allah in His divinity. Every one of them wishes to live a thousand years although the grant of long life cannot remove him from his chastisement. Allah sees whatever they do.
97.Say: ‘Whoever is an enemy to Gabriel (should know that) he revealed this (Qur’an) to your heart by Allah’s leave: it confirms the Scriptures revealed before it, and is a guidance and good tiding to the men of faith.
98. (And if this is the cause of their hostility to Gabriel, let them know) Whoever is an enemy to Allah, His Angels and His Messengers and to Gabriel and Michael will surely find Allah an enemy to such unbelievers.
99.And We sent down to you clear verses that elucidate the Truth, and which only the transgressors deny.
100.Is it not that every time they made a covenant with Allah a party of them set it aside? The truth is that most of them do not truly believe.
101And when there came to them a Messenger from Allah, confirming what they already possessed, a party of those who had been given the Scriptures flung the Book of Allah behind their backs as if they knew nothing,
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 102-105
102. And then followed what the evil ones falsely attributed to the Kingdom of Solomon even though Solomon had never disbelieved; it is the evil ones who had disbelieved, teaching people magic. And they followed what had been revealed to the two angels in Babylon - Harut and Marut - although these two (angels) never taught it to anyone without first declaring: ‘We are merely a means of testing people; so, do not disbelieve.’ And yet they learned from them what might cause division between a man and his wife. They could not cause harm to anyone except by the leave of Allah, and yet they leaned what harmed rather than profited them, knowing well that he who went for it will have no share in the World to Come. Evil indeed is what they sold themselves for - had they but known!
103. Had they believed and been God-fearing Allah’s reward would have been better! Had they but known!
104. O you who believe! Do not say (to the Prophet): ‘Ra’ina, (‘Lend ear to us’) but say ‘Unzurna’ (‘Favour us with your attention’) and pay heed to him. A painful chastisement awaits the unbelievers.
105. The unbelievers, be they the people of the Book or those who associate others with Allah in His divinity, do not wish that any good should be sent down upon you from your Lord. But Allah chooses for His mercy whomsoever He wills, and Allah is of Abounding Bounty.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 106-112
106. And for whatever verse We might abrogate or consign to oblivion, We bring a better one or the like of it. Are you not aware that Allah is All-Powerful?
107. Are you not aware that the dominion of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah, and that none besides Allah is your protector or helper?
108. Or would you ask your Messenger in the manner Moses was asked before? And whoever exchanges faith for unbelief has surely strayed from the right way.
109. Out of sheer envy many People of the Book would be glad to turn you back into unbelievers after you have become believers even though the Truth has become clear to them. Nevertheless, forgive and be indulgent towards them until Allah brings forth His decision. Indeed Allah is All-powerful.
110. Establish Prayer and dispense the Purifying Alms (Zakah). Whatever good deeds you send ahead for your own good, you will find them with Allah. Surely Allah sees all that you do.
111. And they say: ‘None shall enter the Garden unless he be a Jew” or (according to the Christians), “a Christians”. These are their vain desires. Say: ‘Bring your proof if you are speaking the truth.’
112. (None has any special claim upon reward from Allah.) Whoever submits himself completely to the obedience of Allah and does good will find his reward with his Lord. No fear shall come upon them, nor shall they grieve.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 113-119
113. The Jews say: ‘The Christians have no basis for their beliefs’, and the Christians say: ‘The Jews have no basis for their beliefs.’ They say so even though they read the Scriptures. The claim of those who have no knowledge (of the Scriptures) is similar. Allah will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning their differences.
114. And who is more unjust than he who bars Allah’s places of worship, that His name be mentioned there, and seeks their destruction? It does not behove such people to enter them, and should they enter, they should enter in fear. There is degradation for them in this world and mighty chastisement in the Next.
115. The East and the West belong to Allah. To whichever direction you turn, you will be turning to Allah’s. Allah is All-Embracing, All-knowing.
116. They say: ‘Allah has taken to Himself a son.’ Glory to Him. In truth, His is all that is in the heavens and the earth, and to Him are all in obeisance.
117. He is the Originator of the heavens and earth; whenever He decrees matter He (merely) says, ‘Be’, and it is.
118. The ignorant say: Why does Allah not speak to us? Why does no sign come to us? The same was said by people before them. Their hearts are all alike. We have made the signs clear for people of firm faith.
119. (What greater sign can there be than that) We sent you with the Truth as a bearer of good tidings and a warner! And you will not be answerable about the people of the Blazing Flame!
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 120-126
120. Never will the Jews be pleased with you (O Prophet), nor the Christians until you follow their way. Say: “Allah’s guidance, that is the true guidance.” Should you follow their desires disregarding the knowledge which has come to you, you shall have no protector or helper against Allah. 121. Those to whom We have given the Scripture, and who recite it as it ought to be recited, truly believe in it; and those who disbelieve in it, they are the utter losers.
122. Children of Israel! Recall My favour which I bestowed upon you and that I exalted you above the nations of the world,
123. And have fear of the Day when none shall avail another, when ransom shall be accepted from no one, when no one’s intercession will profit them, when there shall be no help from any quarter.
124. Recall when Abraham’s Lord tested him in certain matters and when he successfully stood the test He said: Indeed I am going to appoint you a leader of all people.’ When Abraham asked: ‘And is this covenant also for my descendants?’ the Lord responded: ‘My covenant does not embrace the wrong-doers.
125. And We mad this House (Ka’bah) a resort for mankind and a place of security, commanding people: ‘Take the station of Abraham as a permanent place for Prayer’, and enjoined Abraham and Ishmael: ‘Purify My House for those who walk around it, and those who bow, and who prostrate themselves (in Prayer).’
126. And when Abraham prayed: ‘O my Lord! Make this a place of security and provide such of its people who believe in Allah and the Last Day with fruits for sustenance’, Allah answered, And I shall still provide him who disbelieves with the wherewithal for this short life, and then I shall drive him to the chastisement of the Fire; that is an evil end.’
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 127-134
127. Recall when Abraham and Ishmael raised the foundations of the House, praying: ‘Our Lord! Accept this from us; You are All-Hearing, All-Knowing. 128. Our Lord! Make us submissive to You and make out of our descendants a community that submits itself to You, and show us the ways of Your worship, and turn to us in mercy. You are Much-Relenting, Most Compassionate.
129. Our Lord! Raise up in the midst of our offspring a Messenger from among them who shall recite to them Your verses, and instruct them in the Book and in Wisdom, and purify their lives. Verily, You are Mighty, Wise.
130. And who, unless he be weak of mind, would be averse to the way of Abraham? For it is We Who chose Abraham for Our mission in this world, and surely in the World to Come he shall be reckoned among the righteous.
131. Such was Abraham that when his Lord said to him: ‘Submit’, he said: ‘I have submitted to the Lord of the Universe.’
132. And Abraham enjoined the same upon his children, and so did Jacob: ‘My children! Behold, Allah has chosen this religion for you. Remain till death in submission (to Allah).’
133. Why, were you witnesses when death came to Jacob? He asked his children: ‘Whom will you serve after me?’ They said: ‘We shall serve your God, the God of your forefathers, Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac, the One God, and unto Him do we submit.
134. Now, they were a people who passed away. Theirs is what they have earned, and yours is what you have earned. You shall not be asked concerning what they did.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 135-141
135. And they say: ‘Be Jews’ or ‘Be Christians’. ‘Then you will be rightly guided.’ Say to them: ‘No, follow exclusively the way of Abraham who was not one of those who associate others with Allah in His divinity.’
136. Say: ‘We believe in Allah, and in what has been revealed to us and to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and in what was given to Moses and Jesus and in what the other Prophets received from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are those who submit to Allah.
137. And then if they come to believe as you believe, they are on right guidance; and if they turn away, then quite obviously they have merely fallen into opposition to the Truth. Allah will suffice you for protection against them. He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
138. Say: ‘Take on Allah’s colour, And whose colour is better than Allah’s? It is Him that we serve.
139. Say (O Prophet): ‘Will you then dispute with us concerning Allah when He is our Lord and your Lord? Our deeds are for us and your deeds are for you. And it is Him that we serve exclusively.’
140. Or do you claim that Abraham and Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob and the descendants (of Jacob) were ‘Jews” or ‘Christians”? Say: ‘Do you have greater knowledge, or Allah?’ Who does more wrong than he who conceals a testimony he has received from Allah? Allah is not heedless of the things you do.
141. Now, they were a people who passed away. Theirs is what they earned, and yours is what you earn; you shall not be questioned concerning what they did.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 142-145
142. The weak-minded will say: ‘What has turned them away from the direction they formerly observed in Prayer?’ Say: ‘To Allah belong the East and the West; He guides whomsoever He wills onto a straight way.’
143. And it is thus that We appointed you to be the community of the middle way, so that you might be witnesses before all mankind and the Messenger might be a witness before you. We appointed the direction which you formerly observed so that We might know who follows the Messenger from him who turns on his heels. For indeed it was a burdensome thing except for those whom Allah guided. And Allah will never leave your faith to waste. Allah is full of gentleness and mercy to mankind.
144. We see you of turning your face to the heaven; now We are turning you to the direction that will satisfy you. Turn your face towards the Holy Mosque, and wherever you are, turn your faces towards it in Prayer. Those who have been granted the Book certainly know that this (injunction to change the direction of Prayer) is right and is from their Lord. Allah is not heedless of what they do.
145. And yet no matter what proofs you bring before the People of the Book they will not follow your direction of Prayer; nor will you follow their direction of Prayer. None is prepared to follow the other’s direction of Prayer.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 146-153
146. Those to whom We have given the Book recognize the place (towards which one must turn in Prayer) as well as they recognize their own sons even though a group of them knowingly conceals the Truth.
147. This is a definite Truth from your Lord; be not, then, among the doubters.
148. Everyone has a direction towards which he turns; so excel one another in good works. Allah will bring you all together wherever you might be, for nothing is beyond His power.
149. From wheresoever you might come forth turn your face towards the Holy Mosque; for that indeed is the truth from your Lord, and Allah is not heedless of what you do.
150. From wheresoever you come forth turn your faces towards the Holy Mosque, and wheresoever you may be, turn your faces towards it in Prayer so that none may have an argument against you, unless they be those immersed in wrong-doing. Do not fear them, but fear only Me so that I may complete My favour upon you; perhaps you will be guided to the right way.
151. just as when We sent sa Messenger among you, of yourselves, who recites to you Our signspurifies your lives, instructs you in the Book and in Wisdom, and instructs you on what you knew not.
152.So remember Me and I shall remember you; give thanks to Me and do not be ungrateful to Me for My favours.
153.Believers! Seek help in patience and in Prayer; Allah is with the patient ones.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 154-163
154. And do not say of those who are killed in the way of Allah that they are dead; they are alive even though you have no knowledge of their life.
155. We shall certainly test you by afflicting fear, hunger, loss of properties and lives and fruits upon you. Give glad tidings, then, to those who remain patient.
156. and when an affliction smites them, they say: ‘Verily to Allah do we belong, and it is to Him that we are destined to return.’
157. Upon them will be the blessing and mercy of their Lord, and it is they who are rightly guided.
158. Surely, al-Safa and al-Marwah are the symbols of Allah. Hence, whoever performers Hajj (full Pilgrimage) to the house of Allah or makes ‘Umrah’ (minor Pilgrimage), will find it is no sin for him to ambulate between the two. And whoever does a good work voluntarily should know that Allah is Appreciative, All-knowing.
159. Those who conceal anything of the clear teachings and true guidance which We
160. But those who repent and make amends and openly declare (what they had concealed), such shall I pardon for a I am Much-Relenting, Most Compassionate.
161.As for those who disbelieved and died disbelieving, surely the curse of Allah and of the angels and of all men is on them.
162. Thus shall they abide and their chastisement shall not be lightened, nor shall they be given respite.
163.Your God is One God, there is no God but He; the Merciful, the Compassionate.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 164-169
164. (To guide) those who use their reason (to this truth) there are many signs in the creation of the heaven and the earth, in the constant alternation of night and day, in the vessels which speed across the sea carrying the things which are of profit to men, in the water which Allah sends down from the heaven thereby quickening the earth after its death, in the scattering of every kind of animals in the earth, and in the courses of the winds and the clouds pressed into service between heaven and earth.
165. Yet among men some take others as equals to Allah and love them as Allah alone should be loved; but those who (truly) believe, they love Allah more than all else.
166 At that moment those who have been followed will disown their followers, and they will see the chastisement, and their resources will be cut as under.
167. And the followers will then say: ‘Oh if only we might return again, we would disown them as they have disowned us! Thus Allah will show them their works in a manner which will cause them bitter regrets. Never will they come out of the Fire.
168. O men! Eat of the lawful and pure things in the earth and follow not in the footsteps of Satan. For surely he is your open enemy.
169. He only commands you to evil and indecency and to attribute to Allah the things concerning which you have no knowledge.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 170-176
170. And when they are told: ‘Follow what Allah has revealed’, they say: ‘No, we shall follow what we found our forefathers practising. What! Even if their forefathers lacked understanding, and right guidance?
171. Those who have refused to follow the way of Allah resemble cattle; when the shepherd calls them they hear nothing except shouting and crying; they are deaf, dumb and blind, and so they understand nothing.
172. Believers! Eat of the pure things We have provided you for sustenance and give thanks to Allah if it is to Him that you serve. 173. He has made unlawful to you only carrion and blood and the flesh of swine and that over which there has been pronounced the name of someone other than Allah; there shall be no sin upon him who is constrained (to eat them) even though he neither covets them nor exceeds the indispensable need. Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
174. Those who conceal anything of the Book sent down by Allah and sell it away for a trifling gain are merely filling their bellies with Fire. Allah will neither address them on the Day of Resurrection, nor shall He pronounce them ‘pure’. A painful chastisement lies in store for them.
175. They are the ones who bought error in exchange for true guidance, and chastisement in exchange for forgiveness. How patient they are in enduring the Fire!
176. This is so because Allah sent down the Book with the Truth, but those who disagreed far away from the Truth.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 177-181
177. Righteousness is not turning your faces toward the east or towards the west; true righteousness consists in believing in Allah and the Last Day, the angels, the Book and the Prophets, and in giving away one’s property in love Him to one’s kinsmen, the orphans, the poor and the wayfarer, and to those who ask for help, and in freeing the necks of slaves, and in establishing Prayer and dispensing the Purifying Alms (Zakah). True righteousness is attained by those who are faithful to their promise once they have made it and by those who remain steadfast in adversity and affliction and at the time of battle between Truth and falsehood. Such are the truthful ones; such are the God-fearing.
178. Believers! Retribution is prescribed for you in cases of killing; if a freeman is guilty then the freeman; if a slave is guilty then the slave; if a female is guilty, then the female. But if something of a murderer’s guilt is remitted by his brother this should be adhered to in fairness, and payment be made in a goodly manner. This is an alleviation and a mercy from your Lord; and for him who transgresses after that there is a painful chastisement.
179. Men of understanding, there is life for you in retribution that you may guard yourselves against violating the Law.
180. It is decreed that when death approaches, those of you who leave behind property shall bequeath equitably to parents and kinsmen. This is an obligation on the God-fearing.
181.Then if anyone alters the will after hearing it, this sin shall be upon them who alter. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 182-186
182. He who suspects that the testator has committed an error or injustice and then brings about a settlement among the parties concerned incurs no sin.
183. Believers! Fasting is enjoined upon you, as it was enjoined upon those before your, that you become God-fearing.
184. Fasting is for a fixed number of days, and if one of you be sick, or if one of you be on a journey, you will fast the same number of other days later on. For those who are capable of fasting (but still do not fast) there is a redemption: feeding a needy man for each day missed. Whoever, voluntarily, does more good than is required, will find it is better for him; and that you should fast is better for you, if you only know.
185. During the month of Ramadan the Qur’an was sent down as a guidance to the people with clear signs of the true guidance, and as the Criterion (between right and wrong). So those of you who live to see that month should fast it, and whoever is sick or on a journey should fast the same number of other days instead. Allah wants ease and not hardship for you so that you may complete the number of days required, magnify Allah for what He has guided you to, and give thanks to Him.
186. (O Muhammad!) When My servants ask you about Me tell them I indeed am quite near; I hear and answer the call of the caller whenever he calls Me. Let them listen to My call and believe in Me; perhaps they will then be guided aright.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 187-190
187. It has been made lawful to go in to your wives during the night of the fast. They are your garment, and your are theirs. Allah knows you betrayed yourselves and He mercifully relented and pardoned you. So you may now associate intimately with your wives and benefit from the enjoyment Allah has made lawful for you; and eat and drink at night until you can discern the white streak of dawn against the blackness of the night, then (give up all that and) completed your fasting until night sets in. But do not associate intimately with your wives during the period when you are on retreat in the mosques. These are the bounds set by Allah; do not, then, even draw near them. Thus does Allah make His signs clear to mankind that they may stay away from evil.
188. Do not usurp one another’s possessions by false means, nor proffer your possessions to the authorities so that you may sinfully and knowingly usurp a portion of another’s possessions.
189. People question you concerning the phases of the moon. Say: ‘They are signs to determine time for the sake of people and for the Pilgrimage.’ Also tell them: “True righteousness is not that you enter your houses from the back; righteousness lies in fearing Allah. So, enter your houses by their doors, and fear Allah that you might attain true success.
190. Fight against those who fight against you in the way of Allah, but do not transgress, for Allah does not love transgressors.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 191-196
191. Kill them whenever you confront them and drive them out from where they drove you out. (For thought killing is sinful) wrongful persecution is even worse than killing. Do not fight against them near the Holy Mosque unless they fight against you; but if they fight against you kill them, for that is the reward of such unbelievers.
192. Then if they desist, know well that Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Compassionate.
193. Keep on fighting against them until mischief ends and the way prescribed by Allah prevails. But if they desist, then know that hostility is only against the wrong-doers.
194.The sacred month for the sacred month; sanctities should be respected alike (by all concerned). Thus, if someone has attacked you, attack him just as he attacked you and fear Allah and remain conscious that Allah is with those who guard against violating the bounds set by Him.
195.Spend in the way of Allah and do not cast yourselves into destruction with your own hands; do good, for Allah loves those who do good.
196.Complete Hajj and ‘Umrah for Allah. And if you are prevented from doing so, then make the offering which is available to you, and do not shave your heads until the offering reaches its appointed place. If any of you should have to shave your head before that because of illness, or injury to the head, then you should make redemption by fasting, or almsgiving, or ritual sacrifice. And when you are secure, then he who takes advantage of ‘Umrah before the time of Hajj shall give the offering he can afford; and if he cannot afford the offering, shall fast for three days during, shall fast for three days during Hajj and for seven days after he returns home; that is, ten days in all. This privilege is for those whose families do not live near the Holy Mosque. Guard against violating these ordinances of Allah and be mindful that Allah is severe in chastisement.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 197-202
197. The months of Hajj are well known. Whoever intends to perform Pilgrimage in these months shall abstain from sensual indulgence, wicked conduct and quarrelling; and whatever good you do, Allah knows it. Take your provision for the Pilgrimage - but, in truth, the best provision is piety. Men of understanding, beware of disobeying Me.
198. It is no offence for you to seek the bounty of your Lord during Pilgrimage. When you hasten back from ‘Arafat then remember Allah at al-Mash’ar al-Haram ( i.e. al-Muzdalifah), and remember Him in the manner He has directed you, for before this you were surely in error.
199. Then press on even as others press on and implore Allah’s forgiveness; Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
200. And when you have performed your rites remember Allah as you remember your fathers; and remember Him even more. There are some (among the ones that remember Allah) who say: ‘Our Lord, grant us what is good in this world’, such shall have no share in the Hereafter.
201. And there are others who say: ‘Our Lord, grant us what is good in this world and what is good in the World to Come, and protect us from the chastisement of the Fire.
202. They shall have a portion from what they earned; Allah is quick in reckoning.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 203-210
203. And remember Allah through the appointed days. It is no sin for him who hastens off and returns in two days, and it is no sin for him who delays the return provided he has spent the days in piety. Beware of disobeying Allah and know well that to Him you all shall be mustered.
204. Among men there is a kind whose sayings on the affairs of the world fascinate you, he calls Allah again and again to bear testimony to his sincerity; yet he is most fierce in enmity.
205. Whenever he attains authority, he goes about the earth spreading mischief and laying to waste crops and human life, even though Allah (whose testimony he invokes) does not love mischief.
206. Whenever he is told: ‘Fear Allah’, his vainglory seizes him in his sin. So Hell shall suffice for him - what a wretched resting place!
207. On the other hand, among men there is a kind who dedicates his life in seeking to please Allah; and Allah is full of kindness to such devoted servants.
208. Believers! Enter wholly into Islam and do not follow in the footstep of Satan for he is your open enemy.
209. And if you stumble in spite of the clear instructions which have come to you, then know well that Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
210. Are those people (who are not following the right path in spite of admonition and instruction) waiting for Allah to come to them in canopies of clouds with a retinue of angels and settle the matter finally? To Allah shall all matters ultimately be referred.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 211-215
211. Ask the Children of Israel how many clear signs We gave them! And when a people tamper with Allah’s bounty after it has been bestowed on it - then indeed Allah is severe in punishment.
212. Worldly life has been made attractive to those who have denied the Truth. Such men deride the men of faith, but the pious shall rank higher than them on the Day of Resurrection. As for worldly livelihood, Allah grants it to whomsoever He wills without measure.
213. In the beginning mankind followed one single way. (Later on this state ended and differences arose). Then Allah sent forth Prophets as heralds of good tidings for the righteous and as warners against the consequences of evil-doing. He sent down with them the Book embodying the Truth so that it might judge between people in their disputes. And those who innovated divergent ways rather than follow the Truth were none other than those who had received the knowledge of the Truth and clear guidance; and they did so to commit excesses against each other. Thus Allah directed, by His leave, those who have come to believe (in the Prophets) to the right way in matters on which they disagreed. Allah guides whomsoever He wills onto a straight way.
214. Do you suppose that you will enter Paradise untouched by the suffering endured by the men of faith who passed away before you? They were afflicted by misery and hardship and were so convulsed that the Messenger and the believers with him cried out: ‘When will Allah’s help arrive? They were assured that Allah’s help was close by.
215. People ask you what they should spend. Say:’ whatever wealth you spend let it be for you parents and kinsmen, the orphans, the needy and the wayfarer; Allah is aware of whatever good you do.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 216-219
216. Fighting is ordained upon you and it is disliked by you; it may well be that you dislike a thing even though it is good for you, and it may well be that you like a thing even though it is bad for you. Allah knows and you do not know.
217. People ask you about fighting in the holy month. Say: ‘Fighting in it is an awesome sin, but barring people from the way of Allah, disbelieving entry into the Holy Mosque and expelling its inmates from it are more awesome acts in the sight of Allah; and persecution is even more heinous than killing. They will not cease fighting against you till they turn you from your religion if they can. (So remember well) that whoever turns away from his religion and dies in the state if unbelief their work will go to waste in this world and in the Next. Such men are destined for the Fire and it is there that they will abide.
218. (On the contrary) those who believed, and forsook their hearth and home, and strove in the way of Allah, such may rightly hope for the mercy of Allah: for Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Merciful.
219. They ask you about wine and games of chance. Say: ‘In both these there is great evil; even though there is some benefit for men, their evil is greater than their benefit. They ask: ‘what should we spend in the way of Allah?’ Say: whatever you can spare.’ In this way Allah clearly expounds His injunctions to you that you may reflect upon them,
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 220-224
220. Both in regard to this world and the Next. They question you concerning orphans. Say: ‘To deal with them in the way which is to their good, that is best. And if you intermix (your expenses and living) with the. (there is no harm for) they are your brothers.’ Allah knows the mischievous from the righteous, and had Allah willed, He would indeed have imposed on you exacting conditions, but He is All-Powerful as well as All-wise.
221.Marry not the women who associate other with Allah in His divinity until they believe; for a believing slave-girl is better than a (free, respectable) woman who associates others with Allah in His divinity, even though she might please you. Likewise, do not give your women in marriage to men who associate others with Allah in His divinity until they believe; for a believing slave is better than (free, respectable) man who associates others with Allah in His divinity, even though he might please you. Such people call you towards the Fire, and Allah calls you by His leave, towards Paradise and forgiveness; and He makes His injunctions clear to people so that they may take heed.
222. They ask you about menstruation. Say: ‘It is a state of impurity; so keep away from them and do not approach them till they are cleansed. And when they are cleansed, them come to them as Allah has commanded you. Truly, Allah loves those who abstain from evil and keep themselves pure.
223. Your wives are your tilth; go, then , into your tilth as you wish but take heed of your ultimate future and avoid incurring the wrath of Allah. Know well that one Day you shall face Him. Announce good tidings to the believers.
224. Do not swear by Allah in your oaths if they are intended to hinder you from virtue, piety and promoting the good of mankind. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-knowing.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 225-230
225. Allah will not take you to task for the oaths you utter in vain, but will certainly take you to task for the oaths you utter in earnest. Allah is All-Forgiving. All-Forbearing.
226. For those who vow abstinence from their wives there is a respite of four months. Then, if they go back on their vow they will find that Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
227. And if they resolve on divorce, surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
228. Divorced women shall keep themselves in waiting for three menstrual courses and it is unlawful for them, if they believe in Allah and the Last Day, to hide whatever Allah might have created in their wombs. Should their husbands desire reconciliation during this time they are entitled to take them back into wedlock. In a fair manner women have the same rights against their men as men have against them; but men have a degree above the. Allah is All-Powerful, All-Wise.
229. Divorce can be pronounced twice then, either honourable retention or kindly release should follow. (While dissolving the marriage tie) it is unlawful for you to take back anything of what you have given to your wives unless both fear that they may not be able to keep within the bounds set by Allah. Then, if they fear that they might not be able to keep within the set by Allah, there is no blame upon them for what the wife might give away of their property to become released from the marriage tie. These are the bounds set by Allah; do not transgress them. Those of you who transgress the bounds set by Allah are indeed the wrong-doers.
230. Then, if he divorces her (for the third time, after pronouncing the divorce twice), she shall not be lawful to him unless she first takes another man for a husband, and he divorces her. There is no blame upon them if both of them return to one another thereafter, provided they think that they will be able to keep within the bounds set by Allah. These are the bounds of Allah which He makes clear to a people who have knowledge (of the consequences of violating those bounds).
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 231-233
231. And so, when you divorce women and they reach the end of their waiting term, then either retain them in a fair manner or let them go in a fair manner. And do not retain them to their hurt or by way of transgression; whosoever will do that will indeed wrong himself. Do not take the signs of Allah in jest and remember Allah’s favour upon you. He admonishes you to revere the Book and the Wisdom that He has sent down upon you. Fear Allah, and know well that Allah has full knowledge of everything.
232. When you divorce women and they have completed their waiting term do not hinder them from marrying other men if they have agreed to this in a fair manner. That is an admonition to every one of you who believes in Allah and the Last Day; that is a cleaner and purer way for you. For Allah knows whereas you do not know.
233. If they (i.e. the fathers) wish that the period of suckling for their children be completed, mothers may suckle their children for two whole years. (In such a case) it is incumbent upon him who has begotten the child to provide them (i.e., divorced women) their sustenance and clothing in a fair manner. But none shall be burdened with more than he is able to bear; neither shall a mother suffer because of her child nor shall the father be made to suffer because he has begotten him. The same duty towards the suckling mother rests upon the heir as upon him (i.e., the father). And if both (the parents) decide, by mutual consent and consultation, to wean the child, there is no blame on them; if you decide to have other women suckle your children there is no blame upon you, provided you hand over its compensation in a fair manner. Fear Allah and know well that Allah sees all that you do.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 234-237
234. The wives of men who have died must observe a waiting period of four months and ten days; when they have reached the end of the waiting term, there is no blame on you regarding what they may do with themselves in a fair manner. Allah is well aware of what you do.
235. There is no blame on you whether you hint at a marriage proposal to such women or keep the proposal hidden in your heart. Allah knows that you will think of them in that connection. But do not make any secret engagement with them and speak openly in an honourable manner. Do not resolve on the marriage tie until the ordained term has come to its end, know well that Allah knows even what is in your heart. So, beware of Him and know well that Allah is All-Forgiving. All-Forbearing.
236.There is no blame upon you if you divorce your wives before you have touched them or settled a bridal gift upon them. But even in this case you should make some provision for them: the affluent, according to his means; the straitened, according to his means - a provision in fair manner. That is a duty upon the good-doers.
237.And if you divorce them before you touch them or settle a bridal gift upon them, then (give them) half of what you have settled unless either the women act leniently and forgo their claim or he in whose hand is the marriage tie acts leniently (and pays the full amount). If you act leniently, it is closer to being God-fearing. And forget not to act gracefully with one another, for indeed Allah sees all that you do.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 238-245
238. Be watchful over the Prayers, and over praying with the utmost excellence, and stand before Allah as would utterly obedient servants.
239. And even if you are confronting a danger, still perform the Prayer whether on foot or riding; when you are secure, then remember Allah in the manner that He taught you - the manner which you did not know earlier.
240. Those of you who die leaving behind your wives should make testament of one year’s provision without expulsion in favour of your wives; and if they themselves depart, there shall be no blame upon you for what they may do with themselves in an honourable manner. Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
241. Likewise, let there be a fair provision for the divorced women; this is an obligation on the God-fearing.
242. Thus Allah makes His injunctions clear for you that you may understand.
243. (O Messenger!) Have you thought of those who went forth from their homes for fear of death even though they were in their thousands? Allah said to them: ‘Die! Then He restored them to life. Indeed Allah is Bounteous to men- but most people do no give thanks in return.
244. So fight in the way of Allah and know well that Allah is All-Hearing, All-knowing.
245. Who of you will lend Allah a goodly loan which He will return after multiplying it for him manifold? For Allah has the power both to decrease and increase, and to Him you will be returned.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 246-248
246. (O Messenger!) Have you thought of what happened with the elders of the Children of Israel after Moses? They asked one of their Prophets: ‘Set up for us a king so that we may fight in the way of Allah. He said: ‘Would you possibly refrain from fighting if fighting is ordained for you? They said: ‘And why would we not fight in the way of Allah when we have been torn from our homes and our children?’ But when fighting was ordained for them they turned back, except a few of them. Allah is well aware of the wrong-doers.
247. And their Prophet said to them: ‘Indeed Allah has sent forth Saul (Talut) as your kind.’ They said: ‘By what right shall he rule over us when we are more worthy than he to dominion, since he is no even very wealthy?’ He said: ‘Allah has chosen him over you and has endowed him abundantly with both intellectual and physical capacities. Allah indeed has the power to bestow dominion upon whomsoever He will. Allah is Munificent, All-Knowing.'
248. And their Prophet said to them: 'The sign of this dominion is that in his reign the Ark, wherein lies inward peace for you, will be brought back to you, and the sacred relics left behind by the house of Moses and the house of Aaron - borne by angels. truly in that is sign for you, if indeed you are men of faith.'
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 249-252
249. And when Sau (Talut) set out with his forces he said: 'Allah will try you with a river, and whoever drinks of it does not belong to me; he who refrains from tasting it – unless it be just a palmful – he indeed belongs to me.’ Then all, except a few of them, drank their fill at the river. But as soon as he and the believers with him went forth across the river, they said: ‘Today we have no strength to face Goliath (Jalut) and his forces. But those who believed that they were bound to meet their Lord said: ‘How often has a small party prevailed against a large party by the leave of Allah.’ Allah is with those who remain steadfast.
250. And when they went forth against Goliath (Jalut) and his forces they prayed: ‘Our Lord! Shower us with patience, and set our feet firm, and grant us victory over this unbelieving people.
251. Thereupon by the leave of Allah they put the unbelievers to flight, and David killed Goliath, and Allah granted him dominion and wisdom, and imparted to him the knowledge of whatever He willed. And were it not that Allah repelled men with another, the earth would surely be overlaid with mischief. But Allah is bounteous to the people of the world (and thus extirpates mischief).
252. These are the signs of Allah which We recite to you in truth, for indeed you are one of those entrusted with a message.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 253-256
253. And these Messengers (who have been designated to guide men), We exalted some of them above the others. Among them are such as were spoken to by Allah Himself, and some He exalted in other respects. And We granted Jesus, son of Mary, clear signs and supported him with the spirit of holiness. Had He willed, those who had seen these clear signs would not have fought one another therefore. But (it was not the will of Allah to prevent people from disagreement by compulsion, hence) they differed among themselves whereby some attained faith and others denied the Truth. Yet had Allah so willed they would not have fought one another. Allah does whatever He wills.
254. O you who believe! Spend out of what We have provided you before there comes a Day when there will be no buying and selling, and no friendship and intercession will be of any use. And they who disbelieve, they, indeed they are the wrongdoers.
255. Allah, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting by Whom all subsist, there is no God but He. Neither slumber seizes Him, nor sleep; to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. Who is there who might intercede with Him save with His leave? He knows what lies before men and what is hidden from them, whereas they cannot attain to anything of His knowledge save what He wills them to attain. His Dominion overspreads the heavens and the earth, and their upholding wearies Him not; He is All-High, All-Glorious.
256. There is no compulsion in religion. The right way now stands clearly distinguished from the wrong. Hence he who rejects the evil ones and believes in Allah has indeed taken hold of the firm, unbreakable handle. And Allah (Whom he has held for support) is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 257-259
257. Allah is the Guardian of those who believe, and brings them out of every darkness into light. And those who disbelieve, their guardians are the evil ones; they bring them out of light into all kinds of darkness. These are destined for the Fire, and thee they shall abide.
258. Did you not consider the case of the person who remonstrated with Abraham about who was Abraham’s Lord because Allah had granted him dominion? When Abraham said: ‘My Lord is He Who grants life and death’, he replied: ‘I grant life and death.’ Abraham said: ‘But surely Allah causes the sun to rise from the east; now you cause it to rise from the west.’ Thereupon the denier of the Truth was confounded. Allah does not direct the wrong-doers to the right way.
259. Or consider him who passed by a town that was fallen down upon its turrets, and exclaimed: ‘How will Allah restore life to this town that is now dead?’ Allah then caused him to remain dead for a hundred years and then raised him to life, and asked him: ‘How long did you remain in this state?’ He replied: ‘I remained so of a day or a part of a day.’ Allah rejoined, ‘No, you have rather stayed thus for a hundred years. But look at your food and your drink;
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 260-264
260. And recall when Abraham said: ‘My Lord, show me how You give life to the dead,’ Allah said: ‘Why! Do you have no faith?’ Abraham replied: ‘Yes, but that my heart be at rest.’ He said: ‘Then take four birds, and tame them to yourself, then pure a part of them on every hill, and summon them; they will come to you flying. Know well that Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.’
261. The example of those who spend their wealth in the way of Allah is like that of a grain of corn that sprouts seven ears, and in every ear there are a hundred grains. Thus Allah multiplies the action of whomsoever He will. Allah is Munificent, All-Knowing.
262. Those who spend their wealth in the way of Allah and do not follow up their spending by stressing their benevolence and causing hurt, will find their reward secure with their Lord. They have no cause for fear and grief.
263. To speak a kind word and to forgive people’s faults is better than charity followed by hurt. Allah is All-Sufficient, All-Forbearing.
264. Believers ! Do not nullify your acts of charity by stressing your benevolence and causing hurt as does he who spends his wealth only to be seen by men and does not believe in Allah and the Last Day. The example of his spending is that of a rock with a thin coating of earth upon it: when a heavy rain smites it, the earth is washed away, leaving the rock bare; such people derive no gain from their acts of charity. Allah does not set the deniers of the Truth on the right way.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 265-269
265. The example of those who spend their wealth single- mindedly to please Allah is that of a garden on a high ground. If a heavy rain smites it, it brings forth its fruits twofold, and if there is no heavy rain, even a light shower suffices it. Allah sees all that you do.
266. Would any of you desire that he should have a garden of palms and vines with rivers flowing beneath it – a garden in which he has every manner of fruit – and that it should then be struck by a fiery whirlwind and be utterly burnt down at a time when old age has overtaken him and his offspring are still too small to look after their affairs? Thus does Allah make His teachings clear to you that you may reflect.
267. Believers! Spend out of the good thins you have earned and out of what We have produced for you from the earth, and choose not for your spending the bad things such as you yourselves would not accept or accept only by overlooking its defects. Know well that Allah is Most-Sufficient, Most-Praiseworthy.
268. Satan frightens you with poverty and bids you to commit indecency whereas Allah promises you His forgiveness and bounty. Allah is All-Generous, All-Knowing.
269. He grants Wisdom to those whom He wills; and whoever is granted wisdom has indeed been granted much good. Yet none except men of understanding take heed.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 267-272
270. Allah know whatever you spend or whatever you vow (to spend). The wrong-doers have non to succour them.
271. If you dispense your charity openly, it is well; but if you conceal it and pay it to the needy in secret, it will be even better for you. This will atone for several of your bad deeds. Allah is well aware of all that you do.
272. You are not responsible for setting these people on the right way; Allah sets on the right way whomsoever He will. Whatever wealth you spend in charity is to your own benefit for you spend merely to please Allah. So, whatever you spend in charity will be repaid to you in full and you shall not be wronged.
273. Those needy ones who are wholly wrapped up in the cause of Allah, and who are hindered from moving about the earth in search of their livelihood especially deserve help. He who is unaware of their circumstances supposes them to be wealthy because of their dignified bearing, but you will know them by their countenance, although they do not go about begging of people wi0th importunity. And whatever wealth you will spend on helping them, Allah will know of it.
274. Those who spend their wealth by night and by day, both in respect in secret and openly, will find that their reward is secure with their Lord and that there is no reason for them to entertain any fear or grief.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 273-275
275. As for those who devour interest, they behave as the one whom Satan has confounded with his touch. Seized in this state they say: ‘Buying and selling is but a kind of interest’, even though Allah has made buying and selling lawful, and interest unlawful. Hence, whosoever receives this admonition from his Lord, and then gives up (taking interest), may keep his previous gains, and it will be for Allah to judge him. Whoever reverts to it, they are the people of the Fire, and there they shall abide.
276. Allah deprives interest of all blessing, whereas He blesses charity with growth. And Allah loves none who is ungrateful and persists in sin.
277. Truly those who believe and do righteous deeds and establish Prayer and pay Purifying Alms (Zakah) – will find that their reward is with their Lord, and that they have no reason to entertain fear or grief.
278. Believers! Hold Allah in fear and give up all outstanding interest if you do truly believe.
279. But if you do not do so, then be warned of war from Allah and His Messenger. If you repent even now, you have the right of the return of your capital; neither will you do wrong nor will you be wronged.
280. But if the debtor is in straitened circumstance, let him have respite until the time of ease; and whatever you remit by way of charity, it is better for you, if only you know.
281. And beware of the Day when you shall return to Allah, and every human being shall be fully repaid for whatever (good or evil) he has done, and none shall be wronged.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 276-281
82. Believers! Whenever you contract a debt from one another for a known term, commit it to writing. Let a scribe write it down between you justly, and the scribe may not refuse to write it down according to what Allah has taught him; so let him write, and let the debtor dictate; ;and let him fear Allah, his Lord, and curtail no part of it. If the debtor be weak of mind or body, or incapable of dictating, let his guardian dictate justly, and call upon two of your men as witnesses; if two men are not there, then let there be one man and two women as witnesses from among those acceptable to you so that if one of the two women should make a mistake, the other might remind her. Let not the witnesses refuse when they are summoned (to give evidence). Do not show slackness in writing down the transactions, whether small or large, along with the date of its payment. That is fairest in the sight of Allah; it is the best for testimony and is more likely to exclude all doubts. If it be a matter of buying and selling on the spot, it is not blameworthy if you do not write it down; but do take witnesses when you settle commercial transactions with one another. And the scribe or the witness may be done no harm. It will be sinful if you do so. Beware of the wrath of Allah. He teachers you the right way and has full knowledge of everything.
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 283-286
283. And if you are on a journey and do not find a scribe to write the document then resort to taking pledges in hand. But if any of you trusts another, let him who is trusted fulfil the trust, and fear Allah, his Lord. And do not conceal what you have witnessed, for whoever conceals it, his heart is sinful. Allah has full knowledge of all that you do.
284. All that is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah. Whether you disclose whatever is in your hurt or conceal it, Allah will call you to account for it, and then will forgive whomever He will, and will chastise whomever He will. Allah has power over everything.
285. The Messenger believes, and so do the believers, in the guidance sent down upon him from his Lord: each one believes in Allah, and in His angels, and in His Books, and in His Messengers. They say: ‘We make no distinction between any of His Messengers. We hear and obey. Our Lord! Grant us Your forgiveness; to You we are destined to return.’
286. Allah does not lay a responsibility on anyone beyond his capacity. In his favour shall be whatever good each one does, and against him whatever evil he does. (Believers! Pray thus to your Lord): ‘Our Lord! Take us not to task if we forget or commit mistakes. Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden such as You laid on those gone before us. Our Lord! Lay not on us burdens which we do not have the power to bear. And overlook our faults, and forgive us, and have mercy upon us. Your are our Guardian; grant us victory, then, against the unbelieving folk.’
Surah-3 Al-Imran
Ayah 1-9
1. Alif , Lam, Mim.
2. Allah, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, Who sustains the entire order of the universe – there is no God but He.
3. He has revealed this Book to you, setting forth the truth and confirming the earlier Books, and earlier He revealed the Tora and Gospel.
4. For the guidance of mankind; and He has also revealed the Criterion (to distinguish truth from falsehood). A severe chastisement lies in store for those who deny the signs of Allah. Allah is All-Mighty; He is the Lord of Retribution.
5. Nothing in the earth and in the heavens is hidden from Allah.
6. It is He Who fashions you in the wombs, as He will. There is no God but He; the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.
7. It is He Who has revealed the Book to you. Some of its verses are absolutely clear and lucid, and these are the core of the Book. Others are ambiguous. Those in whose hearts there is perversity, always go about the part which is ambiguous, seeking mischief and seeking to arrive at its meaning arbitrarily, although none knows their true meaning except Allah. On the contrary, those firmly rooted in knowledge say: ‘We believe in it; it is all from our Lord alone.’ No one derives true admonition from anything except the men of understanding.
8. They pray to Allah: ‘Our Lord! Do not let our hearts swerve towards crookedness after You have guided us to the right way, and bestow upon us Your mercy. Surely You, only You, are the Munificient Giver!
9. Our Lord! Your surely will gather mankind together one Day, a Day about (the coming of which) there is no doubt. Surely Allah never goes against His promise.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 10-15
10. Those who disbelieve, neither their wealth nor their offspring will avail them at all against Allah, and it is they who will be the fuel of the Fire.
11. (To them shall happen) the like of what happened to the people of Pharao, and those before them. They rejected Our signs, so Allah seized them for their sins. Allah indeed is severe in punishment.
12. Tell those who disbelieved: ‘You shall soon be overpowered and mustered to Hell – and that is an evil resting place!’
13. You have already come across an instructive sign in the two hosts that encountered each other in battle (at Badr): one host fighting in the way of Allah, and the other that of unbelievers. They saw with their own eyes that one host was twice the number of the other. But (the result of the battle has proved that) Allah succours with His victory whomsoever He wills. In this there is surely a lesson for all who have eyes to see.
14. Men are naturally tempted by the lure of women, children, treasures of Gold and silver, horses of mark, cattle and plantations. These are the enjoyments in the life of this world; but with Allah lies a goodly abode to return to.
15. Say: “Shall I tell you of things better than these? For the God-fearing there are, with their Lord, gardens beneath which rivers flow; there they will abide for ever, will have spouses of stainless purity as companions, and will enjoy the good pleasure of Allah.’ Allah thoroughly observes His servants.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 16-22
16. These are the ones who pray: ‘Our Lord! We do indeed believe, so forgive us our sins and keep us safe from the chastisement of the Fire’;
17. Men who are steadfast, truthful, obedient, spend (in the way of Allah) and implore the forgiveness of Allah before daybreak.
18. Allah Himself bears witness that there is no God but He; and likewise do the angels and the men possessed of knowledge bear witness in truth and justice that there is no God but He, the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.
19. The true religion with Allah is Islam. The People of the Book adopted many different ways rather than follow the true way of Islam even after the knowledge of truth had reached them, and this merely to commit excesses against one another. Let him who refuses to follow the ordinances and directives of Allah know that Allah is swift in His reckoning.
