1. Alif. Lám. Rá.
These are the Ayats of Revelation,- of a Qurán that makes things clear.
2. Often will those who disbelieve, wish that
they had been Muslims.
3. Leave them alone, to eat and enjoy, and let
(false) hope distract them soon. For they will soon know.
4. Never did We destroy a population that had
not a term decreed and assigned beforehand.
5. Neither can a people anticipate its term, nor
delay it.
6. They say: "O thou to whom the Message is
being revealed! truly thou art mad (or possessed)!
7. "Why bringest thou not angels to us if it be
that thou hast the Truth?"
8. We send not the angels down except for just
cause: if they came (to the ungodly), behold! no respite would they
have!
9. We have, without doubt, sent down the
Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption).
10. We did send messengers before thee amongst
the sects of old:
11. But never came a messenger to them but they
mocked him.
12. Even so do we let it creep into the hearts
of the sinners -
13. They do not believe in the Message, such has
been the way of those who went before them.
14. Even if We opened out to them a gate from
heaven, and they were to continue (all day) ascending therein,
15. They would only say: "Our eyes have been
intoxicated: Nay, we have been bewitched by sorcery."
16. It is We Who have set out constellations
signs in the heavens, and made them fair-seeming to (all) beholders;
17. And (moreover) We have guarded them from
every accursed Satan.
18. But any that gains a hearing by stealth, is
pursued by a fiery comet, bright (to see).
19. And the earth We have spread out (like a
carpet); set thereon mountains firm and immovable; and produced therein
all kinds of things in due balance.
20. And We have provided therein means of
subsistence,- for you and for those for whose sustenance ye are not
responsible.
21. And there is not a thing but its (sources
and) treasures (inexhaustible) are with Us; but We only send down
thereof in due and ascertainable measures.
22. And We send the fecundating winds, then
cause the rain to descend from the sky, therewith providing you with
water (in abundance), though ye are not the guardians of its stores.
23. And verily, it is We Who give life, and Who
give death: it is We Who remain inheritors (after all else passes away).
24. To Us are known those of you who hasten
forward, and those who lag behind.
25. Assuredly it is thy Lord Who will gather
them together: for He is Perfect in Wisdom and Knowledge.
26. We created man from sounding clay, from mud
molded into shape;
27. And the Jinn race, We had created before,
from the fire of a scorching wind.
28. Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am
about to create man, from sounding clay from mud molded into shape;
29. "When I have fashioned him (in due
proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in
obeisance unto him."
30. So the angels prostrated themselves, all of
them together:
31. Not so Iblis: he refused to be among those
who prostrated themselves.
32. (Allah) said: "O Iblis! what is your reason
for not being among those who prostrated themselves?"
33. (Iblis) said: "I am not one to prostrate
myself to man, whom Thou didst create from sounding clay, from mud
molded into shape."
34. (Allah) said: "Then get thee out from here;
for thou art rejected, accursed.
35. "And the Curse shall be on thee till the day
of Judgment."
36. (Iblis) said: "O my Lord! give me then
respite till the Day the (dead) are raised."
37. (Allah) said: "Respite is granted thee -
38. "Till the Day of the Time Appointed."
39. (Iblis) said: "O my Lord! because Thou hast
put me in the wrong, I will make (wrong) fair-seeming to them on the
earth, and I will put them all in the wrong,-
40. "Except Thy chosen servants among them."
41. (Allah) said: "This is for me a Straight
Path.
42. "For over My servants no authority shalt
thou have, except such as put themselves in the wrong and follow thee."
43. And verily, Hell is the promised abode for
them all!
44. To it are seven Gates: for each of those
Gates is a (special) class (of sinners) assigned.
45. The righteous (will be) amid Gardens and
fountains (of clear-flowing water).
46. (Their greeting will be): "Enter ye here in
peace and security."
47. And We shall remove from their hearts any
lurking sense of injury: (they will be) brothers (joyfully) facing each
other on raised couches.