20. And if they remonstrate with you, tell them: ‘I have submitted my whole being to Allah and so have those who follow me.’ And ask the People of the Book as well as those who follow no heavenly Scripture: ‘Have you also submitted (to Allah)? If they have submitted to Him, they are indeed on the right way but if they deviate from submitting to Allah, then your duty is merely to deliver the message. Allah observes the affairs of His servants.
21. Give those who refuse to follow the directives of Allah, who slay the Prophets unjustly, and who slay those who enjoin justice, give them glad tidings of a grievous chastisement.
22. These are the people whose worked have gone to waste in this world and in the World to Come. They have none to help them.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 23-29
23.. Have you not noticed those who have been given a portion of the Book? Whenever their learned men are summoned to the Book of Allah to judge the differences between them, a party of them turns away in aversion
24. This is because they say: ‘The fire of Hell shall not touch us except for a limited number of days.’ The false beliefs, which they have forged, have deluded them in their faith.
25. How, then, will they fare when We shall gather them all together to witness the Day about (the coming of which there is no doubt, and when every human being shall be repaid in full for what he has done, and none shall be wronged?
26. Say: ‘O Allah, Lord of all dominion! You give dominion to Whom You will, and take away dominion from whom You will, and You exalt whom you will, and abase whom You will. In Your Hand is all good. Surely You are All-Powerful.
27. You cause the night to pass into the day and the day to pass into the night. You bring forth the living out of the dead, and You bring the dead out of the living, and You give sustenance to whom You will beyond all reckoning.’
28. The believers may not take the unbelievers for their allies in preference to those who believe. Whoever does this has nothing to do with Allah unless he does so in order to protect himself from their wrong-doing. Allah warns you to beware of Him for it is to Allah that you will return.
29. Say: ‘Whether you conceal what is in your hearts or disclose it, Allah knows it. Allah know what is in the heavens and in the earth and He has power over everything.’
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 30-37
30. The Day is approaching when every soul shall find itself confronted with whatever good it has done and whatever evil it has wrought. It will then wish there is a wide space between it and the Day! Allah warns you to beware of Him; He I most tender towards His servants.
31. (O Messenger!) Tell people: ‘If you indeed love Allah, follow me, and Allah will love you and will forgive you your sins. Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.’
32. Say: ‘Obey Allah and obey the Messenger.’ If they turn away from this then know that Allah does not love those who refuse to obey Him and His Messenger.
33. Truly Allah chose Adam and Noah and the descendants of Abraham and if ‘Imran above all mankind.
34. (for His messengership) - a people alike and the seed of one another. Allah is All-Hearing, All-knowing
35. (He also heard) when the woman of Imran said: ‘O Lord! Behold, unto You do I vow that the child in my womb is to be devoted to Your exclusive service. Accept it, then, from me. Surely You alone are All-Hearing, All-Knowing.’
36. But when she gave birth to a female child, she said: ‘O Lord! I have given birth to a female’ – and Allah knew full well what she had given birth to – ‘and a female is not the same as a male. I have named her Mary and Commit her and her offspring to You for protection from Satan, the accursed.’
37. Thereupon her Lord graciously accepted Mary and vouchsafed to her a goodly growth and placed her in the care of Zechariah. Whenever Zechariah visited her in the sanctuary, he found her provided with food. He asked her: ‘O Mary, how did this come to You?’ She said: ‘It is from Allah. Allah provides sustenance to whom He wills beyond all reckoning.’
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 38-45
38. Then Zechariah prayed to his Lord: ‘O Lord! Grant me from Yourself out of Your grace the gift of a goodly offspring, for indeed You alone heed all Prayers.
39. As he stood prying in the sanctuary, the angels called out to him: ‘Allah gives you good tidings of John. (Yahya), who shall confirm a command of Allah, shall be outstanding among men, utterly chaste, and a Prophet from among the righteous.
40. Zechariah exclaimed: ‘My Lord! How shall I have a son when old age has overtaken me and my wife is barren? He said: ‘Thus shall it be; Allah does what He wills.’
41. Zechariah said: ‘O my Lord! Appoint a sign for me.’ The angel said: ‘The sign or you shall be that you shall not speak to men for three days except by gesture. Remember your Lord and extol His glory by night and by day.’
42. Then came the time when the angels said: ‘O Mary! Behold, Allah has chosen you, and made you pure, and exalted you above all the women in the world.
43. O Mary! Remain devout to your Lord, and prostrate yourself in worship, and bow with those who bow (before Him).’
44. (O Muhammad!) We reveal to you this account from a realm which lies beyond the reach of your perception for you were not with them when they drew lots with their pens about who should be Mary’s guardian, and you were not with them when they disputed about it.
45. And when the angels said: ‘O Mary! Allah gives you the glad tidings of a command from Him: his name shall be Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary. He shall be highly honoured in this world and in the Next, and shall be one of those near stationed to Allah.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 46-52
46. And he shall speak to men in the cradle and also latter when he grows to maturity and shall indeed be among the righteous.’
47. She said: ‘O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has ever touched me?’ the angel answered: ‘Thus shall it be. Allah creates whatever He will. When he decides something, He merely says: “Be” and it is.
48. And He will teach him the Book, the Wisdom, the Torah, the Gospel,
49. And he will be a Messenger to the Children of Israel.’ (And when he came to them he said): ‘I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. I will make for you from clay the likeness of bird and then I will breathe into it and by the leave of Allah it will become a bird. I will also heal the blind and the leper, and by the leave of Allah bring the dead to life. I will also inform you of what things you eat and what you treasure up in your houses. Surely this is a sign for you if you are true believers.
50. And I have come to confirm the truth of whatever thee still remains of the Torah, and to make lawful to you some of the things which had been forbidden to you. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: so have fear of Allah and obey me.
51. Surely, Allah is my Lord and your lord; so serve Him alone. This is the straight way.’
52. And when Jesus perceived their leaning towards unbelief, he asked: ‘Who will be my helpers in the way of Allah?’ the disciples said: ‘We believe in Allah, and be our witness that we have submitted ourselves exclusively to Allah.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 53-61
53. Our Lord! We believe in the commandment You have revealed and we obey the Messenger; make us, then, one of those who bear witness (to the Truth).’
54. Then they schemed (against the Messiah), and Allah countered their schemes by schemes of His own. Allah is the best of schemers.
55. (And it was part of His scheme) when Allah said: ‘O Jesus! I will recall you and raise you up to Me and will purify you (of the company) of those who disbelieve, and will set your followers above the unbelievers till the Day of Resurrection. Then to Me you shall return, and I will judge between you regarding what you differed.
56. As for those who disbelieved, I shall punish them with a terrible chastisement in this world and in the Next; and they shall find none to help them.
57. But those who believe and do righteous deeds, He will reward them in full. Allah does not love the unjust.’
58. What We recite to you consists of signs and wise admonition.
59. Surely, in the sight of Allah, the similitude of the creation of Jesus is as the creation of Adam whom He created out of dust, and then said: ‘Be’ and he was.
60. This is the truth from your Lord; be not, then, among those who doubt.
61. Tell whoever disputes with you on this matter after true knowledge has come to you: ‘Come! Let us summons our sons and your sons, and our women and your women, and ourselves and yourselves, and then let us pray together and invoke the curse of Allah on those who lie.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 62-70
62 . This is the true story. There is no God but Allah, and assuredly Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
63. And if they turn their backs, truly Allah knows those who cause mischief.
64 . Say: ‘People of the Book! Come to a word common between us and you: that we shall serve none but Allah and shall associate none with Him in His divinity and that some of us will not take others as lords beside Allah.’ And if they turn their backs (from accepting this call), tell them: ‘Bear witness that we are the ones who have submitted ourselves exclusively to Allah.’
65. People of the Book! Why do you dispute with us about Abraham even though the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after the time of Abraham? Do you not understand?
66 . Behold, you are those who have disputed greatly concerning matters which you knew; why are you now disputing about matters that you know nothing about? Allah knows it whereas you do no know.
67 . Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian; he was a Muslim, wholly devoted to God. And he certainly was not amongst those who associate others with Allah in His divinity.
68 . Surely the people who have the best claim to a relationship with Abraham are those who followed him in the past, and presently this Prophet and those who believe in him; Allah is the guardian of the men of faith.
69 . A party of the People of the book would fain lead you astray, whereas in truth they lead none astray except themselves, but they do not realize it.
70 . People of the Book! Why do you reject the signs of Allah even though you yourselves witness them?
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 71-77
71. People of the Book! Why do you confound Truth with falsehood, and why do you conceal the Truth knowingly?
72. A party of the People of the Book said: ‘Believe in the morning what has been revealed to those who believe, and then deny it in the evening that they may thus retract (from their faith).’
73. They also say among themselves: ‘Do not follow anyone except him who follows your faith.’ Say: ‘Surely true guidance is Allah’s. it is His favour that anyone should be given the like of what you have been given in the past, and that others should have been given firm evidence to proffer against you before your Lord.’ Say: ‘Surely bounty is in the Hand of Allah; He gives it to Whom He wills. Allah is All-Embracing, All-Knowing.
74. He singles out for His mercy whomever He will; Allah is possessed of abounding bounty.’
75. And among the People of the Book there are some who would restore you even if you were to entrust a treasure of gold, and of them there are some whom were you to entrust with one gold piece, will not restore it unless you stand over them. That is because they say: ‘We will not be taken to task for whatever we may do to non-Jews (Ummis).’ Thus they falsely fix a lie upon Allah, and do so wittingly.
76. But Allah loves only those who fulfil their covenant and fear Allah. Truly Allah loves the God-fearing.
77. There shall be no share in the Life to come for those who sell away the covenant of Allah and their oaths for a trivial gain. On the Day of Resurrection Allah will neither address them, look at them, nor will He purify them. A painful chastisement lies ahead of them.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 78-83
78. Do they now seek a religion other than that prescribed by Allah even though all that is in the heavens and the earth is in submission to Him- willingly or unwillingly- and to Him all shall return?
79. It does not befit a man that Allah should grant him His Book and sound judgement and Prophethood, and thereafter he should say to men: ‘Become servants to me apart from Allah.’ He would rather say: ‘Become dedicated men of Allah, in accord with the dictates of the Book you have been teaching and studying.’
80. He will never enjoin you to take the angels or Prophets for your lords. Will he enjoin upon you unbelief when you have submitted yourselves to Allah?
81. And recall when Allah took a covenant from the Prophets: ‘This is the Book and the Wisdom which I have given you. But should a Prophet come to you confirming that which is already with you, you shall believe in him and shall help him.’ So saying, Allah asked: ‘Do you agree and accept to take up the burden of the covenant?’ They answered: ‘We agree.’ He said: ‘Then bear witness; and I will be with you among the witnesses.
82. Then whosoever shall turn away from this covenant, they are the transgressors.’
83. Do they now seek a religion other than that prescribed by Allah even though all that is in the heavens and the earth is in submission to Him- willingly or unwillingly- and to Him all shall return?
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 84-91
84. Say: ‘We believe in Allah and what was revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and to Isaac and Jacob and his descendants, and the teachings which Allah gave to Moses and Jesus and to other Prophets. We make no distinction between any of them; and to Him do we submit.’
85. And whoever seeks a way other than this way of submission (Islam), will find that it will not be accepted from him and in the Life to Come he will be among the losers.
86. How can Allah guide a people who once believed, and after they received clear signs and affirmed that the Messenger was a true one, lapsed into disbelief. Allah does not guide the wrong-doers.
87. The recompense for their wrong-doing is that the curse of Allah and of the angels and of all men shall be upon them.
88. Thus shall they abide. Neither shall their chastisement be lightened nor shall they be granted any respite.
89. But those who repent and mend their ways shall be excepted for indeed Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
90. Those who disbelieved and have hardened in their disbelief after once believing, their (pretence to) repentance shall not be accepted. Indeed such men have altogether strayed.
91. Truly those who disbelieved and died as unbelievers, not even an earth full of gold will be accepted from them as ransom. For such people there is painful chastisement; and none shall come to their help.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 92-100
92. You shall not attain righteousness until you spend out of what you love (in the way of Allah). Allah know whatever you spend.
93. All food (that is lawful in the Law revealed to Muhammad) was lawful to the Children of Israel, except what Israel made unlawful to themselves before the revelation of the Torah. Tell them: ‘Bing the Torah and recite any passage of it if you are truthful.’
94. Those who falsely fix lies upon Allah despite this are the wrong-doers.
95. Say: ‘Whatever Allah has said is true. Follow, then, the way of Abraham in total devotion to Allah. He was not one of those who associate others with Allah in His divinity.’
96. Behold, the first House (of Prayer) established for mankind is the one at Bakkah: it is full of blessing and a centre of guidance for the whole world.
97. In it there are clear signs and the station of Abraham; whoever enters it becomes secure. Pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to Allah by all who can make their way to it. As for those who refuse to follows His command, surely Allah does not stand in need of anything.
98. Say: ‘People of the Book! Why do you reject the signs of Allah when Allah is witness to all that you do?’
99. Say: ‘People of the Book! Why do you hinder one who believes from the way of Allah, seeking that he follow a crooked way, even though you yourselves are witness to its being the right way?’ Allah is not heedless of what you do.’
100. Believers! Were you to obey a party of those who were given the Book, they might cause you to renounce the Truth after you have attained to faith.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 101-108
101. How can you disbelieve when you are the ones to whom the signs of Allah are recited and amidst you is His Messenger? Whoever holds fast to Allah will certainly be guided to the straight way.
102. Believers! Fear Allah as He should be feared, and see that you do not die save in the state of submission to Allah.
103. Hold fast together to the cable of Allah and be not divided. Remember the blessing that Allah bestowed upon you: you were once enemies then He brought your hearts together, so that through His blessing you became brothers. You stood on the brink of a pit of fire and He delivered you from it. Thus Allah makes His signs clear to you that you may be guided to the right way.
104. And from among you there must be a party who invite people to all that is good and enjoin the doing of all that is right and forbid the doing of all that is wrong. It is they who will attain true success.
105. Do not be like those who fell into factions and differed among themselves after clear signs had come to them. A mighty chastisement awaits them. 106. On the Day when some faces will turn bright and other faces will turn dark. Those whose faces have turned dark will be told: ‘Did you fall into unbelief after you had been blessed with belief? Taste, then, chastisement for your unbelief.’
107. And those whose faces have turned bright, they will be in the mercy of Allah, and therein they shall abide.
108. These are the messages of Allah which We recite to you in truth, and Allah desires no wrong to the people of the world.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 109-115
109. To Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth, and to Allah are all matters referred for decision.
110. You are now the best people brought forth for (the guidance and reform of) mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah. Had the People of the Book believed it were better for them. Some of them are believers but most of them are transgressors.
111. They will not be able to harm you except for a little hurt, and if they fight against you they will turn their Backs (in flight), and then they will not be succoured.
112. Wherever they were, they were covered with ignominy, except when they were protected by either a covenant with Allah or a Covenant with men. They are laden with the burden of Allah’s wrath, and humiliation is stuck upon them – and all this because they rejected the signs of Allah and slayed the Prophets without right,
113. Yet all are not alike: among the People of the Book there are upright people who recite the messages of Allah in the watches of the night and prostrate themselves in worship.
114. They believe in Allah and in the Last Day and enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong, and hasten to excel each other in doing good. These are among the righteous.
115. Whatever good they do shall not go unappreciated, and Allah fully knows those who are pious.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 116-121
116. As for those who denied the Truth, neither their possessions nor their children will avail them against Allah. They are the people of the Fire, and therein they shall abide.
117. The example of what they spend in the life of this world is like that of a wind accompanied with frost which smites the harvest of a people who wronged themselves, and lays it to waste. It is not Allah who wronged them; rather it is they who wrong themselves.
118. Believers! Do no take for intimate friends those who are not of your kind. They spare no effort to injure you. Indeed they love all that distresses you. Their hatred is clearly manifest in what they say, and what their breasts conceal is even greater.
119. Lo! It is you who love them but they do no love you even though you believe in the whole of the (heavenly) Book. When they meet you they say: ‘We believe’, but when they are by themselves they bite their fingers in rage at you. Say: ‘Perish in your rage.’ Allah knows even what lies hidden in their breasts.
120. If anything good happens to you they are grieved; if any misfortune befalls you they rejoice at it. But if you remain steadfast and mindful of Allah their designs will not cause you harm. Allah surely encompasses all that they do.
121. (O Messenger! Remind the Muslims of the occasion) when you went forth from your home at early dawn (to the battlefield of Uhud) and place the believers in battle arrays. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 122-132
122. And recall when two groups from among you were inclined to flag although Allah was their protector; it is in Allah that the believers should put their trust.
123. For sure Allah helped you at Badr when you were utterly weak. Beware, then, of Allah; perhaps you will be thankful.
124. And recall when you said to the believers: ‘Will it not suffice you that your Lord will aid you by sending down three thousand angels?’
125. If you are steadfast and mindful of God, even though the enemy should suddenly fall upon you, your Lord will help you even with five thousand marked angels.
126. Allah has reminded you of this only as a glad tiding to you and so as to let your hearts be at rest. Help cane only come from Allah, the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.
127. And Allah provided this aid to you in order to cut off a part of those who disbelieved and frustrate them so that they retreat in utter disappointment.
128. (O Messenger!) It is not for you to decide whether He will accept their repentance or chastise them, for they surely are wrong-doers.
129. Whatever is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah. He forgives whom He will: Allah is indeed All-Forgiving, Most-Compassionate.
130. Believers! Do not swallow interest, doubled and redoubled, and be mindful of Allah so that you may attain true success.
131. And have fear of the Fire which awaits those who deny the Truth.
132. And obey Allah and the Messenger, that you may be shown mercy.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 133-140
133. And hasten to the forgiveness of your Lord and to a Paradise as vast as the heavens and the earth, prepared for the God-fearing
134. Who spend in the way of Allah both in plenty and hardship, who restrain their anger, and forgive others. Allah loves such good-doers.
135. These are the ones who, when they commit any indecency and wrong against themselves, instantly remember Allah and implore forgiveness for their sins – for who will forgive sin save Allah? – And who do no willfully persist in the wrong they did.
136. They shall be recompensed by forgiveness from their Lord and by gardens beneath which rivers flow; there they shall abide. How good is the reward of those who labour!
137. Many eras have passed before you. Go about, then, in the land and behold the end of those who gave the lie to (the directives and ordinances of Allah).
138. This is a plain exposition for men, and a guidance and admonition for the God-fearing.
139. Do not, then, either lose heart or grieve: for you shall surely gain the upper hand if you are true men of faith.
140. If a wound has befallen you a similar wound has already befallen the people who are opposed to you. We make such movements to men in turn so that Allah might mark out those who are the true men of faith and select from among you those who do really bear witness (to the Truth): for Allah does not love the wrong-doers,
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 141-148
141. And makes men go through trials in order that He might purge the believers and blot out those who deny the Truth.
142. Did you think that you would enter Paradise even though Allah has not yet seen who among you strove hard in His way and remained steadfast?
143. You previously longed for death (in the way of Allah): now you have faced it, observing it with your own eyes.
144. Muhammad is no more than a Messenger, and Messengers have passed away before him. If, then, he were to die or be slain will you turn about on your heels? Whoever turns about on his heels can in no way harm Allah. As for the grateful ones, Allah will soon reward them.
145. It is not given to any soul to die except with the leave of Allah, and at an appointed time. And he who desires his reward in this world. We shall grant him the reward of this world; and he who desires the reward of the Other World, We shall grant him the reward of the Other World. And soon shall We reward the ones who are grateful.
146. Many were the Prophets on whose side a large number of God-devoted men fought: they neither lost heart for all they had to suffer in the way of Allah nor did they weaken nor did they abase themselves. Allah loves such steadfast ones.
147. And all they said was this: ‘Our Lord! Forgive us our sins, and our excesses, and set our feet firm, and succour us against those who deny the Truth.’
148. Thereupon Allah granted them the reward of this world as well as a better reward of the World to Come. Allah loves those who do good.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 149-153
149. Believers! If you follow those who deny the Truth, they will drive you back on your heels, and you will turn about. Losers.
150. But Allah is your Protector, and He is the best of helpers.
151. We will cast terror into that hearts of those who have denied the Truth since they have associated others with Allah in His divinity – something for which He has sent down no sanction. The Fire is their abode; how bad the resting place of the wrong-doers will be!
152. Allah surely fulfilled His promise (of succour) when you were slaying them by His leave until the moment when you flagged and quarrelled among yourselves about the matter, and acted against the order of (the Prophet). Soon He showed you what you had intensely desired – for some among you sought this world and some of you sought the Next. Thereupon, in order to put you to a test He turned you away from your foes. Still He pardoned you after that for Allah is Bounteous to those who believe.
153. Recall when you were fleeing without casting even a side glance at anyone, and the Messenger was calling out to you from the rear. Then Allah requited you by inflicting grief after grief upon you so as to instruct you neither to grieve for the losses you might suffer or for the afflictions that might befall you. Allah knows all that you do.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 154-157
154. Then, after inflicting this grief, He sent down an inner peace upon you - a sleep which overtook some of you. Those who were concerned merely about themselves, entertaining false notions about Allah the notions of the Age of Ignorance – asked: ‘Have we any say in the matter?’ Tell them: ‘Truly, all power of decision rests solely with Allah.’ Indeed, they conceal in their hearts what they would not reveal to you, saying: ‘If we had any power of decision, we would not have been slain here.’ Say: ‘Even if you had been in your houses, those for whom slaying had been appointed would have gone forth to the places where they were to be slain.’ And all this happened so that Allah might test your secret thoughts and purge your hearts of all impurities. Allah know well what is in the breasts of men.
155. Surely those of them who turned their backs on the day when the two armies met (at Uhud) did so because Satan made them slip because of some of their lapses. But Allah has pardoned them; He is All-Forgiving, All-Forbearing.
156. Believers do not behave like those who disbelieved and say to their brothers (who meet some mishap) in the course of their journey for fighting: “Had they remained with us, they would not have died nor been slain,’ Allah makes such thoughts the cause of deep regrets in their hearts. For in truth it is Allah alone who grants life and deals death. Allah sees all that you do.
157. And were you to be slain or to die in the way of Allah, then surely Allah’s forgiveness and mercy are better than all the goods they amass.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 158-165
158. And were you to die or be slain, it is to Allah that you will all be mustered. 159. It was thanks to Allah’s mercy that you were gentle to them. Had you been rough, hard-hearted, they would surely have scattered away from you. So pardon them, and pray for their forgiveness, and take counsel from them in matters of importance. And when you are resolved on a course of action place your trust in Allah; surely Allah loves those who put their trust (in Him)
160. If Allah helps you none shall prevail over you; if He forsakes you then who can help you? It is in Allah that the believers should put their trust.
161. It is not for a Prophet to defraud; and whoever defrauds shall bring with him the fruits of his fraud on the Day of Resurrection, when every human being shall be paid in full what he has earned, and shall not be wronged.
162. Is he who follows the good pleasure of Allah like him who is laden with Allah’s wrath and whose abode is Hell? How evil that is for a resting-place!
163. They vary greatly in rank in the sight of Allah, and Allah sees what they do.
164. Surely Allah conferred a great favour on the believers when He raised from among them a Messenger to recite to them His signs, and to purify them, and to teach them the Book and Wisdom. For before that they wee in manifest error.
165. And ho come when a calamity befell you, you began to ask: ‘How has this come about?’ even though the enemy has suffered at your hands (in the Battle of Badr) double what you have suffered! Say: ‘This calamity has been brought about by yourselves.’ Surely Allah is All-Powerful.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 166-173
166. What befell you on the day when the two hosts met was by the leave of allah, and in order that He might mark out those who believe 167. And those who are hypocrites. And when these hypocrites were asked: ‘Come and fight in the way of Allah’, or (at least) ‘defend yourselves’, they answered: ‘If we but knew that there would be fighting, we would certainly have followed.’ They were nearer then to infidelity than to faith. They utter from their mouths what is not in their hearts. Allah knows well what they conceal.
168. These are the ones who stayed away, saying about their brothers: ‘Had they followed us, they would not have been slain.’ Say: ‘If you speak the truth then avert death when it comes to you.’
169. Think not of those slain in the way of Allah as dead. Indeed they are living, and with their Lord they have their sustenance,
170. Rejoicing in what Allah has bestowed upon them out of His bounty, jubilant that neither fear nor grief shall come upon the believers left behind in the world who have not yet joined them.
171. They rejoice at the favours and bounties of Allah, and at the awareness that Allah will not cause the reward of the believers to be lost.
172. There were those who responded to the call of Allah and the Messenger after injury had smitten them – for all those who do good and fear Allah there is a mighty reward.
173. When people said to them: ‘Behold, a host has gathered around you and you should fear them’, it only increased their faith and they answered: ‘Allah is Sufficient for us; and what an excellent Guardian He is!’
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 174-180
174. So they returned with a mighty favour and a great bounty from Allah having suffered no harm. They followed the good pleasure of Allah, and Allah is the Lord of great bounty.
175. It was Satan who suggested to you the fear of his allies. Do not fear them; fear Me, if you truly believe.
176. Let not those who run towards disbelief grieve you; they shall not hurt Allah in the least. Allah will not provide for them any share in the Next Life. A mighty punishment awaits them.
177. Indeed those who have purchased unbelief in exchange for faith shall not hurt Allah in the least. Theirs shall be painful chastisement.
178. Do not let the unbelievers imagine that the respite We give them is good for them. We give them respite so that they may grow in wickedness. A humiliating chastisement lies in store for them.
179. Allah will not let the believers stay in the state they are: He will set the wicked apart from the good. Allah is not going to disclose to you what is hidden in the realm beyond the reach of perception, but He chooses from among His Messengers whom He wills (to intimate such knowledge). Believe, then, in Allah and in His Messengers; and if you believe and become God-fearing, yours will be a great reward.
180. Those who are niggardly about what Allah has granted them out of His bounty think that niggardliness is good for them; it is bad for them. What they were niggardly about will turn into a halter round their necks on the Day of Resurrection. To Allah belongs the inheritance of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is well aware of what you do.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 181-186
181. Allah has heard the saying of those who said: ‘Allah is poor, and we are rich.’ We shall record what they have said, and the fact of their slaying the Prophets unjustly, and we shall say to them: ‘Taste now the torment of the Fire. 182. That is in recompense for what you have done.’ Allah does no wrong to His servants.
183. To those who say: ‘Allah has directed us that we accept none as Messenger until he makes on offering that the fire will consume’, say: ‘Other Messengers came to you before me with clear signs, and with the sign you have mentioned. So why did you slay them, if what you say is true.
184. Now, if they give the lie to you, then other Messengers who came bearing clear signs and scriptures and the illuminating Book were also given the lie before you.
185. Everyone is bound to taste death and you shall receive your full reward on the Day of Resurrection. Then, whoever is spared the Fire and is admitted to Paradise has indeed been successful. The life of this world is merely an illusory enjoyment.
186. (Believers!) You will certainly be put to test in respect of your properties and lives, and you will certainly hear many hurtful things from those who were granted the Book before you and those who have associated others with Allah in His divinity. If you remaining patient and God-fearing this indeed is a matter of great resolution.
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 187-194
187. And recall when Allah took a covenant from those who were given the Book: ‘You shall explain it to men and not hide it.’ Then they cast the Book behind their backs, and sold it away for a trivial gain. Evil indeed is their bargain.
188. Do not think that those who exult in their misdeeds and love to be praised for what indeed they have not done, do not think that they are secure from chastisement. A painful chastisement awaits them.
189. To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is All-Powerful.
190. Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, there are signs for men of understanding
191. Those who remember Allah while standing, sitting or (reclining) on their backs, and reflect in the creation of the heavens and the earth, (saying): ‘Our Lord! You have not created this in vain. Glory to You! Save us, then, from the chastisement of the Fire.
192. Our Lord! Whomever You cause to enter the Fire, him You indeed bring to disgrace, and there will be none to succour the wrong-doers.
193. Our Lord! Indeed we heard a crier calling to the faith saying: “Believe in your Lord”; so we did believe. Our Lord, forgives us our sins, and wipe out our evil deeds and make us die with the truly pious.’
194. ‘Our Lord, fulfil what You promised to us through Your Messengers, and disgrace us not on the Day of Resurrection; indeed You never go back on Your promise.’
Surah Al-Imran
Ayah 195-200
195. Their Lord answered the Prayer thus: ‘I will not suffer the work of any of you, whether male or female, to go to waste; each of you is from the other. Those who emigrated and were driven out from their homesteads and were persecuted in My cause, and who fought and were slain, indeed I shall wipe out their evil deeds from them and shall certainly admit them to the gardens beneath which rivers flow.’ This is their reward with their Lord; and with Allah lies the best reward.
196. (O Messenger!) Do no let the strutting about of the unbelievers in the land deceive you.
197. This is but a little enjoyment and then their destination is hell – what an evil resting place!
198. But those who fear their Lord: theirs shall be the gardens beneath which rivers flow and in which they will live forever: a hospitality from allah Himself. And Allah’s reward is best for the truly pious.
199. And among the People of the Book some believe in Allah and what has been revealed to you, and what has been revealed to them. They humble themselves before Allah, and do not sell Allah’s revelations for a small price. For these men their reward is with their Lord. Allah is swift in His reckoning.
200. Believers, be steadfast, and vie in steadfastness, stand firm in your faith, and hold Allah in fear that you may attain true success.
Surah-4 An-Nisaa
Ayah 1-6
1. O men! Fear your Lord Who created you from a single being and out of it created its mate; and out of the two spread many men and women. Fear Allah in Whose name you plead for rights, and heed the ties of kinship. Surely, Allah is ever watchful over you.
2. Give orphans their property, and do not exchange the bad for the good, and do not eat up their property by mixing it with your own. This surely is a mighty sin.
3. If you fear that you might not treat the orphans justly, then marry the women that seem good to you: two, or three or four. If you fear that you will not be able to treat them justly, then marry (only) one, or marry from among those whom your right hands possess. This will make it more likely that you will avoid in justice.
4. Give women their bridal-due in good cheer (considering it a duty); but if they willingly remit any part of it, consume it with good pleasure.
5. Do not entrust your properties – which Allah has made a means of support for you – to the weak of understanding, but maintain and clothe them out of it, and say to them a kind word of admonition.
6. Test the orphans until they reach the age of marriage, and then if you find them mature of mind hand over to them their property, and do not eat it up by either spending extravagantly or in haste, fearing that they would grow up (and claim it). If the guardian of the orphan is rich let him abstain entirely (from his ward’s property); and if he is poor, let him partake of it in a fair measure. When you hand over their property to them let there be witnesses on their behalf. Allah is sufficient to take account (of your deeds).
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 7-11
7. Just as there is a share for men in what their parents and kinsfolk leave behind, so there is a share for women in what their parents and kinsfolk leave behind – be it little of much – a share ordained (by Allah).
8. If other near of kin, orphans and needy are present at the time of division of inheritance give them something of it and speak to them kindly.
9. And let them fear, those who, if they would themselves leave behind helpless offspring, they would surely have been fearful on their account. Let them, then, fear Allah and make the right statement.
10. Behold, those who wrongfully devour the properties of orphans only fill their bellies with fire. Soon they will burn in the Blazing Flame.
11. Allah thus commands you concerning your children: the share of the male is like that of two females. If (the heirs of the deceased are) more than two daughters, they shall have two-thirds of the inheritance; and if there is only one daughter, then she shall have half the inheritance. If the deceased has any offspring, each of his parents shall have a sixth of the inheritance; and if the deceased has no child and his parents alone inherit him, then one-third shall go to his mother; and if the deceased has brothers and sisters, then one-sixth shall go to his mother. All these shares are to be given after payment of the bequest he might have made o any debts outstanding against him. You do no know which of them, your parents or your children, are more beneficial to you. But these portion s have been determined by Allah, for He indeed knows all, is cognizant of all beneficent considerations.
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 12-14
12. And to you belongs half of whatever has been left behind by your wives if they die childless; but if they have any children then to you belongs a fourth of what they have left behind, after payment of the bequest they might have made or any debts outstanding against them. And to them belongs a fourth of what you leave behind, if you die childless; and if you have any child then to them belongs one-eighth of what you have left behind, after the payment of the bequest you might have made or any debts outstanding against you. And if the man or woman has no heir in the direct line, but has a brother or sister, then each of these shall inherit one-sixth; but if they are more than two, then they shall inherit one-third of the inheritance, after payment of the bequest that might have been made or any debts outstanding against the deceased, providing that the bequest causes no injury. This is a commandment from Allah; Allah is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing.
13. These are the bounds set by Allah. Allah will make the man who obeys Allah and His Messenger enter the Gardens beneath which rivers flow. He will abide there for ever. That is the mighty triumph.
14. And he who disobeys Allah and His Messenger and transgresses the bounds set by Him - him shall Allah cause to enter the Fire. There he will abide. A humiliating chastisement awaits him.
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 15-19
15. As for those of your women who are guilty of immoral conduct, call upon four from amongst you to bear witness against them. And if four men do bear witness, confine those women to heir houses until either death takes them away or Allah opens some way for them.
16. Punish both of those among you who are guilty of this sin, then if they repent and mend their ways, leave them alone. For Allah is always ready to accept repentance. He is All-Compassionate.
17. (And remember that) Allah’s acceptance of repentance is only for those who commit evil out of ignorance and then soon repent. It is towards such persons that Allah turns graciously. Allah is All-Knowing, All-wise.
18. But of no evils is repentance of those who do evil until death approaches any one of them and then he says: ‘Now I repent.’ Nor is the repentance of those who die in the state of unbelief of any avail to them. For them We have kept in readiness a painful chastisement.
19. Believers! It is not law for you to become heirs to women against their will. Is not lawful that you should put constraint upon them that you may take away anything of what you have given them; (you may not put constraint upon them) unless they are guilty of brazenly immoral conduct. Live with your wives in a good manner. If you dislike them in any manner, it may be that you dislike something in which Allah has placed much good for you.
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 20-23
20. And if you decide to dispense with a wife in order to take another, do not take away anything of what you might have given the first one, even if you had given her a heap of gold. Would you take it back by slandering her and committing a manifest wrong?
21. How can you take it away after each one has enjoyed the other, and they have taken a firm covenant from you?
22. Do not marry the women whom your fathers married, although what is past is past. This indeed was a shameful deed, a hateful thing, and an evil way.
23. Forbidden to you are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your father’s sisters and your mother’s sisters and your brother’s daughters and your sister’s daughters, your milk-mothers, your milk-sister’s, the mothers of your wives, ad the step-daughters – who are your foster-children, born of your wives with whom you have consummate the marriage; but if you have not consummated the marriage with them, there will be no blame upon you (if you marry their daughters). It is also forbidden for you to take the wives of the sons who have sprung from your loins and to take two sister together in marriage, although what is past is past. Surely Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
Surah Al-Nisa
Ayah 24-26
24. And also forbidden to you are all married women (Muhsanat) except those women whom your right hands have come to possess (as a result of war). This is Allah’s decree and it is biding upon you. But it is lawful for you to seek out all women except these, offering them your wealth and the protection of wedlock rather than using them for the unfettered satisfaction of lust. And in exchange of what you enjoy by marrying them pay their bridal-due as an obligation. But there is no blame on you if you mutually agree to alter the settlement after it has been made. Surely Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
25. And those of you who cannot afford to marry free, believing women (muhsanat), then marry such believing women whom your right hands possess. Allah knows all about your faith. All of you belong to one another. Marry them, then, with the leave of their guardians, and give them their bridal-due in a fair manner that they may live in the protection of wedlock rather than be either mere objects of unfettered lust or given to secret love affairs. Then if they become guilty of immoral conduct after they have entered into wedlock, they shall be liable to half the penalty to which free women (muhsanat) are liable. This relaxation is for those of you who fear to fall into sin be remaining unmarried. But if you persevere, it is better for you. Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
26. Allah wants to make all this clear to you, and to guide you to the ways which the righteous have followed in the past. He will turn graciously towards you. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
Surah Al - Nisa
Ayah 27-33
27. And Allah indeed wants to turn graciously towards you; but those who follow their lusts would want you to drift far away from the right way.
28. Allah wants to lighten your burdens, for man was created weak.
29. Believers! Do not devour one another’s possessions wrongfully; rather than that, let there be trading by mutual consent. You shall not kill yourselves. Surely Allah is ever Compassionate to you.
30. And whoever does this by way of transgression and injustice him shall We surely cast into the Fire; that indeed is quite easy for Allah.
31. But if you avoid the major sins which you have been forbidden, We shall remit your (trivial) offences, and cause you to enter an honourable abode.
32. Do not cover what Allah has conferred more abundantly on some of you than others.
33.And to everyone We have appointed rightful heirs to what the parents and near of kin might leave behind. As to those with whom you have made a solemn covenant, give them their share. Allah watches over all things.
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 34-37
34. Men are the protectors and maintainers of women because Allah has made one of them excel over the other, and because they spend out of their possessions (to support them). Thus righteous women are obedient and guard the rights of men in their absence under Allah’s protection. As for women of whom you fear rebellion, admonish them, and remain apart from them in beds, and beat them. Then if they obey you, do not seek ways to harm them. Allah is Exalted. Great.
35. If you fear a breach between the two, appoint an arbitrator from his people and an arbitrator from her people.
36.Serve Allah and ascribe no partner to Him. Do good to your parents, to near of kin, to orphans, and to the needy, and to the neighbour who is of kin and to the neighbour who is a stranger, and to the companion by your side, and to the wayfarer, and to those whom your right hands possess. Allah does not love the arrogant and the boastful,
37.Who are niggardly and bid others to be niggardly and conceal the bounty which Allah has bestowed upon them. We have kept in readiness a humiliating chastisement for such deniers (of Allah’s bounty).
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 38-43
38. Allah does not love those who spend out of their wealth to make a show of it to people when they believe neither in Allah nor in the Last Day. And he who has taken Satan for a companion has indeed taken for himself a very bad companion.
39. What harm would have befallen them if they had believed in Allah and the Last Day, and spent on charity what Allah had bestowed upon them as sustenance? For Allah indeed has full knowledge of them.
40. Indeed Allah wrongs none, not even as much as an atom’s weight. Whenever a man does good, He multiplies it two-fold, and bestows out of His grace a mighty reward.
41. Consider, then, when We shall bring forward witnesses from every community, and will bring you (O Muhammad!) as a witness against them all.
42. Those who disbelieved and disobeyed the Messenger will wish on that Day that the earth were levelled with them. 42. Believers! Do not draw near to the Prayer while you’re a intoxicated until you know what you are saying nor while your are defiled – save when you are travelling – until you have washed yourselves. If you are either ill of travelling or have satisfied a want of nature of have had contact with women and can find no water, then betake yourselves to pure earth, passing with it lightly over your face and your hands. Surely Allah is All-Relenting, All-Forgiving.
43.Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the Book was given? They purchased error for themselves, and wish that you too lose the right way?
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 45-51
45. Allah knows your enemies better and Allah suffices as a protector and Allah suffices as a helper.
46.Among those who have become Jews there are some who alter the words from their context, and make a malicious play with their tongues and seek to revile the true faith. They say: ‘We have heard and we disobey’ (sami’na wa ‘asayna), ‘Do hear us, may you turn dumb’ (isma’ ghayr musma’), and ‘Hearken to us’ (ra’ina). It would indeed have been better for them and more upright if they had said: ‘We have heard and we obey’ (sami’na wa ata’na) and : ‘Do listen to us, and look at us (with kindness)’ (wa isma’ wa unzurna). But Allah has cursed them because of their disbelief. Scarcely do they believe.
47.O you who have been granted the Book! Do believe in what We have (now) revealed, which confirms the revelation which you already possess. Do this before We alter countenances, turning them backwards, or lay a curse upon them as We cursed the Sabbath-men. Bear in mind that Allah’s command is done.
48.Surely Allah does not forgive that a partner be ascribed to Him, although He forgives any other sins for whomever He will. He who associates anyone with Allah in His divinity has indeed forged a mighty lie and committed an awesome sin.
49.Have you not seen those who boast of their righteousness, even thought it is Allah Who grants righteousness to whomsoever He wills? They are not wronged even as much as the husk of a date-stone (if they do not receive righteousness).
50.See how they forge lies about Allah! This in itself is a manifest sin.
51.Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the Book was given? They believe in baseless superstitions and taghut (false deities), and say about the unbelievers that they are better guided than those who believe.
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 52-59
52. Such are the ones whom Allah has cursed; and he whom Allah curses has none to come to his help.
53. Have they any share in the dominion (of Allah)? Had that been so, they would never have granted people even as much as the speck on a date-stone.
54. Do they envy others for the bounty that Allah has bestowed upon them? (Let them bear in mind that ) We bestowed upon the house of Abraham the Book and Wisdom, and We bestowed upon them a mighty dominion,
55. Whereupon some of them believed, and others turned away. (Those who turn away), Hell suffices for a blaze.
56. Surely We shall cast those who reject Our signs into the Fire; and as often as their skins are burnt out, We shall give them other skins in exchange that they may fully taste the chastisement. Surely Allah is All-mighty, All-Wise.
57. And those who believe and do good deeds, We shall cause them to enter the Gardens beneath which rivers flow. There they shall abide forever. There they shall have spouses purified and there We shall cause them to enter a shelter with plenteous shade.
58. Allah commands you to deliver trusts to those worthy of them; and when you judge between people, to judge with justice. Excellent is the admonition Allah gives you. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
59.Believers! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger, and those from among you who are invested with authority; and then if you were to dispute among yourselves about anything refer it to Allah and the Messenger if you indeed believe in Allah and the Last Day; that is better and more commendable in the end.
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 60-65
60. Books revealed before you, and yet desire to submit their disputes to the judgement of taghut (the Satanic authorities who decide independently of the Law of Allah), whereas they had been asked to reject it. And Satan seeks to make them drift far way from the right way.
61. When they are told: ‘Come to that which Allah has revealed, and come to the Messenger’, you will notice the hypocrites turning away from you in aversion.
62. But what happens when some misfortune visits them because of their own misdeeds? Then, they come to you swearing by Allah, saying: ‘We wanted nothing but to do good and to bring about conciliation (between the two parties)’.
63. As for them, Allah knows what is in their hearts. Leave them alone, admonish them, and say to them penetrating words about themselves.
64. (And tell them that ) We never sent a Messenger but that he should be obeyed by the leave of Allah. If whenever they wronged themselves they had come to you praying to Allah for forgiveness, and had the Messenger prayed for their forgiveness, they would indeed have found Allah All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
65. But no, by your Lord, they cannot become true believers until they seek your arbitration in all matters on which they disagree among themselves, and then find not the least vexation in their hearts over what you have decided, and accept it in willing submission.
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 66-74
66. Had We enjoined upon them: ‘Slay yourselves’, or ‘Leave your habitations’, very few of them would have done it; yet if they had done as they were admonished, it would have been better for them and would have strengthened them;
67.Whereupon We would indeed grant them from Us a mighty reward,
68.And guide them to a straight way.
69.And he who obeys Allah and the Messenger – they shall be with those whom Allah has favoured – the Prophets, those steadfast in truthfulness, the martyrs, and the righteous. How excellent will they be for companions!
70. That is a bounty from Allah, and Allah suffices to know the truth.
71. Believers! Always be on your guard against encounter. Then (as circumstance demands) either advance in detachments of advance in a body.
72. Among you there is such who lags behind, then if some affliction strikes you, he says: ‘Indeed Allah bestowed His favour upon me that I was not present with them.’
73. And if a bounty from Allah is given you, he says and says as if there never was any affection between you and him – ‘Oh, would that I had been with them, I would have come by a great gain.’
74. Let those who seek the life of the Next World in exchange for the life of this world fight in the way of Allah. We shall grant a mighty reward to whoever fights in the way of Allah, whether he is slain or comes out victorious.
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 75-79
75. How is it that you do not fight in the way of Allah and in support of the helpless – men, women and children – who pray; ‘Our Lord, bring us out of this land whose people are oppressors and appoint for us from Yourself, a protector, and appoint for us from Yourself a helper’?
76.Those who have faith fight in the way of Allah, while those who disbelieve fight in the way of taghut (Satan). Fight, then, against the fellows of Satan. Surely Satan’s strategy is weak.
77.Have you not seen those who were told: ‘Restrain you hands, and establish the Prayer, and pay the Zakah’? But when fighting was enjoined upon them some of them feared men as one should fear Allah, or even more, and said: ‘Our Lord, why have you ordained fighting for us? Why did You not grant us a little more respite?’ Say to them: ‘There is little enjoyment in this world. The World to Come is much better for the God-fearing. And you shall not be wronged even to the extent of the husk of a date-stone.’
78. Wherever you might be, death will overtake you even though you be in massive towers. And when some good happens to them, they say: ‘This is from Allah’: whereas when some misfortune befalls them, they say: ‘This is because of you’. Say: ‘All is from Allah.’ What has happened to this people that they seem to understand nothing?
79. Whatever good happens to you is from Allah; and whatever misfortune smites you is because of you own action. We have sent you to mankind (O Muhammad!) as a Messenger, and Allah is sufficient as a witness.
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 80-86
80.He who obeys the Messenger thereby obeys Allah; as for he who turns away, We have not sent you as a keeper over them!
81.They say (in your presence): ‘We obey’, but when they leave your presence a party of them meets by night to plan against what you have said. Allah takes note of all their plots. So, let them alone, and put your trust in Allah. Allah is sufficient as a guardian.
82.Do they not ponder about the Qur’an? Had it been from any other than Allah, they would surely have found in it much inconsistency.
83.Whenever they come upon any news hearing upon either security or causing consternation they go about spreading it, whereas if they were to convey it to either the Messenger or to those from among them who are entrusted with authority, it would come to the knowledge of those who are competent to investigate it. But for Allah’s bounty and mercy upon you, (weak as you were) all but a few of you would surely have followed Satan.
84.(So, O Messenger!) Fight in the way of Allah – since you are responsible for none except yourself – and rouse the believers to fight, for Allah may well curb the might of the unbelievers. Indeed Allah is strongest in power and most terrible in chastisement.
85.He who intercedes in a good cause shall share in its good result, and he who intercedes in an evil cause shall share in its burden. Allah watches over everything.
86.When you are greeted with a salutation then return it with a better one, or at least the same. Surely Allah takes good count of everything.
Surah An-Nissa
Ayah 87-91
87. There is no god but Allah. He will certainly gather you all together on the Day of Resurrection – the Day regarding which there can be no doubt. Whose word can be truer than Allah’s?
88.What has happened to you that you have two minds about the hypocrites even though Allah has reverted them, owing to the sins that they earned? Do you want to lead those to the right way whom Allah let go astray? And he whom Allah lets go astray, for him you can never find a way.
89.They wish that you should disbelieve just as they disbelieve just as they disbelieved so that you may all be alike. Do not, therefore, take from them allies until they emigrate in the way of Allah, but if they turn their backs (on emigration), size them and slay them wherever you come upon them. Take none of them for your ally or helper,
90.Unless it be such of them who seek refuge with a people who are joined with you by a covenant, or those who come to you because their hearts shrink from fighting either against you or against their own people. Had Allah so willed, He would certainly have given them power over you and they would have fought against you. If they leave you alone and do not fight against you and offer you peace, then Allah does not permit you to harm them.
91.You will also find others who wish to be secure from you, and secure from their people, but who, whenever they have any opportunity to cause mischief, plunge into it headlong. If such people neither leave you alone nor offer you peace nor restrain their hands from hurting you, then seize them and slay them wherever you come upon them. It is against these that We have granted you a clear sanction.
Surah An-Nissa
Ayah 92-94
92. It is not for a believer to slay another believer unless by mistake. And he who has slain a believer by mistake, his atonement is to set free from bondage a believing person and to pay blood-money to his heirs, unless they forgo it by way of charity. And if the slain belonged to a hostile people, but was a believer, then the atonement is to set free from bondage a believing person. And if the slain belonged to a (non-Muslim) people with whom you have a covenant, then the atonement is to pay the blood-money to his heirs, and to set free from bondage a believing person. But he who cannot (free a slave) should fast for two consecutive months. This is the penance ordained by Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-wise.
93.And he who slays a believer wilfully his reward is Hell, where he will abide. Allah’s wrath is against him and He has cast His curse upon him, and has prepared for him a great chastisement.
94.Believers! When you go forth in the way of Allah, discern (between friend and foe), and do not say to him who offers you the greeting of peace: ‘You are not a believer.’ If you seek the good of this worldly life, there lies with Allah abundant gain. After all, you too were such before, and then Allah was gracious to you. Discern, then, for Allah is well aware of what you do.
Surah An-Nissa
Ayah 95-101
95.Those believers who sit at home, unless they do so out of a disabling injury, are not the equals of those who strive in the way of Allah with their possessions and their lives. Allah has exalted in rank those who strive with their possessions and their lives over those who sit at home; and though to each Allah has promised some good reward, He has preferred those who strive (in the way of Allah) over those who sit at home for a mighty reward.
96.For them are ranks, forgiveness, and favours from Him. Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
97.While taking the souls of those who were engaged in wronging themselves, the angels asked: ‘In what circumstances were you?’ They replied: ‘We were too weak and helpless in the land.’ The angels said: ‘Was not the earth of Allah wide enough for you to emigrate in it?’ For such men their refuge is Hell – an evil destination indeed;
98.Except the men, women, and children who were indeed too feeble to be able to seek the means of escape and did not know where to go–
99.May be Allah shall pardon these, for Allah is All-Pardoning, All-Forgiving.
100.He who emigrates in the way of Allah will find in the earth enough room for refuge and plentiful resources. And he who goes forth from his house as a migrant in the way of Allah and His Messenger, and whom death overtakes, his reward becomes incumbent on Allah. Surely Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
101.When you go forth journeying in the land, there is no blame on you if you shorten the Prayer, (especially) if you fear that the unbelievers might cause you harm. Surely the unbelievers are your open enemies.
Surah An-Nissa
Ayah 102-105
102. (O Messenger!) If you are among the believers and rise (in the state of war) to lead the Prayer for them, let a party of them stand with you to worship, keeping their arms. When they have performed their prostration, let them go behind you, and let another party who have not prayed, pray with you, remaining on guard and keeping their arms, for the unbelievers love to see you heedless of your arms and your baggage so that they might swoop upon you in a surprise attack. But there shall be no blame upon you if you were to lay aside your arms if you are either troubled by rain or are sick; but remain on guard. Surely Allah has prepared a humiliating chastisement for the unbelievers.
103.When you have finished the Prayer, remember Allah- standing, and sitting, and reclining. And when you become secure, perform the regular Prayer. The Prayer is enjoined upon the believers at stated times.
104.Do not be faint of heart in pursuing these people: if you happen to suffer harm they too are suffering just as you are, while you may hope from Allah what they cannot hope for. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
105.(O Messenger!) We have revealed to you this Book with the Truth so that you may judge between people in accordance with what Allah has shown you. So do no dispute on behalf of the dishonest,
Surah An-Nissa
Ayah 106-113
106. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Surely Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
107.Do not plead for those who dishonest to themselves; Allah does not love him who betrays trust and persists in sin.
108.They can hide (their deeds) from men but they cannot hide (them) from Allah for He is with them even when they hold nightly counsels that are unpleasing to Allah. Allah encompasses all their doings.
109.You pleaded on their behalf in this worldly life but who will plead with Allah on their behalf on the Day of Resurrection, or who will be their defender there?
110.He who does either evil or wrongs himself, and then asks for the forgiveness of Allah, will find Allah All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
111.He who commits a sin, commits it only to his detriment. Surely Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
112.But he who commits either a fault or a sin, and then casts it upon an innocent person, lays upon himself the burden of a false charge and a flagrant sin.
113.(O Messenger!) But for Allah’s favour and mercy upon you, a party of them had resolved to mislead you, yet they only misled themselves, and could not have harmed you in any way. Allah revealed to you the Book and Wisdom, and He taught you what you knew not. Great indeed has been Allah'’ favour upon you.
Surah An-Nissa
Ayah 114-121
114. Most of their secret conferrings are devoid of good, unless one secretly enjoins in charity, good deeds, and setting the affairs of men right. We shall grant whoever does that seeking to please Allah a great reward.
115. As for him who sets himself against the Messenger and follows a path other than that of the believers even after true guidance had become clear to him, We will let him go to the way he has turned to, and We will cast him into Hell – an evil destination.
116. Truly it is only associating others with Allah in His divinity that Allah does not forgive, and forgives anything besides that to whomsoever He wills. Whoever associates others with Allah in His divinity has indeed strayed far away.
117.Rather than call upon Him, they call upon a rebellious Satan.
118.Upon whom Allah has laid His curse. He said (to Allah): ‘I will take to myself an appointed portion of Your servants
119.And shall lead them astray, and shall engross them in vain desire, and I shall command them and they will cut off the ears of the cattle, and I shall command them and they will disfigure Allah’s creation.’ He who took Satan rather than Allah for his guardian has indeed suffered a manifest loss.
120.Satan makes promises to them and fills them with vain hopes, but whatever he promises them is merely delusion.
121.For these people, their abode shall be Hell and from there they shall find no way of escape
Surah An-Nissa
Ayah 122-127
122. But those who believe and do good, We shall cause them to enter the Gardens beneath which rivers flow. Here they will abide for ever. This is Allah’s promise in truth and whose word is truer than Allah’s?
123. It is neither your fancies nor the fancies of the People of the Book which matter. Whoever does evil shall reap its consequence and will find none to be his protector and helper against Allah.
124. Whoever does good and believes – whether he is male of female – such shall enter the Garden, and they shall not be wronged in the slightest.
125. And whose way of life could be better than that of he who submits his whole being to Allah, does good, and follows exclusively the way of Abraham whom Allah took for a friend?
126. Whatever is in the heavens and in the earth belongs to Allah; Allah encompasses everything.
127. They ask you to pronounce laws concerning women, say: ‘Allah pronounces to you concerning them, and reminds you of the injunctions which were recited to you in the Book about female orphans whom you do no give what has been ordained for them and whom you wish to marry (out of greed)’, and the commandments relating to the children who are weak and helpless. Allah is well aware of whatever good you do.
Surah An-Nissa
Ayah 128-134
128. If a woman fears either ill-treatment, or aversion from her husband it is not wrong for the husband and wife to bring about reconciliation among themselves (by compromising on their rights), for settlement is better. Man’s should is always prone to selfishness, but if you do good and are God-fearing, then surely Allah’s is aware of the things you do.
129.You will not be able to treat your wives with absolute justice not even when you keenly desire to do so. (It is suffices in order to follow the Law of Allah that) you incline not wholly to one, leaving the other in suspense. If you act rightly and remain God-fearing, surely Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
130. But if the two separate, out of His plenty Allah will make each dispense with the other indeed Allah is All-Bounteous, All-Wise.
131. All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth belongs to Allah. We enjoined upon those who were given the Book before you, and also yourselves, to have fear of Allah. But if you disbelieve, then bear in mind that all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth belongs to Allah. Allah is Self-Sufficient, Most Praiseworthy.
132. And to Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth; and Allah suffices for help and protection.
133. If He wills, He has the full power to remove you, O mankind, and bring in others in your place.
134. He who desires the reward of this world, let him know that with Allah is the reward of this world and also of the World to Come. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
Surah An-Nissa
Ayah 135-140
135. Believers! Be upholders of justice, and bearers of witness to truth for the sake of Allah, even though it may either be against yourselves or against your parents and kinsmen, or the rich or the poor: for Allah is more concerned with their well-being than you are. Do not, then, follow your own desires lest you keep away from justice. If you twist or turn away from (the truth), know that Allah is well aware of all that you do.
136. Believers! Believe in Allah and His Messenger and in the Book He has revealed to His Messenger, and in the Book He revealed before, and whoever disbelieves in Allah, in His angels, in His Books, in His Messengers and in the Last Day, has indeed strayed far away.
137. Allah will neither forgive nor who the right way to those who believed, and then disbelieved, then believed, and again disbelieved, and thenceforth became ever more intense in their disbelief.
138. Give tidings of painful chastisement to the hypocrites
139. Who take the unbelievers for their allies in preference to the believers. Do they seek honour from them whereas honour altogether belongs to Allah alone?
140. Allah has enjoined upon you in the Book that when you hear the sings of Allah being rejected and scoffed at, you will not sit with them until they engage in some other talk, or else you will become like them. Know well, Allah will gather the hypocrites and the unbelievers in Hell – all together.
Surah An-Nisaa
Ayah 141-147
141. These hypocrites watch you closely: if victory is granted to you by Allah, they will say: ‘Were we not with you?’ And were the unbelievers to gain the upper hand, they will say: ‘Did we not have mastery over you, and yet we protected you from the believers?’ It is Allah Who will judge between you on the Day of Resurrection, and He will not allow the unbelievers, in any way, to gain advantage over the believers.
142. Behold, the hypocrites seek to deceive Allah, but it is they who are being deluded by Him. When they rise to Prayer, they rise reluctantly, and only to be seen by men. They remember Allah but little.
143. They dangle between the one and the other (faith and disbelief), and belong neither to these nor to those completely. And he whom Allah lets go astray, for him you can find no way.
144. Believers! Do not take the unbelievers as your allies in preference to the believers. Do you wish to offer Allah a clear proof of guilt against yourselves?
145. Surely the hypocrites shall be in the lowest depth of the Fire and you shall find none to come to their help,
146. Except those who repent and mend their ways and hold fast to Allah and make their faith exclusive to Allah. Those people shall be numbered with the believers and Allah will certainly bestow on the believers a great reward.
147. Why should Allah deal chastisement to you if you are grateful to Him and believe? Allah is All-Appreciative, All-Knowing.
Surah Al-Nisaa
Ayah 148-154
148. Allah does not like speaking evil publicly unless one has been wronged. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
149. (Even thought you have the right to speak evil if you are wronged), if you keep doing good – whether openly or secretly – or at least pardon the evil (then that is the attribute of Allah). Allah is All-Pardoning and He has all the power to chastise.
150. There are those who disbelieve in Allah and His Messengers and seek to differentiate between Allah and His Messengers, and say: ‘We believe in some and deny others, and seek to strike a way between the two.’
151. It is they, indeed they, who are, beyond all doubt, unbelievers; and for the unbelievers We have prepared a humiliating chastisement.
152. For those who believe in Allah and His Messengers, and do not differentiate between them, We shall certainly give them their reward. Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
153. The People of the Book now ask of you to have a Book come down on them from heaven; indeed they asked of Moses even greater things than this, for they said: ‘Make us see Allah with our own eyes’ – whereupon the thunderbolt suddenly smote them for their wickedness. Then they took to worshipping the calf after clear signs had come to them. Still, We forgave them, and conferred a manifest commandment upon Moses,
154. And We raised the Mount high above them and took from them a covenant (to obey the commandment), and ordered them: ‘Enter the gate in the state of prostration.’ And We said to them: ‘Do not violate the law of the Sabbath’, and took from them a firm covenant.
Surah Al-Nisaa
Ayah 155-162
155. (they have incurred Allah’s wrath) for their breaking the covenant, and their rejection of the signs of Allah, and for slaying Prophets without right, and for saying: 'Our hearts are wrapped up in covers’ – even though in fact Allah has sealed their hearts because of their unbelief, so that they scarcely believe-
156. and for their going so far in unbelief as uttering against Mary a mighty calumny,
157. and their saying: ‘We slew the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary’, the Messenger of Allah – whereas in fact they had neither slain him nor crucified him but the matter was made dubious to them – and those who differed about it too were in a state of doubt! They have no definite knowledge of it, but merely follow conjecture; and they surely slew him not,
158. But Allah raised him to Himself. Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
159. There are none among the People of the Book but will believe in him before his death, and he will be a witness against them on the Day of Resurrection.
160. Thus, We forbade them many clean things which had earlier been made lawful for them, for the wrong-doing of those who became Jews, for their barring many from the way of Allah,
161. And for their taking interest which had been prohibited to them,
162. Those among them who are firmly rooted in knowledge and the believers, such do believe in what has been revealed to you and what was revealed before you. (Those who truly believe) establish the Prayer and Pay Zakah, those who firmly believe in Allah and in the Last Day, to them We shall indeed pay a great reward.
Surah Al-Nisaa
Ayah 163-170
163. (O Muhammad!) We have revealed to you as We revealed to Noah and the Prophets after him, and We revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the offspring of Jacob, and Jesus and Job, and Jonah, and Aaron and Solomon, and We gave to David Psalms.
164. We revealed to the Messengers We have already told you of, and to the Messengers We have not told you of; and to Moses Allah spoke directly.
165. These Messengers were sent as bearers of glad tidings and warners so that after sending the Messengers people may have no plea against Allah. Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
166. (Whether people believe or not) Allah bears witness that whatever He has revealed to you, He has revealed with His knowledge, and the angels bear witness to it too, though the witness of Allah is sufficient.
167. Those who denied this truth and barred others from the way of Allah have indeed strayed far.
168. Likewise, Allah will neither forgive those who denied the truth and took to wrong-doing nor will He show them any other way.
169. Save that of Hell wherein they will abide. And that is easy for Allah.
170. O men! Now that the Messenger has come to you bearing the Truth from your Lord, believe in him; it will be good for you. If you reject, know well that to Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
Surah Al-Nisaa
Ayah 171-175
171. People of the Book! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, and attribute to Allah nothing except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was only a Messenger of Allah, and His command that He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him (which let to Mary’s conception). So believe in Allah and in His Messengers, and do not say: ‘(Allah is a) trinity.’ Give up this assertion; it would be better for you. Allah is indeed just one God. Far be it from His glory that He should have son. To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth. Allah is sufficient for a guardian.
172. The Messiah neither did disdain to be a servant of Allah nor do the angels who are stationed near to Him; and whoever disdains to serve Him, and waxes arrogant, Allah will certainly muster them all to Him.
173. He will grant those who have believed and done good deeds their rewards in full, and will give them more out of His bounty. He will bestow upon those who have been disdainful and arrogant a painful chastisement; and they will find for themselves neither a guardian nor a helper besides Allah.
174. O men! A proof has come to you from your Lord, and We have sent down unto you a clear light.
175. Allah will surely admit those who believe in Him and hold fast to Him to His mercy and bounty, and will guide them on to a straight way to Himself.
Surah Al-Nisaa
Ayah 176
176. People ask you to pronounce a ruling concerning inheritance from those who have left behind no lineal heirs (Kalalah). Say: ‘Allah pronounces for you the ruling: should a man die childless but have a sister, she shall have one half of what he has left behind; and should the sister die childless, his brother shall inherit her. And if the heirs are two sister, they shall have two-thirds of what he has left behind. And if the heirs are sisters and brothers, then the male shall have the share of two females. Allah makes (His commandments) clear to you lest you go astray. Allah has full knowledge of everything.
Surah-5 Al-Maida
Ayah 1-2
1. Believers! Honour your bonds! All grazing beasts of the flock are permitted to you except those which are recited to you hereinafter, but you are not allowed to hunt in the sate of Ihram (a state of pilgrim sanctity). Indeed Allah decrees as He wills.
2.Believers! Neither desecrate the symbols of (devotion to) Allah, nor the holy month, nor the animals of offering, nor the animals wearing collars indicating they are for sacrifice, nor ill-treat those who have set out for the Holy House seeking from their Lord His bounty and good pleasure. But once you are free from pilgrimage obligations, you are free to hunt. Do not let your wrath against the people who have barred you from the Holy Mosque move you to commit undue transgressions; rather, help one another in acts of righteousness and piety, and do no help one another in sin and transgression. Fear Allah. Surely Allah is severe in retribution.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 3-5
3. Forbidden to you are carrion, blood, the flesh of swine, the animal slaughtered in any name other than Allah’s, the animal which has either been strangled, killed by blows, has died of a fall, by goring or that devoured by beast of prey – unless it be that which you yourselves might have slaughtered while it was still alive – and that which was slaughtered at the altars. You are also forbidden to seek knowledge of your fate by divining arrows. All these are sinful acts. This day unbelievers have fully despaired of your religion.
4. They ask you what has been made lawful to them. Say: ‘All clean things have been made lawful to you, and such hunting animals as you teach, training them to hunt, teaching them the knowledge Allah has given you- you may eat what they catch for you – but invoke the name of Allah on it. Have fear of Allah (in violating His Law). Allah is swift in His reckoning.’
5. This day all god things have been made lawful to you. The food of the People of the Book is permitted to you, and your food is permitted to them. And permitted to you are chaste women, be they either from among the believers or from among those who have received the Book before you, provided you become their protectors in wedlock after paying them their bridal-due, rather than go around committing fornication and taking them as secret-companions. The work of he who refuses to follow the way of faith will go waste, and he will be among the utter losers in the Hereafter.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 6-9
6. Believers! When you stand up for 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 in the state of ritual impurity, purify yourselves (by taking a bath). But if you are either ill, travelling, have satisfied a want of nature or have had contact with women and find no water then have recourse to clean earth and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah does not want to lay any hardship upon you; rather He wants to purify you and complete His favours upon you so that you may give thanks.
7. Remember Allah’s favour upon you and His covenant, which He made with you when you said: ‘We have heard and we obey.’ So do fear Allah. Allah has full knowledge even of that which is hidden in the breasts of people.
8. Believers! Be upright bearers of witness for Allah, and do not let the enmity of any people move you to deviate from justice. Act justly, that is nearer to God-fearing. And fear Allah. Surely Allah is well aware of what you do.
9. Allah has promised those who believe and do righteous deeds forgiveness from sins and a great reward.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 10-13
10. As for those who disbelieve and give the lie to Our signs, they are destined for the Blazing Flame.
11. Believers! Remember Allah’s favour upon you. When a certain people decided to stretch their hands against you, He restrained their hands from you. Do fear Allah. Men of faith should put their trust in Allah alone.
12. Surely Allah took a covenant with the Children of Israel, and We raised up from them twelve of their leaders, and Allah said: ‘Behold, I am with you; if you establish Prayer and pay Zakah and believe in My Prophets and help them, and lend Allah a good loan, I will certainly efface from you your evil deeds, and will surely cause you to enter the Gardens beneath which rivers flow. Whosoever of you disbelieves thereafter has indeed gone astray from the right way.
13. Then, for their breach of the covenant We cast them away from our mercy and cause their hearts to harden. (And now they are in such a state that) they pervert the words from their context and thus distort their meaning, and have forgotten a good portion of the teaching they were imparted, and regarding all except a few of them you continue to learn that they committed acts of treachery. Pardon them, then, and overlook their deeds. Surely Allah loves those who do good deeds. Surely Allah loves those who do good deeds.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 14-17
14. We also took a covenant from those who said: ‘We are Christians’; but they forgot a good portion of the teaching they had been imparted with. Wherefore We aroused enmity and spite between them till the Day of Resurrection, and ultimately Allah will tell them what they had contrived.
15. People of the Book! Now Our Messenger has come to you: he makes clear to you a good many things of the Book which you were wont to conceal, and also passes over many things. There has now come to you a light from Allah, and a clear Book.
16. Through which Allah shows to all who seek to please Him the paths leading to safety. He brings them out, by His leave, from darkness to light and directs them on to the straight way.
17. Indeed those who said: ‘Christ, the son of Mary, he is indeed God’, disbelieved. Say (O Muhammad!): ‘Who could have overruled Allah had He so willed to destroy Christ, the son of Mary, and his mother, and all those who are on earth?’ For to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them; He creates that He will. Allah is All-Powerful.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 17-22
17. The Jews and the Christians say: ‘We are Allah’s children and His beloved ones.’ Ask them: ‘Why, then, does He chastise you for your sins?’ You are the same as other men He has created. He forgives whom He wills and chastises whom He wills. And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them. To Him is the eventual return.
18. People of the Book! After a long interlude during which no Messengers have appeared there has come to you Our Messenger to elucidate the teaching of the true faith lest you say: ‘No bearer of glad tidings and no warner has come to us.’ For now there indeed has come to you a bearer of glad tidings and a warner. Allah is All-Powerful.
19. Remember when Moses said to his people: ‘My people, remember Allah’s favour upon you when He raised Prophets amongst you and appointed you rulers, and granted to you what He had not granted to anyone else in the world.
20. My people! Enter the holy land which Allah has ordained for you; and do not turn back for then you will turn about losers.’
21. They answered: ‘Moses, therein live a ferocious people: we will not enter unless they depart from it; but if they do depart from it then we will surely enter it.’
22. Two from among theses who were frightened but upon whom Allah had bestowed His favour said: ‘Enter upon them through the gate – for if you do enter – you will be the victors. And put your trust in Allah if indeed you are men of faith.’
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 24-31
24. Nevertheless they said: ‘O Moses! Never shall we enter it as long as they are there. Go forth, then, you and your Lord, and fight, both of you. As for us, we will sit here.’
25. Thereupon Moses said: ‘My Lord! I have control over none but my own self and my brother; so distinguish between us and the transgressing people.’
26. Allah said: ‘This land will now be forbidden to them for forty years and they will remain wandering about on the earth. Do not grieve over the condition of theses transgressing people.’
27. Narrate to them in all truth the story of the two sons of Adam. When they made an offering and it was accepted from one of them and was not accepted from the other, the latter said: ‘I will surely kill you.’ Thereupon the former said: ‘Allah accepts offerings only from the God-fearing.
28. Even if you stretch forth your hand against me to kill, I will not stretch forth my hand to kill you. Surely, I fear Allah, the Lord of the entire universe.
29. I would desire that you be laden with my sin and with your sin, and thus become among the inmates of the Fire. That indeed is the right recompense of the wrong-doers.’
30. At last his evil soul drove him to the murder of his brother, and he killed him, whereby he himself became one of the losers.
31. Thereupon Allah sent forth a raven who began to scratch the earth to show him how he might cover the corpse of his brother. So seeing he cried: ‘Woe unto me! Was I unable even to be like this raven and find a way to cover the corpse of my brother?’ Then he became full of remorse at his doing.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 32-36
32. Therefore We ordained for the Children of Israel that he who slays a soul unless it be (in punishment) for murder or for spreading mischief on earth shall be as if he had slain all mankind; and he who saves a life shall be as if he had given life to all mankind. And indeed again and again did Our Messengers come to them with clear directives; yet many of them continued to commit excesses on earth.
33. Those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and go about the earth spreading mischief – indeed their recompense is that they either be done to death, or be crucified, or have their hands and feel cut off from the opposite sides or be banished from the land. Such shall be their degradation in this world; and a mighty chastisement lies in store for them in the World to Come
34. Except for those who repent before you have over powered them. Know well that Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
35. Believers! Fear Allah and seek the means to come near to Him, and strive hard in His way; maybe you will attain true success.
36. For those who disbelieved – even if they had all that is in the earth, and the like of it with it, and offered it all as ransom from chastisement on the Day of Resurrection, it will not be accepted of them – a painful chastisement lies in store for them.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 37-41
37. They will wish to com out of the Fire, but they will not. Theirs will be a long-lasting chastisement.
38. As for the thief – male or female – cut off the hands of both. This is a recompense for what they have done, and an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
39. But he who repents after he has committed wrong, and makes amends, Allah will graciously turn to him. Truly Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
40. Do you not know that to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth? He chastises whom He will and forgives whom He will. Allah is All-Powerful.
41. O Messenger! Do not be grieved on account of those who vie with one another in disbelieving: even though they be those who say with their mouths: ‘We believe’ even thought their hearts have no faith; or they be Jews who have their ears eagerly turned to falsehood and spy for other people who did not chance to come to you, who pervert the words of Allah, taking them out of their proper context in order to distort their meaning. They say to people: ‘If such and such teaching is given to you, accept it; if you are not given that, then beware!’ You can be of no avail to him whom Allah wills to fall into error. Those are the ones whose hearts Allah does not want to purify. For them there is degradation in this world and mighty chastisement in the Next.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 42-45
42. They are listeners of falsehood and greedy devourers of unlawful earnings. If they come to you, you may either judge between them or turn away from them. And were you to turn away from them they shall not be able to harm you; and were you to judge between them judge with justice. Surely Allah loves the just.
43. Yet how will they appoint you a judge when they have the Torah with them, wherein there is Allah’s judgement – and still they turn away from it? The fact is, they are not believers.
44. Surely We revealed the Torah, wherein there is guidance and light. Thereby did Prophets – who had submitted themselves (to Allah)- judge for the Judaized folk; and so did the scholars and jurists. They judged by the Book of Allah for they had been entrusted to keep it, and bear witness to it. So (O Jews!) do not fear men but fear Me, and do not barter away My signs for a trivial gain. Those who do not judge by what Allah has revealed are indeed the unbelievers.
45. And therein We had ordained for them: ‘A life for a life, and an eye for an eye, and a nose for a nose, and ear for an ear, and a tooth for a tooth, and for all wounds, like for like.’ But whosoever forgoes it by way of charity, it will be for him an expiation. Those who do not judge are indeed the wrong-doers
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 46-50
46. And We sent Jesus, the son of Mary, after those Prophets, confirming the truth of whatever there still remained of the Torah. And We gave him the Gospel, wherein is guidance and light, and which confirms the truth of whatever there still remained of the Torah, and a guidance and admonition for the God-fearing. 47. Let the followers of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein, and those who do not judge by what Allah has revealed are the transgressors.
48. Then We revealed the Book to you (O Muhammad!) with Truth, confirming whatever of the Book was revealed before, and protecting and guarding over it. Judge, then, in the affairs of men in accordance with the Law that Allah has revealed, and do not follow their desires in disregard of the Truth which has come to you. For each of you We have appointed a law and a way of life. And had Allah so willed, He would surely have made you one single community; instead, (He gave each of you a Law and a way of life) in order to test you by what He gave you. Vie, then, one with another in good works. Unto Allah is the return of all of you; and He will then make you understand the truth concerning the matters on which you disagreed.
49. Therefore, judge between them (O Muhammad!) by what Allah has revealed do no follow their desires, and beware lest they tempt you away from anything of what Allah has revealed to you. And if they turn away, then know well that Allah has indeed decided to afflict them for some of their sins. For surely many of them are transgressors.
50. (If they turn away from the Law of Allah) do they desire judgement according to the Law of Ignorance? But for those who have certainty of belief whose judgement can be better than Allah’s?
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 51-57
51. Believers! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for you allies. They are the allies of each other. And among you he who takes them for allies, shall be regarded as one of them. Allah does not guide the wrong doers.
52. Indeed you see those afflicted with the disease of hypocrisy race towards them, saying: ‘We fear lest some misfortune overtakes us.’ And it may happen that Allah will either bring you a decisive victory or bring about something else from Himself and then they will feel remorseful at their hypocrisy which they have kept concealed in their breasts –
53. While those who believe will exclaim: ‘Are these the self-same people who solemnly swore by Allah that they were with you?’ All their acts have gone to waste and now they are the losers.
54. Believers! If any of you should ever turn away from your faith, remember that Allah will raise up a people whom He loves, and who love Him; a people humble towards the believers, and firm towards the unbelievers; who will strive hard in the way of Allah and will not fear the reproach of the reproacher. This is the favour of Allah which He grants to whom He will. Allah is vast in resources, All-Knowing.
55. Only Allah, His Messenger, and those who believe and who establish Prayer, pay Zakah, and bow (before Allah) are your allies.
56. All those who take Allah and His Messenger and those who believe as their allies, should remember that the party of Allah will be triumphant.
57. Believers! Do not take for your allies those who make a mockery and sport of your faith, be they those given the Book before you or other unbelievers. Fear Allah if you indeed believe.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 58-64
58. And when you call for Prayer, they take it for a mockery and sport. That is because they are a people who do not understand. 59. Say to them: ‘People of the Book! Do you hate us for anything else except that we believe in Allah, and in the teaching which has been revealed to us and in the teaching which was revealed before? Indeed most of you are transgressors.
60. They say to them: ‘Shall I tell you about those whose retribution with Allah is even worse? They are the ones whom Allah has cursed, and who incurred His wrath and some of whom were changed into apes and swine, and who served the false deities. Such have an even worse rank and have strayed farther away from the right path.’
61. Whenever they come to you they say: ‘We believe,’ whereas, in fact, they come disbelieving, and go away disbelieving, and Allah knows all that they hide.
62. You will se many of them hastening towards sin and transgression and devouring unlawful earnings. Indeed what they do is evil.
63. Why is it that their scholars and jurists do not forbid them from sinful utterances and devouring unlawful earnings? Indeed they have been contriving evil.
64. The Jews say: ‘The Hand of Allah is fettered.’ It is their won hands which are fettered, and they stand cursed for the evil they have uttered. No! His Hands are outspread; He spends as he will. Surely the message that has been revealed to you from your Lord has increased many of them in their insurgence and unbelief, and so We have cast enmity and spite among them until the Day of Resurrection. And as often as they kindle the fire of war, Allah extinguishes it; and they go about trying to spread mischief on earth, whereas Allah does not love those who spread mischief.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 65-68
65. Had the People of Book only believed and been God-fearing, We should surely have effaced from them their evil deeds, and caused them to enter Gardens of Bliss. 66. Had the People of the Book observed the Torah and the Gospel, and all that had been revealed to them from their Lord, sustenance would have been showered over them from above and risen from beneath their feet. Some among them certainly keep to the right path; but many of them do things which are evil.
65. O Messenger! Deliver what has been revealed to you from your Lord, for if you fail to do that, you have not fulfilled the task of His messengership. Allah will certainly protect you from the evil of men. Surely Allah will not guide the unbelievers (to succeed against you).
66. Say to them: ‘People of the Book! You have no solid ground to stand on unless you establish the Torah and the Gospel and all that had been revealed to you from you Lord.’ Indeed the message revealed to you from your Lord will aggravate insurgence and unbelief in many of them. So do not grieve for those who disbelieve.
67. (Know well, none has an exclusive claim to the Truth.) For all those who believe in Allah and in the Last Day and do good deeds – be they either believers, Jews, Sabaeans or Christians – neither fear shall fall upon them, nor shall they have any reason to grieve.
68. And We took a covenant from the Children of Israel and sent to them many Messengers. But whenever any Messenger brought to them something that did not suit their desire, they gave the lie to some of them and killed the others,
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 71-76
71. Thinking that no harm would come from it. Thus they became blind and deaf (to the Truth). Thereafter Allah turned towards them in gracious forgiveness; but many of them became even more deaf and blind (to the Truth). Allah sees all that they do.
72. And surely they disbelieved when they said: ‘Christ, the son of Mary, is indeed God’; whereas Christ had said: ‘Children of Israel! Serve Allah, Who is your Lord and my Lord.’ Allah has forbidden Paradise to those who associate anything with Him in His divinity and their refuge shall be the Fire. No one will be able to help such wrong-doers.
73.Those who said: ‘Allah is one of the Three’, certainly they disbelieved, for there is no god save the One God. And if they do not give up this claim, all who have disbelieved among them shall be subjected to painful chastisement.
74. Will they not, then, turn to Allah in repentance, and ask for His forgiveness? Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
75. The Messiah, son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger before whom many Messengers have passed away; and his mother adhered wholly to truthfulness, and they both ate food (as other mortals do). See how We make Our signs clear to them; and see where they are turning away!
76. Say: ‘Do you serve, beside Allah, that which has no power either to harm or benefit you, whereas Allah alone is All-Hearing, All-Knowing?
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 77-82
77. Say: ‘People of the Book! Do not go beyond bounds in your religion at the cost of truth, and do not follow the caprices of the people who fell into error before, and caused others to go astray, and strayed far way from the right path.’
78. Those of the Children of Israel who took to unbelief have been cursed by the tongue of David and Jesus, son of Mary, for they rebelled and exceeded the bounds of right.
79. They did not forbid each other from committing the abominable deeds they committed. Indeed what they did was evil.
80. And now you can see many of them taking the unbelievers (instead of the believers) for their allies. Indeed they have prepared evil for themselves. Allah is angry with them, and they shall abide in chastisement.
81. For had they truly believed in Allah and the Messenger and what was sent down to him, they would not have taken unbelievers (instead of believers) for their allies. But many of them have rebelled against Allah altogether.
82. Of all men you will find the Jews and those who associate others with Allah in His divinity to be the most hostile to those who believe; and you will surely find that of all people they who say: ‘We are Christians’, are closest to feeling affection for those who believe. This is because there are worshipful priest and monks among them, and because they are not arrogant.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 83-89
83. And when they hear what has been revealed to the Messenger you see that their eyes overflow with tears because of the Truth that they recognize and they say: ‘Our Lord! We do believe; write us down, therefore, with those who bear witness (to the Truth).
84. And why should we not believe in Allah and the Truth which has come down to us when we do fervently desire that our Lord include us among the righteous?’
85. So Allah rewarded them for these words with Garden beneath which rivers flow so that they would abide there for ever. Such is the reward of the people who do good.
86. Those who disbelieved and gave the lie to Our sings are rightfully the inmates of the Blazing Flame.
87. Believers! Do no hold as unlawful the good things which Allah has made lawful to you, and do not exceed the bounds of right. Allah does not love those who transgress the bounds of right.
88. And partake of the lawful, good things which Allah has provided you as sustenance, and refrain from disobeying Allah in Whom you believe.
89. Allah does not take you to task for the oaths you utter vainly, but He will certainly take you to task for the oaths you have sworn in earnest. The expiation(for breaking such oaths) is either to feed ten needy persons with more or less the same food as you are wont to give to your families, or to clothe them, or to set free from bondage the neck of one man; and he who does not find the means shall fast for three days. This shall be the expiation for your oaths whenever you have sworn (and broken them). But do keep your oaths. Thus does Allah make clear to you His commandments; maybe you will be grateful.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 90-95
90. Believers! Intoxicants, games of chance, idolatrous sacrifices at altars, and divining arrows are all abominations, the handiwork of Satan. So turn wholly away from it that you may attain to true success.
91. By intoxicants and games of chance Satan only desires to created enmity and hatred between you, and to turn you away from the remembrance of Allah and from Prayer. Will you, then, desist?
92. Obey Allah and obey the Messenger, and beware. But if you turn away, then know well that Our Messenger had merely to deliver the message clearly.
93. There will be no blame on those who believe and do righteous deeds for whatever they might have partaken (in the past) as long as they refrain from things prohibited, and persist in their belief and do righteous deeds, and continue to refrain from whatever is forbidden and submit to divine commandments, and persevere in doing good, fearing Allah. Allah loves those who do good.
94. Believers! Allah will surely try you with a game which will be within the range of your hands and lances so that He might mark out those who fear Him, even though He is beyond the reach of human perception. A painful chastisement awaits whosoever transgresses after that the bounds set by Allah.
95. Believers! Do not kill game while you are in the state of pilgrim sanctity.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 96-103
96. The game of the water and eating thereof are permitted to you as a provision for you (who are settled) and for those on a journey; but to hunt on land while you are in the state of Pilgrim sanctity is forbidden for you. Beware, then, of disobeying Allah to Whom you shall all be mustered.
97. Allah has appointed the Ka’bah, the Sacred House, as a means of support for (the collective life of) men, and has caused the holy month (of Pilgrimage), and the animals of sacrificial offering and their distinguishing collars to assist therein. This is so that you may know that Allah is aware of all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth; and that Allah has knowledge of everything.
98. Know well that Allah is severe in retribution, and that Allah is also All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
99. The Messenger is bound only to deliver the message, whereafter Allah know well all that you disclose and all that you conceal.
100. (O Messenger!) Say to them: ‘The bad things and the good things are not equal, even though the abundance of the bad things might make you pleased with them. Men of understanding, beware of disobeying Allah; then ; then maybe you will attain true success.
101 Believers! Do not ask of the things which, if made manifest to you, would vex you; for, if you should ask about them while the Qur’an is being revealed, they will be made manifest to you. Allah has pardoned whatever happened in the past. He is All-Forgiving, All-Forbearing. 102.Indeed some people before you had asked such questions and in consequence fell into unbelief.
103.Allah has neither appointed (cattle devoted to idols such as) Bhirah, Sa’ibah, Wasilah nor Ham ; but those who disbelieve forge lies against Allah and of them most have no understanding (and therefore succumb to such superstitions).
Surah Al-Maidah
Ayah 104-108
104. When they are asked: ‘Come to what Allah has revealed, and come to the Messenger’, they reply: ‘The way of our forefathers suffices us.’ (Will they continue to follow their forefathers) even though their forefathers might have known nothing, and might have been on the wrong way?
105. Believers! Take heed of your own selves. If you are rightly guided, the error of he who strays will not harm you. To Allah will all of you return; then He will let all of you know what you did.
106. Believers! When death approaches you, let two men of equity among you act as witnesses when you make your bequest; or let two of those from others than yourselves act as witnesses if you are on a journey when the affliction of death befalls you.
107. Then if it is discovered later that the two are guilty of such sin, then two others shall stand in their place from among those against whom the two had sinfully deposed, and swear by Allah: ‘Our testimony is truer than the testimony of the other two, and we have not transgressed in our statement; for then indeed we would become wrong-doers.’
108.Thus it is more likely that they will either bear the right testimony or else they will at least fear that their oaths may be rebutted by other oaths. Have fear of Allah and pay heed. Allah does not direct the disobedient to the right way.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 109-113
109. The Day when Allah will gather together the Messengers and say: ‘What answer were you given?’ they will reply: ‘We have no real knowledge of it. You alone fully know all that lies beyond the reach of human perception.’
110. Imagine, then, when Allah will say: ‘Jesus, son of Mary, recall My favour upon you and your mother, and when I strengthened you with the spirit of holiness so that you talked to men in the cradle and also when you became of age; and when I taught you the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel; and when, by My leave, you fashioned from clay the likeness of a bird and you breathed into it, and by My leave it became a bird; you healed, by My leave, the blind from birth and the leprous; and when, by My leave, you caused the dead to come to life. And recall when I restrained the Israelites from you when you came to them with clear proofs whereupon those of them who disbelieved said: “This is nothing but clear magic.
111. And recall when I revealed to the disciples to believe in Me and in My Messenger, they said: “We do believe, and we bear witness that we indeed are the ones who submit to Allah”
112. Also recall when the disciples asked Jesus, son of Mary: ‘Jesus, son of Mary, has your Lord the power to send down to us a repast from the heaven?’ thereupon Jesus said: ‘Fear Allah if you do indeed have faith.’
113.They said: ‘We desire to partake of it that our hearts be satisfied and we know that you did speak the truth to us, and tat we are its witnesses.
Surah Al-Maida
Ayah 114-120
114. Jesus, son of Mary, then prayed: ‘O Allah, our Lord, send down to us a repast from the heavens that shall be a festival for the first of us and for the last of us, and a sign from You. And provide us with sustenance, for You are the best Provider of sustenance.’
115. Allah said: ‘I shall indeed send it down to you; then, I shall afflict whoever among you who disbelieves with a chastisement wherewith I will afflict none in the worlds.’
116. And imagine when thereafter Allah will say: ‘Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to people: “Take me and my mother for gods beside Allah?” and he will answer: “Glory to You! It was not for me to say what I had no right to. Had I said so, You would surely have known it. You know all what is within my mind whereas I do not know what is within Yours. You, indeed You, know fully all that is beyond the reach of human perception.
117. I said to them nothing except what You commanded me, that is: ‘Serve Allah, my Lord and your Lord.’ I watched over them as long as I remained among them; and when You did recall me, then You Yourself became the Watcher over them. Indeed, You are Witness over everything.
118. If You chastise them, they are Your servants; and if You forgive them, You are the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.
119. Thereupon Allah will say: ‘This day truthfulness shall profit the truthful. For them are Gardens beneath which rivers flow. There they will abide for ever. Allah is well-pleased with Allah. That indeed is the mighty triumph.’
120. To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all that is them and He has full power over everything.
Surah-6 Al-Anam
Ayah 1-8
1. All praise is for Allah alone, Who created the heavens and the earth, and brought into being light and darkness, and yet those who have rejected the call of the Truth ascribe others to be equals to their Lord.
2.He it is Who has created you out of clay, and then decreed a term (of life), and has also appointed another term, a term determined with Him. Yet you are in doubt!
3.And e it is Who is One TruetjdfsldkajflksajHe it is Who One True God in the heavens and in the earth. He knows your deeds – both secret and open – and know fully whatever you earn.
4. Yet every time a sign of their Lord comes to them, they turn away from it,
5. And thus they gave the lie to the Truth that has now come to them. Soon they will come upon some news concerning what they had mocked at.