48. There no sense of fatigue shall touch them,
nor shall they (ever) be asked to leave.
49. Tell My servants that I am indeed the
Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful;
50. And that My Chastisement will be indeed the
most grievous Chastisement.
51. Tell them about the guests of Abraham.
52. When they entered his presence and said,
"Peace!" He said, "We feel afraid of you!"
53. They said: "Fear not! We give thee glad
tidings of a son endowed with knowledge."
54. He said: "Do ye give me glad tidings even
though old age has seized me? Of what, then, is your good news?"
55. They said: "We give thee glad tidings in
truth: be not then in despair!"
56. He said: "And who despairs of the mercy of
his Lord, but such as go astray?"
57. Abraham said: "What then is the business on
which ye (have come), O ye messengers (of Allah)?"
58. They said: "We have been sent to a people
(deep) in sin,
59. "Excepting the adherents of Lüt: them We are
certainly (charged) to save (from harm),- All -
60. "Except his wife, who, We have ascertained,
will be among those who will lag behind."
61. At length when the messengers arrived among
the adherents of Lüt,
62. He said: "Ye appear to be uncommon folk."
63. They said: "Yea, we have come to thee to
accomplish that of which they doubt.
64. "We have come to thee with the truth, and
assuredly we tell the truth.
65. "Then travel by night with thy household,
when a portion of the night (yet remains), and do thou go behind them:
let no one amongst you look back, but pass on whithe f64 r ye are
ordered."
66. And We made known this decree to him, that
the last remnants of those (sinners) should be cut off by the morning.
67. The inhabitants of the City came in (mad)
joy (at news of the young men).
68. Lüt said: "These are my guests: disgrace me
not:
69. "But fear Allah, and shame me not."
70. They said: "Did we not forbid thee (to
speak) for all and sundry?"
71. He said: "There are my daughters (to marry),
if ye must act (so)."
72. Verily, by thy life (O Prophet), in their
wild intoxication, they wander in distraction, to and fro.
73. But the (mighty) Blast overtook them at
sunrise,
74. And We turned (the cities) upside down, and
rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay.
75. Behold! in this are Signs for those who by
tokens do understand.
76. And the (cities were) right on the
high-road.
77. Behold! in this is a sign for those who
believed.
78. And the Companions of the Wood were also
wrong-doers;
79. So We exacted retribution from them. They
were both on an open highway, plain to see.
80. The Companions of the Rocky Tract also
rejected the messengers:
81. We sent them Our Sings, but they persisted
in turning away from them.
82. Out of the mountains did they hew (their)
edifices, (feeling themselves) secure.
83. But the (mighty) Blast seized them of a
morning,
84. And of no avail to them was all that they
did (with such art and care)!
85. We created not the heavens, the earth, and
all between them, but for just ends. And the Hour is surely coming (when
this will be manifest). So overlook (any human faults) with gracious
forgiveness.
86. For verily it is thy Lord Who is the
All-Creator, knowing all things.
87. And We have bestowed upon thee the Seven
Oft-repeated (verses) and the Grand Qurán.
88. Strain not thine eyes. (Wistfully) at what
We have bestowed on certain classes of them, nor grieve over them: but
lower thy wing (in gentleness) to the believers.
89. And say: "I am indeed he that warneth openly
and without ambiguity,"-
90. (Of just such wrath) as We sent down on
those who divided (Scripture into arbitrary parts),-
91. (So also on such) as have made Qurán into
shreds (as they please).
92. Therefore, by thy Lord, We will, of a
surety, call them to account,
93. For all their deeds.
94. Therefore expound openly what thou art
commanded, and turn away from those who join false gods with Allah.
95. For sufficient are We unto thee against
those who scoff,-
96. Those who adopt, with Allah, another god:
but soon will they come to know.
97. We do indeed know how thy heart is
distressed at what they say.
98. But celebrate the praises of thy Lord, and
be of those who prostrate themselves in adoration.
99. And serve thy Lord until there come unto
thee the Hour that is Certain.
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