6.Have they not seen how many a people We have destroyed before them? People whom We had made more powerful in the earth than you are and upon them We showered from the heavens abundant rains, and at whose feet We caused the rivers to flow? And then (when they behaved ungratefully) We destroyed them for their sins, and raised other peoples in their place.
7.(O Messenger!) Had We sent down to you a book inscribed on parchment, and had they even touched it with their own hands, the unbelievers would still have said: “this is nothing but plain magic.’
8.They also say: ‘Why has no angel been sent down to this Prophet?’ Had We sent down an angel, the matter would surely have long been decided and no respite would have been granted them
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 9-18
9. Had We appointed an angel, We would have sent him down in the form of a man – and thus We would have caused them the same doubt which they now entertain.
10. And indeed before your time (O Muhammad!) many a Messenger has been scoffed at; but those who mocked at them were encompassed by the Truth they had scoffed at.
11.Say: ‘Go about journeying the earth, and behold the end of those who gave the lie ( to the Truth).’
12.Ask them: ‘To whom belongs all that is in the heavens and on the earth?’ Say: ‘Everything belongs to Allah.’ He has bound Himself to the exercise of mercy (and thus does not chastise you for your disobedience and excesses instantly). Surely He will gather you all together on the Day of Resurrection – the coming of which is beyond doubt; but those who have courted their own ruin are not going to believe.
13. And to Him belongs all that dwells in the night and the day, He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
14. Say: ‘Shall I take for my guardian anyone other than Allah- the Originator of the heavens and earth; He Who feeds and Himself is not fed?’ Say: ‘Surely I have been commanded to be the first among those who submit (to Allah) and not to be one of those who associate others with Allah in His divinity (even though others may do so).
15. Say: ‘Surely do I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the chastisement of an awesome Day.
16. Whosoever has been spared chastisement on that Day, Allah has bestowed His mercy upon him. That is the manifest triumph.
17. Should Allah touch you with affliction, there is none to remove it but He; and should He touch you with good, He has the power to do everything.
18. He has the supreme hold over His servants. He is All-Wise, All-Aware.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 19-27
19. Ask them: ‘Whose testimony is the greatest?’ Say: ‘Allah is the witness between me and you; and this Qur’an was revealed to me that I should warn you thereby and also whomsoever it may reach.’ Do you indeed testify that there are other gods with Allah? Say: ‘I shall never testify such a thing.’ Say: ‘He is the One God and I am altogether averse to all that you associate with Him in His divinity.’
20. Those whom We have given the Book will recognize this just as they recognize this just as they recognize their own offspring; but those who have court3d their own ruin will not believe.
21. And who could be more wrong-doing than he who either foists a lie on Allah or gives the lie to His signs? Surely such wrong-doers shall not attain success.
22.And on the Day when We shall gather them all together, We shall ask those who associated other with Allah in His divinity: ‘Where, now, are your partners whom you imagined (to have a share in the divinity of Allah)?’
23.Then they will be able to pay no mischief but will say (falsely): ‘By Allah, our Lord, we associated none (with You in Your divinity).’
24. Behold, how they will lie against themselves and how their forged deities will forsake them!
25. And of them there are some who appear to pay heed to you, but upon their hearts We have laid coverings so they understand it not; and in their ears, heaviness ( so they hear not). Even if they were to witness every sign, they would still not believe in it so much so that when they come to you, they dispute with you, those who disbelieve contend: ‘This is nothing but fables of the ancient times.’
26. As for others, they prevent them from embracing the Truth; and themselves, they flee from it (so as to harm you). But they court their own ruin, although they do not realize it.
27.If you could but see when they shall be made to stand by the Fire! They will plead: ‘Would that we were brought back to life? Then we would not give the lie to the signs of our Lord and would be among the believers.’
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 28-35
28.No! They will say this merely because the Truth which they had concealed will become obvious to them; or else if they were sent back, they would still revert to what was forbidden to them. (So this plea of theirs would be a lie too) for they are just liars.
29.They say now: ‘There is nothing but the life of this world, and we shall not be raised from the dead.’
30.If you could but see when they will be made to stand before their Lord. He will say: ‘Is not this the truth?’ They will say: ‘Yes indeed, by our Lord.’ Whereupon He will say: ‘Taste the chastisement, then, for your denying the Truth.’
31.Those who consider it a lie that they will have to meet Allah are indeed the losers so much so that when that Hour comes to them suddenly they will say: ‘Alas for us, how negligent we have been in this behalf.’ They will carry their burden (of sins) on their backs. How evil is the burden they bear!
32.The life of this world is nothing but a sport and a pastime, and the life of the Hereafter is far better for those who seek to ward off their ruin. Will you not, then, understand?
33.(O Muhammad!) We know indeed that the things they say grieve you, though in truth it is not you whom they give the lie to, but it is the signs of Allah that these wrong-doers reject.
34.Messengers before you have been given the lie to, and they endured with patience their being given the lie to and being persecuted until the time when Our help reached them. None has the power to alter the words of Allah. Indeed some account of the Messengers has already reached you.
35.Nevertheless, if their turning away grieves you, then seek – if you can – either a way down into the earth or a ladder to the heavens, and try to bring to them some signs. Had Allah so willed, He would have gathered them all to the true guidance. Do not, then, be among the ignorant.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 36-44
36.Only they who listen can respond to the call of the Truth; as for the dead, Allah will raise them and then to Him they will be returned.
37.And they say: ‘Why has no miraculous sign been sent down to him from his Lord?’ Say: ‘Surely Allah has the power to send down sign, but most of them do not know.
38.There is no animal that crawls on the earth, no bird that flies with its two wings, but are communities like you. We have neglected nothing in the Book (of decree). Then to their Lord will they all be mustered.
39.Those who gave the lie to Our signs are deaf and dumb and blunder about in darkness. Allah causes whomsoever He will to stray in error, and sets whomsoever He wills on the straight way.
40.Say: ‘What do you think if some chastisement of Allah or the Hour suddenly overtakes you: do you cry to any other than Allah? Answer, if you speak the truth.
41. Lo, it is to Him alone that you cry and then, if He so wills, He removes the distress for which you had cried to Him. Then you forget the partners you had set up with Allah.
42.And We did indeed send Messengers to other nations before you and then We seized those nations with misfortune and hardship so that they might humble themselves (before Us).
43.But when misfortune befell them from Us why did they not humble themselves? Their hearts had hardened and Satan had made their deeds seem fair to them.
44.So, when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We opened the gates of All things so that while they rejoiced in what they had been granted We seized them suddenly and they were plunged into utter despair.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 45-52
45.Thus the last remnant of those wrong-doing people was cut off. All praise is for Allah, the Lord of the entire universe, (for having punished them so).
46.Say (O Muhammad!): What do you think? If Allah should take away your hearing and your sight and seal your hearts – who is the god, other than Allah, who could restore them to you? Behold, how We put forth Our signs in diverse forms, and yet they turn away from them.
47.Say: ‘If the chastisement of Allah were to overtake you unawares or openly shall any except the wrong-doing people be destroyed?’
48.We do not send Messengers except as bearers of glad tidings and warners. So, he who believes in their message and mends his conduct need have no fear and need not grieve;
49.whereas those who give the lie to Our signs, chastisement will visit them for their transgression.
50.(O Muhammad!) Say: ‘I do not say to you I have the treasures of Allah. Nor do I have knowledge of what is beyond the reach of human perception. Nor do I say to you: I am an angel. I only follow what is revealed to me. Then ask them: ‘Are the blind and the seeing alike?’ Do you not then reflect?
51.And warn with this (revealed message) those who fear that they shall be mustered to their Lord, that there will be none apart from Allah to act as their protector and intercessor; then maybe they will become God-fearing.
52.And do not drive away those who invoke their Lord in the morning and the evening, seeking His pleasure all the time. You are by no means accountable for them just as they are by no means accountable for you. If you still drive them away, you will become among the wrong-doers.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 53-59
53.Thus We have made some of them a means for testing others so that they should say: ‘Are these the ones among us upon whom Allah has bestowed His favour?’ Yes, does Allah not know well who are the thankful?
54.And when those who believe in Our signs come to you, say to them: ‘Peace be upon you. Your Lord has made mercy incumbent upon Himself so that if anyone of you does a bad deed out of ignorance and thereafter repents and makes amends, surely you will find Him All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.’
55.Thus We clearly set forth Our signs so that the way of the wicked might become distinct.
56.Say (O Muhammad!): ‘I have been forbidden to serve those to whom you call other than Allah,’ Say: I do not follow your desires, for were I to do that, I would go astray and would not be of those who are rightly guided.’
57.Say: ‘I take stand upon a clear evidence from my Lord and it is that which you have given the lie to. That which you desire to be hastened is not within my power. Judgement lies with Allah alone He declares the Truth, and He is the best judge.’
58.Say : ‘If what you demand so hastily were in my power, the matter between me and you would have been long decided. But Allah knows best how to judge the wrong-doers.
59.He has the keys to the realm that lies beyond the reach of human perception; none know them but He. And He knows them but He. And He know what is on the land and in the sea; there is not a leaf which falls that He does not know about and there is not a grain in the darkness of the earth or anything green or dry which has not been recorded in a Clear Book
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 60-68
60.He recalls your souls by night, and know what you do by day; and then He raises you back each day in order that the term appointed by Him is fulfilled. Then to Him you will return whereupon He will let you know what you have been doing.
61.And He alone hold sway over His servants and sets guardians over you till death approaches any of you and Our deputed angels take his soul, neglecting no part of their task.
62.Then all are restored to Allah, their true protector. Behold, His is the judgement. He is the swiftest of those who take account.’
63.Ask them (O Muhammad!): ‘Who is it that delivers you from dangers in the deep darknesses of the land and the sea, and to whom do you call in humility and the secrecy of your hearts? To whom do you pray: “If He will but save us from this distress, we shall most certainly be among the thankful?”
64.Say: “It is Allah alone Who delivers you from this and from every distress, and yet you associate others with Allah in His divinity.”
65.Say: “it is He Who has the power to send forth chastisement upon you from above you, or from beneath your feet, or split you into hostile groups and make some of you taste each others’ violence. Behold, how We set forth Our signs in diverse forms, so that maybe they will understand the Truth”.
66.Your people have denied it even though it is the Truth. Say: “I am not a guardian over you”.
67.Every tiding has its appointed time; you yourselves will son know (the end).’
68.When you see those who are engaged in blasphemy against Our signs, turn away from them until they begin to talk of other things; and should Satan ever cause you to forget, then do no remain, after recollection, in the company of those wrong-doing people.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 69-73
69.For those who are God-fearing are by no means accountable for the others except that it is their duty to admonish them; maybe then, they will shun evil.
70..Leave alone those who have made a sport and a pastime of their religion and whom the life of the world has beguiled. But continue to admonish them (with the Qur’an) lest a man should be caught for what he has himself earned for there shall neither be any protector nor intercessor apart from Allah; and though he may offer any conceivable ransom it shall not be accepted from him, for such people have been caught for the deeds that they have themselves earned. Boiling water to drink and a painful chastisement to suffer for their unbelief is what awaits them.
71.Ask them (O Muhammad!): ‘Shall we invoke, apart from Allah, something that can neither benefit nor harm us, and thus be turned back on our heels after Allah has guided us? Like the one whom the evil ones have lured into bewilderment in the earth, even though he has friends who call him to true guidance saying: “Come to us.” Say: ‘Surely Allah’s guidance is the only true guidance, and we have been commanded to submit ourselves to the Lord of the entire universe,
72.And to establish Prayer, and to have fear of Him. It is to Him that all of you shall be gathered.
73.And He it is Who has created the heavens and the earth in truth; and the very day He will say: “Be!” (Resurrection) there will be. His word is the Truth and His will be the dominion on the day when the Trumpet is blown. He knows all that lies beyond the reach of human perceptions as well as all that is visible to man; He is the All-Wise, the All-Aware.’
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 74-81
74.And recall when Abraham said to his father, Azar: ‘Do you take idols for gods? I see you and your people in obvious error.’
75. And thus We showed Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, so that he might become one of those who have sure faith.
76. Then, when the night outspread over him, he beheld a star, and said: ‘This is my Lord.’ But when it went down, he said: ‘I do not love the things that go down.’
77. Then, when he beheld the moon rising, he said: ‘This is my Lord!’ but when it went down, he said: ‘Were that my Lord did not guide me, I surely would have become among the people who have gone astray.’
78. Then when he beheld the sun rising, he said: ‘This is my Lord. This is the greatest of All.’ Then, when it went down, he said: ‘O my people! Most certainly I am quit of those whom you associate with Allah in His divinity.
79. Behold, I have turned my face in exclusive devotion to the One Who originated the heavens and the earth, and I am certainly not one of those who associate others with Allah in His divinity.’
80. His people remonstrated with him whereupon Abraham said: “Do you remonstrate with me concerning Allah Who has guided me to the right way? I do not fear those whom you associate with Allah in His divinity. Only that which my Lord wills, indeed that alone will come by. My lord embraces all things within His knowledge. Will you not take heed?
81. Why should I fear those whom you have associated (with Allah in His divinity) when you do not fear associating others with Allah in His divinity – something for which He has sent down to you no authority. Then, which of the two parties has better title to security? Tell us, if you have any knowledge!
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 82-90
i82.Those who believe and did not tarnish faith with wrong-doing for them there is security, I and it is they who have been guided to the right way.’ 83.That was Our argument which We gave to Abraham against his people. We raise in ranks whom We will. Truly your Lord is All-Wise, All-knowing.
84.And We bestowed upon Abraham (offspring) Ishaq (Isaac) and Ya’qub (Jacob) and each of them did We guide to the right way as We had earlier guided Noah to the right way; and (of his descendants We guided) Da’ud (David) and Sulayman (Solomon), Ayyub (Job), Yusuf (Joseph_, Musa (Moses) and Harun( Aaron). Thus do We reward those who do good.
85.(And of his descendants We guided) Zakariya (Zachariah), Yahya (John), Isa (Jesus) and Ilyas (Elias): each one of them was of the righteous.
86.(And of his descendants We guided) Isma’il (Ishmael), Al-yasa (Elisha), Yunus (Jonah), and Lut (Lot) . and each one of them We favoured over all mankind.
87.And likewise We elected for Our cause and guided on to a straight way some of their forefathers and their offspring and their brethren.
88.That is Allah’s guidance wherewith He guides those of His servants whom He wills. But if they ever associated others with Allah in His divinity, then all that they had done would have gone to waste.
89.Those are the ones to whom We gave the Book, and judgement and prophethood. And if they refuse to believe in it now. We will bestow this favour on a people who do believe in it.
90.(O Muhammad!) Those are the ones Allah guided to the right way. Follow, then, their way, and say: ‘I ask of you no reward (for carrying on this mission); it is merely an admonition to all mankind.’
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 91-94
91.They did not form any proper estimate of Allah when they said: ‘Allah has not revealed anything to any man.’ Ask them: ‘The Book which Moses brought as a light and guidance for men and which you keep in bits and scraps, some of which you disclose while the rest you conceal, even thought through it you were taught that which neither you nor your forefathers knew – who was it who revealed it?’ say: ‘Allah!’ – and then leave them to sport with their argumentation.
92.(Like that Book) this too is a Book which We have revealed; full of blessing, confirming what was revealed before it so that you might warn the people of the Mother if Cities (Makka) and those around it. Those who believe in the Hereafter believe in it, and are evermindful of their Prayers.
93.Who can be more unjust than he who places a lie on Allah and who says: ‘Revelation has come to me’ when in fact nothing was revealed to him, and who says: ‘I will produce the like of what Allah has revealed?’ if you could but see the wrongdoers in the agonies of death, and the angels stretching out their hands (saying): ‘Yield up your should! Today you will be recompensed with the chastisement of humiliation for the lie you spoke concerning Allah, and for you waxing proud against His signs.’
94.(And Allah will Say): ‘No you have come to Us all alone even as We had created you in the first instance, and you have left behind all that We had bestowed upon you in the world. We do not see with you your intercessors whom you imagined to have a share with Allah in your affairs. You have now been cut off form one another and all those whom you imagined (to be Allah’s associated in your affairs) have failed you.’
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95.Truly it is Allah Who causes the grain and the fruit-kernel to sprout. He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living. Such is Allah. So whither are you tending in error?
96.It is He Who causes the dawn to split forth, and has ordained the night for repose, and the sun and the moon for reckoning time. All this is determined by Allah the Almighty, the All-knowing.
97.It is He Who has made for you the stars that you may follow the night direction in the darkness of the land and the sea. We have indeed spelled out signs for the people who have knowledge.
98.It is He Who created you out of a single being, and appointed for each of you a time-limit and a resting place. We have indeed spelled out Our signs for those who can understand.
99.And it is He Who has sent down water form the heavens, and thereby We have brought vegetation of every kind, and out of this We have brought forth green foliage and then from it close-packed ears of corn, and out of the palm-tree- from the sheath of it – thickclustered dates, hanging down with heaviness, and gardens of vines, and the olive tree, and the pomegranate – all resembling one another and yet so different. Behold their fruit when they bear fruit and ripen! Surely, in all this there are signs for those who believe.
101.And yet, some people have come to associate the jinn with Allah in His divinity, even thought it is He Who created them; and in ignorance they impute to Him sons and daughters. He is Holy and exalted far above that which they attribute to Him.
He is the Originator of the heavens and the earth. How can He have a son when He has had no mate? And He has created everything and He has full knowledge of all things.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 102-110
102. Such is Allah, your Lord. There is no god but He – the Creator of all things. Serve Him alone – of it is He Who is the guardian of everything.
103.No visual perception can encompass Him, even though He encompasses all visual perception. He is the All-Subtle, the All-Aware.
104.The lights of clear perception have now come to you from your Lord. Then, he who choose to see clearly, does so for his own good; and he who chooses to remain blind, does so to his own harm. I am not your keeper.
105.Thus do We make Our sings clear in diverse ways that they might say: ‘You have learned this ( from somebody)’; and ‘We do this in order that We make the Truth clear to the people of knowledge.
106.(O Muhammad!) Follow the revelation which has come to you from your Lord, other than Whom there is no god, and turn away from those who associated others with Allah in His divinity.
107.Had Allah so willed they would not have associated other with Him in His divinity; and We have not appointed you a watcher over them, and you are not their guardian.
108.Do not revile those whom they invoke other than Allah, because they will revile Allah in ignorance out of spite. For We have indeed made the deeds of every people seem fair to them. Then, their return is to their Lord and He will inform them of that they have done.
109.They swear by Allah with their most solemn oaths that if a sign comes to them, they will certainly believe in it. Say: ‘Signs are in Allah’s power alone. What will make you realize that even if those signs were to come, they would still not believe?
110.We are turning their hearts and eyes away from the Truth even as they did not believe in the first instance – and We leave them in their insurgence to stumble blindly.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 111-118
111. Even if We had sent angels down to them and the dead had spoken to them, and even if We had assembled before them all the things, face to face, they would still not believe unless it be Allah’s will that they believe. Most of them behave in utter ignorance.
112. And so it is that against every Prophet We have set up the evil ones from among men and Jinn, some of them inspire others with specious speech only by way of delusion. Had it been your Lords’ will, they would not have done it. Leave them alone to fabricate what they will.
113. So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Life to Come might incline towards this attractive delusion, and that they may be well pleased with it and might acquire the evils that they are bent on acquiring.
114. Shall I look upon anyone apart from Allah for judgment when it is He Who has revealed to you the Book in detail? And those whom We gave the Book (before you) know that this (Book) has been revealed in truth by your Lord. Do not, then, be among the doubters.
115.The world of your Lord is perfect in truthfulness and justice; no one can change His words. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. 116.(O Muhammad!) If you obey the majority of those who live on earth, they will lead you away from Allah’s path. They only follow idle fancies, indulging in conjecture.
117.And your Lord knows well who stray from His path, and also those who are rightly-guided.
118.If you believe in the signs of Allah, eat (the flesh) of that over which Allah’s name has been pronounced.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 119-124
119. And how is it that you do not eat of that over which Allah’s name has been pronounced even though He has clearly spelled out to you what He has forbidden you unless you are constrained to it? Many indeed say misleading thins without knowledge, driven merely by their lowly desires. But your Lord knows well the transgressors.
120. Abstain from sin, be it either open or secret. Indeed those who commit sins shall surely be requited for all they have done.
121. Do not eat of (the animal) over which the name of Allah has not been pronounced ( at the time of its slaughtering), for that is a transgression. And behold, the evil ones do inspire doubts and objections into the hearts of their friends so that they dispute with you; but if you obey them, you will surely yourselves turn into those who associate others with Allah in His divinity.
122.He who was dead and whom We raise to life, and We set a light for him to walk among men- is he like the one steeped in darkness out of which he does not come out? Thus have their own doings been made to seem fair to the unbelievers. 123.Thus We have appointed the leaders of the wicked ones in every land to weave their plots; but in truth they plot only to their own harm, without even realizing it.
124.Whenever there comes to them a sign from Allah, they say: ‘We will not believe until we are given what was given to the Messengers of Allah. Allah knows best where to place His message. Soon shall these wicked ones meet with humiliation and severe chastisement from Allah for all their evil plotting.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 125-131
125.Thus, (it is a fact that ) whomsoever Allah wills to guide, He opens his breast for Islam; and whomsoever He wills to let go astray, He causes his breast to become strait and constricted, as if he were climbing towards the heaven. Thus Allah lays the abomination (of flight from and hatred of Islam) on those who do not believe.
126.Even though this way is the straight way of your Lord, and We have distinguished its signs to those who heed to admonition.
127.Theirs shall be an abode of peace with their Lord – their Protector- in recompense for all they have done.
128.And on the Day when He shall muster them all together, He will say (to the jinn): ‘O assembly of the jinn, you have seduced a good many of mankind.’ And their companions from among the humans will say: ‘Our Lord! We did indeed benefit from one another and now have reached the term which You had set for us.’ Thereupon Allah will say: ‘The Fire is now your abode, and therein you shall abide’ Only those whom Allah wills shall escape the Fire. Surely your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.
129.In this manner We shall make the wrong-doers friends of each other (in the Hereafter) because they earned (evil together in the world).
130.(then Allah will also ask them): ‘O assembly of jinn and men! Did there not come to you Messengers from among yourselves, relating to you My signs, and warning you of the encounter of this your Day (of Judgement)?’ They will say: ‘Yes, we bear witness against ourselves.” They have been deluded by the life of this world, and they will bear witness against themselves that they had disbelieved.
131.(they will be made to bear this witness to show that) it is not the way of your Lord to destroy cities unjustly while their people were unaware of the Truth.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 132-137
132.Everyone is assigned a degree according to his deed. Your Lord is not heedless of what they do.
133.Your Lord is Self Sufficient, full of compassion. If He will, He can put you away and cause whomever He wills to succeed you just as He has produced you from the seed of another people.
134.Surely what you have been promised shall com to pass; and you do not have the power to frustrate (Allah).
135.Say (O Muhammad!): ‘O people! Work in your place; and I too am at work. Soon you will know in whose favour the ultimate decision will be. Surely the wrong-doers will not prosper.’
136.They assign to Allah a portion out of the produce and cattle that He has created, saying out of their fancy: ‘This is for Allah’ – so they deem - ‘and this is for the associates (of Allah) whom we have contrived.’ Then, the portion assigned to the beings whom they have set up as associates (of Allah)! Indeed evil is what they decide!
137.And, likewise, the being supposed to have a share in Allah’s divinity have made the slaying of their offspring seem lawful to many of those who associate others with Allah in Hid divinity so that they may ruin them and confound them regarding their faith. If Allah had so willed, they would not have done that. Leave them alone to persist in their fabrication.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 138-142
138.They say: ‘These animals and these crops are sacrosanct: none may eat of them save those whom we will’ – imposing interdictions of their own contriving. And they declare that it is forbidden to burden the backs of certain cattle, and these are the cattle over which they do not pronounce the name of Allah. All these are false fabrications against Allah, and He will soon requite them for all that they fabricate.
139.And they say: ‘What us within the bellies of such-and-such cattle is exclusively for our males and is forbidden to our females; but if it be born dead, they all may share in it.’ He will soon requited them for all that they (falsely) attribute to Allah. He is All-Wise, All-Knowing.
140.Those who slayed their children in folly, without knowledge, and forbade the sustenance that Allah has provided them, falsely ascribing that to Allah, are utter losers; they have gone astray, and are certainly not among those guided to the right way.
141.It is He Who has brought into being gardens – the trellised and untrellised - and the palm trees, and crops, all varying in taste, and the olive and pomegranates, all resembling one another and yet so different. Eat of their fruits when they come to fruition and pay His due on the day of harvesting. And do not exceed the proper limits, for He does not love those who exceed the proper limits.
142.And of the cattle (He has reared) some for burden, and some whose flesh you eat and whose skins and hair you use to spread the ground. Eat of the sustenance Allah has provided you and do not follow in the footsteps of Satan, for surely he is your open enemy.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 143-146
143.These are eight couples, two of sheep, two of goats. Now ask them: ‘Is it either the two males that Allah has forbidden of the two females, or what the wombs of the two females may contain? Tell me about this on the basis of sure knowledge, if you speak the truth.’
144.And likewise, of camels there are two, and of oxen there are tow. Ask them: ‘Is it either the two males that He has forbidden or the two females or that which the wombs of the two females may contain? Or were you present when Allah enjoined this commandment upon you?’ Who, then, would be more unjust than he who fabricates a lie against Allah that he might lead people astray without knowledge. Surely Allah never guides such a wrong-doing folk.
145.Tell them (O Muhammad!): ‘I do not find in what has been revealed to me anything forbidden for anyone who wants to eat unless it is carrion, outpoured blood and the flesh of swine, all of which is unclean; or that which is profane having been slaughtered in a name other than that of Allah. But whosoever is constrained to it by necessity – neither desiring to disobey nor exceeding the limit of necessity – your Lord is surely All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
146.And to those who had Judaized We have forbidden all bests with claws, and the fat of oxen and sheep except the fat which is either on their backs or their entrails, or that which sticks to the bones. Thus did We requite them for their rebellion. Surely We state the Truth.
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 147-151
147. Then if they give you the lie, say: ‘Your Lord is of unbounded mercy; but His punishment shall not be averted from the guilty folk.
148.Those who associate others with Allah in His divinity will now surely say: ‘Had Allah willed, neither we nor our forefathers would have associated others with Allah in His divinity, nor would we have declared anything (which Allah did not forbid) as forbidden .’ Even so those who had lived before them gave the lie (to the Truth) until they tasted Our chastisement. Tell them: ‘Have you any sure knowledge that you can produce before us? In fact you are only following idle fancies, merely conjecturing.
149.Then say to them: ‘(As against you your argument) Allah’s is the conclusive argument. Surely, had He willed, He would have guided you all to the Truth.’
150.Say to them: ‘Call your witnesses to testify that Allah forbade such-and-such.’ Then if they do testify, neither testify with them nor follow the desires of those who have given the lie to Our signs and who do not believe in the Hereafter and set up equals with their Lord.
151.Say to them (O Muhammad!): ‘Come, let me recite what your Lord has laid down to you: ( i) that you associate nothing with Him; ( ii ) and do good to your parents; ( iii) and do not slay your children out of fear of poverty. We provide you and will likewise sustenance; (iv) and do no even draw near to things shameful – be they open or secret; (v) and do not slay the soul sanctified by Allah except in just cause; this He has enjoined upon you so that you may understand;
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 152-157
152.(vi) and do not even draw near to the property of the orphan in his minority except in the best manner; (vii) and give full measures and weight with justice; We do not burden anyone beyond his capacity; (viii) When you speak, be just, even though it concern a near of kin; (ix) and fulfil the covenant of Allah. That is what He has enjoined upon you so that you may take heed.
153.(x) This is My way that which is straight: follow it, then, and do not follow other paths lest they scatter you from His path. This is what He has enjoined upon you, so that you may beware.’
154.Then We gave to Moses the Book, completing the benediction of Allah upon the one who acts righteously the one who acts righteously, spelling out everything clearly, a guidance and a mercy; so that they may believe in their meeting with their Lord.
155.And likewise We revealed this (Book) – a blessed one. Follow it, then, and become God-fearing; you may be shown mercy.
156.(You may no longer) say now that the Book was revealed only to two groups of people before us and that we had indeed been unaware of what they read.
157.Nor may you claim that: ‘Had the Book been revealed to us, we would have been better guided than they.’ Surely clear evidence has come to you from your Lord, which is both a guidance and a mercy. Who, then, is more unjust than he who gave the lie to the signs of Allah and turned away from them? And We shall soon requite those who turn away from Our sings with a severe chastisement for having turned away.`
Surah Al-Anam
Ayah 158-165
158.What! Do they wait either for the angels to appear before them or for your Lord to come unto them or for some clear signs of your Lord to appear before them? When some clear signs of your Lord will appear, believing will be of no avail to anyone who did not believe before, or who earned no good deeds through his faith. Say: ‘Wait on; we too are waiting.’
159.Surely you have nothing to do with those who have made divisions in their religion and become factions. Their matter is with Allah and He will indeed tell them ( in time) what they have been doing.
160.Whoever will come to Allah with a good deed shall have ten times as much, and whoever will come to Allah with an evil deed, shall be requited with no more than the like of it. They shall not be wronged.
161.Say: ‘As for me, my Lord has guided me on to a straight way, a right religion, the way of Abraham who adopted it in exclusive devotion to Allah, and he was not of those who associated others, with Allah in His divinity.’
162.Say: ‘Surely my Prayer, all my acts of worship, and my living and my dying are for Allah alone, the Lord of the whole universe.
163.He has no associate. Thus have I been hidden, and I am the foremost of those who submit themselves (to Allah).’
164.Say : ‘Shall I seek someone other than Allah as Lord when He is the Lord of everything?’ Everyone will bear the consequence of what he does, and no one shall bear the burden of another. Thereafter, your return will be to your Lord, whereupon He will let you know what you disagreed about.
165.For He it is Who has appointed you vicegerent exalted some of you over others in rank that He may try you in what He has bestowed upon you. Indeed your Lord is swift in retribution, and He is certainly All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
Surah-7 Al-Araaf
Ayah 1-11
1.Alif – Lam- Mim- sad.
2.This is a book revealed to you. Let there be no impediment in your heart about it. (It has been revealed to you) that you may thereby warn [the unbelievers], and that it may be a reminder to the believers.
3.(O men!) Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord and follow no masters other than Him. Little are you admonished.
4.How many a township We have destroyed! Our scourge fell upon them at night, or when they were taking midday rest.
5.And when Our scourge fell upon them their only cry was: ‘We are indeed transgressors.’
6.So We shall call to account those to whom Messengers were sent, and We shall call to account the Messengers (to see how dutifully they conveyed the Message, and how people responded to it).
7.Then We shall narrate to them with knowledge the whole account. For surely We were not away from them.
8.The weighing on that Day will be the true weighing: those whose scales are heavy will prosper,
9. and those whose scales are light will be the losers, for they are the ones who have been unjust to Our signs.
10.We assuredly established you in the earth and arranged for your livelihood in it. Little do you give thanks.
11.We initiated you creation, then We gave you each a shape, and then We said to the angels: ‘Prostrate before Adam.’ They all prostrated except Iblis: he was not one of those who fell prostrate.
Surah Al-Araaf
Ayah 12-22
12.Allah said: ‘What prevented you from prostrating, when I commanded you to do so?’ He said: ‘I am better than he. You created me from fire, and him You created from clay.’
13.Allah said: ‘then get you down from here. It does not behove you to be arrogant here. So be gone. You will be among the humiliated.’
14.Satan replied: ‘Give me respite till the Day they shall be raised.’
15.Allah said: ‘Your are granted respite.’
16.Satan said: ‘Since You have led me astray, I shall surely sit in ambush for them on Your Straight Path.
17.Then I will come upon them from the front and from the rear, and from their right and from their left. And You will not find most of them thankful.’
18.Allah said: ‘Go away from here – disgraced and expelled. I shall fill the Hell with all those that follow you.
19.O Adam! Live you and your spouse in the Garden and both of you eat from it wherever you will, but never approach the tree or you shall become wrong-doers.
20.But Satan made an evil suggestion to both of them that he might reveal to them their shame that had remained hidden from them. He said: ‘Your Lord has forbidden you to approach this tree only to prevent you from becoming angels or immortals.’
21.And he swore to them both: ‘Surely I am your sincere adviser.’
22.Thus Satan brought about their fall by deceit. And when they tasted of the tree, their shame became visible to them, and both began to cover themselves with leaves from the Garden. Then their Lord called out to them: ‘Did I not forbid you from that tree, and did I not warn you that Satan is your declared enemy?’
Surah Al-Araaf
Ayah 23-30
23.Both cried out: ‘Our Lord! We have wronged ourselves. If you do not forgive us and do not have mercy on us, we shall surely be among the losers.’
24.Allah said: ‘Go down; you are enemies one of the other. For you there is dwelling and provision on the earth for a while.’
25.He continued: ‘You shall live there, and there shall you die, and from it you shall be raised to life.’
26.O Children of Adam! Indeed We have sent down to you a garment which covers your shame and provides protection and adornment, but the finest of all is the garment of piety. That is one of the signs of Allah so that they may take heed.
27.Children of Adam! Let not Satan deceive you in the manner he deceived your parents out of Paradise, pulling off from them their clothing to reveal to them their shame. He and his host surely see you from whence you do not see them. We have made Satans the guardians of those who do no believe.
28.And when such people commit an indecent act they say: ‘We found our fathers doing that, and Allah has enjoined it on us.’ Say: ‘Surely Allah never enjoins any indecency. Do you say things regarding Allah that you do not know/’
29.Say to them (O Muhammad!): ‘My Lord enjoins justice; and that you set your faces aright at the time of every Prayer; and that you call upon Him, exclusively dedicating your faith to Him. You shall return to Him as you were created.’
30.A party He has guided to the Right Way, and for another party straying is justly its due for they have taken Satans, rather than Allah, as their guardians, even thought they think that they are rightly- guided.
Surah Al-Araaf
Ayah 31-37
31.Children of Adam! Take your adornment at every time of Prayer; and eat and drink without going to excesses. For Allah does not like those who go to excess.
32.Say (O Muhammad!): ‘Who has forbidden the adornment which Allah has brought forth for His creatures of the good things from among the means of sustenance?’ Say: ‘These are for the enjoyment of the believers in this world, and shall be exclusively theirs on the Day of Resurrection.’ Thus do we clearly expound Our revelations for those who have knowledge.
33.Tell them (O Muhammad!): ‘My Lord has only forbidden indecent acts, whether overt or hidden; all manner of sin; wrongful transgression; and (He has forbidden) that you associate with Allah in His divinity that for which He has sent down no sanction; and that you ascribe to Allah things of which you have no sure knowledge that they are from Him.’
34.For every community there is an appointed term; and when its term arrives, they cannot tarry behind a moment, nor can they get ahead.
35.Children of Adam! If Messengers come to you from amongst yourselves who rehearse to you My signs, then those who shun disobedience and mend their ways shall have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve.
36.And those who reject Our revelations as false and turn away from them in arrogance, they shall be the inmates of Hell; and there shall they abide.
37.Who is more unjust then he who invents a falsehood, ascribing it to Allah, or who rejects His revelation as false? Their full portion of God’s decree shall reach them, until Our deputed angels come to them to take charge of their souls, and say: ‘Where are the deities now, those whom you invoked besides Allah?’ They will say: ‘They are all gone away from us.’ And they shall bear witness against themselves that they were unbelievers.
Surah Al-Araaf
Ayah 38-43
38.Allah will say: ‘Enter the fire of Hell and join the nations of jinn and men that have gone before you.’ As a nations enters Hell, it will curse the one that went before it, and when all are gathered there, the last of them shall say of the first: ‘Our Lord! These are the ones who led us astray. Let their torment, be doubled in Hell-Fire.’ He will answer: ‘Each will have a doubled torment; although you do not know.’
39.Then the preceding ones will say to the succeeding ones: ‘You were in no way superior to us; taste, then, this torment for your deeds.’
40.Surely the gates of Heaven shall not be opened for those who reject Our signs as false and turn away from them in arrogance; nor shall they enter Paradise until a camel passes through the eye of a needle. Thus do We reward the guilty ones.
41.Hell shall be their bed, and also above them their covering. Thus do We reward the wrong-doers.
42.And those who believe and do good – We do no impose upon any of them a burden beyond his capacity. They are the people of Paradise. And there they shall abide.
43.We shall strip away all rancour from their hearts, and rivers shall flow beneath them, and they shall say: ‘All praise be to Allah Who has guided us on to this. Had it not been for Allah Who granted us guidance, we would not be on the Right Path. Surely the Messengers of our Lord did indeed come down with truth.’ Then a voice will cry out to them: ‘This is the Paradise which you are made to inherit as a reward for your deeds.’
Surah Al-Araaf
Ayah 44-51
44. And the people of Paradise shall cry to the people of Hell: ‘Surely we have found our Lords’ promise to us to be true; have you also found true what your Lord has promised you?’ ‘Yes’, they shall answer; and a herald shall cry out among them: ‘Allah’s curse be upon the wrong-doers’;
45.Upon those who hinder men from the path of Allah and seek to make it crooked; and disbelieve in the Hereafter.’
46.and between the two there will be a barrier, and on the Heights will be men who will recognize each person by his mark and will cry out to the people of Paradise: ‘Peace be to you.’ These will be ones who had not yet joined them in Paradise, though they long to do so.
47.And when the eyes of the people of the Heights will turned towards the people of Hell they will say: ‘Our Lord! Do not cast us among the wrong-doing people.’
48.And the people of the Heights will cry out to the men whom they would recognize by their marks, saying: ‘Neither your numbers nor the riches of which you were proud availed you.
49.Are these not the ones of whom you swore that Allah shall grant them nothing of His mercy?’ To such it will be said: ‘Enter Paradise. You have no cause to fear, nor shall you grieve.’
50.And the people of the Fire will cry out to the people of Paradise: ‘Pour out some water on us or throw at us something of what Allah has bestowed upon you.’ They will reply: ‘Allah has forbidden them to the deniers of the truth,
51.Who have made their religion a sport and play, and whom the life of the world has beguiled. So on that Day We shall forget them in the manner they forget their meeting of this Day with Us and persist in denying Our revelations.’
Surah Al-Araaf
Ayah 52-57
52. Surely We have brought them a Book which We expounded with knowledge; a guidance and a mercy to those who believe.
53.Are they waiting for the fulfillment of its warning? On the day that warning is fulfilled, those that have neglected it before will say: ‘The Messengers of Our Lord did indeed bring forth the truth. Are there any intercessors who will now plead on our behalf? Or, can we be restored to life that we might perform differently from that which we did?’ They surely ended in utter loss,. And the lies they had fabricated failed them.
54.Surely your Lord is none other than Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and then ascended His Throne; Who causes the night to cover the day and then the day swiftly pursues the night; Who created the sun and the moon and the stars making them all subservient to His command. Lo! His is the creation and His is the command. Blessed is Allah, the Lord of the universe.
55.Call upon your Lord with humility and in secret. Surely He does not love transgressors.
56.And do not make mischief in the earth after it has been set in order, and call upon Him with fear and longing. Surely Allah’s mercy is close to those who do good.
57.And it is He Who sends forth winds as glad tidings in advance of His Mercy, and when they have carried a heavy-laden cloud We drive it to a dead land, then We send down rain from it and bring forth therewith fruits of every kind. In this manner do We raise the dead that you may take heed.
Surah Al-Araaf
Ayah 58-67
58.As for the good land, vegetation comes forth in abundance by the command of its Lord, whereas from the bad land, only poor vegetation comes forth. Thus do We expound Our signs in diverse ways for a people who are grateful.
59.Indeed We sent forth Noah to his people, and he said: ‘O my people! Serve Allah, you have no other god than Him. Indeed I fear for you the chastisement of an awesome Day.’
60.The leading men of his people replied: ‘We see that you are in palpable error.’
61.He said: ‘O my people! There is no error in me, but I am a Messenger from the Lord of the universe.
62.I convey to you the messages of my Lord, give you sincere advice, and I know from Allah that which you do not know.
63.Do you wonder that admonition should come to you from your Lord through a man from amongst yourselves that he may warn you that you may avoid evil and that mercy may be shown to you?’
64.But they charged him with falsehood. Thereupon We delivered Noah and those who were with him in the Ark, and caused those who rejected Our signs as false to be drowned. Surely they were a blind folk.
65.And to ‘ad We sent forth their brother Hud. He said: ‘O my people! Serve Allah; you have no other god than Him. Will you then, not avoid evil?’
66.The unbelievers among the leading men of his people said: ‘Indeed we see you in folly, and consider you to be liars.’
67.He said: ‘O my people! There is no folly in me; rather I am a Messenger from the Lord of the universe.
Surah Al-Araf
Ayah 68-73
68. I convey to you the messages of my Lord, and I give you sincere advice.
69.Do you wonder that an exhortation should come to you from your Lord through a man from amongst yourselves that he may warn you? And do call to mind when He made you successors after the people of Noah and amply increased you in stature. Remember then the wondrous bounties of Allah that you may prosper.’
70.They said: ‘Have you come to us that we should worship none other than Allah and forsake all whom our forefathers were wont to worship? Then bring upon us the scourge with which you have threatened us if you are truthful?’
71.Hud warned them: ‘Surely punishment and wrath from your Lord have befallen upon you. Do you dispute with me about mere names that you and your forefathers have concocted and for which Allah has sent down no sanction? Wait, the, and I too am with you among those who wait.’
72.Then We delivered Hud and his companions by Our mercy, and We utterly cut off the last remnant of those who called the lie to Our signs and would not believed.
73.And to Thamud We sent forth their brother, Salih. He said to them: ‘O my people! Serve Allah, you have no other god than Him. Truly there has come to you a clear proof from your Lord. This she-camel from Allah is a Divine portent for you. So leave her alone to pasture on Allah’s earth, and touch her with no evil lest a painful chastisement should seize you.
Surah Al-Araaf
Ayah 74-81
74. And call to mind when He made you successors after ‘Ad and gave you power in the earth so that you took for yourselves palaces in its plains and hewed out dwellings in the mountains. Remember, then, the wondrous bounties of Allah and do not go about creating mischief in the land.
75.The haughty elders of his people said to those believers who had been oppressed: ‘Do you know that Salih is one sent forth with a message from his Lord?’ They replied: ‘Surely we believe in the message with which he has been sent.’
76.The haughty ones remarked: ‘Most certainly we disbelieve in that which you believe.’
77.Then they hamstrung the she-camel, disdainfully disobeyed the commandment of their Lord, and said: ‘O Salih! Bring upon us the scourge with which you threatened us if you are truly a Messenger [of Allah].’
78.Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them, so that they lay prostrate in their dwellings.
79.And Salih left them, saying: ‘O my people! I conveyed to you the message of my Lord and gave you good advice; but you have no liking for your well-wishers.’
80.And remember when We sent lot [as a Messenger] to his people and he said to them: ‘Do you realize you practice an indecency of which no other people in the world were guilty of before you?
81.You approach men lustfully in place of women. You are a people who exceed all bounds.’
Surah Al-A'raf
Ayah 82-87
82. Their only answer was: ‘Banish them from your town. They are a people who pretend to be pure.’
82. Then We delivered Lot and his household save his wife who stayed behind,
83.And We let loose a shower [of stones] upon the. Observe, then, the end of the evil-doers.
84.And to Midian We sent forth their brother Shy’ayb He exhorted them: ‘O my people! Serve Allah, you have no god but Him. Indeed a clear proof has come to you from you Lord. So give just weight and measure and diminish not to men their things, and make no mischief on the earth after it has been set in good order. That is to your own good, if you truly believe.
85.And do not lie in ambush by every path [of life] seeking to overawe or to hinder from the path of Allah those who believe, nor seek to make the path crooked. Remember, how you were once few, and then He multiplied you, and keep in mind what was the end of mischiefmakers.
86.And if there are some among you who believe in the message that I bear while some do not believe, have patience till Allah shall judge between us. He is the best of those who judge.
87.The haughty elders of his people said: ‘O Shu’ayb! We shall cer
Surah Al-A'raf
Ayah 88-94
88. The haughty elders of his people said: ‘O Shu’ayb! We shall certainly banish you and your companions-in-faith from our town, or else you shall return to our faith.’ Shu’ayb said: ‘What! Even though we abhor [your faith]?
89. If we return to your faith after Allah has delivered us from it we would be fabricating a lie against Allah; nor can we return to it again unless it be by the will of Allah, our Lord. Our Lord has knowledge of all things, and in Allah we put our trust. Our Lord! Judge rightly between us and our people, for You are the best of those who judge.
90. The elders of his people who disbelieved said: ‘Should you follow Shu’ayb, you will be utter losers.’
91. Thereupon a shocking catastrophe seized them, and they remained prostrate in their dwellings.
92. Those who had charged Shu’ayb with lying became as though they had never lived there; it is they who became utter losers.
93. Shu’ayb then departed from his people, and said: ‘O my people! Surely I conveyed to you the message of my Lord, and gave you sincere advice. How, then, can I mourn for a people who refuse to accept the truth.
94. Never have We sent a Prophet to a place without trying its people with adversity and hardship that they may humble themselves.
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 96-104
96. Had the people of those towns believed and been – God-fearing, We would certainly have opened up to them blessings from the heavens and the earth; but they gave the lie [to their Prophets] and so We seized them for their deeds.
97. Do the people of those towns feel secure that Our punishment will not come to them at night while they are asleep?
98. Or, do the people of those towns feel secure that Our punishment will not come to them by daylight while they are ate play?
99. Do they feel secure against the design of Allah? None can feel secure against the design of Allah except the utter losers.
100. Has it not, then, become plain to those who have inherited the earth in the wake of the former generations that, had We so willed, We could have afflicted them for their sins, (they, however, are heedless to basic facts and so) We so willed, We could have afflicted them for their sins, (they, however, are heedless to basic facts and so) We seal their hearts so that they hear nothing.
101. To those [earlier] communities – some of whose stories We relate to you – there had indeed come Messengers with clear proofs, but they would not believe what they had once rejected as false. Thus it is that Allah seals the hearts of those who deny the truth.
102. We did not find most of them true to their covenants; indeed We found most of them to be transgressors. 103. After those We sent forth Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his nobles, but they dealt with Our signs unjustly. Observe, then, what happened to the mischief-makers.
104.And Moses said: ‘O Pharaoh! I am a Messenger from the Lord of the universe.
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 105-120
105. And it behoves me to say nothing about Allah except what is true. I have come to you with a clear sign of having been sent from your Lord. So let the Children of Israel go with me.’
106. Pharaoh said: ‘If you have brought a sign, then bring it forth if you are truthful.’
107. Thereupon Moses threw his rod, and suddenly it was a veritable serpent.
108. Then he drew out his hand, and it appeared luminous to all beholders.
109. The elders of Pharaoh’s people said: ‘Surely this man is a skilful magician
110. who seeks to drive you out from your land. What would you have us do?’
111. Then they advised Pharaoh: ‘Put off Moses and his brother for a while, and send forth heralds to your cities
112. to summon every skilful magician to your presence.’
113. And the magicians came to Pharaoh and said: ‘Shall we have a reward if we win?’
114. And the magicians came to Pharaoh and said: ‘Shall we have a reward if we win?’ 115. Pharaoh replied: ‘Certainly, and you shall be among those who are near to me.’
116. Then they said: ‘O Moses, will you [first] throw your rod, or shall we throw?’
117. Moses said; ‘You throw.’ So when they threw [their rods], they enchanted the eyes of the people, and struck them with awe, and produced a mighty sorcery.
118. Then We directed Moses: ‘Now you throw your rod.’ And lo! it swallowed up all their false devices.
119. Thus was the truth established, and their doings proved in vain.
120. Pharaoh and his men were defeated and put to shame,
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 121-130
121. saying: ‘We believe in the Lord of the universe,
122. the Lord of Moses and Aaron.’
123. Pharaoh said: ‘What! Do you believe before you have my permission? Surely this is a plot you have contrived to drive out the rulers from the capital. So you shall see,
124. I shall cut off your hands and feet on the opposite sides, and then crucify you all.’
125. They replied: ‘We shall surely return to our Lord.
126. Will you punish us just because we believed in the signs of our Lord when they came to us? Our Lord! Shower us with perseverance and cause us to die as those who have submitted [to you].’
127. The elders of Pharaoh’s people said: ‘Will you leave alone Moses and his people to spread mischief in the land, and forsake you and your gods?’ Pharaoh replied: ‘replied: ‘We will kill their male children and spare their female ones. For indeed we hold irresistible sway over them.’
128. Moses said to his people: ‘Seek help from Allah and be steadfast. The earth is Allah’s, He bestows it on those of His servants He chooses. The end of things belongs to the God-fearing.’
129. The people of Moses replied: ‘We were oppressed before your coming to us and after it.’ Moses said: ‘Your Lord will soon destroy your enemy and make you rulers in the land. Then He will se how you act.’
130. We afflicted the people of Pharaoh with hard times and with poor harvest that they may heed.
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 131-137
131. But whenever prosperity came their way, they said: ‘This is our due.’ And whatever hardship befell them, they attributed it to the misfortune of Moses and those who followed him. Surely, their misfortune had been decreed by Allah – but most of them do not know that.
132. And they said to Moses: ‘Whatever sign you might produce before us in order to enchant us, we are not going to believe you.’
133. Then We afflicted them with a great flood and locusts, and the lice, and the frogs, and the blood. All these were distinct signs and yet they remained haughty. They were a wicked people.
134. Each time a scourge struck them they said: ‘O Moses! Pray for us to your Lord on the strength of the prophethood He has bestowed upon you. Surely, if you remove this scourge from us, we will truly believe in you, and will let the Children or Israel go with you.’
135. But when We removed the scourge from them until a term – a term which they were bound to reach – they at once broke their promise.
136. So We inflicted Our retribution on them, and caused them to drown in the sea because they gave the lie to Our signs and were heedless of them.
137. And We made those who had been persecuted inherit the eastern and western lands which We had blessed. Thus your Lord’s gracious promise was fulfilled to the Children of Israel, for they had endured with patience; and We destroyed all that Pharaoh and his people had wrought, and all that they had built.
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 138-143
138. And We led the Children of Israel across the sea; and then they came upon a people who were devoted to the worship of their idols. They said: ‘O Moses, make for us a god even as they have gods.’ Moses said: ‘You are indeed an ignorant people.’
139. The way these people follow is bound to lead to destruction; and all heir works are vain.
140. Moses said: ‘Should I seek any god for you other than Allah although it is He who has exalted you above all?’
141. And call to mind when We delivered you from Pharaoh’s people who perpetrated on you a terrible torment, putting your males to death and sparing your females. Surely in it there was an awesome trial for you from your Lord.
142. And We appointed for Moses thirty nights, to which We added ten, whereby the term of forty nights set by his Lord was fulfilled. And Moses said to Aaron, his brother: ‘Take my place among my people, act righteously, and do not follow the path of those who create mischief.’
143. And when Moses came at Our appointment, and his Lord spoke to him, he said: ‘O my Lord! Reveal Yourself to me, that I may look upon You!’ He replied: ‘Never can you see Me. However, behold this mount; if it remains firm in its place, only then you will be able to see Me.’ And as soon as his Lord unveiled His glory to the mount, He crushed it into fine dust, and Moses fell down in a swoon. And when he recovered, he said: ‘Glory be to You! To You I turn in repentance, and I am the foremost among those who believe.’
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 144-148
144. He said: ‘O Moses! I have indeed preferred you to all others by virtue of the Message I have entrusted to you and by virtue of My speaking to you. Hold fast, therefore, to whatever I have granted you, and give thanks.’
144. And We ordained for Moses in the Tablets all manner of admonition, and instruction concerning all things, and said to him: Hold to these, with all your strength, and bid your people to follow them in accord with their best understanding. I shall soon show you the habitation of the wicked.
145. I shall turn away from My signs those who, without any right, behaved haughtily in the earth, even if they may witness each and every sing, they shall not believe therein. And even if they see the right path, they shall still not follow it; but if they see the path of error, they shall choose it for their path. This is because they rejected Our signs as false and were heedless to them.
146. Vain are the deeds of those who reject Our signs as false and to the meeting of the Hereafter. Shall they be recompensed, except according to their deeds?’
147. and in the absence of Moses his people made the image of a calf from their ornament’s which lowed. Did they not observe that it could neither speak nor give them any guidance? And still they made it an object of worship. They were indeed wrong-doing.
148. And when they were afflicted with remorse and realized that they had fallen into error, they said: ‘If our Lord does not have mercy on us and does not pardon us, we shall be among the losers.’
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 150-
150. And when Moses returned and sorrow, he said: ‘Vile is the course you have followed in my absence. Could you not patiently wait for the decree of your Lord? And he threw down the Tablets [of the Law] and took hold of his brother’s head, dragging him to himself. Aaron said: ‘My mother’s son, the people over powered me and almost killed me. So let not my enemies gloat over me, and do not number me among the wrong-doing folk.’
151. Thereupon Moses said: ‘O Lord! Grant forgiveness upon me and my brother and admit us to Your Mercy, for You are most merciful of the merciful.’
152. In reply they were told: ‘Verily those who worshipped the calf will certainly incur indignation from their Lord, and will be abased in the life of this world. Thus do We reward those who fabricate lies.
153. As for those who do evil, and later repent and have faith, such shall find their Lord All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate after (they repent and believe)
154.And when the anger of Moses was stilled, he took up the Tablets again, the text of which comprised guidance and mercy to those who fear their Lord.
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 156-159
156. And ordain for us what is good in this world and in the World to Come for to You have we turned.’ He replied: ‘I afflict whomsoever I wish with My chastisement. As for My mercy, it encompasses everything. I will show mercy to those who abstain from evil, pay Zakah, and have faith in Our signs.
157. [Today this mercy is for] those who follow the ummi Prophet, whom they find mentioned in the Torah and the Gospel with them. He enjoins upon them what is good and forbids them what is evil. He makes the clean things lawful to them and prohibits all corrupt things, and removes from them their burdens and the shackles that were upon them. So those who believe in him and assist him, and succour him and follow the Light which has been sent down with him, it is they who shall prosper.
158. [Say, O Muhammad!]: ‘O men! I am Allah’s Messenger to you all- of Him to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. There is no god but He. He grants life and deals death. Have faith, then, in Allah and in His Messenger, the Ummi Prophet who believers in Allah and His words; and follow him so that you may be guided aright.’
159. Among the people of Moses there was a party who guided others in the way of the truth and established justice in its light.
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 160-163
160. And We divided them into twelve tribes, forming them into communities. When his people asked Moses for water We directed him: ‘Smite the rock with your rod.’ Then twelve springs gushed forth from the rock and every people knew their drinking-places. And We caused thick clouds to provide them shade, and We sent down upon them manna and quails, saying: ‘Eat of the clean things that We have provided you.’ They wronged not Us, but it was themselves that they wronged.
161. And recall when it was said to them: ‘Dwell in this town and eat plentifully of whatever you please, and say: “Repentance”, and enter the gate prostrate. We shall forgive you your sins and shall bestow further favoures on those who do good.’
162. Then the wrong-doers among them substituted another word in place of the one told them. So We sent upon them a scourge from the heaven as a punishment for their wrong-doing.
163. And ask the people of Moses concerning the town situated along the sea how its people profaned the Sabbath when fish came to them breaking the water’s surface on Sabbath days, and would not come to them on other than Sabbath-days. Thus did We try them because of their disobedience.
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 163-170
163. And recall when a party of them said: ‘Why do you admonish a people whom Allah is about to destroy or punish severely?’ They said: ‘We admonish them in order to be able to offer an excuse before Your Lord, and in the hope that they will guard against disobedience.’
164.Then, when they forgot what they had been exhorted, We delivered those who forbade evil and afflicted the wrong-doers with a grievous chastisement because of their evil-doing.
165. And when they persisted in pursuing that which had been forbidden We said: ‘Become despised apes.’
166. And recall when Your Lord proclaimed that ‘He would continually set in authority over them, till the Day of Judgement, those who would ruthlessly oppress them.’ Surely, your Lord is swift in chastising; and yet He is All-Forgiving, All-Merciful.
167 .And We dispersed them through the earth in communities – some were righteous, others were not – and We tested them with prosperity and adversity that they may turn back (to righteousness).
168. Then others succeeded them who inherited the scriptures, and yet kept themselves occupied in acquiring the goods of this world and kept saying: ‘We shall be forgiven.’ And when there comes to them an opportunity for acquiring more of those goods, they seize it. Was not the covenant of the Book taken from them that they would not ascribe to Allah anything but the truth? And they have read what is in the Book and know that the abode of the Hereafter is better for the God-fearing. Do you not understand?
170. Those who hold fast to the Book and establish Prayer – We shall not allow the reward of such righteous men to go to waste.
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 171-178
171. And recall when We shook the mountain over them as though it were a canopy, and they thought that it was going to fall over them; and We said: ‘Hold firmly to that which We have given you, and remember what is in it, that you may guard against evil.’
172. And recall (O Prophet!) when your Lord brought forth descendants from the loins of the sons of Adam, and made them witnesses against their own selves, asking them: ‘Am I not your Lord?’ They said: ‘Yes, We do testify.’ We did so lest you claim on the Day of Resurrection: ‘We were unaware of this.’
173. Or say: ‘Our forefathers before us who associated other with Allah in His divinity; we were merely their offspring who followed them. And would You destroy us for that which the unrighteous did?’
174. And thus do We expound the signs that they may turn back (to the right path).
175. And recite to them [O Muhammad!] the story of the man to whom We gave Our signs and who turned away from them; then ultimately Satan caught up with him and he was led astray.
176. Now had We so willed We could indeed have exalted him through those signs, but he clung to earthly life and followed his carnal desires. Thus his parable is that of the dog who lolls out his tongue whether you attack him or leave him alone. Such is the parable of those who reject Our signs as false. Narrate to them these parables that they may reflect.
177. Evil is the example of the people who reject Our signs as false and perpetrate wrong against their own selves.
178. He whom Allah guides, he alone is rightly guided; and he whom Allah lets go astray – it is they who are the loser.’
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 179-187
179. And certainly We have created for Hell many of the jinn and mankind; they have hearts with which hey fail to understand; and they have eyes with which they fail to see; and they have ears with which they fail to hear. They are like cattle - indeed, even more astray. Such are utterly heedless.
180. Allah has the most excellent names. So call on Him by His names and shun those who distort them. They shall soon be requited for their deeds.
181. And of those whom We have created there is a party who guide men thought the truth and act justly according to it.
182. As for those who reject Our signs as false, We shall lead them, step by step, to their ruin without their even perceiving it.
183. And (for this purpose) I will grant them respite. My designs is incontrovertible.
184. Have they not pondered that their companion[i.e. the Prophet Muhammad] is not afflicted with insanity? He is only a plain warner.
185. Have they not observed the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and all that Allah has created and that their term of life might have drawn near? After this warning from the Prophet, what will it be that will make them believe?
186. For those whom Allah lets go astray, there is no guide; and He will leave them in their transgression to stumble blindly.
187. They ask you concerning the Hour, when will its coming be? Say: ‘The knowledge of it is with my Lord alone: none but He will disclose it at its time. That will weigh heavily on the heavens and the earth; and it shall not come to you other than all of a sudden. They ask you – as if you are eagerly inquisitive about it – concerning it. Say to them: ‘The knowledge of it is with none except Allah. But most people are unaware of this reality.’
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 188-195
188. Tell them [‘O Muhammad!]: ‘I have no power to benefit or harm myself except as Allah may please. And had I knowledge of the unseen, I should have amassed all kinds of good, and no evil would have ever touched me. I am merely a warner and the herald of glad tidings to those who have faith.’
189. It is He – Allah- Who created you from single being, and out of it He made its mate, that he may find comfort in her. And when he covers her, she bears a light burden and goes about with it. Then, when she grows heavy, they pray to their Lord: ‘If You bestow upon us a healthy child, we will surely give thanks.’
190. But when He vouchsafes them a healthy child, they attribute to Him partners regarding what Allah has bestowed upon them. Subliminally exalted is Allah above that which they associate with Him.
191. Do they associate (with Allah in His divinity) those who can creat nothing; rather, they are themselves created?
192. They have no power to help others, nor can they help themselves.
193. And if you call them to true guidance, they will not follow you. It is all the same for you whether you call them to true guidance or keep silent.
194. Those whom you invoke other than Allah are creatures like you. So invoke them and see if they answer your call, if what you claim is true.
195. Have they feet on which they can walk? Have they hands with which they can grasp? Have they eyes with which they can see? Have they ears with which they can hear? Say [‘O Muhammad!]: ‘Invoke all those to whom you ascribe a share in Allah’s divinity, then scheme against me and grant me no respite.
Surah Al - A'raf
Ayah 196-206
196. My guardian is Allah Who has revealed the Book, and it is He Who protects the righteous.
197. And those whom you invoke other than Allah, they can neither help themselves nor you.
198. And if you were to call them to true guidance, they will not hear; and you observe them looking at you whereas they have no power to see.’
199. [O Prophet!] Show forgiveness, enjoin equity, and avoid the ignorant.
200. And if it happens that a prompting from Satan should stir you up, seek refuge with Allah. He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
201. If the God-fearing are instigated by any suggestion of Satan, they instantly become alert, whereafter they clearly perceive the right way.
202. As for their brethren [the Satan’s], they draw them deeper into error and do not relax in their efforts.
203. [O Prophet!] When you do not produce before them any miracle, they say: ‘Why do you not choose for yourself a miracle?’ Say to them: ‘I follow only what is revealed to me by my Lord. This is nothing but a means of insight into the truth, and guidance and mercy from your Lord to the people who believe.
204. So when the Qur’an is recited, listen carefully to it, and keep silent so that you may be shown mercy.
205. And remember [O Prophet!] your Lord in your mind, with humility and fear, and without raising your voice; remember Him in the morning and evening, and do not become of those who are negligent.
206. [The angel’s] who are near to your Lord, never turn away from His service out of arrogance; they rather glorify Him and prostrate themselves before Him.
Surah-8 Al-Anfal
Ayah 1-8
1. They ask you concerning the spoils of war? Tell them: ‘The spoils of war belong to Allah and the Messenger. So fear Allah, and set things right between you, and obey Allah and His Messenger if you are true believers.
2. The true believers are those who, when Allah’s name is mentioned, their hearts quake, and when His verses are recited to them their faith grows, and who put their trust in their Lord;
3. Who establish Prayer and spend out of what We have provided them.
4. Such people are indeed true believers. They have high ranks with their Lord, and forgiveness for their sins and an honourable sustenance.
5. (Now with regard to the spoils the same situation exists as when) your Lord brought you forth from your home in a righteous cause while a party among the believers was much averse to it.
6. They disputed with you about the truth after that had become evident, as if they were being driven to death with their eyes wide open.
7. And recall when Allah promised you that one of the two hosts would fall to you, and you wished that the one without arms should fall into your hands. But Allah sought to prove by His words the truth to be true and to annihilate the unbelievers to the last remnant
8. That He might prove the truth to be true and the false to be false, however averse the evil-doers might be to it.
Surah Al-Anfal
Ayah 9-16
9. And recall when you implored your Lord for help and He responded to you: ‘I will indeed reinforce you with a thousand angels, coming host after host.’
10. Allah meant this as glad tidings and that your hearts may be set at rest. For every help comes from Allah alone. Surely Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
11. And recall when Allah brought on you drowsiness, giving you a feeling of peace and security from Him, and He sent down rain upon you from the sky that He might cleanse you through it and take away from you the pollution of Satan and strengthen your hearts, and steady your feet through it.
12. And recall when your Lord inspired the angels: ‘I am certainly with you. So make firm the feet of those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. So strike at their necks and strike at every pore and tip.’
13. This is because they defied Allah and His Messenger. Whoever defies Allah and His Messenger must know that Allah is severe in punishment.
14. That is your punishment (from Allah). So taste this punishment, and know that for the unbelievers is the punishment of the Fire.
15. Believers, whenever you encounter a hostile force of unbelievers, do not turn your backs to them in flight.
16. For he who turns his back on them on such an occasion – except that it be for tactical reasons, or turning to join another company – he shall incur the wrath of Allah and Hell shall be his abode. It is an evil destination.
Surah Al-Anfal
Ayah 17-25
17. So the fact is that it was not you, but it was Allah Who killed them; and it was not you when you threw [sand at them], but it was Allah Who threw it, (and the believers were employed for the task) that He might cause the believers to successfully pass through this test. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
18. This is His manner of dealing with you. As for the unbelievers, Allah will surely undermine their designs.
19. (Tell the unbelievers): ‘If you have sought a judgement, then surely a judgement has come to you. And if you desist from disobedience, it is all the better for you. But if you revert to your mischief, We will again chastise you; and your host, howsoever numerous, will never be of any avail to you. Know well, Allah is with the believers.’
20. Beleivers! Obey Allah and His Messenger and do not turn away from him after you hear his command.
21. And do not be like those who say: ‘We hear’, thought they do not hearken.
22. Indeed the worst kind of all beasts in the sight of Allah are the people that are deaf and dumb, and do not understand.
23. And had Allah known in them any good He would surely have made them hear; but (being as they are) even if He made them hear, they would have surely turned away in aversion.
24. Believers! Respond to Allah, and respond to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life. Know well that Allah stands between a man and his heart, and it is to Him that all of you shall be mustered.
25. And guard against the mischief that will not only bring punishment to the wrong-doers among you. Know ell that Allah is severe in punishment.
Surah Al-Anfal
Ayah 26-33
26. And recall when you were few in numbers and deemed weak in the land, fearful lest people do away with you. Then He provided you refuge, strengtheded you with His help, and provided you sustenance with good things that you may be grateful.
27. Believers! Do not be unfaithful to Allah and the Messenger, nor be knowingly unfaithful to your trusts.
28. Know well that your belongings and your children are but a trial, and that with Allah there is a mighty reward.
29. Believers! If you fear Allah He will grant you a criterion and will cleanse you of your sins and forgive you. Allah is Lord of abounding bounty.
30. And recall how those who disbelieve schemed against you to take you captive, or kill you, or drive you away. They schemed and Allah did also scheme. Allah is the best of those who scheme.
31. And when Our verses are recited to them, they say: ‘We have heard. We could, if we willed, compose the like of it. They are nothing but fables of the ancient times.’
32. And also recall when they said; ‘O Allah! If this indeed be the truth from You, then rain down stones upon us from heaven, or bring upon us a painful chastisment.’
33. But Allah was not to chastise them while you are in their midst; nor was Allah going to chastise them while they sought His forgiveness.
Surah Al-Anfal
Ayah 34-40
34. But what prevents Allah from chastising them now when they are hindering people from the Holy Mosquie, even though they are not even its true guardians. For its true guardians are none but the God-fearing, thought most of them do not know that.
35. Their Prayer at tht House is nothing but whistling and handclapping. Taste, then, this chastisement for your denying the truth.
36. Surely those who deny the truth spend their wealth to hinder people from the way of Allah, and will continue to so spend until their efforts become a source of intense regret for them, and then they will be vanquished, and then these deniers of the truth will be driven to Hell,
37. So that Allah may separate the bad from the good, and join together all those who are bad into a pile one upon another, and cast them into Hell. They, it is they who are the losers.
38. [O Prophet!] Tell the unbelievers that if they desist from evil, their past shall be forgiven and if they revert to their past ways, then it is well known what happened with the people of the past.
39. And fight against them until the mischief ends and the way prescribed by Allah- the whole of it – prevails. Then, if they give up mischief, surely Allah sees what they do.
40. But if they turn away, then know well that Allah is your Protector – an excellent Protector and an excellent Helper.
Surah Al-Anfal
Ayah 41-45
41. Know that one fifth of the spoils that you obtain belongs to Allah, to the Messenger, to the near of kin, to the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer. This you must observe if you truly believe in Allah and in what We sent down on Our servant on the day when the true was distinguished from the false, the day on which the two armies met in battle. Allah has power over all things.
42. And recall when you were encamped at the nearer end of the valley (of Badr) and they were at the farther end and the caravan below you (along the seaside). Had you made a mutual appointement to meet in encounter, you would have declined. But encounter was brought about so that Allah might accomplish what He had decreed, and that he who was to perish should perish through a clear proof, and who was to survive might survive throught clear proof. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
43. And recall when Allah showed them to you in your dream to be few in number. And had He showed them to you to be numerous, you would have flagged and disagreed with one another about fighting them. But Allah saved you. Surely Allah know what is hidden in the breasts.
44.And recall when Allah showed them to you in your dream to be few in number. And had He showed them to you to be numerous, you would have flagged and disagreed with one another about fighting them. But Allah saved you. Surely Allah know what is hidden in the breasts. 45.And recall when He made them appear as few in your eyes when you met them in the battle just as He lessened you in their eyes so that Allah might accomplish what had been decreed. To Allah are all matters referred for decision.
Surah Al-Anfal
Ayah 46-52
46. And obey Allah and His Messenger, and do not quarrel with one another lest you should lose courage and your power depart. Be steadfast, surely Allah is with those who remain steadfast.
47. And be not like those who came forth from their homes exulting, with a desire to be seen of men, and hindering others from the way of Allah. Allah encompasses all that they do.
48. And recall when Satan made their works seem fair to them and said: ‘None shall overcome you today, and I am your supporter.’ But when the two armies faced each other, he turned on his heels, and said: ‘Surely I am quit of you for I behold that which you do not. Indeed I fear Allah, and Allah is stern in punishment.’
49. And recall when the hypocrites and those whose hearts were diseased said: ‘Their faith has deluded these (believers). But he who puts his trust in Allah shall find Allah All-Mighty, All-Wise.’
50. And if you could only see when the angels took away the souls of the unbelievers, striking them on their faces and backs, saying: ‘Taste the torment of burning.
51.This is your punishment for what your hands wrought. Allah is not unjust in the least to His creatures.’
52.Their case is like that of the people of Pharaoh and those before them. They denied the signs of Allah and so Allah seized them for their sins. Surely Allah is All-Powerful, Stern in retribution.
Surah Al-Anfal
Ayah 53-61
53. This happened because Allah is not one to change the favour which He has bestowed upon a people until they have changed their attitude. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
54. Their case is like that of the people of Pharaoh and those before them: they rejected the signs of their Lord as false and so We destroyed them for their sins, and caused the people of Pharaoh to drown. For they were wrong-doer all.
55. Surely the worst moving creature in the sight of Allah are those who definitively denied the truth and are therefore in no way prepared to accept it;
56. (especially) those with whom you entered into a covenant and then they broke their covenant time after time, and who do not fear Allah.
57. So if you meet them in war, make of them a fearsome example for those who follow them that they may be admonished.
58. And if you fear treachery from any people (with whom you have a covenant) then publicly throw their covenant at them. Allah does not love the treacherous.
59. Let not the deniers of the truth be deluded that they will gain any advantage. Surely they can never overcome Us!
60. Make ready for an encounter against them all the forces and well-readied horses you can muster that you may overawe the enemies of Allah and your own enemies and others besides then of whom you are unaware but of whom Allah is aware. Whatever you may spend in the cause of Allah shall be fully repaid to you, and you shall not be wronged.
61. If they incline to peace, incline you as well to it, and trust in Allah. Surely He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
Surah Al-Anfal
Ayah 62-69
62. And should they seek to deceive you, Allah is sufficient for you. He it is Who strengthened you with His succour and the believers
63. And joined their hearts. Had you given away all the riches of the earth you could not have joined their hearts, but it is Allah Who joined their hearts. Indeed He is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
64. O Prophet! Allah is sufficient for you and the believers who follow you.
65. O Prophet! Rouse the believers to fighting. If there be twenty of you who persevere, they shall vanquish two hundred; and if there by of you a hundred, they shall vanquish a thousand of those who disbelieve, for they are a people who lack understanding.
66. Allah has now lightened your burden for He found weakness in you. So if there be a hundred of you who persevere, they shall vanquish two hundred; and if there be a thousand of you they shall, by the leave of Allah, vanquish two thousand. Allah is with those who persevere.
67.It behoves not a Prophet to take captives until he has sufficiently suppressed the enemies in the land. You merely seek the gains of the world whereas Allah desires (for you the good) of the Hereafter. Allah is All-Mighty, All-wise.
68. Had there not been a previous decree from Allah, a stern punishment would have afflicted you for what you have taken.
69. So eat that which you have obtained – for it is lawful and clean – and fear Allah. Surely Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Surah Al-Anfal
Ayah 70-75
70. O Prophet! Say to the captives in your hands: ‘If Allah finds any goodness in your hearts He will give you that which is better than what has been taken away from you, and He will forgive you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
71.But if they seek to betray you, know that they had already betrayed Allah. Therefore He made you prevail over them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
72.Surely those who believed and migrated and strove hard in the way of Allah with their possessions and their lives, and those that sheltered and helped them – they alone are the true allies of one another. And those who believed but did not migrate (to Dar Al-Islam), you are under no obligation of alliance unless they migrate. And should they seek help from you in the matter of religion, it is incumbent on you to provide help unless it be against a people with whom you have a pact. Allah is cognizant of all that you do.
73.And those who disbelieve, they are allies of one another; and unless you act likewise, there will be oppression in the world and great corruption.
74. Those who believe and have migrated and strove in the way of Allah, and those who gave them refuge and help – it is they who are the true believers. Theirs shall be forgiveness and honourable sustenance.
75. And those who believed afterwards and migrated and strove along with you: they belong to you. But those related by blood are nearer to one another according to the Book of Allah. Allah has knowledge of everything.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 1-6
1. This is a declaration of disavowal by Allah and His Messenger to those who associate others with Allah in His divinity and with whom you have made treaties:
2. ‘You may go about freely in the land, for four months, but know well that you will not be able to frustrate Allah, and that Allah will bring disgrace upon those who deny the truth.’
3. This is a public proclamation by Allah and His Messenger to all men on the day of the Great Pilgrimage: ‘Allah is free from all obligations to those who associate others with Allah in His divinity; and so is His Messenger. If you repent, it shall be for your own good; but if you turn away, then know well that you will not be able to frustrate Allah. So give glad tidings of a painful chastisement to those who disbelieve.
4. In exception to those who associate others with Allah in His divinity are those with whom you have made treaties and who have not violated their treaties nor have backed up anyone against you. Fulfil you treaties with them till the end of their term. Surely Allah loves the pious.’
5. But when the sacred months expire, slay those who associate others with Allah in His divinity wherever you find them; seize them, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them. But if they repent and establish the Prayer and Pay Zakah, leave them alone. Surely Allah is All-Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.
6. And if any of those who associate others with Allah in His divinity seeks asylum, grant him asylum that he may hear the Word of Allah, and then escort him to safety for they are a people bereft of all understanding.
Surah Al-Taubah
Ayah 7-13
7. How can there be a covenant with those who associate others with Allah in His divinity on the part of Allah and His Messenger except those with whom you made a covenant near the Sacred Mosque? Behave in a straight way with them so long as they behave straight with you for Allah loves the God fearing.
8. How can there be any covenant with the rest who associate others with Allah in His divinity for were they to prevail against you, they will respect neither kinship nor agreement. They seek to please you with their tongues while their hearts are averse to you, and most of them are wicked.
9. They have sold the revelations of Allah for a paltry price and have firmly hindered people from His path. Evil indeed is what they have done.
10.They neither have any respect for kinship nor for agreement in respect of the believers. Such are indeed transgressors.
11. But if they repent and establish Prayer and give Zakah they are your brothers in faith. Thus do We expound Our revelations to those who know.
12. But if they break their pledges after making them and attack your faith, make war on the leaders of unbelief that they may desist, for they have no regard for their pledge words.
13. Will you not fight against those who broke their pledges and did all they could to drive the Messenger away and initiated hostilities against you? Do you fear them? Surely Allah has greater right that you should fear Him, if you are true believers.
Surah At-Taubah
Ayah 14-20
14. Make war on them. Allah will chastise them through you and will humiliate them. He will grant you victory over them, and will soothe the bosoms of those who believe;
15. And will rage from their hearts, and will enable whomsoever He will to repent. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
16. Do you imagine that you will be spared without being subjected to any test? Know well that Allah has not yet determined who strove hard (in His cause), and has not taken any others beside His Messenger and the believers as his trusted allies? Allah is well aware of all that you do.
17. It does not become those who associate others with Allah in His divinity to visit and tend Allah’s mosques while they bear witness of unbelief against themselves. All their works have gone to waste. They shall abide in the Fire.
18. It only becomes those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and establish Prayer and pay Zakah and fear none but Allah to visit and tend the mosques of Allah. These are likely to be guided aright.
19. Do you consider providing water to the Pilgrims and tending the Sacred Mosque equal in worth to believing in Allah and the Last Day and striving in the cause of Allah? The two are not equal with Allah. Allah does not guide the wrong-doing folk.
20. The higher rank with Allah is for those who believed and migrated and strove in His cause with their belongings and their persons. It is they who are triumphant.
Surah-9 Al-Tawbah
Ayah 21-26
21.Their Lord gives them glad tidings of mercy from Him and of His good pleasure. For them await Gardens of eternal bliss.
22. Therein they shall abide for ever. Surely with Allah there is a mighty reward.
23. Believers! Do not take you fathers and your brothers for your allies if they choose unbelief in preference to belief. Whosoever of you takes them as allies those are wrong-doers.
24. Tell them (O Prophet!): ‘If your fathers and your sons and your brothers and your wives and your tribe and the riches you have acquired and the commerce of which you fear a slackening, and the dwellings that you love, are dearer to you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His cause, then wait until Allah brings about His decree. Allah does not guide the evil-doing folk.’
25. Surely Allah has succoured you before on many a battlefield and (you have yourselves witnessed His succour to you) on the day of Hunayn when your numbers made you proud, but they did you no good, and the earth, for all its vastness, constrained you, and you turned your backs in retreat.
26. Then Allah caused His tranquillity to descend upon His Messenger and upon the believers, and He sent down hosts whom you did not see, and chastised those who disbelieved. Such is the recompense of those who deny the truth.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 28-31
27. Then (after so chastising the unbelievers). Allah enables whomsoever He wills, to repent. Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Merciful.
28. Believers! Those who associate others with Allah in His divinity are unclean. So, after the expiry of this year, let them not even go near the Sacred Mosque. And should you fear poverty, Allah will enrich you out of His bounty, if He wills. Surely Allah is All-Knowing, All-wise.
29.Those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day – even thought they were given the scriptures, and who do not hold as unlawful that which Allah and His Messenger have declared to be unlawful, and who do not follow the true religion – fight against them until they pay tribute out of their hand and are utterly subdued.
30. The Jews say: ‘Ezra (‘Uzyr) is Allah’s son,’ is Allah’s son,’ and the Christians say: ‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’ These are merely verbal assertions in imitation of the sayings of those unbelievers who preceded them. May Allah ruin them. How do they turn away from the truth?
31. They take their rabbis and their monks for their Lords beside Allah, and also the Messiah, son of Mary, whereas they were commanded to worship none but the One God. There is no god but He. Exalted be He above those whom they associated with Him in His divinity.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 32-36
32. They seek to extinguish the light of Allah by blowing through their mouths; but Allah refuses everything except that He will perfect His light even though the unbelievers might abhor it.
33. He it is Who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the true religion that He may make it prevail over all religions, howsoever those who associate other with Allah in Hid divinity might detest it.
34. Believers! Many of the rabbis and monks wrongfully devour men’s possession and hinder people from the way of Allah. And there are those who amass gold and silver and do not spend it in the way of Allah. Announce to them the tidings of a painful chastisement
35. On a Day when they shall be heated in the Fire of Hell, and their foreheads and their sides and their backs shall be branded with it, [and they shall be told]: ‘This is the treasure which you hoarded for yourselves. Taste, then, the punishment for what you have hoarded.’
36. Surely the reckoning of months, in the sight of Allah, in the sight of Allah, is twelve months, laid down in Allah’s decree on the day when He created the heavens and the earth; and out of these months four are sacred. That is the true ordainment. Do not, therefore, wrong yourselves, with respect to these months. And fight all together against those who associate other with Allah in His divinity in the manner which they fight against you all together against those who associate others with Allah in His divinity in the manner which they fight against you all together, and know well that Allah is with the God-fearing.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 37-40
37. The intercalation [of sacred months] is an act of gross infidelity, which causes the unbelievers to be led further astray. They declare a month to be lawful in one year and forbidden in another year in order that they may conform to the number of months that Allah has declared as sacred, and at the same time make lawful what Allah has forbidden. Their foul acts seem fair to them. Allah does not provide guidance to those who deny the truth.
38. Believers! What is amiss with you that when it is said to you: ‘March forth in the cause of Allah,’ you cling heavily to the earth? Do you prefer the worldly life to the Hereafter? Know well that all the enjoyment of this world, in comparison with the Hereafter, is trivial.
39. If you do not march forth, Allah will chastise you grievously and will replace you by another people, while you will in no way be able to harm Him. Allah has power over everything.
40. It will matter little if you do not help the Prophet, for Allah surely helped him when the unbelievers drove him out of him home and he was but one of the two when they were in the cave, and when he said to his companion: ‘Do not grieve. Allah is with us.’ Then Allah caused His tranquillity to descend upon him and supported him with hosts you did not see; and He humbled the word of the unbelievers. And Allah’s word is inherently uppermost. Allah is All-Powerful, All-Wise.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 41-47
41. March forth whether light or heavy, and strive in the way of Allah with your belongings and your lives. That is best for you if you only knew it.
42. Were it again at hand or a short journey, they would have surely followed you, but the distance seemed too far to them. Still they will swear by Allah: ‘If only we could, we would surely have gone forth with you.’ They merely bring ruin upon themselves. Allah knows well that they are liars.
43. Allah forgives you! Why did you give them leave to stay behind before it became clear to you as to whom were truthful and who were liars.
44. Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day will never ask you leave to be excused from striving (in the cause of Allah) with their belongings and their lives. Allah fully knows the God-fearing.
45. It is only those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, and whose hearts are filled with doubt that seeks exemption from striving (in the cause of Allah). They keep tossing to and fro in their doubt.
46. Had they truly intended to march forth to fight, they would have certainly made some preparation for it. But Allah was averse to their going forth, so He made them lag behind, and they were told: ‘Stay behind with those that are staying behind.
47. Had they gone forth with you, they would have only added to your trouble, and would have run about in your midst seeking to stir up sedition between you, whereas there are among you some who are prone to give ears to them. Allah knows well the wrong-doers.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 48-54
48. Surely they sought even earlier to stir up sedition, and turned things upside down to frustrate you until the truth came and the decree of Allah appeared however hateful this may have been to them.
49. And among them is he who says: ‘Grant me leave to stay behind, and do not expose me to temptation.’ Lo! They have already fallen into temptation. Surely the Hell encompasses the unbelievers.
50. If good fortune befalls you, it vexes them; and if an affliction befalls you, they turn away in jubilation and say: ‘We have taken due care of our affairs in good time.’
51. Say: ‘Nothing will befall us except what Allah has decreed for us; He is our Protector.’ Let the believers, then, put all their trust in Allah.
52. Tell them: ‘What you await to befall upon us is nothing but one of the two good things! And what we await for you is that Allah visits you with chastisement from Him or chastise you at our hands. So continue waiting; we too shall wait with you.’
53. Tell them: ‘Whether you spend you money willingly or unwillingly, it shall not find acceptance (with Allah) for you are an evil-doing folk.’
54. Nothing prevents that their expending be accepted except that they disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger, and whenever they come to the Prayer they do so lazily, and whenever they spend they do so grudgingly.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 55-61
55. Let neither their riches nor their children excite your admiration. Allah only wants to chastise them through these things in the present life, and to cause them to die while they are unbelievers.
56. They swear by Allah that they belong with you whereas they are certainly not of you. They are merely a people who dread you.
57. If they could find any shelter or any cavern, or any retreat, they would turn around and rush headlong into it.
58. (O Prophet!) Some of them find fault with you in the distribution of alms. If they are given something thereof they are pleased, and if they are given nothing they are angry.
59. Would that they were content with what Allah and His Messenger gave them, and were to say: ‘Allah suffices for us, and Allah will give us out of His bounty and so will His Messenger. It is to Allah alone that we turn with hope.’
60. The alms are meant only for the poor and the needy and those who are in charge thereof, those whose hearts are to be reconciled; and to free those in bondage, and to help those burdened with debt, and for expenditure in the way of Allah and for the wayfarer. This is an obligation from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
61. And of them there are some who distress the Prophet, saying: ‘He is all ears.’ Tell them: ‘He listens for your good. He believes in Allah and trusts the believers. And is mercy for those of you who believe. A painful punishment lies in store for those who cause distress to the Messenger of Allah.’
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 62-68
62. They swear by Allah to please you, while it is Allah and His Messenger whose pleasure they should seek if they truly believe.
63. Are they not aware that Hell-fire awaits whosoever opposes Allah and His Messenger, and in it he shall abide? That surely is the great humiliation.
64. The hypocrites are afraid lest a surah should be revealed concerning them intimating to the believers what lay hidden in their hearts. Them (O Prophet!): “Continue your mockery if you will. Allah will surely being to light all that disclosure of which you dread.’
65. Should you question them what they were talking about they would certainly say: ‘We were merely jesting and being playful. Tell them: ‘Was it Allah and His Messenger and His revelation that you were mocking?
66. Now, make no excuses. The truth is, you have fallen into unbelief after having believed. Even if We were to forgive some of you. We will surely chastise other because they are guilty.
67. The hypocrites, be they men or women, are all alike. They enjoin what is evil, and forbid what is good, and withhold their hands from doing good. They forgot Allah, so Allah also forgot them. Surely the hypocrites are wicked.
68. has promised Hell-Fire to the hypocrites, both men, and women, and to the unbelievers. They shall abide in it: a sufficient recompense for them. Allah has cursed them, and theirs is a lasting torment.
Surah At-Tauba
Ayah 69-72
69. Yours ways are like the ways of those who have gone before you. They were mightier than you in power, and more abundant in riches and children. They enjoyed their lot for a while as you have enjoyed your lot, and you also engaged in idle talk as they did. They works have come to a naught in this world and in the Hereafter they are surely the losers.
70. They have not heard the accounts of those who came before them – of the people of Noah and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of Abraham and the dwellers of Madyan (Midian), and the Ruined Cities? Their Messengers came to them with clear signs. Then, it was not Allah Who caused them any wrong; they rather wronged themselves.
71. The believers, both men and women, are allies of one another. They enjoin good, forbid evil, establish Prayer, pay Zakah, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Surely Allah will show mercy to them. Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.
72. Allah has promised the believing men and believing women Gardens beneath which rivers flow. They shall abide in it. There are delightful dwelling places for them in the Gardens of Eternity. They shall, above all, enjoy the good pleasure of Allah. That is the great achievement.
Surah At-Tauba
Ayah 73-79
73. O Prophet! Strive against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be severe to them. Hell shall be their abode – what an evil destination!
74. They swear by Allah that they said nothing blasphemous whereas they indeed blasphemed, and fell into unbelief after believing, and also had evil designs, which they could not carry into effect. They are spiteful against Muslims for no other reason than that Allah and His Messenger have enriched them through His bounty! So, if they repent, it will be to their own good. But if they turn away, Allah will sternly punish them in this world and in the Hereafter. None in the world will be able to protect or help them.
75. Some of them made a covenant with Allah: ‘If Allah gives us out of His bounty, we will give alms and act righteously.’
76. Then, when He gave them out of His bounty they grew niggardly and turned their backs (upon their covenant)
77. So He caused hypocrisy to take root in their hearts and to remain therein until the Day they meet him because they broke their promise with Allah and because they lied.
78. Are they not aware that Allah knows what they conceal and what they secretly discuss, and that Allah has full knowledge even of All that is beyond the reach of perception?
79. As for those who taunt the believers who voluntarily give alms and scoff at those who have nothing to give except what they earn through their hard toil, Allah scoffs at them in return. A grievous chastisement awaits them.
Surah At-Tauba
Ayah 80-84
80. (O Prophet!) It is the same whether or no you ask for their forgiveness. Even if you were to ask for forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah shall not forgive them. That is because they disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger; and Allah does not bestow His guidance on such evil-doing folk.
81. Those who were allowed to stay behind rejoiced at remaining behind and not accompanying the Messenger of Allah. They were averse to striving in the cause of Allah with their belongings and their lives and told others: ‘Do not go forth in this fierce heat.’ Tell them: ‘The Hell is far fiercer in heat.’ Would that they understand!
80. Let them, then, laugh little, and weep much at the contemplation of the punishment for the evil they have committed!
81. Then if Allah brings you face to face with a party with of them, and they ask your leave to go forth (to fight in the cause of Allah), tell them: ‘You shall not go forth with me, and shall never fight against any enemy along with me. You were well-pleased to remain at home the first time, so now continue to remain with those who have stayed behind.’
82. Do not ever pray over any of them who dies, nor stand over his grave. They disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger and died in iniquity.
83. Let not their riches or their children excite your admiration. Through these Allah seeks to chastise them in this world, and that their lives may depart them a while they are unbelievers.
84. And whenever any Surah is revealed enjoining: ‘Believe in Allah and strive (in His cause) along with His Messenger,’ the affluent among them ask you to excuse them, saying: ‘Leave us with those who will sit back at home.’
Surah At-Tauba
Ayah 87-93
87. They were content to stay behind with the womenfolk. Their hearts were sealed, leaving them bereft of understanding.
88. But the Messenger and those who shared his faith strove with their belongings and their lives. It is they who shall have all kinds of good. It is they who shall prosper.
89. Allah has prepared for them Gardens beneath which rivers flow. There shall they abide. That is the supreme triumph.
90. Many of the Bedouin Arabs came with excuses, seeking leave to stay behind. Thus those who were false to their covenant remained behind. A painful chastisement shall befall those of them that disbelieved.
91. There is blame on the weak nor the sick nor on those who have no means for Jihad if they stay behind provided that they are sincere to Allah and to His Messenger. There is no cause for reproach against those who do good. Allah is All-Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.
92. Nor can there by any cause for reproach against those who, when they came to you demanding mounts to go to the battle front, but who went back, their eyes overflowing with tears when you told them that you had no mounts for them, grieving that they had no resources to enable them to take part in fighting.
93. There are grounds for reproach against those who seek leave to stay behind even though they are affluent. They are the ones who were content to be with the womenfolk who stay behind. Allah has a set a seal on their hearts, leaving them bereft of understanding.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 94-99
94.They will put up excuses before you when you return to them. Tell them: ‘Make no excuses. We will not believe you. Allah has already informed us of the truth about you. Allah will observe you conduct, and so will His Messenger; then you will be brought back to Him Who knows alike what lies beyond human perception and what lies within the reach of human perception, and He will let you know what you did.
95.When you return to them they will surely swear to you in the name of Allah that you may leave them alone. So do leave them alone; they are unclean. Hell shall be their home, a recompense for what they did.
96.They will swear to you in order to please you. But even if you become pleased with them, Allah will not be pleased with such an evil-doing folk.
97.The bedouin Arabs surpass all in unbelief and hypocrisy and are most likely to be unaware of the limits prescribed by Allah in what He has revealed to His Messenger. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
98.And among the bedouin Arabs there are such as regard whatever they spend (in the cause of Allah) as a fine and wait for some misfortune befall them! Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
99.And of the bedouin Arabs are those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and regard their spending (in the cause of Allah) as a means of drawing them near to Allah and of deserving the prayers of the Messenger. Indeed, this shall be a means of drawing near to Allah. Allah will surely admit them to His mercy. Allah is All-Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 100-106
100.And of those who led the way- the first of Emigrants (Muhajirun) and the Helpers (Ansar) and those who followed them in the best possible manner – Allah is well-pleased with them and they are well pleased with Allah. He has prepared for them Garden beneath which rivers flow; therein they will abide for ever. That is the supreme triumph.
101.As for the bedouin Arabs around you, some are hypocrites; and so are some of the people of Madina who have become injured to hypocrisy. You do not know them, but We know them. We will chastise them doubly, and then they shall be sent to an awesome suffering.
102.There are others who have confessed their faults. They intermixed thee good deeds with evil. It is likely that Allah will turn to them in mercy, for Allah is All-Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.
103.(O Prophet!) Take alms out of their riches and thereby cleanse them and bring about their growth (in righteousness), and pray for them. Indeed you prayer is a source of tranquillity for them. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
104.Are they not aware that it is Allah who accepts the repentance of His servants and takes alms, and that it is Allah Who is Oft-Relenting, Ever-Merciful?
105.And tell them (O Prophet!): ‘Keep working: Allah will behold your works and so will His Messenger and the believers; and you shall be brought back to Him Who knows that which is beyond the reach of human perception and that which is within the reach of human perception. He will then declare to you all what you have been doing.
106.There are others in whose regard Allah’s decree is awaited: whether He will chastise or relent towards them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 107-111
107. Then there are others who have set up a mosque to hurt the true faith, to promote to hurt the true faith, to promote unbelief, and cause division among believers, and as an ambush for one who had earlier made war on Allah and His Messenger. They will surely swear: ‘We intended nothing but good’, whereas Allah bears witness that they are liars.
108.Never stand therein. Surely a mosque founded from the first day on piety is more worthy that you should stand in it for Prayer. In it are men who love to purify themselves, and Allah loves those that purify themselves.
109.Is he, then, who has erected his structure on fear of Allah and His good pleasure better, or he who erects his string on the brink of a crumbling bank, so that it crumbles down with him into the Hell-fire? Allah does not bestow His guidance on the wrong-doing folk.
110.And the structure, which they have erected, will ever inspire their hearts with doubts unless it be that their very hearts are cut into pieces. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
111.Surely Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their belongings and in return has promised that they shall have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, and slay and are slain. Such is the promise He has made incumbent upon Himself in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Qur’an. Who is more faithful to his promise than Allah? Rejoice then, in the bargain you have made with Him. That indeed is the might triumph.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 112-117
112.Those who constantly turn to Allah in repentance, who ever worship Him, who praise Him, who go about the world to serve His cause, who bow down to Him, who prostrate themselves before Him, who enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil, and who keep the limits set by Allah. To such believers announce glad tidings.
113.After it has become clear that they are condemn to the Flaming Fire, it is not for the Prophet and those who believe to ask for the forgiveness of those who associate others with Allah in His divinity even if they be near of kin.
114.And Abraham’s prayer for the forgiveness of his father was only because of a promise, which he had made to him. Then, when it became clear to him that he was an enemy of Allah he dissociated himself from him. Surely Abraham was most tenderhearted, much-forbearing.
115.It is not Allah’s way to cause people to stray in error after He has guided them and until He has made clear to them what they should guard against. Surely Allah knows everything.
116.Allah’s deed is the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He it is who confers life and causes death. You have no protector or helper besides Allah.
117.Surely Allah has relented towards the Prophet, and towards the Muhajirun (Emigrants) and the Ansar (Helpers) who stood by him in the hour of distress when the hearts of a party of them had well-nigh swerved. (But when they gave up swerving from the right course and followed the Prophet) Allah relented towards them. Surely to them He is Most Tender, Most Merciful.
Surah Al-Tawbah
Ayah 118-122
118. And He also relented towards the three whose cases had been deferred. When the earth, for all its spaciousness, became constrained to them, and their lives became a burden to them, and the realized that there was no refuge from Allah except in Him, He relented towards them that they may turn back to Him. Surely, it is Allah Who is Much-Forgiving, Ever-Merciful.
119. Believers! Have fear of Allah and stand with those that are truthful.
120. It did no behove the people of Madina and the bedouin Arabs around them that they should refrain from accompanying the Messenger of Allah and stay behind and prefer their own security to his. For whenever they suffer from thirst or weariness or hunger in the cause of Allah, and whenever they tread a place which enrages the unbelievers; (whenever anything of this comes to pass) a good deed is recorded in their favour. Allah does not cause the work of the doers of good to go to waste.
121. Likewise, each amount they spend, be it small or large, and each journey they undertake, shall be recorded in their favour so that Allah may bestow upon them reward for their good deeds.
122. It was not necessary for the believers to go forth all together (to receive religious instructions), but why did not a party of them go forth that they may grow in religious understanding, and that they may warn their people when they return to them, so that they may avoid (wrongful attitudes).
Surah Al-Baqara
Ayah 123-129
123. Believers! Fight against the unbelievers who live around you; and let them find in you sternness. Know that Allah is with the God-fearing.
124. And whenever a new Surah is revealed some of the hypocrites ask the believers (in jest): ‘Whose faith has increased because of this?’ As for those who believe, it will certainly increase their faith, and they are joyful over that.
125. As for those whose hearts are affected with the disease (of hypocrisy), every new Surah added a fresh abomination to their abomination. They remained unbelievers till their death.
126. Do they not see that they are tried every year once or twice? Yet they neither repent nor take heed.
127. And whenever a Surah is revealed, they glance at each other as though saying: ‘Is anyone watching?’ Then they slip away. Allah has turned away their hearts for they are a people who are bereft of understanding.
128. There has come to you a Messenger of Allah from amongst yourselves; one who grieves at you suffering losses, who is ardently desirous of you welfare, and who is tender and merciful to those that believe.
129. Yet, if they should turn away, then tell them: ‘Allah is sufficient for me; there is no God but Him. In Him I have put my trust. He is the Lord of the Mighty Throne.’
Surah-10 Younus
Ayath 1-6
1. Alif. Lam. Ra. These are the verses of the Book overflowing with wisdom. 2.Does it seem strange to people that We should have revealed to a man from among themselves, directing him to warn the people (who lie engrossed in heedlessness); and to give good news to the believers that they shall enjoy true honour and an exalted status with their Lord? (Is this so strange that) the deniers of the truth should say: ‘This man is indeed an evident sorcerer’?
3.Surely your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself on the Throne (of His Dominion), governing all affairs of the universe. None may intercede with Him except after obtaining His leave. Such is Allah, you r Lord; do therefore serve Him. Will you not take heed?
4.To Him is your return. This is Allah’s promise that will certainly come true. Surely it is He Who brings about the creation of all and He will repeat it so that He may justly reward those who believe and do righteous deeds; and that those who disbelieve may have a draught of boiling water and suffer a painful chastisement for their denying the truth.
5. He it is Who gave the sun radiance and the moon light, and determined the stages (for the waxing and waning of the moon) that you may learn the calculation of years and the reckoning of time. Allah has created all this with a rightful purpose (rather than out of play). He expounds His signs for the people who know.
6.Surely in the alternation of the night and the day and in all that Allah has created in the heavens and the earth there are signs for the people who seek to avoid (error of outlook and conducts).
Surah Younurs
Ayah 7-14
7. Surely those who do not expect to meet Us, who are gratified with the life of the world and content with it, and are heedless of Our signs,
8. Their abode shall be the Fire in return for their misdeeds.
9.Surely those who believe (in the truths revealed in the Book) and do righteous deeds their Lord will guide them aright because of their faith. Rivers shall flow beneath them in the Gardens of Bliss.
10.Their cry in it will be: ‘Glory be to You, Our Lord!’ and their greeting: ‘Peace!’ and their cry will always end with: ‘All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the universe.’
11.Were Allah to hasten to bring upon men (the consequence of) evil in the way men hasten in seeking the wealth of this world, their term would have long since expired. (But that is not Our way.) So We leave alone those who do not expect to meet Us that they may blindly stumble in their transgression.
12. And (such is man that) when an affliction befalls him, he cries out to Us, reclining and sitting and standing. But no sooner than We have removed his affliction, he passes on as though he had never cried out to Us to remove his affliction. Thus it is that the misdeeds of the transgressors are made fairseeming to them.
13.Surely We destroyed the nations (which had risen to heights of glory in their times) before you when they indulged in wrong-doing and refused to believe even when their Messengers brought clear signs to them. Thus do We recompense the people who are guilty.
14.Now We have appointed you as their successors in the earth to see how you act.
Surah Younus
Surah 15-20
15. And whenever Our clear revelations are recited to them, those who do not expect to meet Us say: ‘Bring us a Qur’an other than this one, or at least make changes in it.’ Tell then (O Muhammad): ‘It is not for me to change it of my accord. I only follow what is revealed to me. Were I to disobey my Lord, I fear the chastisement of an Awesome Day.’
16.Tell them: ‘Had Allah so willed, I would not have recited the Qur’an to you, nor would Allah have informed you of it. I have spent a lifetime among you before this. Do you, then, not use your reason?
17. Who, then, is a greater wrong-doer than he who forges a lie against Allah or rejects His signs as false? Surely the guilty shall not prosper.’
18.They worship, beside Allah, those who can neither harm nor profit them, saying: ‘These are our intercessors with Allah.’ Tell them (O Muhammad): ‘Do you inform Allah of something regarding whose existence in the heavens or on the earth He has no knowledge? Holy is He and He is exalted far above what they associated with Him in His divinity’.
19.Once all men were but a single community; then they disagreed (and formulated different beliefs and rites). Had it not been that your Lord had already so ordained, a decisive judgement would have been made regarding their disagreements.
20.They say: ‘Why was a sign not sent down upon the Prophet from His Lord?’ Tell (such people): ‘The realm of the Unseen belongs to Allah. Wait, then; I shall wait along with you.’
Surah Younus
Ayah 21-25
21. No sooner than We bestow mercy on a people after hardship has hit them than they begin to scheme against Our signs. Tell them: ‘Allah is swifter in scheming. Our angels are recording all your intriguing.’
22.He it is Who enables you to journey through the land and the sea. And so it happens that when you have boarded the ships and they set sail with a favourable wind, and the passengers rejoice at the pleasant voyage, then suddenly a fierce gale appears, and wave upon wave surges upon them from every side, and people believe that they are surrounded from all directions, and all of them cry out to Allah in full sincerity of faith: ‘If You deliver us from this we shall surely be thankful.’
23.But no sooner than He delivers them than they go about committing excesses on the earth, acting unjustly. Men! The excesses you commit will be of harm only to yourselves. (Enjoy, if you will) the fleeting pleasure of this world; in the end you shall all return to Us, and then We shall tell you what you did.
24.The example of the life of this world (which has enamoured you into becoming heedless to Our signs) is that of water that We sent down from the heaven which causes the vegetation of the earth, which sustains men and cattle, to grow luxuriantly. But when the earth took on its golden raiment and became well adorned and the owners believed that they had full control over their lands Our command came upon them by night or by day, and We converted it into a stubble, as though it had not blossomed yesterday. Thus do We expound the sings for a people who reflect.
25.(Your are being lured by this ephemeral world) although Allah calls you to the abode of peace and guides whomsoever He wills to a straight way
Surah Younus
Ayah 26-33
26. For those who do good there is good reward and more besides; neither gloom nor humiliation shall cover their faces. They are the people of the Garden and in it they shall abide.
27.Those who do evil deeds, the recompense of an evil deed is its like, and humiliation shall spread over them and there will be none to protect them from Allah. Darkness will cover their faces as thought they were veiled with the dark blackness of night. These are the people of the Fire and in it they shall abide.
28.And the Day when We shall muster them all together, We shall say to those who associated others with Allah in His divinity: ‘Keep to your places – you and those whom you associated with Allah.’ Then We shall remove the veil of foreignness separating them. Those whom they had associated with Allah will say: ‘It was not us that you worshipped.
29.Allah’s witness suffices between you and us that (even if you worshipped us) we were totally unaware of you worshipping us.’
30.Thereupon everyone shall taste the recompense of his past deeds. All shall be sent back to Allah, their true Lord, and then all the falsehoods they had fabricated will have forsaken them.
31.Ask them: ‘Who provides you with sustenance out of the heavens and the earth? Who holds mastery over your hearing and sight? Who brings forth the living from the dead and dead from the living? Who governs all affairs of the universe?’ They will surely say: ‘Allah,’ Tell them: ‘Will you, then, not shun (going against reality)?’
32.Such, then, is Allah, your true Lord. And what is there after truth but error? How, then, are you being turned away?
33.Thus the word of your Lord is fulfilled concerning the transgressors that they shall not believe.
Surah Younus
Ayah 34-42
34.Ask them: ‘Is there any among those whom you associate with Allah in His divinity who brings about the creation of all beings in the first instance and will then repeat it?’ Tell them: ‘It is Allah Who brings about the creation of all beings and will then repeat it. How are you, then, being misled.
35.Ask them: ‘Are there among ones whom you associate with Allah in His divinity those who can guide to the truth?’ Say: ‘It is Allah alone Who guides to the truth.’ Then, who is more worthy to be followed – He Who guides to the truth, or he who cannot find the right way unless others guide him to it? What is wrong with you? How ill do you judge!
36.Most of them only follow conjectures; and surely conjecture can be no substitute for truth. Allah is well aware of whatever they do.
37.And this Qur’an is such that it could not be composed by any unless it be revealed form Allah. It is a confirmation of the revelation made before it and a detailed exposition of the Book. Beyond doubt it is from the Lord of the universe.
38.Do they say that the Messenger has himself composed the Qur’an? Say: ‘In that case bring forth just one Surah like it and call on all whom you can, except Allah, to help you if you are truthful.’
39.In fact they arbitrarily rejected as false whatever they failed to comprehend and whose final sequel was not apparent to them. Likewise had their predecessors rejected the truth, declaring it falsehood. Do observe, then, what was the end of the wrongdoers.
40.Of those some will believe and others will not. Your Lord know best the mischief-makers.
41.And if they reject you as false, tell them: ‘My deeds are for myself and your deeds for yourselves. You will not be held responsible for my deeds, nor I for your deeds.’
42.Of them some seem to give heed to you; will you, then, make the deaf hear even though they understand nothing?
Surah Younus
Ayah 43-53
43.And of them some look towards you; will you, then, guide the blind, even though they can see nothing?
44.Surely Allah does not wrong men; they rather wrong themselves.
45.(But today they are oblivious of everything except enjoyment of worldly life.) And on the Day when He will muster all men together, they will feel as though they had been in the world no more than an hour of the day to get acquainted with one another. (It will then become evident that) those who called the lie to meeting with Allah were utter losers and were nor rightly directed.
46.Whether We let you see (during your lifetime) some of the chastisement with which We threaten them, or We call you unto Us (before the chastisement strikes them), in any case they are bound to return to Us. Allah is witness to all what they do.
47.A Messenger is sent to every people; and when their Messenger comes, the fate of that people is decided with full justice; they are subjected to no wrong.
48.They say: ‘If what you promise is true, when will this threat be fulfilled?’
49.Tell them: ‘I have no power to harm or benefit even myself, except what Allah may will. There is an appointed term for every people; and when the end of their term comes, neither can they put it off for an our, nor can they bring it an hour before.’
50.Tell them: ‘Did you consider (what you would do) were His chastisement to fall upon you suddenly by night or by day? So why are the culprits seeking to hasten its coming?
51.Is it only when this chastisement has actually overtaken you that you will believe in it? (And when the chastisement will surprise you), you will try to get away from it although it is you who had sought to hasten its coming.’
52.The wrong-doers will then be told: ‘Suffer now the abiding chastisement. How else can you be rewarded except according to your deeds?’
53.They ask you if what you say is true? Tell them: ‘Yes, by my Lord, this is altogether true, and you have no power to prevent the chastisement from befalling.’
Surah Younus
Ayah 54-61
54. If a wrongdoer had all that is in the earth he would surely offer it to ransom himself. When the wrongdoers perceive the chastisement, they will fell intense remorse in their heats. But a judgment shall be made with a full justice about them. They shall not be wronged.
55. Indeed all that is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah. And most certainly Allah’s promise will be fulfilled; though most men are not aware.
56. He it is Who gives life and causes death, and to Him shall you all be returned.
57. Men! Now there has come to you an exhortation from your Lord, a healing for the ailments of the hearts, and a guidance and mercy for those who believe.
58. Tell them (O Prophet!): ‘Let them rejoice in Allah’s grace and mercy through which this (Book) has come to you. It is better than All the riches that they accumulate.
59. Did you consider that the sustenance which Allah had sent down for you of your own accord you have declared some of it as unlawful and some as lawful?’ Ask them: ‘Did Allah bestow upon you any authority for this or do you forge lies against Allah?
60. Think how those who invent lies against Him will be treated on the Day of Judgement? Allah is bountiful to men yet most of them do not give thanks.
61. (O Prophet!) Whatever you may be engaged in, whether you recited any portion of the Qur’an, or whatever else all of you are doing, We are witnesses to whatever you may be occupied with. Not even an atom’s weight escapes your Lord on the earth or in the heaven, nor is there anything smaller or bigger than that, except that it is on record in a Clear Book
Surah Younus
Ayah 62-70
62. Oh, surely the friends of Allah have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve-
63. The ones who believe and are God-fearing.
64. For them are glad tidings in this world and in the Hereafter. The words of Allah shall not change. That is the supreme triumph.
65. (O Prophet!) Let not the utterances of the opponents distress you. Indeed al honour is Allah’s. He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
66. Verily whoever dwells in the heavens or the earth belongs to Allah. Those who invoke others beside Allah associating them with Him in His divinity, only follow c0onjectures and are merely guessing.
67. It is Allah alone Who has made the night that you may rest in it, and has made the day light-giving. Surely in that there are signs for those who give heed (to the call of the Messenger).
68. They say: ‘Allah has taken a son.’ Glory be to Him. He is self-sufficient! His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. Have you any authority to support (that Allah has taken a son)? Do you ascribe to Allah something of which you have no knowledge?
69. Tell them (O Muhammad!): ‘Indeed those who invent lies against Allah will never prosper.
70. They may enjoy the life of this world, but in the end they must return to Us, and then We shall cause them to taste severe chastisement for their disbelieving.’
Surah Younus
Ayah 71-78
71. And narrate to them the story of Noah when he said to his people: ‘My people! If my living in your midst and my effort to shake you out of heedlessness by reciting to you the revelations of Allah offend you, then remember that I have put all my trust in Allah. So draw up your plan in concert with those whom you associate with Allah in His divinity, leaving no part of it obscure and then put it into effect against me, and give me no respite.
72. When you turned your back on my admonition (what harm did you cause me?) I had asked of you no reward, for my reward lies only with Allah, and I am commanded to be o those who totally submit (to Allah)’.
73. But they rejected Noah, calling him a liar. So We saved him and those who were with him in the Ark, and made them successors (to the authority in the land), and drowned all those who had rejected Our signs as false. Consider, then, the fate of those who had been warned (and still did not believe).
74. Then We sent forth after him other Messengers, each one to his people. They brought to them clear signs, but they were not such as to believe in what they had rejected earlier as false. Thus do We seal the hearts of those who transgress.
75. Then, after them, We sent forth Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his chiefs with Our signs, but they waxed proud. They were wicked people.
76. And when truth came to them from Us, they said: ‘Indeed this is plain sorcery.’
77. Moses said: ‘Do you say this about the truth after it has come to you? Is this sorcery? You call this sorcery although sorcerers never come to a happy end.’
78. They replied: ‘Have you come to turn us away from the way of our forefathers that the two of you might become supreme in the land? We shall never accept what the two of you say.’
Surah Younus
Ayah 79-88
79. And Pharaoh said (to his) men: ‘Bring every skilled sorcerer to me.’
80. And when the sorcerers came Moses said to them: ‘Cast whatever you wish to cast.
81. Then when they had cast (their staffs), Moses said: ‘What you have produced is sheer sorcery. Allah will certainly reduce it to naught. Surely Allah does not set right the work of the mischief-makers.
82. Allah vindicates the truth by His commands, howsoever much the guilty might detest that.’
83. None but a few youths of Moses people accepted him, fearing that Pharaoh and their own chiefs would persecu7te them. Indeed Pharaoh was mighty in the land, he was among those who exceed all limits.
84. Moses said: ‘My people! If you believe in Allah and are truly Muslims then place your reliance on Him alone.’
85. They replied: ‘We place our reliance on Allah. Our Lord! Do not make us a trial for the oppressors,
86. And deliver us, through Your mercy, from the unbelievers.’
87. And We directed Moses and his brother; ‘Prepare a few houses for you people in Egypt, and make your houses a direction for men to pray, and establish Prayer, and give glad tidings to the men of faith.
88. Moses prayed: ‘Our Lord! You bestowed upon Pharaoh and his nobles’ splendour and riches in the world. Our Lord! Have You done this that they may lead people astray from Your path? Our Lord! Obliterate their riches and harden their hearts that they may not believe until they observe the painful chastisement.’
Surah Younus
Ayah 89-97
89. Allah responded: ‘The prayer of the two of you is accepted. So keep stead fast, and do not follow the path of the ignorant.’
90. And We led the Children of Israel across the sea. Then Pharaoh and his hosts pursued them in iniquity and transgression until Pharaoh cried out while he was drowning: ‘I believe that there is no god but Allah in Whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am also one of those who submit to Allah.’
91.(Thereupon came the response): ‘Now you believe, although you disobeyed earlier and were one of the mischief-makers.
92. We shall now save your corpse that you may serve as a sign of warning for all posterity, although many men are heedless of Our signs.’
93. We settled the Children of Israel in a blessed land, and provided them with all manners of good things. They only disagreed among themselves after knowledge (of the truth had) come to them. Surely your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning their disagreements.
94. Now, if you are in doubt concerning what We have revealed to you, then ask those who have been reading the Book before you. It is the truth that has come to you from your Lord, so do never become one of those who doubt,
95. Or reject the signs of Allah as false, for then you shall be among those who will be in utter loss.
96. Surely those against whom the word of your Lord has been fulfilled will not believe
97. even if they witness every single sing that might come to them until they are face to face with the painful chastisement.
Surah Younus
Ayah 98-106
98. Did it ever happen that the people of a town believed on seeing God’s chastisement and its believing profited them? (There is no such instance) except of the people of Yunus. When they believed We granted them reprieve from humiliating chastisement in this world, and We let them enjoy themselves for a while.
99. Had your Lord so willed all those who are on the earth would have believed. Will you, then, force people into believing?
100. No one can believe except by Allah’s leave, and Allah lays abomination on those who do not use their understanding.
101. Tell them: ‘Observe carefully all that is in the heavens and the earth.’ But no signs and warnings can avail those who are bent on not believing.
102. What are they waiting for except to witness the repetition of the days of calamity that their predecessors witnessed? Tell them: ‘Wait; I too am waiting with you.
103.Then, (when Allah’s wrath falls upon the wicked) We save our Messengers and also those who believe. It is incumbent on Us to deliver the believers.’
104. (O Prophet!) Tell them: ‘Men! If you are still in doubt concerning my religion, know that I do no serve those whom you serve beside Allah. I only serve Allah Who will cause (all of) you to die. I have been commanded to be one of those who believe,
105.and to adhere exclusively and sincerely to the true faith, and not to be one of those who associate others with Allah in His divinity.
106.Do not call upon any apart from Allah - on those who have no power to benefit or hurt you. For if you call upon others than Allah you will be reckoned among the wrongdoers.
Surah Younus
Ayah 107-109
107. If Allah afflicts you with any hardship, none other than He can remove it; and if He wills any good for you, none can avert His bounty. He bestows good upon whomsoever of His servants He wills. He Is All Forgiving, All Merciful.’
108.Tell them (O Muhammad!): ‘Men! Truth has come to you from your Lord. Whosoever, then, follows the true guidance does so for his own good; and whosoever strays, his straying will be to his own hurt. I am no custodian over you.
109. And follow, (O Prophet!), whatever is revealed to you, and remain patient until Allah brings forth His judgement. He is the best of those who judge.’
Surah-11 Hud
Ayah 1-5
1. Alif. Lam. Ra. This is a Divine Command whose contents have been made firm and set forth in detail – from One Who is All-Wise, All-Aware
2. that you may worship none but Allah. Verily, I have come to you as a warner and a bearer of good news from Him
3. that you may seek forgiveness of your Lord and turn to Him in repentance whereupon He will grant you a fair enjoyment of life until an appointed term, and will bestow favour on everyone who merits favour. But should you turn away (from the truth), I fear for you the chastisement of an Awe-some Day.
4. Unto Allah is your return, and He has power to do everything.
5. Lo! They fold up their breasts that they may conceal themselves from Him. Surely when they cover themselves up with their garments Allah knows well what they cover and what they reveal. Indeed He even knows the secrets hidden in the breasts.
Surah Hud
Ayah 6-12
6. There is not a single moving creature on the earth but Allah is responsible for providing its sustenance. He know where it dwells and where it will permanently rest. All this is recorded in a clear Book.
7. And He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six days – and [before that] His throne was upon the water – that He may test you, who of you is better in conduct. If you were to say (O Muhammad!): ‘Allah of you will surely be raised after death’, then those who disbelieve will certainly say: ‘This is nothing but plain sorcery.
8. And were We to put off the chastisement from them for a determined period, they will cry out: ‘What withholds Him from chastising?’ Surely when the day of the chastisement will come, nothing will avert it and the chastisement, which they had ridiculed, shall encompass them.
9. If We ever favour man with Our Mercy, and then take it away from him, he becomes utterly desperate, totally ungrateful.
10. And if We let him taste favour after harm has touched him, he says: ‘All my ills are gone’, and he suddenly becomes exultant and boastful,
11. Except those who are patient and act righteously. Such shall have Allah’s forgiveness and a great reward.
12. (O Messenger!) Let it not happen that you omit (to expound) a portion of what was revealed to you. And do not be distressed that they will say: ‘Why was a treasure not bestowed upon him?’ Or ‘Why did no angel accompany him?’
Surah Hud
Ayah 13-19
13. Do they say: ‘He has invented this Book himself?’ Say: ‘If that is so, bring ten Surahs the like of it of your composition, and call upon all (the deities) you can other than Allah to your help. Do so if you are truthful.’
14.Then if (Your deities) do not respond to your call for help then feel assured that this book was revealed with the knowledge of Allah, and that there is no true god but Him. Will you, then, surrender (to this truth)?
15. Those who seek merely the present world and its adornment. We fully recompense them for their work in this world, and they are made to suffer no diminution in it concerning what is their due.
16. They are the ones who shall have nothing in the Hereafter except Fire. (There they shall come to know) that their deeds in the world have come to naught; and that whatever they have done is absolutely useless.
17. Can it happen that he who takes his stand on a clear evidence from his Lord, subsequently followed by a witness from Him (in his support), and prior to that the Book of Moses was revealed as a guide and a mercy, (would even he deny the truth in the manner of those who adore the life of this world)? Rather, such men are bound to believe in it. The Fire shall be the promised resort of the groups that disbelieve.
18. And who is a greater wrong-doer than he who invents a lie against Allah? Such men will be set forth before their Lord and witnesses will say: ‘These are the ones who lied against their Lord, Lo! Allah’s curse be upon the wrong-doers; 19.Upon those who bar people from the way of Allah, and seek in it crookedness, and disbelieve in the Hereafter.
Surah Hud
Ayah 20-28
20. They had no power to frustrate Allah’s design in the earth, nor did they have any protectors against Allah. Their Chastisement will be doubled. They were unable to hear, nor could they see.
21. They cause utter loss to themselves, and all that they had invented failed them.
22. Doubtlessly, they shall be the greatest losers in the Hereafter.
23. As for those who believe and acted righteously and dedicated themselves totally to their Lord – they are the people of Paradise, and there they shall abide forever.
24. The example of the two parties is that one is blind and deaf, and the other capable of seeing and hearing. Can the two be equals? Will you, then, not heed?’
25. (Such were the circumstances) when We sent forth Noah to his people. (He said): ‘I have been sent to you to warn you plainly
26. That you may worship none but Allah or else I fear for you the chastisement of a Grievous Day.’
27. The notables among Noah’s own people, who had refused to follow him, responded: ‘We merely consider you a human being like ourselves. Nor do we find among those who follow you except the lowliest of our folk, the men who follow you without any proper reason. We see nothing in you to suggest that you are any better than us. Rather, we believe you to be liars.’
28. Noah said: ‘My people! If I base myself on clear evidence from my Lord, and I have also been blessed by His mercy to which you have been blind, how can we force it upon you despite your aversion to it?
Surah Hud
Ayah 29-36
29. My people! I seek no recompense from you. My recompense is only with Allah. Nor will I drive away those who believe. They are destined to meet their Lord. But I find you to be an ignorant people.
30. My people! Were I to drive the men of faith away, who will protect me from (the chastisement of) Allah? Do you not understand even this much?
31. I do not say to you that I possess Allah’s treasures, nor that I have access to the realms beyond the ken of sense-perception, nor do I claim to be an angel. Nor do I say regarding those whom you look upon with disdain that Allah will not bestow any good upon them. Allah know best what is in their hearts. Were I to say so I would be one of the wrong-doers.’
32. They said: ‘O Noah! Surely you have disputed with us and have prolonged your dispute. Now bring upon us the chastisement that you threaten us with; do so, if you are truthful.’
33. Noah said: ‘Only Allah will bring it upon you if He so wills, and you will be utterly unable to frustrate that.
34. If I want to give you good advice that will not profit you if Allah Himself has decided to let you go astray. He is your Lord, and to Him will you be returned.
35. (O Muhammad!) Do they say that he himself has forged these messages? Tell them: ‘If I have forged this, the guilt of it will fall upon me, but I am not responsible for the crimes you are committing.’
36. It was revealed to Noah that no more of your people, other than those who already believe, will ever come to believe. So do not grieve over their deeds,
And build the Ark under Our eyes and Our direction. And do not supplicate Me concerning those who have engaged in wrong-doing. They are doomed to be drowned
Surah Hud
Ayah 38-45
38. As Noah was building the Ark, whenever the leading men of his nation passed by him, they would scoff at him. He said:‘If you scoff at us, we too scoff at you in like manner. 39. You will come to know who will be struck by a humiliating chastisement, and who will be subjected to an unceasing torment.’
40. Thus it was until Our command came to pass and the over boiled over. We said: ‘Take into the Ark a pair of every species; and take your own family except those who have already been declared (as unworthy); and also take everyone who believes.’ But those who, along with him, had believed were indeed just a few.
41. Noah said: ‘Embark in it. In the name of Allah is its sailing and its anchorage. My Lord is Ever Forgiving, Most Merciful.’
42. The Ark sailed along with them amid mountain-like waves. Noah, spotting his son at a distance, called out to him: ‘My son, embark with us, and do not be with the unbelievers.’
43. The son replied: ‘I will go to a mountain for refuge and it will save me from the water. ’Noah said: ‘None can save anyone today from the command of Allah except those on whom He may have mercy.’ Thereupon a wave swept in between the two and he was drowned.
44. And the command was given: ‘Earth! Swallow up your water’; and: ‘Heaven! Abate!’ so the water subsided, the command was fulfilled, and the Ark settled on Mount Judi, and it was said: ‘Away with the wrong-doing folk!’
45. And Noah called out to his Lord, saying: ‘My Lord! My son is of my family. Surely Your promise is true, and You are the greatest of those who judge.’
Surah Hud
Ayah 46-53
46. In response Noah was told: ‘Most certainly he is not of you family; verily he is of unrighteous conduct. So do not ask of Me for that concerning which you have no knowledge. I admonish you never to act like the ignorant ones.’ 47. Noah said: ‘My Lord! I take refuge with You that I should ask you for that concerning which I have no knowledge. And if you do not forgive me and do not show mercy to me, I shall be among the losers.’
48. It was said: ‘Noah! Disembark, with Our peace, and with blessings upon you and upon those who are with you. There are also people whom We shall allow to enjoy themselves for a while, and then a painful chastisement from Us shall afflict them.’
49. We reveal to you these accounts of matters that are beyond the reach of human perception. Neither you nor your people knew about them before this. Be, then, patient. Surely, the good end is for the God-fearing.
50. And to ‘Ad We sent their brother Hud. He said: ‘My people! Serve Allah: you have no god save Him. (In attributing partners to Allah) you have merely been fabricating lies.
51. My people! I seek no reward from you for my work. My reward lies only with Him Who created me. Do you not understand anything?
52. My people! Ask your Lord for forgiveness and turn to Him in repentance. He will shower abundant rains upon you from the heaven, and will add strength to your strength. Do not turn away as those given to guilt.’
53. They said: ‘O Hud! You have not brought to us any clear evidence, and we are not going to forsake our gods merely because you say so. We are not going to believe you.
Surah Hud
Ayah 54-62
54. All we can say is that some god of ours has afflicted you with evil.’ Hud said: ‘Indeed I take Allah as my witness, and you too to be my witnesses that I have nothing to do with your associating with Allah
55. Others than Him in His divinity. So conspire against me, all or you, and give me no respite.
56. I have put my trust in Allah, Who is my Lord and Your Lord. There is no moving creature, which He does not hold by its forelock. Surely, My Lord is on the straight path.
57. If you, then, turn away (from the truth), know that I have delivered the message with which I was sent to you. Now my Lord will set up another people in place of you and you shall in no way be able to harm Him. Surely my Lord keeps a watch over everything.’
58. And when Our command came to pass, We delivered Hud, together with those who shared his faith, out of special mercy from Us. We delivered them from a woeful chastisement.
59. Such were ‘Ad. They repudiated the signs of their Lord, disobeyed His Messengers, and followed the bidding of every tyrannical enemy of the truth.
60. They were pursued by a curse in this world, and so will they be on the Day of Judgement. Lo! ‘Ad disbelieved in the Lord. Lo! Ruined are ‘Ad, the people of Hud.
61. And to Thamud We sent their brother Salih. He said: ‘My people! Serve Allah; you have no god other than Him. He brought you into being out of the earth, and has made you dwell in it. So as Him to forgive you, and do turn towards Him in repentance. Indeed My Lord is near, responsive to prayers.’
62. They said: ‘O Salih! Until now you were one of those among us on whom we place great hopes. Now, would you forbid us to worship what our forefathers were wont to worship? Indeed we are in disquieting doubt about what you are calling us to.’
Surah Hud
Ayah 63-71
63. Salih said: ‘My people! What do you think? If I had a clear evidence from my Lord, and then He also bestowed His mercy upon me, who will rescue me from the punishment of Allah if I still disobey Him? You can only make me lose even more.
64. My People! This she camel of Allah is a sign for you. So let her pasture on Allah’s earth, and do not hurt her or else some chastisement – which is near at hand – should overtake you.’
65. But they slaughtered her. Thereupon Salih warned them: Enjoy yourselves in your homes for a maximum of three days. This is a promise, which shall not be belied.’
66. Then, when Our command came to pass, We saved Salih and those who shared his faith through Our special mercy, for the disgrace of that day. Truly Your Lord is All-Strong, All Mighty.
67. And the Blast overtook those who were wont to do wrong, and then they lay lifeless in their homes.
68. As though they had never lived there before. Oh, verily the Thamud denied their Lord! Oh, the Thamud were destroyed.
69. Indeed Our messengers came to Abraham, bearing glad tidings. They greeted him with ‘peace’, and Abraham answered back to them ‘peace’, and hurriedly brought to them a roasted calf.
70. When he perceived that their hands could not reach it, he mistrusted them, and felt afraid of them. They said: ‘Do not be afraid. We have been sent to the people of Lot.’
71. And Abraham’s wife was standing by and on hearing this she laughed. And We gave her the good news of (the birth of) Isaac, and after Isaac, of Jacob.
Surah Hud
Ayah 72-81
72. She said: ‘Woe is me! Shall I bear child now that I am an old woman and my husband is well advance in years. This is indeed strange!
73. They said: ‘Do you wonder at Allah’s decree? Allah’s mercy and His blessing be upon you, O people of the house. Surely, He is Praise-worthy, Glorious.’
74. Thus when fear had left Abraham and the good news had been conveyed to him, he began to dispute with Us concerning the People of Lot.
75. Surely Abraham was forbearing, tenderhearted and of turning to Allah.
76. Thereupon (Our angels) said to him: ‘O Abraham! Desist from this, for indeed your Lord’s command has come; and a chastisement, which cannot be averted, is about to befall them.’
77. And when Our messengers came to Lot, he was perturbed by their coming and felt troubled on their account, and said: ‘This is a distressing day.’
78. And his people came to him rushing. Before this they were wont to commit evils deeds. Lot Said: ‘My people! Here are my daughters; they are purer for you. Have fear of Allah and do not disgrace me concerning my guests. Is there not even one right-minded person in your midst?’
79. They said: ‘Surely you already know that we have nothing to do with your daughters. You also know well what we want.
80. He said: ‘Would that I had the strength to set you straight, or could seek refuge in some powerful support.’
81. Thereupon the angels said: ‘O Lot! We indeed are messengers of your Lord. And your people will in no way be able to hurt you. So depart with you family in a part of the night and let no one of you turn around excepting you wife (who shall not go); for what will befall them shall also be fall her. In the morning their promised hour will come. Is not the morning near?’
Surah
Ayah
82. And when Our command came to pass, We turned the town upside down, and rained on it stones of baked clay, one on another,
83. Marked from your Lord, nor is the punishment far off from the wrongdoers.
84. And to (the people of) Midian We sent their brother Shu’ayb. He said: ‘My people! Serve Allah; you have no god other than Him. And do no diminish the measure and weight. Indeed I see that you are prospering now, but I fear for you the chastisement of an encompassing day in the future.
85. My people! Give full measure and weight with justice, do not diminish the goods of others, and do not go about creating corruption in the land.
86. The gains that Allah lets you retain are better for you, if you indeed believe. In any case, I have not been appointed a keeper over you.’
87. They replied: ‘O Shu’ayb! Does your Prayer enjoin upon you that we should forsake the deities whom our forefathers worshipped, or that we should give up using our wealth as we please? Do you fancy that you, and only you, are forbearing and right directed?’
88. Shu’ayb said: “My people! What do you think? If I stand on clear evidence from my Lord, and He has also provided me a handsome provision from Himself – (should I be ungrateful to Him and share your error and iniquity?) Nor do I desire to act contrary to what I admonish you. I desire nothing but to set things right as far as I can. My succour is only with Allah. In Him have I put my trust, and to Him do I always turn.
Surah Hud
Ayah 89-97
89. My people! Let not your opposition to me lead you to guilt that would bring upon you the chastisement that struck earlier the people of Noah, and the people of Hud, and the people of Salih. And the land of the people of Lot is not far from you!
90. Seek the forgiveness of you Lord and turn to Him in repentance. Surely my Lord is Ever Merciful, Most loving.’
91. They said: ‘O Shu’ayb! We do not understand much of what you say. Indeed we see you weak in our midst. Were it no for your kinsmen, we would surely have stoned you for you have no strength to over power us.’
92. Shu’ayb said: ‘My people! Are my kinsmen mightier with you than Allah that you (hold the kinsmen in awe while) you cast Allah behind your back? Surely my Lord encompasess all what you do.
93. My people! Go on working according to your way and I will keep working (according to mine). Soon you will come to know who will be afflicted by a humiliating chastisement, and who is proved a liar. And watch, I shall also watch with you.’
94. And when Our command came to pass, We delivered Shu’ayb and those who shared his faith, through Our mercy, and the Blast seized those who were engaged in wrong- doing, so they lay lifeless in their homes.
95. As though they had never dwelt in them before. Lo! Away with (the people of) Midian, even as the Thamud were done away with!
96. And indeed We sent Moses with Our signs and wit a clear authority.
97. To Pharaoh and his nobles. But they obeyed the command of Pharaoh even though Pharaoh’s command was not rightly directed.
Surah Hud
Ayah 98-108
98. He shall stand at the head of his people on the Day of Resurrection, and will bring them down to the Fire. What a wretched destination to be led to!
99. They were pursued by a curse in this world and so will they be on the Day of Resurrection. What an evil reward will they receive!
100. That is an account of some town, which We recount to you. Of them some are still standing and some have been mown down.
101. We did not wrong them; it is rather they who wronged themselves. And when the command of your Lord came to pass, the gods besides Allah whom they had called upon did not avail them in the least. They added nothing to them except ruin.
102. Such is the seizing of your Lord that when He does seize the town immersed in wrongdoing, His seizing is painful, terrible.
103. Surely in that is a sign for him who fears the chastisement of the Hereafter. That will be a Day when all men shall be mustered together; that will be a Day when whatever happens shall be witnessed by all.
104. Nor shall We withhold it except till an appointed term.
105. And when the appointed Day comes no one shall even dare to speak except by the leave of Allah. Then some will be declared wretched, others blessed.
106. As for the wretched, they shall be in the Fire, and in it they shall sigh and groan.
107. They shall abide in it as long as the heavens and the earth endure, unless your Lord may will otherwise. Surely your Lord does whatsoever He wills.
108. And as for those who are blessed, they shall abide in the Garden as long as the heavens and the earth endure, unless your Lord may will otherwise. They shall enjoy an unceasing gift.
Surah Hud
Ayah 109-117
109. [O Prophet!] Have no doubt about that they worship. For they worship what their fathers worshipped before. And (yet) We shall grant them their due portion in full, diminishing of it nothing.
110. And We certainly gave Moses the Book before, and there arose disagreements about it (even as there are disagreement now about the Book revealed to you). Had it not been for a decree that had already gone forth from your Lord, the matter would have long been decided between them. Indeed they are in a disquieting doubt about it.
111. Surely your Lord will recompense all to the full for their deeds. For indeed He is well aware of all what they do.
112. So remain, (O Muhammad!), you and those who have returned with you (to the fold of faith and obedience from unbelief and rebellion) steadfast (in adhering to the straight way) as you were commanded. And do not exceed the limits of (service to Allah). For certainly He is aware of all what you do.
113. And do not incline towards the wrongdoers lest the Fire might seize you and you will have none as your protector against Allah; and then you will not be helped from anywhere.
114. And establish the Prayer at the two ends of the day and in the first hours of the night. Indeed the good deeds drive away the evil deeds. This is a Reminder to those who are mindful of Allah.
115. And be patient; for indeed Allah never lets the reward of those who do good go to waste.
116. Why were there not, out of the generations that passed away before you, righteous men who would forbid others from causing corruption on the earth? And if such were there, they were only few whom We had saved from those generations, or else the wrong-doers kept pursuing the ease and comfort which has been conferred upon them, thus losing themselves in sinfulness.
117. And your Lord is not such as would wrongfully destroy human habitations while their inhabitants are righteous.
Surah Hud
Ayah 118-123
118. Had your Lord so willed, He would surely have made mankind one community. But as things stand, now they will not cease to differ among themselves and to follow erroneous ways
119. Except for those on whom your Lord has mercy. And it is for this (exercise of freedom of choice) that He has created them. And the word of your Lord was fulfilled: ‘Indeed I will fill the Hell, with men and jinn, altogether.’
120. [O Muhammad!] We narrated these anecdotes of Messengers to you that We may strengthen through them your heart. In these anecdotes come to you the truth, and an exhortation, and a reminder for the believers.
121. As for those who are bent on not believing, tell them: ‘Work according to your way and we are working according to our way.
122. And do wait for the end of things; we too are waiting.
123. All that is hidden in the heavens and the earth lies within the power of Allah. To Him are all matters referred for judgement. So do serve Him, and place in Him all your trust. Your Lord is not heedless of what you do.’
Surah-12 Yousuf
Ayah `1-4
1. Alif. Lam. Ra. These are the verses of a Book that clearly expounds the truth.
2. We have revealed it as a recitation in Arabic that you [the people of Arabia] – may fully understand.
3. [O Muhammad!] By revealing the Qur’an to you We narrate to you in the best manner the stories of the past although before this narration you were utterly unaware of them.
4. Call to mind when Joseph said to his father: ‘My father! I saw [in a dream] eleven stars and the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrating themselves before me.’
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 5-14
5. His father said; ‘My son! Do not relate your dream to your brothers lest they hatch a plot to harm you. Indeed Satan is man’s open enemy.
6. (As you have seen in the dream), so will your Lord choose you (for His task) and will impart to you the comprehension of the deeper meaning of things and will bestow the full measure of His favour upon you and upon the House of Jacob even as He earlier bestowed it in full measure upon your forefathers, Abraham and Isaac. Surely your Lord is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
7. Verily in the story of Joseph and his brothers there are many signs for those who inquire (about the truth).
8. And call to mind when the brothers of Joseph conferred together and said: ‘Surely Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we are, although we are a group of so many. Our father is clearly mistaken.
9. So either kill Joseph or cast him into some distant land so that your father’s attention may become exclusively yours. And after so doing become righteous.’
10. Thereupon one of them said: ‘Do not kill Joseph, but if you are bent upon doing something cast him down to the bottom of some dark pit, perhaps some caravan passing by will take him out of it.’
11. After so deciding they said to their father: ‘Why is it that you do not trust us regarding Joseph although we are his true well wishers?
12. Send him out with us tomorrow that he may enjoy himself and play while we will be there, standing guard over him.’
13. Their father answered: ‘It grieves me indeed that you should take him with you for I fear that some wolf might eat him while you are negligent of him.’
14. They said” ‘Should a wolf eat him, despite the presence of our strong group, we would indeed be a worthless lot!’
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 15-22
15. So when they went away with Joseph and decided to cast him in the bottom of the dark pit, We revealed to Joseph: ‘Surely a time will come when you will remind them of their deed. They know nothing about the consequence of what they are doing.’
16. At nightfall they came to their father weeping
17. And said: ‘Father! We went racing with one another and left Joseph behind with our things, and then a wolf came and ate him. We know that you will not believe us howsoever truthful we might be.’
18. And they brought Joseph’s shirt, stained with false blood. Seeing this their father exclaimed’ Nay (this is not true); rather your evils souls have made it easy for you to commit a heinous act. So I will bear this patiently, and in good grace. It is Allah’s help alone that I seek against your fabrication.’
19. And a caravan came, and they sent their water-drawer to draw water. As he let down his bucket in the well he (observed Joseph) and cried out: ‘This is good news. There is a boy.’ They concealed him, considering him as part of their merchandise, while Allah was well aware of what they did.
20. Later they sold him for a paltry sum – just a few dirhams; they did not care to obtain a higher price.
21. The man from Egypt who bought him said to his wife: ‘Take good care of him, possibly he might be of benefit to us or we might adopt him as a son.’ Thus We found a way for Joseph to become established in that land and in order that we might teach him to comprehend the deeper meaning of thins. Allah has full power to implement His design although most people do not know that.
22. And when Joseph reached the age of maturity, We granted him judgement and knowledge. Thus do We reward those who do good.
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 23-30
23. And it so happened that the lady in whose house Joseph was living, sought to tempt him to herself, and one day bolting the doors she said: ‘Come on now! Joseph answered: ‘May Allah grant me refuge! My Lord has provided an honourable abode for me (so how can I do something so evil?). Such wrongdoers never prosper.
24. And she advanced towards him, and had Joseph not perceived a sign from his Lord he too would have advance towards her. Thus was Joseph Shown a sign from his Lord that We might avert from him all evil and indecency, for indeed he was one of Our chosen servants.
25. Then both of them rushed to the door, each seeking to get ahead of the other, and she tore Joseph’s shirt from behind. Then both of them found the husband of the lady at the door. Seeing him she said: ‘What should be the punishment of him who has foul designs on your wife except that he should be imprisoned or subjected to painful chastisement?’
26. Joseph Said: ‘It is she who was trying to tempt me to herself.’ And a witness belonging to her own household testified (on ground of circumstantial evidence): ‘If his shirt is torn from the front, then she is telling the truth and he is a liar.
27. But if his shirt is torn from behind, then she has lied, and he is truthful
28. So, when the husband saw Joseph’s shirt torn from behind he exclaimed: ‘Surely, this is one of the tricks of you women; your tricks are indeed great.
29. Joseph, disregard this. And you – woman - ask forgiveness for your sin, for indeed it is you who has been a fault.'
30. And some ladies in the city began to say: ‘The chief’s wife, violently in love whit her houseboy, is out to tempt him. We think she is totally mistaken.’
Surah0 Yousuf
Ayah 31-37
31. Hearing of their sly talk the chief’s wife sent for those ladies, and arranged for them a banquet, and got ready couches, and gave each guest a knife. Then, while they were cutting and eating the fruit, she signalled Joseph: ‘Come out to them.’ When the ladies say him they were so struck with admiration that they cut their hands, exclaiming: ‘Allah preserve us. This is no mortal human. This is nothing but a noble angel!
32. She said: ‘So now you see! This is the one regarding whom you reproached me. Indeed I tried to tempt him to myself but he held back. And if he does not follow my order, he will certainly be imprisoned and humiliated.’
33. Joseph said: ‘My Lord! I prefer imprisonment to what they ask me to do. And if You do not avert from me the guile of these woman, I will succumb to their attraction and lapse into ignorance.’
34. Thereupon his Lord granted his prayer, and averted their guile from him. Surely He alone is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
35. Then it occurred to them to cast Joseph into prison for a while even though they had seen clear signs (of Joseph’s innocence and of the evil ways of their ladies).
36. And with Joseph two other slaves entered the prison. One of them said: ‘I saw myself pressing wine in a dream’; and the other said: ‘I saw myself carrying bread on my head of which the birds were eating.’ Both said: ‘Tell us what is its interpretation; for we consider you to be one of those who do good.’
37. Joseph said: ‘I will inform you about the interpretation of the dreams before the arrival of the food that is sent to you. This knowledge is part of what I have been taught by my Lord. I have renounced the way of those who do not believe in Allah, and who deny the Hereafter,
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 38-43
38. And I have adopted the way of my forefathers – Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. It is not for us to associate any with Allah in His divinity. It is out of Allah’s grace upon us and upon mankind (that He did not require of us to serve any beside Allah) and yet most people do not give thanks.
39. Fellow-prisoners! Is it better that there be diverse lords, or just Allah, the One, the Irresistible?
40. Those whom you serve beside Him are merely idle names that you and your fathers have fabricated, without Allah sending down any sanction for them. Al authority to govern rests only with Allah. He has commanded that you serve none but Him. This is the right way of life, though most people are altogether unaware.
41. Fellow-prisoners! [This is the interpretation of your dreams]: one of you will serve wine to his lord [the king of Egypt]. As for the other, he will be crucified and birds will eat of his head. The question concerning what you asked has thus been decided.
42. And Joseph said to the one of the two prisoners who he knew would be set free: ‘Mention me in your lord’s presence.’ But Satan causes him to forget mentioning this to his lord [the king of Egypt] and so Joseph languished in prison for several years.
43. And once the king said: ‘I have dreamt that there are seven fat cows and seven lean cows are devouring them, and there are seven fresh green ears of corn and seven others dry and withered. My nobles! Tell me what is the interpretation of this dream, if you are well-versed in the interpretation of dreams.’
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 44-52
44. They said: ‘These are confused dreams, and we do not know the interpretation of such dreams.’
45. Then the two prisoners, the one who had been set free, now remembered, after lapse of a long period, what Joseph had said. He said: ‘I will tell you the interpretation of this dream; just send me (to Joseph in prison).’
46. Then he went to Joseph and said to him: ‘Joseph, O truthfulness incarnate, tell me the true meaning of the dream in which seven fat cows are devoured by seven lean ones; and there are seven green ears of corn and seven others dry and withered so that I may return to the people and they may learn.’
47. Joseph said: ‘You shall cultivate consecutively for seven years. Leave in the ear all that you have harvested except the little out of which you may eat.
48. Then there will follow seven years of great hardship in which you will eat up all you have stored earlier, except the little that you may set aside.
49. Then the will come a year when people will be helped by plenty of rain and they will press (grapes).’
50. The kind said: ‘Bring this man to me.’ But when the royal messenger came to Joseph he said: ‘Go back to your master and ask him about the case of the women who had cut their hands. Surely my Lord has full knowledge of their guile.’
51. Thereupon the kind asked the women: ‘What happened when you sought to tempt Joseph?’ They said: ‘Allah forbid! We found no evil in him.’ The chief’s wife said: ‘Now the truth has come to light. It was I who sought to tempt him. He is indeed truthful.’
52. Joseph said: ‘I did this so that he [i.e., the chief] may know that I did not betray him in his absence, and that Allah does not allow the design of the treacherous to succeed.
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 53-63
53. I do not seek to acquit myself; for surely one’s self prompts one to evil except him to whom my Lord may show mercy. Verily my Lord is Ever Forgiving, Most Merciful.’
54. The king said: ‘Bring him to me. I will choose him for my own service.’ So when Joseph spoke to him the king said: ‘You are now one of established position, fully-trusted by us.’
55. Joseph said: ‘Place me in charge of the treasures of the land. I am a good keeper and know my task well.’
56. Thus did We invest Joseph with the authority in that he had the authority to settle wherever he pleased. We bestow favour, out of Our mercy, on whomsoever We please, and We do not cause the reward of those who do good to go to waste.
57. Surely the reward of the Hereafter is better for those who believe and act in a God-fearing way.
58. And Joseph’s brothers came to Egypt and presented themselves before him. He recognized them, but they did not know him.
59. And when he had prepared for them their provisions, Joseph said: ‘Bring to me your other brother from your father. Do you not see that I give full measure and am most hospitable?
60. If you do not bring him to me, you shall have no corn from me; and do not even attempt to come close to me.’
61. They said: ‘We will surely try to prevail over our father to send him. Be sure we shall do so.’
62 .And Joseph said to his servants: ‘Put surreptitiously in their packs the goods they had given in exchange for corn.’ Joseph did so expecting that they would find it when they returned home. Feeling grateful for this generosity, they might be inclined to return to him.
63. When they returned to their father they said: ‘Father! We have been denied further supply of corn. So sent with us our brother that we may bring the supplies. We shall be responsible for his protection.’
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 64-69
64. The father said: ‘Shall I trust you with regard to him as I trusted you earlier with regard to his brother? Allah is the Best One for protection and is the Most Merciful.’
65. And when they opened their things they found that their goods had been given back to them. Thereupon they cried: ‘Father! What else would we desire? Look, even our goods have been given back to us, so we shall go now and bring supplies for our family, protect our brother, and bring another camel-load of corn. That additional supply will be easily secured.’
66. Their father said: ‘I shall never send him with you until you give me a solemn promise in the name of Allah that you will bring him back to me, unless you yourselves are surrounded.’ Then when they had given him their solemn promise, he said: ‘Allah watches over what we have said.’
67. And he enjoined them: ‘My sons! Do not enter the city by one gate; rather enter it by different gates. I can be of no help to you against Allah. Allah’s command alone prevails. In Him have I put my trust and in Him should all those who have faith put their trust.’
68. And it so happened that when they entered the city (by many gates) as their father had directed them, this precautionary measure proved ineffective against Allah’s will. There was an uneasiness in Jacob’s soul, which he so tried to remove. Surely he was possessed of knowledge owing to the knowledge We bestowed upon him. But most people do not know the truth of the matter.
69. When they presented themselves before Joseph, he took his brother aside to himself and said: ‘Verily I am your own brother Joseph; so do not grieve over the manner they have treated you.’
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 70-78
70. Then, while Joseph was having their provisions loaded, he put his drinking-cup in his brother’s saddlebag. And then a herald cried: ‘Travellers, you are thieves.
71. Turning back they asked: ‘What have you lost?’
72. The officials said: ‘We have lost the king’s cup.’ (And their chief added): ‘He who brings it shall have a camel-load of provisions, I guaranteed that.’
73. They said: ‘By Allah, you certainly know that we did not come to act corruptly in this land, nor are we those who steal.’
74. The officials said; ‘If you are lying, what will be the penalty for him who has stolen?’
75. They replied: ‘He in whose saddlebag the cup is found, he himself shall be its recompense.’ Thus do We punish the wrong-doers.’
76. Then Joseph began searching their bags before searching his own brother’s bag. Then he brought forth the drinking-cup from his brother’s bag. Thus did We contrive to support Joseph. He had no right, according to the religion of the king [i.e. the law of Egypt] to take his brother, unless Allah so willed. We exalt whosoever We will over others by several degrees. And above all those who know is the One Who truly knows.
77. They said: ‘No wonder that he steals for a brother of his stole before.’ But Joseph kept his reaction to himself without disclosing the truth to them. He merely said (to himself): ‘You are an evil lot. Allah knows well the truth of the accusation that you are making against me (to my face).’
78. They said: ‘O powerful chief [al-‘aziz]! His father is an age-stricken man, (and in order that he may not suffer) seize one of us in his stead. We indeed consider you an excellent person.’
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 79-86
79. Joseph said: ‘Allah forbid that we should seize any except him with whom we found our good. Were we to do so, we would surely be one of the wrong-doers.’
80. Then, when they had despaired of Joseph they went to a corner and counselled together. The eldest of them said: ‘Do you not know that your father has taken a solemn a promise from you in the name of Allah, and you failed in your duty towards Joseph? So I will not depart from this land until my father permits me, or Allah pronounces His judgement in my favour. He is the best of those who judge.
81. So go back to your father and tell him: “Father! Your son has certainly been guilty of stealing. We did not see him stealing but testify according to what we know; and obviously we had no power to keep watch over what is beyond the reach of perception.
82. You may inquire of the dwellers of the city where we were, and of the people of the caravan with whom we travelled. We are altogether truthful in what we say.”
83. The father heard the narration and said: ‘(Allah that is untrue). But your souls have made it easy for you to engage in a heinous act. So, I will be graciously patient even at this. Allah may well bring them all back to me. He is All-Knowing, All-Wise.’
84. Then he turned his back to them, and said: ‘O my grief for Joseph!’ His eyes whitened with grief and he was choked up with sorrow trying to suppress his grief.
85. The sons said: “By Allah! You will continue to remember Joseph until you will either consume yourself with grief, of will die.’
86. He said: ‘I will address my sorrow and grief only to Allah, and I know about Allah what you do not know.
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 87-95
87. My sons! Go and try to find out about Joseph and his brother and do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Verily only the unbelievers despair of Allah’s mercy.’
88. On going to Egypt they presented themselves to Joseph and said to him: ‘O chief! We and our family are struck with distress and have brought only a paltry sum. So give us corn in full measure, and give it to us in charity. Allah rewards those who are charitable.’
89. When Joseph hear this (he could not hold himself and said): ‘Do you remember what you did to Joseph and his brother when you were ignorant?’
90. They exclaimed: ‘Are you indeed Joseph?’ He said: ‘Yes, I am Joseph and this is my brother. Allah has surely been gracious to us. Indeed whoever fears Allah and remains patient, Allah does not allow the reward of such people to go to waste.’
91. They said: ‘We swear by Allah! Indeed Allah has chosen you in preference to us and we were truly guilty.’
92. He replied: ‘No blame lies with you today. May Allah forgive you. He is the Most Merciful of all those who are merciful.
93. Take this shirt of mine and throw it over my father’s face. He will regain his sight. And bring to me all your family.’
94. And as the caravan set out (from Egypt), their father said (in Canaan): ‘Indeed I smell the fragrance of Joseph. I say so although you may think that I am doting.’
95. They said: ‘Surely you are still in your same old “ craze”.
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 96-103
96. And when the bearer of good news came he threw Joseph’s shirt over Jacobs face, whereupon he regained his sight, and said: ‘Did I not tell you that I know from Allah what you do not know?’
97. They said: ‘Father! Pray for the forgiveness of your sins; we were truly guilty.’
98. He said: ‘I shall pray to my Lord for your forgiveness, for He, and indeed He alone, is Ever Forgiving, Most Merciful.’
99. And when they wen to Joseph, he took his parent’s aside and said (to the members of his family): ‘Enter the city now, and if Allah wills, you shall be secure.’
100. And after they had entered the city, Joseph raised his parents to the throne beside himself, and they (involuntarily) fell down in prostration before him. Joseph said: ‘Father! This is the fulfillment of the vision I had before – one that My Lord has caused to come true. He was kind to me when He rescued me from the prison, and brought you from the desert after Satan had stirred discord between me and my brothers. Certainly my Lord is subtle in the fulfillment of His will; He is All-Knowing, All-Wise.’
101. My Lord! You have bestowed dominion upon me and have taught me to comprehend the depths of things. O Creator of heavens and the earth! You are my Guardian in this world and in the Hereafter. Cause me to die in submission to You, and join me, in the end, with the righteous.’
102. (O Muhammad!) This is some news from the unseen that We reveal to you for you were not present with them when Joseph’s brothers jointly resolved on a plot.
103. And most of the people, howsoever you might so desire, are not going to believe.
Surah Yousuf
Ayah 104-111
104. You do not week from them any recompense for your service. This is merely an admonition to all mankind.
105. How many are the signs in the heavens and the earth which people pass by without giving any heed!
106. And most of them do not believe in Allah except when they associate others with Him.
107. Do they, then, feel secure that no overwhelming chastisement would visit them, nor the Hour suddenly come upon them without their even perceiving it.
108. Tell them plainly: ‘This I my way: I Call you to Allah, on the basis of clear perception – both I and those who follow me. Allah- glory be to Him – is free of every imperfection. I have nothing to do with those who associate others with Allah in His divinity.’
109. The Messengers whom We raised before you (O Muhammad!) and to whom We sent down revelations, were only human beings, and were from among those living in earthly habitations. Have these people not travelled in the earth that they may observe the end of their predecessors? Certainly the abode of the Hereafter is much better for those (who accepted the call of the Messengers and) acted in a God-fearing manner. Will you still not act with good sense?
110. (It also happened with the earlier Messengers hat for long they preached and people paid no heed) until the Messengers despaired of their people, and the people also believed that they had been told lies (by the Messengers), and then suddenly Our help came to the Messengers. And when such an occasion comes We rescue whom We will; as for the guilty, Our chastisement cannot be averted from them.
111. Certainly in the stories of the bygone people there is a lesson for men of understanding. What is being narrated in the Qur’an is no fabrication; it is rather confirmation of the Books that preceded it, and a detailed exposition of everything, and a guidance and mercy for men of faith.
Surah-13 RAD
Ayah 1-5
1. Alif. Lam. Mim Ra. These are the verses of the Divine Book. Whatever has been revealed to you from your Lord is the truth, and yet most (of your) people do not believe.
2. It is Allah Who has raised the heavens without any supports that you could see, and then he established Himself on the Throne (of Dominion). And He it is Who has made the sun and the moon subservient (to a law), each running its course till an appointed term. He governs the entire order of the universe and clearly explains the signs that you may be firmly convinced about meeting with your Lord.
3. He it is Who has spread out the earth and has placed in it firm mountains and has caused the rivers to flow. He has made every fruit in pairs, two and two, and He it is Who causes the night to cover the day. Surely there are signs in these for those who reflect.
4. And on the earth there are many tracts of land neighbouring each other. There are on it vineyards, and sown fields, and date palms: some growing in clusters from one root, some standing alone. They are irrigated by the same water, and yet We make some excel others in taste. Surely there are signs in these for a people who use their reason.
5. And were you to wonder, then wondrous indeed is the saying of those who say: ‘What! After we have been reduced to the dust, shall we be created afresh?’ They are the ones who disbelieved in their Lord; they are the ones who shall have shackles around their necks. They shall be the inmates of the Fire, wherein they will abide forever.
Surah Radh
Ayah 6-13
6. They challenge you to hasten the coming of evil upon them before the coming of any good, although people who followed a like course before had met with exemplary punishment (from Allah). Verily your Lord is forgiving to men despite all their wrongdoing. Verily your Lord is also severe in retribution.
7. Those who refused to believe in you say: ‘Why has no [miraculous] sign been sent down upon him from his Lord?’ You are only a Warner, and every people has its guide.
8. Allah knows what every female bears; and what the wombs fall short of (in gestation), and what they may add. With Him everything is in fixed measure.
9. He knows both what is hidden and what is manifest. He is the Supreme One, the Most High.
10. It is all the same for Him whether any of you says a thing secretly, or says it loudly, and whether one hides oneself in the darkness of night, or struts about in broad daylight.
11. There are guardians over everyone, both before him and behind him, who guard him by Allah’s command. Verily Allah does not change a people’s condition unless they change their inner selves. And when Allah decides to make a people suffer punishment, no one can avert it. Nor can any be of help to such a people against Allah.
12. He it is Who causes you to see lightning that inspires you with both fear and hope, and He it is Who whips up heavy clouds.
13. The thunder celebrates His praise and holiness, and the angels, too, for awe of Him. He hurls thunderbolts, striking with them whom he wills the while they are engaged in disputation concerning Allah. He is Mighty in His contriving.
Surah Ar-Radh
Ayah 14-18
14.To Him alone should all prayer be addressed, for those to whom they do address their prayers beside Him are altogether powerless to respond to them. The example of praying to any other than Allah is that of a man who stretches out his hands to water, asking it to reach his mount, although water has no power to reach his mouth. The prayers of the unbelievers are a sheer waste!
15. All that is in the heavens and the earth prostrates itself, whether willingly or by force, before Allah; and so do their shadows in the morning and in the evening.
16. Ask them: ‘Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?’ Say: ‘Allah.’ Tell them: ‘Have you taken beside Him as your patrons those who do not have the power to benefit or to hurt even themselves?’ Say: ‘Can the blind and the seeing be deemed equals? Or can light and darkness be deemed equals? If that is not so, then have those whom they associate with Allah in His divinity ever created anything like what Allah did so that the question of creation has become dubious to them?’ Say: ‘Allah is the creator of everything. He is the One, the irresistible.’
17. Allah sends down water from the heavens and the river-beds flow, each according to its measure, and the torrent carries along a swelling scum. And likewise, from that metal which they smelt in the fire to make ornaments and utensils, there arises scum like it. Thus does Allah depict truth and falsehood. As for the scum, it passes away as dross; but that which benefits mankind abides on the earth. Thus does Allah explain (the truth) through examples.
18. There is good reward for those who respond to the call of their Lord. And those who do not respond to their Lord, (a time will come when) they shall offer all they have – even if they have all the riches of the world and the like of it besides – to redeem themselves (from the chastisement of Allah). They will be subjected to a severe reckoning and Hell shall be their refuge. And what a wretched resting place it is!
Surah Ar-Rad
Ayah 19-28
19. He, Who knows that the Book, which has been sent to you from your Lord, is the truth, is he like him who is blind to that truth? It is only men of understanding who take heed:
20. those who fulfil their covenant with Allah and do not break their compact after firmly confirming it;
21. who join together the ties which Allah has bidden to be joined; who fear their Lord and dread lest they are subjected to severe reckoning;
22. Who are steadfast in seeking the good pleasure of their Lord; who establish Prayer and spend both secretly and openly out of the wealth We have provided them, and who ward off evil with good. Theirs shall be the ultimate abode
23. the Everlasting Gardens: which they shall enter and so shall the righteous from among their fathers, and their spouses, and their offspring who acted righteously. And angels shall enter into them from every gate, and say:
24. ‘Peace be upon you. You merit this reward for your patience.’ How excellent is the ultimate abode!
25. As for those who break the covenant of Allah after firmly confirming it, who cut asunder the ties that Allah has commanded to be joined and who create corruption in the land: Allah’s curse shall be upon them and theirs shall be a wretched abode (in the Hereafter).
26. Allah enlarges the provision of whomsoever He wills and grants others in strict measure. They exult in the life of the world, although compared with the Hereafter; the life of the world is no more than temporary enjoyment.
27. Those who have rejected the (message of Muhammad) say: ‘Why has no sign been sent down upon him from his Lord?’ Tell them: ‘Allah lets go astray to those whom He wills, and guides to Himself those who turn to Him.’
28. Such are the ones who believe in the message of the Prophet) and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah. Surely in Allah’s remembrance do hearts find rest.
Surah Ar-Rad
Ayah 29-31
29. So those who believe (in the message of the truth) and do good and destined for happiness and a blissful end.
30. Thus have We sent you as a Messenger to a community before which many other communities have passed away that you may recite to them whatever We have revealed to you. And yet they deny the Lord of Mercy. Say to them: ‘He is my Lord, there is no god but Him. In Him I have placed all my trust and to Him I shall return.’
31. And what would have happened were a Qur’an to be revealed wherewith mountains could be set in motion, or the earth cleft, or the dead made to speak (To show such signs is not at all difficult for) everything rests entirely with Allah. So, do men of faith (still look forward to such a sign in response to the demand of the unbelievers and) not despair as a result of knowing that had Allah so willed, He could have guided all to the truth. Misfortune continues to afflict the unbelievers on account of their misdeeds, or to befall on locations close to their habitation. This will continue until Allah’s promise (of chastisement) is fulfilled. Surely Allah does not go back upon His promise.
32. Surely the Messengers before you were ridiculed, but I always initially granted respite to those who disbelieved, and then I seized them (with chastisement). Then, ho awesome was My chastisement!
33. Then, is it in regard to Him Who watches over the deeds of every person that they are acting blasphemously by setting up His associates? Tell them: ‘Name those associates (if Allah Himself has made them His associates)! Or do you inform Allah of something the existence of which He does not even know? Or do people arbitrarily utter empty words? Indeed, their foul contriving has been made to seem fair to the unbelievers and they have been barred from finding the right way. Whomsoever Allah lets go astray will have none to guide him.
31. They shall suffer chastisement in the life of the world, and surely the chastisement of the Hereafter is even more grievous. None has the power to shield them from the chastisement of) Allah.
Surah Ar-Rad
Ayah 35-42
35. And such will be the Paradise promised to the God-fearing: rivers will flow beneath it, its fruits will be eternal, and so will be its blissful shade. That is the ultimate destiny of the God-fearing while Fire is the destiny of the unbelievers.’
36. Those upon whom We bestowed the Scriptures earlier rejoice at the Book revealed to you, while there are also some among different groups that reject part of it. Tell them: ‘I have only been commanded to serve Allah not to associate anyone with Him. To Him do I call, and to Him is my return.’
37. And it is with the same directive that We revealed to you this Arabic Writ. And were you indeed to follow the vain desires of people after the true knowledge had come to you, none will be your supporter against Allah, and none will have the power to shield you from His punishment.
38. We indeed sent many Messengers before you and We gave them wives and children; and no Messenger had the power to produce a miraculous sign except by the command of Allah. Every age has its own (revealed) Book.
39. Allah effaces whatever He wills and retains whatever He wills. With him is the Mother of the Book.
40. (O Prophet!) Whether We make you see a part of the punishment that We have threatened them with come to pass during your life-time, or We take you away before that happens, your duty is no more than to convey the Message, and it is for Us to make a reckoning.
41. Do they not see that We are advancing in the land, diminishing it by its borders on all sides? Allah judges and no one has the power to reverse His judgement. He is swift in reckoning.
42. Those who lived before them also devised many a plot, but the master plot rests with Allah. He knows what everyone does. The deniers of the truth will soon come to know whose end is good.
Surah Ar-Rad
Ayah 43
43. The unbelievers claim that you have not been sent by Allah. Tell them: ‘Allah is sufficient as a witness between me and you; and those too who know the Scriptures.’
Surah-14 Ibrahim
Ayah 1-5
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1. Alif. Lam. Ra. This is a Book which We have revealed to you that you may bring forth mankind from every kind of darkness into the light, and direct them, with the leave of their Lord, to the way of the Mighty, the innately Praiseworthy
2. Allah to Who belongs all that is in the heavens and all that in the earth. Woe be to this who reject the truth for a severe chastisement;
3. To those who have chosen the life of the world in preference to the Hereafter, who hinder people from the way of Allah, and seek to make it crooked. They have gone far astray.
4. Never have We sent a Messenger but he has addressed his people in their language that he may fully expound his Message to them. [And after the message is given], Allah lets go astray whomsoever He wills, and guides to the right way whomsoever He wills. He is the Mighty, the Wise.
5. We indeed sent Moses with Our signs, saying: ‘Lead your people out of darkness into the light, and admonish them by narrating to them anecdotes from the annals of Allah. Verily in it there are great sings for everyone who is patient and gives thanks (to Allah).’
Surah Ibrahim
Ayah 6-10
6. And call to mind when Moses said to his people: ‘Remember Allah’s favour upon you when He delivered you from Pharaoh’s people who afflicted you with a grievous chastisement, slaughtering your sons, while letting your women live. In it there was terrible trial from your Lord.’
7. Also call to mind when your Lord proclaimed: ‘If you are ungrateful for My favours, My chastisement is terrible.
8. Moses said: ‘Were you to disbelieve – you and all those who live on the earth – Allah is still Self-Sufficient, innately Praiseworthy.’
9. Have not the accounts of your predecessors reached you: the people of Noah, the ‘Ad, the Thamud, and those who came after them – they whose number is not known to any except Allah? Their Messengers came to them with clear signs, but they thrust their hands in their mouths, and said: ‘We do surely reject the message you have brought, and we are in disquieting doubt about what you are calling us to?’
10. Their Messengers said: ‘Can there be any doubt about Allah, the Creator of the heavens and the earth? He invites you that He may forgive you your sins and grant you respite till and appointed term.’ They replied: ‘You are only human beings like ourselves. You seek to prevent us from serving those whom our forefathers have been serving all along. If that is so, produce a clear authority for it.
Surah Ibrahim
Ayah 11-18
11. Their Messengers told them: ‘Indeed we are only human beings like yourselves, but Allah bestows His favour on those of His servants whom He will. It does not lie in our power to produce any authority except by the leave of Allah. It is in Allah that the believers should place their trust.
12. And why should we not place our trust in Allah when it is indeed He Who has guided us to the ways of our life? We shall surely continue to remain steadfast in face of your persecution. All those who have to place trust should place their trust only in Allah.’
13. Then the unbelievers told their Messengers: ‘You will have to return to the fold of our faith or else we shall banish you from our land.’ Thereupon their Lord revealed to them: ‘We will most certainly destroy these wrong-doers,
14. And will then cause you to settle in the land as their successors. That is the reward for him who fears to stand for reckoning and holds My threat in awe.’
15. They sought Our judgement. And (thanks to the judgement) every obstinate tyrant opposed to the truth was brought to naught.
16. Hell is before him and the shall be made to drink of the oozing pus,
17. Which he will gulp but will scarcely swallow, and death will come upon him from every quarter, and yet he will not be able to die. A terrible chastisement lies ahead in pursuit of him.
18. This is the example of those who disbelieve in their Lord: their works are like ashes upon which the wind blows fiercely on a tempestuous day. They shall find no reward for their deeds. That indeed is the farthest point in straying.
Surah Ibrahim
Ayah 19-23
19. Do you not see that Allah created the heavens and the earth in truth. Were He to will, He could take you away and bring a new creation.
20. That is not at all difficult for Allah.
21. Then all of them will appear exposed before, Allah, and the weak ones will say to the haughty ones: ‘We merely followed you. Will you, then, protect us from Allah’s chastisement?’ They will say: ‘Had Allah shown us the way to our salvation, we would surely have also guided you. Now it is all the same whether we cry or suffer patiently, we have no escape.’
21. After the matter has been finally decided Satan will say: ‘Surely whatever Allah promised you as true; as for me, I went back on the promise I made to you. I had no power over you except that I called you to my way and you responded to me. So, do not blame me but blame yourselves. Here, neither I can come to your rescue, nor can you come to mine. I disavow your former act of associating me in the past with Allah. A grievous chastisement inevitably lies ahead for such wrong-doers.’
22. As for those who had believed and did good in the world, they shall be admitted to the Gardens beneath which rivers flow. There, with the leave of Allah, they shall abide forever, and will be greeted with: ‘Peace’.
23. Do you not see how Allah has given the example of a good word? It is like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed, and whose branches reach the sky,
Surah Ibrahim
Ayah 25-33
25. Ever yielding its fruit in every season with the leave of its Lord. Allah gives examples for mankind that they may take heed.
26. And the example of an evil word is that of an evil tree, uprooted from the surface of the earth, wholly unable to endure.
27. Thus, through a firm word, Allah grants firmness to the believers’ bot in this world and in the Hereafter. And the wrong-doers, Allah lets them go astray. Allah does whatever he wills.
28. Did you not see those who have exchanged Allah’s favour with ingratitude to Him, causing their people to be cast in the abode of utter perdition
29. Hell, wherein they shall roast? How wretched a place to settle in!
30. They have set up rivals to Allah that they may lead men astray from His way. Tell them: ‘Enjoy for a while. You are doomed to end up in the Fire!
31. (O Prophet!) Tell those of My servants who believe that they should establish Prayer and spend out of what We have provided them with, both secretly and openly, before there arrives the Day when there will no bargaining, nor any mutual befriending.
32. It is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth, Who sent down water from the heaven and thereby brought forth a variety of fruits as your sustenance; Who subjected for you he ships that they may sail in the sea by His command; Who subjected for you the rivers;
33. Who subjected for you the sun and the moon and both of them are constant on their courses; Who subjected for you the night and the day;
Surah Ibrahim
Ayah 34-42
34. And who gave you all that you asked Him for. Were you to count the favours of Allah you shall never be able to encompass them. Verily, man is highly unjust, exceedingly ungrateful.
35. And call to mind when Abraham prayed: ‘My Lord! Make this city secure, and keep me and my sons away from worshipping the idols.
36. My Lord! They have caused many people to go astray. Now, if anyone follows me, he belongs to mine; but he who turns against me, surely You are Ever Forgiving, Most Merciful.
37. Our Lord! I have made some of my offspring settle in a barren valley near your Inviolable House! Our Lord! I did so that they may establish Prayer. So make the hearts of people affectionately inclined to them, and provide them with fruits for their sustenance that they may give thanks.
38. Our Lord! Surely You know all that we conceal and all that we reveal’ – and nothing in the earth or in the heaven is hidden from Allah –
39. ‘All praise be to Allah Who, despite my old age, has given me Ishmael and Isaac. Surely my Lord hears all prayers.
40. My Lord! Enable me and my offspring to establish Prayer, and do accept, our Lord, this prayer of mine.
41. Our Lord! Forgive me and my parents and the believers on the Day when the reckoning will take place.’
42.Do not think Allah is heedless of the evil deeds in which the evil-doers are engaged. He is merely granting them respite until a Day when their eyes shall continue to stare in horror,
Surah Ibrahim
Ayah 43-52
43. When they shall keep pressing ahead in haste, their heads lifted up, their gaze directed forward, unable to look away from what they behold, their hearts utterly void.
44. (O Muhammad!) Warn mankind of the Day when a severe chastisement shall overtake them, and the wrong-doers will say: ‘Our Lord, grant us respite for a short while; we shall respond to Your call and will follow Your Messengers.’ (But they will be clearly told): ‘Are you not the same who swore earlier that they shall never suffer decline?’
45. You said so even though you had lived in the dwellings of those who had wronged themselves (by sinning), and you were aware how We dealt with them, and We had even explained to you all this by giving examples.
46. Indeed the unbelievers contrived their plan, but it is Allah’s power to nullify their plan, even thought their plans were such that would move even mountains.
47. So, do not think (O Prophet!) that Allah will go back upon His promise to His Messengers. Surely Allah is Mighty, Lord of retribution.
48. (Do warn them of the Day when the heavens and the earth shall be altogether changed; when all will appear fully exposed before Allah, the one, the irresistible!
49. On that Day you shall see the guilty ones secured in chains;
50. Their garments shall be black as if made out of pitch, and the flames of the Fire shall cover their faces
51. So that Allah may requited each person for his deeds. Allah is swift in reckoning.
52. This is a proclamation for all mankind that they may be warned by it, and that they may know that their god is none but the One True God, and that men of understanding may take heed.
Surah-15 Al-Hijr
Ayah 1-15
1. Alif. Lam. Ra. These are the verses of the Book, and a clear Qur’an.
2. Soon will the time come when the unbelievers will wish they were Muslims.
3. Leave them to eat and enjoy life and let false hopes amuse them. They will soon come to know.
4. Whenever We destroyed a town, a definite term had previously been decreed for it.
5. No people can anticipate the term for its destruction nor can it delay it.
6.They say: ‘O you to whom the admonition has been revealed: you are surely crazed.
7.Why do not you bring down angels upon us if you are indeed truthful?’
8. We do not send down the angels [in frivolity]; and when We do send them down, We do so with truth; then people are granted no respite.
9.As for the Admonition, We have revealed it and We revealed it and We indeed are its guardians.
10.(O Muhammad!) Certainly We did send Messengers before you among the nations which have gone by.
11.And whenever a Messenger came to them, they never failed to mock at him.
12. Even so We make a way for it [the Admonition] in the hearts of the culprits (like a rod)’
13. They do not believe in it. This has been the wont of people of this kind from ancient times.
14. If We were even to open for them a way to the heaven, and they could continually climb up to it in broad daylight;
15. They would still have said; ‘Surely our eyes have been dazzled; rather, we have been enchanted.’
Surah Al-Hijr
Ayah 16-31
16. Indeed We have set constellations in the heaven and have beautified them for the beholders,
17. And have protected them against every accursed Satan
18. Save him who may eavesdrop, and then a bright flame pursues him.
19. And the earth – We have stretched it out and have cast on it firm mountains, and have caused to grow in it everything well-measured.
20. And We have provided sustenance for you on it and also for those of whom you are not the providers.
21. There is nothing except that its treasuries are with Us and We do not sent it down except in a known measure.
22. We send fertilizing winds, and then cause rain to descend from heaven, providing you abundant water to drink even though you could not have stored it up for yourselves.
23. It is indeed We Who grant life and cause death and it is We who shall be the sole inheritors of all.
24. Surely We know those of you who have passed before and those who will come later.
25. Indeed your Lord will gather them all together. Surely He is All-Wise, All-Knowing.
26. And indeed We brought man into being out of dry ringing clay which was wrought from black mud,
27. While We had brought the jinn into being before out of the blazing fire.
28. Recall when your Lord said to the angels: ‘I will indeed bring into being a human being out of dry ringing clay wrought from black mud.
29. When I have completed shaping him and have breathed into him of My Spirit, then fall you down before him prostration.’
30. So, the angels- all of them – fell down in prostration.
31. Except Iblis; he refused to join those who prostrated.
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Surah Al-Hijr
Ayah 32-51
32. The Lord inquired’ Iblis! What is the matter with you that you did not join those who prostrated?’ 33. He said: ‘It does not behove of me to prostrate myself before a human being whom you have created out of dry ringing clay wrought from black mud.’
34. The Lord said: ‘Then get out of here; you are rejected,
35. And there shall be a curse upon you till the Day of Recompense.’
36. Iblis said: ‘My Lord! Grant me respite till the Day when they will be resurrected.’
37. Allah Said: ‘For sure you are granted respite
38. Until the day of a known time.’
39. Iblis said: ‘My Lord! In the manner you led me to error, I will make things on earth seem attractive to them [mankind] and lead all of them to error,
40. Except those of Your servants whom You have singled out for Yourself.’
41. Allah said: ‘Here is the path that leads straight to Me.
42. Over My true servants you will be able to exercise no power, your power will be confined to the erring ones, ones who choose to follow you.
43. Surely Hell is the promised place for all of them.
44. There are seven gates in it, and to each gate a portion of them has been allotted.
45. As for the God-fearing, they shall be amid gardens and springs.
46. They will be told: ‘Enter it in peace and security.’
47. And We shall purge their breasts of all traces of rancour; and they shall be seated on couches facing one another as brothers.
48. They shall face no fatigue in it, nor shall they ever be driven out of it.
49. (O Prophet!) Declare to My servants that I am indeed Ever Forgiving, Most Merciful.
50. At the same time, My chastisement is highly painful.
51. And tell them about Abraham’s’ guests.
Surah Al-Hijr
Ayah 52-70
52. When they came to Abraham they said: ‘Peace be upon you!’ He replied: ‘Indeed we feel afraid of you.’
53. They said: ‘Do not feel afraid, for we give you the good news of a clever boy.’
54. Abraham said: ‘What! Do you give me this tiding though old age has smitten me? Just consider what tiding do you give me!’
55. They said: ‘The good tiding we give you is of truth. Do, not, therefore, be of those who despair.’
56. Abraham said: ‘Who despairs of the mercy of his Lord except the misguided?’
57. He added: ‘What is your errand O Sent ones?’
58. They said: ‘Verily we have been sent to a guilty people
59. excepting the household of lot. We shall deliver all of them,
60. Except his wife (about whom Allah says that) We have decreed. She shall be among those who stay behind.’
61. So when the envoys came to the household of Lot,
62. He said: ‘Surely you are an unknown folk.’
63. They said: ‘Nay, we have brought to you that concerning which they have been in doubt.
64. We truly tell you that we have brought to you the truth.
65. So set out with your family in a watch of the night, and keep yourself behind them, and no one of you may turn round, and keep going ahead of you as you have been commanded.’
66. And We communicated to him the decree that by the morning those people will be totally destroyed.
67. In the meantime the people of the city came rejoicing to Lot.
68. He said: ‘These are my guests, so do not disgrace me.
69. Have fear of Allah, and do not humiliate me.’
70. They replied: ‘Did we not forbid you again and again to extend hospitality to all and sundry?’
Surah Al-Hijr
Ayah 71-90
71. Lot exclaimed in exasperation: ‘If you are bent on doing something, then here are my daughters.’
72. By your life (O Prophet!), they went about blindly stumbling in their intoxication.
73. Then the mighty Blast caught them at sunrise,
74. And turned the land upside down, and rained down stones of baked clay.
75. There are great signs in this incident for men of intelligence.
76. The place (where this occurred) lies along a known route.
77. Verily there is a sign in this for the believers.
78. And the people of Aykah were also wrong-doers.
79. So We chastised them. The desolate locations of both communities lie on a well-known highway.
80. Surely the people of Al-Hijr also rejected the Messengers, calling them liars.
81We also gave them Our signs, yet they turned away from them.
82.They used to hew out houses from the mountains and lived in security.
83.Then the Blast caught them in the morning
84.Whatever they had been earning proved of no avail.
85.We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is in between them except with truth. Surely the Hour will come. So (O Muhammad!) do graciously overlook them (despite their lowly behaviour).
86.Your Lord is indeed the Creator of all, the All-Knowing.
87.We have indeed bestowed on you the seven oft-repeated verses and the Great Qur’an.
88.Do not even cast your eyes towards the worldly goods We have granted to different kinds of people, nor grieve over the state they are in, and turn your loving attention to the believers instead,
89.and clearly tell the unbelievers: ‘I am most certainly a plain Warner.’
90.Even as We had sent warning on those who had divided their religion into fragments;
Surah Al-Hijr
Ayah 91-99
91.Those who had split up their scripture [Qur’an] into pieces.
92.By your Lord, We will question them all
93.Concerning what they have been doing.
94.(O Prophet!) Proclaim what you are commanded, and pay no heed to those who associate others with Allah in His divinity.
95.Surely We suffice to deal with those who scoff at you;
96.Those who set up another deity alongside Allah. They shall soon come to know
97.We certainly know that their statements sorely grieve you.
98.When (you feel so) glorify your Lord, with His praise, and prostrate yourself before Him,
99.And worship your Lord until the last moment (of your life) that will most certainly come.
Surah-16 Al-Nahl
Ayah 1-6
1.Allah’s judgement has (all but) come; do not, then, call for its speedy advent. Holy is He, and far above their associating others with Him in His divinity.
2.He sends down this spirit [of prophecy] by His command through His angels on any of His servants whom He wills, [directing them:] ‘Warn people that there is no deity but Me; so hold Me alone in fear.’
3.He created the heavens and the earth with truth. Exalted is He above whatever they associate with Allah in His divinity.
4.He created man out of a mere drop of fluid, and Lo! He turned into an open wrangler.
5.He created the cattle. They are sources of clothing and food and also a variety of other benefits for you.
6.And you find beauty in them as you drive them to pasture in the morning and us you drive them back home in the evening;
Surah Al-Nahl
Ayah 7-14
7. And they carry your loads to many a place, which you would be unable to reach without much hardship. Surely your Lord is much hardship. Surely your Lord is Much-Living, Most-Merciful.
8. And He created horses and mules and asses for you to ride, and also for your adornment. And He creates many things (for you) that you do not even know about.
9. It rests with Allah alone to show you the right way, even when there are many crooked ways. Had He so willed, He would have [perforce] guided you all aright.
10. He it is Who sends down water for you from the sky out of which you drink out of which grow the plants on which you pasture your cattle,
11.And by virtue of which He causes crops and olives and date-palms and grapes and all kinds of fruit to grow for you. Surely in this there is a great sign for those who reflect.
12. He has subjected for you the night and the day and the sun and the moon for you, and the stars have also been made subservient by His command. Surely there are signs in this for those who use their reason.
13. And there also signs for those who take heed in the numerous things of various colours that He has created for you on earth.
14. And He it is Who has subjected the sea that you may eat fresh fish from it and brings forth ornaments from it that you can wear. And you see ships ploughing their course through it so that you may go forth seeking His bounty and be grateful to Him.
Surah Al-Nahl
Ayah 15-26
15. And He has placed firm mountains on the earth lest it should move away from you, and has made rivers and tracks that you may find your way,
16. And He has set other landmarks in the earth. And by the stars too do people find their way.
17. Is then the One Who creates like the one who does not create? Will you not, then, take heed?
18. For, were you to compute the favours of Allah, you will not be able to compute them. Surely Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most-Merciful.
19. Allah know Allah that you conceal and all that you disclose.
20. Those whom they call upon beside Allah have created nothing; rather, they themselves were created;
21. They are dead, not living. They do not even know when they will be resurrected.
22. Your God is the One God. But the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter are steeped in rejection of the truth; and they are given to arrogance.
23. Surely Allah know all that they conceal and all that they disclose. He certainly does not love those who are steeped in arrogance.
24. When they are asked: ‘What is it that your Lord has revealed?’ They answer: ‘They are merely tales of olden times!’
25. [They say so] that they may bear the full weight of their burdens on the Day of Resurrection and also of the burdens of those whom they misled on account of their ignorance. What a heavy burden do they bear!
26. Surely many people before them had plotted in a similar manner to [vanquish the truth], but Allah uprooted the whole structure of their plot from its foundations so that the roof fell in upon them, and the chastisement [of Allah] visited them from unknown directions.
Surah Al-Najhal
Ayah 27-34
27. And again, on the Day of Resurrection, He will bring them to disgrace, and say: ‘Tell Me, now, where are those to whom you ascribed share in My Divinity, and for whose sake you disputed [with the upholders of the truth]?’ Those who were endowed with knowledge [in the world] will say: ‘Surely today humiliation and misery shall be the lot of the unbelievers’;
28.The same believers who, when the angels seize them and cause them to die while they are engaged in wronging, they will proffer their submission saying: ‘We were engaged in no evil. [The angels answer them:]. ‘Surely Allah knows well all that you did.
29.Go now, and enter the gate of Hell, and abide in it forever.’ Evil indeed is the abode of the arrogant.
30.And when the God-fearing are asked: ‘What has your Lord revealed?’ – they answer: ‘Something excellent!’ Thus good fortune in this world awaits those who do good; and certainly the abode of the Hereafter is even better for them. How excellent is the abode of the God-fearing:
31.Everlasting gardens that they shall enter; the gardens beneath which rivers shall flow, and where everything shall be as they desire. Thus does Allah reward the God-fearing;
32.Those whose souls the angels seize while they are in a state of purity, saying: ‘Peace be upon you. Enter Paradise as a reward for your deeds.’
33.(O Muhammad!) Are they waiting for anything else than that the angels should appear before them, or that your Lord’s judgement should come. Many before them acted with similar temerity. And then what happened with them was not Allah’s wrong-doing; they rather wronged themselves.
34.The evil consequences of their misdeeds over took them and what they mocked at overwhelmed them.
Surah Al-Najhal
35.Those who associate other with Allah in His divinity say: ‘Were Allah to will so, neither we nor our forefathers would have worshipped any other than Him, nor would we have prohibited anything without His command.’ Their predecessors proffered similar excuses. Do the Messengers have any other duty but to plainly convey the Message?
36.We raised Messenger in every community (to tell them): ‘Serve Allah and shun the Evil One.’ Thereafter Allah guided some of them while others were overtaken by error. Go about the earth, then, and observe what was the end of those who rejected the Messengers, calling them liars.
37.(O Muhammad!) Howsoever eager you may be to show them the right way, Allah does not bestow His guidance on those whom He lets go astray; and in fact none will be able to help them.
38.They swear most solemnly in the name of Allah and say: ‘Allah shall not raise to life any who dies.’ [He will certainly raise men to life for] that is a promise by which He is bound, even though most men do not know that.
39.[That is bound to happen in order that] He may make clear to them the reality regarding the matters on which they differ and that the unbelievers may realize that they were liars.
40.[As for the possibility of resurrection bear in mind that] whenever We do will something, We have to do no more than say: ‘Be’, and it is.
41.As for those who have forsaken their homes for the sake of Allah after enduring persecution, We shall certainly grant them a good abode in this world; and surely the reward of the Hereafter is much greater. If they could but know [what an excellent end awaits]
42.Those who remain steadfast and put their trust in their Lord.
Surah Al-Najhal
43.(O Muhammad!) Whenever We raised any Messengers before you, they were no more than human beings; [except that] to them We sent revelation. So ask those who possess knowledge if you do not know.
44.We raised earlier Messengers with clear signs and Divine Books, and We have now sent down this Reminder upon you that you may elucidate to people the teaching that has been sent down for them, and that the people may themselves reflect.
45.Do those who have been devising evil plans [against the mission of the Messenger] feel secure that Allah will not cause the earth to swallow them up or that chastisement will not come upon them from a direction that they will not even be able to imagine;
46.Or that He will not suddenly seize them while they are going about to and fro and they will be unable to frustrate His design,
47.Or that He will not seize them when they are apprehensive of the impending calamity? Surely your Lord is Most-Compassionate, Most-Merciful.
48.Do the people not see how the objects Allah has created cast their shadows right and left prostration themselves in utter submission to Allah?
49.All living creatures and all angels in the heavens and on the earth are in prostration before Allah; and never do they behave in arrogant defiance.
50.They hold their Lord, Who is above them, in fear, and do as they are bidden.
51.Allah has commanded: ‘Do not take two gods; for He is but One God. So fear Me alone.’
52.His is whatever is in the heavens and on the earth, and obedience to Him inevitably pervades the whole universe. Will you, then, hold in awe any other than Allah.
53.Every bounty that you enjoy is from Allah; and whenever any misfortune strikes you, it is to Him that you cry for the removal of your distress.
54.But as soon as He removes the distress from you, some of you associate others with their Lord in giving thanks,
Surah Al-Najhal
55.That they may show ingratitude for the bounties We bestowed upon them. So enjoy yourselves for a while, soon you will come to know (the truth).
56.They set apart for those, whose reality they do not even know, a portion of the sustenance We have provided them. By Allah, you will surely be called to account for the lies that you have invented!
57.They assign daughter to Allah – glort6y Him- whereas they assign to themselves what they truly desire!
58.When any of them is told about the birth of a female his face turns dark, and he is filled wit suppressed anger,
59.And hides himself from people because of the bad news, thinking: should he keep the child despite disgrace, or should he bury it in dust? How evil is their estimate of Allah.
60.Those who do not believe in the Hereafter deserve to be characterized with evil attributes whereas Allah’s are the most excellent attributes. He is the Most-Mighty, the Most-Wise.
61.Were Allah to take people to task for their wrong-doing, He would not have spared even a single living creature on the face of the earth. But He grants them respite until an appointed term. And when that term arrives, they have no power to delay it by a single moment, nor to hasten it.
62.They assign to Allah what they dislike for themselves and their tongues utter a sheer lie in stating that a happy state awaits them. Without doubt the Fire awaits them and it is to it that they shall be hastened.
63.By Allah (O Muhammad!) We sent Messengers to other communities before you but Satan made their evil deeds attractive to them (so they paid no heed to the call of the Messengers). The same Satan is their patron today and they are heading towards a painful chastisement.
64.We have sent down the Book that you may explain to them the truth concerning what they are disputing and that the Book may serve ad a guidance and mercy for those who believe in it.
Surah Al-Nahl
Ayah 65-72
65. Allah sends down water from the heaven, and thereby He instantly revives the earth after it lay dead. Verily in it there is a sign for those who have ears.
66.Surely there is a lesson for you in the cattle: We provide you to drink out of that which is in their bellies between the faeces and the blood -pure milk – which is a palatable drink for those who take it.
67.And out of the fruits of date palms and grapes you derive intoxicants as well as wholesome sustenance. Surely there is a sign for those who use reason.
68.Your Lord inspired the bee saying: ‘Set up hives in the mountains and in the trees and in the trellises that people put up;
69.Then suck the juice of every kind of fruit and keep treading the ways of your Lord, which have been made easy. There comes forth from their bellies a drink varied in colours, wherein there is healing for men. Verily there is a sing in this for those who reflect.
70.Allah has created you, and then He causes you to die. Some of you have your lives prolonged to an object old age, when one loses all knowledge after having acquired it. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Powerful.
71.Allah has favoured some of you with more worldly provisions than others. Then those who are more favoured do not give away their provisions to their slave so that they become equal sharers in it. Do they, then, deny the favour of Allah?
72.And Allah has given you spouses from your kind, and has granted you through your spouses, sons and grandsons, and has provided you wholesome things as sustenance. [After knowing all this] do they still believe in falsehood and deny Allah’s bounty.
Surah Al-Najhal
Ayah 73-79
73. And instead of Allah, worship those helpless beings who have no control over providing them any sustenance from the heavens and the earth; do you worship those who have no power to do anything of this sort?
74. So do not strike any similitudes to Allah, Allah knows whereas you do not know.
75. Allah sets forth a parable: There is one who is a slave and is owned by another, and has no power over anything; and there is one whom We have granted good provision Ourselves, of which he spends both secretly and openly. Can they be equal? All praise be to Allah. But most of them do not even know (this simple fact).
76. Allah sets fort another parable: There are tow men, one of whom is dumb and has no power over anything; he is a burden to his master, and wheresoever his master directs him, he fails to bring forth any good. Can such person be the equal of one who enjoins justice and himself follows the right way?
77. Allah has full knowledge of the truths beyond the reach of human perception both in the heavens and the earth; and the coming of the Hour will take no more than the twinkling of an eye; it may take even less. Indeed Allah has power over everything.
78. Allah has brought you forth from your mothers’ wombs when you knew nothing, and then gave you hearing, and sight and thinking hearts so that you may give thanks.
79. Have they never noticed the birds how they are held under control in the middle of the sky, where none holds them [from falling] except Allah? Surely there are signs in this for those who believe.
Surah Al-Najhal
Ayah 80-97
80. Allah has made your houses a repose, and has provided you with the skins of the cattle for your habitation which are light to handle both when you travel and when you camp; and out of their wool, and their fur and their hair He has given you furnishings and goods for use over a period of time.
81.And allah has provided shade for you out of some of the things He has created; and has provided you with shelters in the mountains, and has given you coats that protect you from heat as well as coats that protect you in battle. Thus does He complete His favour upon you that you may submit to Him.
82.But if they turn away, your only duty is to clearly deliver the message of the truth.
83.They are aware of the favours of Allah, and yet refuse to acknowledge them. Most of them are determined not to accept the truth.
84.(They are heedless of) the Day when We shall raise a witness from each community and then the unbelievers will neither be allowed to plead nor will they asked to repent and seek pardon.
85.And once the wrong-doers have beheld the chastisement, neither will it be lightened for them nor will they be granted any respite.
86.And when those who associated others with Allah in His Divinity will see those to whom they ascribed this share, they will say: ‘Our Lord! These are the beings to whom we ascribed a share in Your Divinity and whom we called upon instead of You’, whereupon those beings will fling at them the words: ‘You are liars.’
87.As for that Day they will offer their submission and all that they had fabricated will have vanished.
Surah Al-Nahl
Ayah 88-93
88.As for those who disbelieved and barred others from the way of Allah, We shall add chastisement to their chastisement for all the mischief they did.
89.(O Muhammad!) Wan them of the coming of a Day when We shall bring forth a witness against them from each community and We shall bring you forth as a witness against them all; (and it is for that purpose that) We sent down the Book to you which makes everything clear; and serves as a guidance and mercy and glad tidings to those who have submitted to Allah.
90.Surely Allah enjoins justice, kindness and the doing of good, to kith and kin, and forbids all that is shameful, evil and oppressive. He exhorts you so that you may be mindful.
91.And fulfil the covenant, which you have made with Allah and do not break your oaths after having firmly made them, and after having made Allah your witness. Surely Allah knows all that you do.
92.And do not become like the woman who, after having painstakingly spun her yarn, caused it to disintegrate into pieces. You resort to oaths as instruments of mutual deceit so that one people might take greater advantage than another although Allah puts you to the best through this. Surely on the Day of Resurrection he will make clear the truth concerning the matters over which you differed.
93.Had Allah so willed, He would have made you all one single community. However, He lets go astray whomsoever He wills and shows the right way to whomsoever He wills. Surely you shall be called to account regarding what you did.
Surah Al-Najhal
Ayah 93-101
93. Do not make your oaths a means of deceiving one another or else your foot may slip after having been firm and you may suffer evil consequences because of hindering people from the way of Allah. A mighty chastisement awaits you.
94.Do not barter away the covenant of Allah for a paltry gain. Verily that which is with Allah is for better for you, if you only knew.
95.Whatever you have is bound to pass away and whatever is with Allah will last. And We shall surely grant those who have been patient their reward according to he best of what they did.
96.Whosoever acts righteously – whether a man or a woman and embraces belief, We will surely grant him a good life; and will surely grant such persons their reward according to the best of their deeds.
97.Whenever you read the Qur’an seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the accursed.
98.Surely he has no power over those who have faith and who place their trust in their Lord.
99.He has power only over those who take him as their patron and who, under his influence, associate other with Allah in His Divinity.
100.Whenever We replace one verse by another verse – and Allah knows what He should reveal – they are wont to say: ‘Your are nothing but a fabricator [who has invented the Qur’an].’ The fact is that most of them are ignorant of the truth.
101.Tell them: ‘It is the spirit of holiness that has brought it down, by stages, from your Lord, that it might bring firmness to those who believe, and guidance to the right way, and give glad tidings of felicity and success to those who submit to allah.’
Surah Al-Najhal
Ayah 103-110
103.Surely We know well that they say about you: ‘It is only a human being who teaches him,’ [notwithstanding] that he whom they maliciously hint at is of foreign tongue, while this [Qur’an] is plain Arabic speech
C104.Surely Allah will not enable those who do not believe in the signs of Allah to be directed to the right way, and a painful chastisement awaits them.
105.[It is not the Prophet who invents lies], it is rather those who do not believe in the signs of Allah who invent lies. They are liars.
106.Anyone who disbelieves in Allah after having had faith – except he who does so under duress while his heart remains content with faith – and as for one who opens his heart to disbelief – they shall incur Allah’s wrath. A mighty chastisement awaits them.
107.That is because they love the life of this world more than the Hereafter; and Allah does not guide those who are ungrateful to Allah for His favours.
108.They are the ones upon whose hearts and hearing and eyes Allah has set a seal. They are utterly steeped in heedlessness.
109. No doubt they shall be losers in the Hereafter.
110. And surly your Lord will be Ever-Forgiving and Most-Merciful towards those who left their homes after they were persecuted, and who thereafter struggled hard and remained constant.
Surah Al-Nahl
Ayah 111-118
111. [Allah’s judgement will come about them all] on the Day when every one shall come pleading in his defence, and every one shall be fully requited for his deeds and none shall be wronged in the least.
112. Allah sets forth the parable of [the people of] a town who were secure and content and whose sustenance came in abundance from every quarter. But then the people of the town showed ingratitude towards Allah for His bounties, so Allah afflicted them with hunger and fear in punishment for their evil deeds.
113. Most certainly a Messenger came to them from among them; but they rejected him, calling him a liar. Therefor chastisement seized them while they engaged in wrong doing.
114.So eat out of the lawful and good sustenance that Allah has bestowed upon you, and thank Allah for His bounty, if it is Him that you serve.
115. Allah has forbidden you only Carrion, and blood, and the flesh of swine; also any animal over which the name of any other than Allah has been invoked. But whoever eats of them under compelling necessity – neither desiring it nor exceeding the limit of absolute necessity – surely for such action Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most-Merciful.
116. And do not utter falsehoods by letting your tongues declare: ‘This is lawful’ and ‘That is unlawful’, thus fabricating lies against Allah. Surely those who fabricate lies against Allah never prosper.
117. Brief is their enjoyment of the world, and thereafter they shall suffer a painful chastisement.
118. We have already recounted to you what We prohibited to the Jews. In so doing We did not wrong them; it is they who wronged themselves.
Surah An-Nahl
Ayah 119-128
119. But to those who commit evil out of ignorance and then repent ant amend their ways, thereafter your Lord will be Much-Forgiving, Most-Merciful.
120. Indeed Abraham was a whole community by himself, obedient to Allah, exclusively dovoted to Him. And he was never one of those who associated other with Allah in His Divinity.
121.He rendered thanks to Allah for His bounties so that Allah chose him [for His favours] and directed him to the right way.
122.We bestowed good upon him in this world, and in the Hereafter he shall certainly be among the righteous.
123.Then We revealed to you: ‘Follow the way of Abraham with exclusive devotion to Allah. He was not one of those who associated others with Allah in His Divinity.’
124. As for the Sabbath, it was made incumbent only on those who differed about its laws. Certainly your Lord will judge on the Day of Resurrection between them regarding the matters they disputed.
125. (O Prophet!) Call men to the way of your Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and reason with them in the best manner possible. Surely your Lord knows best who has strayed away from His path and He also knows well those who are guided to the right way.
126. If you take retribution, then do so in proportion to the wrong done to you. But if you can bear such conduct with patience, indeed that is best for the steadfast.
127. (O Muhammad!) So bear with patience – and your patience is only because of the help of Allah- and do not grieve over them, nor feel distressed by their evil plans.
128.For surely Allah is with those who hold Him in fear and do good.
Surah-17 Al-Isra
Ayah 1-7
1. Holy is He Who carried His servant by night from the Holy Mosque (in Makkah) to the father Mosque (in Jerusalem) – whose surroundings We have blessed – that We might show him some of Our signs. Indeed He alone is All-hearing, All-Seeing.
2. We gave Moses the Book, and made it a source of guidance for the Children of Israel, commanding: ‘Take no other guardian beside Me.’
3. You are the descendants of those whom We carried (in the Ark) with Noah. He was truly a thankful servant.’
4. Then We clearly declared to the Children of Israel in the Book: ‘Twice you will work corruption in the earth and will act with great arrogance.’
5. So, when the time for the fulfillment of the first prophecy drew near, We raised against you some of Our creatures who were full of might, and they ran over the whole of your land. This was a prophecy that had to be fulfilled.
6. Then We granted you an upper hand against them, and strengthened you with wealth and children, and multiplied your numbers.
7. Whenever you did good, it was to your own advantage; and whenever you committed evil, it was to your own disadvantage. So, when the time of the fulfillment of the second prophecy drew near, (We raised other enemies that would) disfigure your faces and enter the Temple (of Jerusalem) as they had done the first time, and destroy whatever they would lay their hands on.
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 8-17
8. Your Lord may well show mercy to you, but if you revert to your evil behaviour, We shall revert to chastising you. We have made Hell a prison for those who are thankless of Allah’s bounties.
9. Verily this Qur’an guides to the way that is the straight most. To those who believe in it, and to righteous works, it gives the good news that a great reward awaits them;
10. And warns those who do not believe in the Hereafter that We have prepared for them a grievous chastisement.
11. Man prays for evil in the manner he ought to pray for good. Man is ever hasty.
12. We have made night and day as two signs. We made the sign of the night devoid of light, and made the sign of the day radiant that you may seek the bounty of your Lord and know the computation of years and numbers. Thus We have explained everything in detail, to keep everything distinct from the other.
13. We have fastened every man’s omen to his neck. On the Day of Resurrection We shall produce for him his scroll in the shape of a wide open book [saying:]
14. ‘Read your scroll; this Day you are sufficient to take account of yourself.’
15. He who follows the right way shall do so 16. When We decide to destroy a town We command the affluent among them, whereupon they commit sins in it, then the decree [of chastisement] becomes due against them and then We destroy that town utterly.
17. Many a generation has been destroyed by Our command since Noah’s time. Your Lord is well aware and fully observant of the sins of His servants.
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 18-27
18. Whosoever desires immediate benefits in this fleeting life, We hasten to grant the benefits in the present life that We please to whomsoever We like but thereafter We decree for him Hell wherein he shall burn, condemned and rejected.
19. But he who desires the Hereafter and strives for it as he should, and is a true believer, his striving will come to fruition
20. All of these as well as those, We shall provide the wherewithal of this life in the present world by dint of your Lord’s bounty; and from none shall be whithheld the bounty of your Lord.
21. See, how We have exalted some above others in this world, and in the Life to Come they will have higher ranks and greater degrees of excellence over others.
22. Do not set up any other god beside Allah lest you are rendered humiliated and helpless.
23. Your Lord has decreed; [i] Do not worship ant but Him; [ii] Be good to your parents; and should bot or any one of them attain old age with you, do not say to them even ‘fie” neither chide them, but speak to them with honour,
24. And be humble and tender to them and say: ‘Lord! Show mercy to them as they nurtured me when I was small.’
25. Your Lord is best aware of what is in your hearts. If you are righteous, He will indeed forgive those who repent and revert (to serving Allah).
26. [iii] Give to the near of kin his due, and also to the needy and the wayfarers. [iv] Do not squander your wealth wastefully;
27. For those who squander wastefully are Satan’s brothers and Satan is ever ungrateful to his Lord.
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 28-39
28.[v] And when you must turn away from them – from the destitute, the near of kin, the needy, and the wayfarers – in pursuit of God’s mercy which you expect to receive, then speak to them kindly. 29. [vi] Do not keep your hand fastened to your neck nor outspread it, altogether widespread, for you will be left sitting rebuked, destitute.
30. Certainly your Lord makes plentiful the provision of whomsoever He wills and straitens it for whomsoever He will. He is well aware and is fully observant of all that relates to His servants.
31. [vii] Do not kill your children for fear of want. We will provide for them and for you. Surely killing them is a great sin.
32. [viii] Do not even approach fornication for it is a monstrous act, and an evil way.
33. [ix] Do not kill any person, whom Allah has forbidden to kill, except with right. We have granted the heir of him who has been wrongfully killed the authority to (claim retribution); so let him not exceed in slaying. He shall be helped.
34. [x] And do not even go near the property of the orphan, except that it be in the best manner, till he attains his maturity. [xi] And fulfil the covenant, for you will be called to account regarding the covenant.
35. [xii] Give full measure when you measure, and weigh with even scales. That is fair, and better in consequence.
36. [xiii] Do not follow that of which you have no knowledge. Surely, the hearing, the sight, the heart – each of these shall be called to account.
38. [xiv] Do not strut about the land in arrogance. Surely, you cannot cleave the earth, nor reach the heights of the mountains in stature.
39. The wickedness of each of that is hateful to your Lord.
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 39-42
39. That is part of the wisdom your Lord has revealed to you. So do not set up any deity beside Allah lest you are cast into Hell rebuked and deprived of every good.
40. What! Your Lord has favoured you with sons and has taken for Himself daughters from among the angels. You are indeed uttering a monstrous lie.
41. We have expounded (the truth) in diverse ways in this Qur’an, that they might take it to heart but all this only aggravates their aversion.
42. Say (O Muhammad!): ‘Had there been other gods with Him, as they claim, they would surely have attempted to find a way to the Lord of the Throne.
43. Holy is He and far above all that they say.
44. The seven heavens, the earth, and all within them give glory to Him. There is nothing but gives glory to Him with His praise, but you do not understand their hymns of praise. He is much forbearing, exceedingly forgiving.’
45. When you recite the Qur’an, We place a hidden barrier between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter.
46. And we place a covering on their hearts that they do not comprehend it, and We cause a heaviness in their ears; and when you mention the One and Only Lord in the Qur’an, they turn their backs in aversion.
40. We are well aware what they wish to hear when they listen to you, and what they say when they confer in whispers, when the wrong doers say: ‘You are only following one who is bewitched.’
41.How strange are the things they invent about you. They have altogether strayed, and are unable to find the right way.
42. They say: ‘When we are turned to bones and particles (of dust), shall we truly be raised up as a new creation?’
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 50-58
50. Tell them: ‘(You will be raised afresh even if) you turn to stone or iron;
51. Or any other form of creation you deem hardest of all (to recreate from).’ They will bring us back (to life)?’ Say: ‘He Who created you in the first instance.’ They will shake their heads at you and inquire: ‘When will that be?’ Say: ‘Perhaps that time might have drawn near;
52. On the Day when He will call you and you will rise praising Him in response to His call, and you will believe that you had lain in this state only for a while.
53. Tell My servants (O Muhammad!), to always say that which is best. Verily it is Satan who sows discord among men. Satan indeed is an open enemy to man.
54. Your Lord knows you best. He will have mercy on you if He wills and chastise you if He wills. We have not charged you, (O Muhammad!), to be an overseer over them.
55. Your Lord knows all who dwell in the heavens and the earth. We have exalted some Prophets over other, and We gave the Psalms to David.
56. Tell them: ‘Call upon those whom you fancy to be [your helpers] beside Him! They have no power to remove any affliction from you, nor can they shift it.’
57. Those whom they call upon are themselves seeking the means of access to their Lord, each trying to be nearer to Him. They crave for His mercy and dread His chastisement. Surely your Lord’s punishment is to be feared.
58. There is not a town but that We shall destroy it or upon which We shall inflict severe chastisement before the Day of Resurrection. This is written down in the Eternal Book (of Allah).
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 59-66
59. Nothing hindered Us from sending Our signs except that the people of olden times rejected them as lies. We publicly sent the shecamel to the Thamud to open their eyes but they wronged her. We never send Our signs except to cause men to fear.
60. And recall when We said to you, (O Muhammad!), that your Lord encompasses these people; and that We have made the vision which We have shown you, and the tree accursed in the Qur’an, to be only a trial for men. We go about warning them, but each warning leads to greater transgression.
61. And recall when We asked the angels to prostrate themselves before Adam, all prostrated themselves except Iblis, who said: ‘Shall I prostrate myself before him whom You created of clay’
62. He then continued: ‘Look! This is he whom You have honoured above me! If You will grant me respite till the Day of Resurrection, I shall uproot the whole of his progeny barring only a few.’
63. Thereupon He retorted: ‘Be gone! Hell shall be the recompense – and a most ample one – of whosoever of them follows you.
64. Tempt with your call all whom you wish. Muster against them all your forces – your cavalry and your foot soldiers; share with them riches and offspring, and seduce them with rosy promises – and Satan’s promise is nothing but a deception –
65. But know well that you will have no power against My servants. Your Lord is sufficient for them to place their trust in.’
66. Your Lord is He Who drives your vessels across the seas that you may seek of His bounty. He is ever merciful towards you.
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 67-75
67. When a calamity whom you invoke forsakes you except Him. But when He delivers you safely to the shore you turn away from Him, for a man is indeed most thankless.
68. Do you, then, feel secure against His causing you to be swallowed up by a tract of the earth, or letting loose a deadly whirlwind charged with stones towards you, and then you will find none to protect you?
69. Or do you feel secure that He will not cause you to go back to the sea, and let a tempest loose upon you and then drown you for your ingratitude whereupon you will find none even to inquire of Us what happened to you?
70. Indeed, We honoured the progeny of Adam, and bort them across land and sea and provided them with good things for their sustenance, and exalted them above many of Our creatures.
71. Then think of the Day We shall summon every community with its leader. Those who are given their records in their right hands shall read the record of their doings and shall not be wronged a whit.
72. Those who lived in this world as blind shall live as blind in the Life to Come; rather, he will be even farther astray than if he were blind.
73. (O Muhammad!) They had all but tempted you away from what you may invent something else in Our Name. Had you done so, they would have taken you as their trusted friend.
74. Indeed, had We not strengthened you, you might have inclined to them a little,
75. Whereupon We would have made you taste double [the chastisement] in the world and double [the chastisement] after death, and then you would have found none to help you against Us.
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 76-86
76. They were bent upon uprooting you from this land and driving you away from it. But were they to succeed, they would not be able to remain after you more than a little while.
77. This has been Our way with the Messengers whom We sent before you. You will find no change in Our way.
78. Establish Prayer from the declining of the sun to the darkness of the night; and hold fast to the recitation of the Qur'an at dawn, for the recitation of the Qur’an at dawn is witnessed.
79. And rise from sleep during the night as well, an additional Prayer for you; possibly your Lord will raise you to an honoured position.
80. And pray: ‘My Lord! Cause me to enter wherever it be, with truth, and cause me to exit, wherever it be, with truth, and support me with authority from Yourself.’
81. And proclaim: ‘The truth has come, and falsehood has vanished. Surely falsehood is ever bound to vanish.’
82. What We are sending down in the course of revealing the Qur’an is a healing and a grace for those who have faith; but it adds only to the ruin of the wrong-doers.
83. Whenever We bestow favours upon man, he arrogantly turns away and draws aside; and whenever evil visits him, he is in utter despair.
84. Say (O Prophet!): ‘Each one acts according to his own manner. Your Lord know well who is best guided to the right path.’
85. They ask you about ‘the spirit’. Say: ‘The spirit comes by the command of my Lord, but you have been given only a little knowledge.’
86. Had We willed, We could take away what We have revealed to you, then you would find none to help you in recovering it from Us.
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 87-96
87. [Whatever you have received] is nothing but grace from your Lord. Indeed His favour to you is great.
88. Say: ‘Surely, if men and jinn were to get together to produce the like of this Qur’an, they will never be able to produce the like of it, howsoever they might help one another.
89. We have explained things for people in the Qur’an in diverse ways to make them understand the Message, yet most people obstinately persist in disbelieve.
90. They said: ‘We shall not accept your Message until you cause a spring to gush forth for us from the earth;
91. Or that there be a garden of palms and vines for you and then you cause rivers to abundantly flow forth through them;
92. Or you cause the sky to fall on us in pieces as you claimed, or you bring Allah and the angels before us, face to face;
93. Or that there come to be for you a house of gold, or that you ascend to the sky-though we shall not believe in your ascension [to the skies]- until you bring down a book for us that we can read.’ Say to them (O Muhammad!): ‘Holy is my Lord! Am I anything else than a human being, who bears a message (from Allah)?’
94. Whenever guidance came to people, nothing prevented men from believing except that they said: ‘Has Allah sent a human being as Messenger?’
95. Say: ‘Had angels been walking about in peace on the earth, We would surely have sent to them an angel from the heavens as Messengers.’
96. Tell them (O Prophet!): ‘Allah suffices as a witness between you and me. Allah is well aware and fully observes everything pertaining to His creatures.’
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 97-104
97. Whomsoever Allah guides is rightly guided; and whomsoever Allah lets go astray, you shall find none – apart from Him- who could protect him. We shall muster them all on the Day of Resurrection, on their faces, blind and dumb and deaf. Hell shall be their refuge. Every time its fire subsides, We will intensify for them its flame.
98. That will be their recompense because they disbelieved in Our signs and said: ‘What! When we shall be reduced to bones and particles (of dust), shall we be raised again as a new creation?’
99. Have they not perceived that Allah, Who has created the heavens and the earth, has the power to create the like of them? He has fixed a term for them about which there is no doubt. And yet the wrongdoers obstinately persist in disbelief.
100. Tell them (O Prophet!): ‘Even if you owned the treasures of my Lord’s mercy you would have held them back for fear of spending them.’ Man is indeed ever niggardly.
101.We granted Moses nine clear signs. Ask the Children of Israel about it: when these signs came fort, Pharaoh said to him: ‘O Moses, I think that you are bewitched’
102.Moses replied: ‘Your know well that no one but the Lord of the heavens and the earth has sent these as eye-opening proofs. I truly think, O Pharaoh, that you are indeed doomed.’
103.At last Pharaoh decided to uproot Moses and the Children of Israel from the land, but We drowned him together with all who were with him;
104.And thereafter We said to the Children of Israel: ‘Now dwell in the land, but when the promised time of the Hereafter comes, We shall bring you all together.’
Surah Al-Isra
Ayah 105-111
105. We have sent down the Qur’an with the truth, and it is with the truth that it has descended. And We have not sent you but to proclaim good news and give warning.
106. We have revealed the Qur’an in parts that you may recite it to people slowly and with deliberation; and (for that reason) We have revealed it gradually [to suit particular occasions].
107. Tell them, (O Prophet!): ‘Believe in it, or do not believe’; when it is recited to those who were given the knowledge before its revelation, they fall down upon their faces in prostration,
108. And say: ‘Glory be to our Lord. Surely the promise of our Lord was bound to be fulfilled.
109.And they fall down upon their faces, weeping, and their humility increases when they hear recitation of the Qur'an.
110. Say to them (O Prophet!): ‘Call upon Him as Allah or call upon Him as al-Rahman; call Him by whichever name you will, all His names are good. Neither offers your Prayer in too loud a voice, nor in a voice too low; but follow a middle course.’
111. And say: ‘All praise be to Allah Who has neither taken to Him a son, nor has He any partner in His kingdom; nor does he need, out of weakness, anyone to protect Him.’ So magnify Him greatly.
Surah-18 Al-Kahf
Ayah 1-4
1. Praise be to Allah, Who have revealed to His servant the Book shorn of all crookedness;
2. An unerringly straight Book, meant to warn of a stern punishment from Allah, and to proclaim, to those who believe and work righteous deeds, the tiding that theirs shall be a good reward
3. Wherein they shall abide for ever;
4. And also to warn those who say: ‘allah has taken to Himself a son’,
Surah Al-Kahf
Ayah 5-15
5. A thing of which they have no knowledge, neither they nor did their ancestors. Dreadful is the word that comes out of their mouths. What they utter is merely a lie.
6. (O Muhammad!): If they do not believe in this message, you will perhaps torment yourself to death with grief, sorrowing over them.
7. Surely, We have made all that is on the earth an embellishment for it in order to test people as to who of them is better in conduct.
8. In the ultimate, We shall reduce all that is on the earth to a barren plain.
9. Do you think that the People of the Cave and the Inscription were one of Our wondrous signs?
10. When those youths sought refuge in the Cave and said: ‘Our Lord! Grant us mercy from Yourself and provide for us rectitude in our affairs’,
11. We lulled them to sleep in that cave for a number of years.
12. And then awakened them so that We might see which of the two parties could best tell the length of their stay.
13. We narrate to you their true story. They were a party of young men who had faith in their Lord, and we increased them in guidance.
14. And strengthened their hearts when they stood up and proclaimed: ‘Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. We shall call upon no other god beside Him; (for if we did so), we shall be uttering a blasphemy.’
15. (Then they conferred among themselves and said): ‘These men, our own people, have taken others as gods beside Him: why do they not bring any clear evidence that they indeed are gods? Who can be more unjust than he who foists a lie on Allah?
Surah Al-Kahf
Ayah 16-20
16. And now that you have dissociated yourselves from them and from whatever they worship beside Allah, go and seek refuge in the Cave. Your Lord will extend His mercy to you and will provide for you the means for the disposal of your affairs.
17. Had you looked at them in the Cave it would have appeared to you that when the sun rose, it moves away from their cave to the right; and when it set, it turned away from them to the left, while they remained in a spacious hollow in the Cave. This is one of the Signs of Allah. Whomsoever Allah guides, he alone is led aright; and whomsoever Allah let go astray, you will find for him no guardian to direct him.
18. on seeing them you would fancy them to be awake though they were asleep; and ?We caused them to turn their sides to their right and to their left, and their dog sat stretching out its tow forelegs on the threshold of the Cave. Had you looked upon them you would have certainly fled away from them, their sight filling you with terror.
19. Likewise, We roused them in a miraculous way that they might question one another. One of them asked: ‘How long did you remain (in this state)?’ The others said: ‘We remained so for a day, or part of a day.’ Then they said: ‘Your Lord knows better how long we remained in this state. Now send one of us to the city with this coin of ours and let him see who has the best food, and let him buy some provisions from there. Let him be cautious and not inform anyone of our whereabouts.
20. For if they should come upon us, they will stone us to death or force us to revert to their faith whereafter we shall never prosper.’
Surah Al-Kahf
Ayah 21-27
21. thus did We make their case known to the people of the city so that they might know that Allah’s promise is true, and that there is absolutely no doubt that the Hour will come to pass. But instead of giving thought to this, they disputed with one another concerning the People of the Cave, some saying: ‘Build a wall over them. Their Lord alone knows best about them.’ But those who prevailed over their affairs said: ‘We shall build a place of worship over them.’
22. Some will say concerning them: ‘They were three and their dog, the fourth’: and some will say: ‘They were five, and their dog, the sixth’ – all this being merely guesswork; and still others will say: ‘They were seven, and their dog, the eighth.’ Say: ‘My Lord knows their number best. Few know their correct number. So, do not dispute concerning their number, except cursorily, and do not question anyone about them.
23. and never say about anything: “I shall certainly do this tomorrow”
24. Unless Allah should will it. And should you forget, (and make such a statement), remember your Lord and say: “I expect my Lord to guide me to what is nearer to rectitude than this.”
25. They remained in the Cave for three hundred years; and some others add nine more years.
26. Say: ‘allah knows best how long they remained in it; for only He knows all that is hidden in the heavens and the earth. How well He sees; how well He hears! The creatures have no other guardian than Him; He allows none to share His authority.’
27. (O Prophet!): Recite to them from the Book of your Lord what has been revealed to you, for none may change His words; (and were you to make any change in His words) you will find no refuge from Him.
Surah Al-Kahf
Ayah 28-34
28. keep yourself content whit those who call upon their Lord, morning and evening, seeking His pleasure, and do not let your eyes pass beyond them. Do you seek the pomp and glitter of the world? Do not follow him whose heart We have caused to be heedless of Our remembrance, and who follows his desires, and whose attitude is of excess.
29. And proclaim: ‘This is the truth from your Lord. Now let him who will, believe; and let him who will, disbelieve. We have prepared a Fire for the wrong-doers whose billowing folds encompass them. If they ask for water, they will be served with a drink like dregs of oil that will scaled their faces. How dreadful a drink, and how evil an abode!
30. As for those who believe and do good We shall not cause their reward to be lost.
31. They shall dwell in the Gardens of Eternity – Gardens beneath which streams flow. There they will be adorned with bracelets of gold, will be arrayed in green garments of silk and rich brocade, and will recline on raised couches. How excellent is their reward, and how nice their resting-place!’
32. (O Muhammad!) : Propound a parable to them. There were two men of whom We bestowed upon one of them two vineyards, surrounding both of them with date-palms and putting a tillage in between.
33. both the vineyards yielded abundant produce without failure and We caused a stream to flow in their midst
34. So the owner had fruit in abundance and he said to his neighbour, while conversing with him: ‘I have greater wealth than you and I am stronger than you in numbers.’
Surah Al-Kahf
Ayah 35-45
35.Then he entered his vineyards and said, wronging himself: ‘Surely, I do not believe that all this will never perish.
36.Nor do I believe that the Hour of Resurrection will ever come to pass. And even if I am returned to my Lord, I shall find a better place than this.’
37.While conversing with him his neighbour exclaimed: “Do you deny Him Who created you of dust, then of a drop of sperm, and then fashioned you into a complete man”?
38.As for myself, Allah alone is my Lord, and I associate none with my Lord in His divinity.
39.When you entered your vineyard, why did you not say: “Whatever Allah will shall come to pass, for there is no power save with Allah!” If you find me less than yourself in wealth and children
40.it may well be that my Lord will give me something better than your vineyard, and send a calamity upon your vineyard from the heaven and it will be reduced to a barren waste,
41.Or the water of your vineyard will be drained deep into the ground so that you will not be able to seek it out.’
42.Eventually all his produce was destroyed and he began to wring his hands in sorrow at the loss of what he had spent on it, and on seeing it fallen down upon its trellises, saying: ‘Would I had not associated anyone with my Lord in His divinity.”
43.And there was no host, beside Allah, to help him, nor could he be of any help to himself.
44.[Then he knew] that all power of protection rests with Allah, the True One. He is the best to reward, the best to determine the end of things.
45.(O Prophet!): Propound to them the parable of the present life: it is like the vegetation of the earth, which flourished luxuriantly when it mingled with the water that We sent down from the sky, but after that, the same vegetation turned into stubble, which the winds blew about. Allah alone has the power over all things.
Surah Al-Kahf
Ayah 46-53
46. Wealth and children are an adornment of the life of the world. But the deeds of lasting righteousness are the best in the sight of your Lord in reward, and far better a source of hope.
47. Bear in mind the Day when We shall set the mountains in motion and you will find the earth void and bare. On that, Day We shall muster all men together, leaving none of them behind.
48. They shall be brought before your Lord, all lined up, and shall be told: ‘Now, indeed, you have come before Us in the manner, We created you in the first instance, although you thought that We shall not appoint a tryst [with Us].’
49. And then the Record of their deeds shall be placed before them and you will see the guilty full of fear for what it contains, and will say: ‘Woe to us! What a Record is this! It leaves nothing, big or small, but encompasses it.’