1. Há Mím.
2. The revelation of the Book is from Allah the Exalted in Power, Full of
Wisdom.
3. We created not the heavens and the earth and all between them but for just
ends, and for a term appointed: but those who reject Faith turn away from that
whereof they are warned.
4. Say: "Do ye see what it is ye invoke besides Allah? Show me what it is they
have created on earth, or have they a share in the heavens? Bring me a Book
(revealed) before this, or any remnant of knowledge (ye may have), if ye are
telling the truth!
5. And who is more astray than one who invokes, besides Allah, such as will not
answer him to the Day of Judgment, and who (in fact) are unconscious of their
call (to them)?
6. And when mankind are gathered together (at the Resurrection), they will be
hostile to them and deny that (men) had worshipped them!
7. When Our Clear Signs are rehearsed to them, the Unbelievers say, of the Truth
when it comes to them: "This is evident sorcery!"
8. Or do they say, "He has forged it"? Say: "Had I forged it, then ye have no
power to help me against Allah. He knows best of that whereof ye talk (so
glibly)! Enough is He for a witness between me and you! And he is Oft-Forgiving,
Most Merciful."
9. Say: "I am not an innovation among the messengers, nor do I know what will be
done with me or with you. I follow but that which is revealed to me by
inspiration; I am but a Warner open and clear."
10. Say: "See ye? If (this teaching) be from Allah, and ye reject it, and a
witness from among the Children of Israel testifies to its similarity (with
earlier scripture), and has believed while ye are arrogant, (how unjust ye are!)
truly, Allah guides not a people unjust."
11. The Unbelievers say of those who believe: "If (this Message) were a good
thing, (such men) would not have gone to it first, before us!" And seeing that
they guide not themselves thereby, they will say, "This is an old falsehood!"
12. And before this, was the Book of Moses as a guide and a mercy: and this Book
confirms (it) in the Arabic tongue; to admonish the unjust, and as Glad Tidings
to those who do right.
13. Verily those who say, "Our Lord is Allah," and remain firm (on that Path),-
on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.
14. Such shall be Companions of the Gardens, dwelling therein (for aye): a
recompense for their (good) deeds.
15. We have enjoined on man kindness to his parents: in pain did his mother bear
him, and in pain did she give him birth. The carrying of the (child) to his
weaning is (a period of) thirty months. At length, when he reaches the age of
full strength and attains forty years, he says, "O my Lord! Grant me that I may
be grateful for Thy favor which Thou has bestowed upon me, and upon both my
parents, and that I may work righteousness such as Thou mayest approve; and be
gracious to me in my issue. Truly have I turned to Thee and truly do I submit
(to Thee) in Islâm."
16. Such are they from whom We shall accept the best of their deeds and pass by
their ill deeds: (they shall be) among the Companions of the Garden: a promise
of truth, which was made to them (in this life).
17. But (there is one) who says to his parents, "Fie on you! Do ye hold out the
promise to me that I shall be raised up, even though generations have passed
before me (without rising again)?" And they two seek Allah's aid, (and rebuke
the son): "Woe to thee! Have faith! For the promise of Allah is true." But he
says, "This is nothing but tales of the ancients!"
18. Such are they against whom proved true sentence among the previous
generations of Jinns and men, that have passed away; for they will be (utterly)
lost.
19. And to all are (assigned) degrees according to the deeds which they (have
done), and in order that (Allah) may recompense their deeds, and no injustice be
done to them.
20. And on the Day that the Unbelievers will be placed before the Fire, (It will
be said to them): "Ye received your good things in the life of the world, and ye
took your pleasure out of them: but today shall ye be recompensed with a
Chastisement of humiliation: for that ye were arrogant on earth without just
cause, and that ye (ever) transgressed."
21. Mention (Hüd) one of Àd's (own) brethren: behold, he warned his people
beside the winding Sand-tracts: but there have been warners before him and after
him: "Worship ye none other than Allah: truly I fear for you the Chastisement of
a Mighty Day."
22. They said: "Hast thou come in order to turn us aside from our gods? Then
bring upon us the (calamity) with which thou dost threaten us, if thou art
telling the truth!"
23. He said: "The Knowledge (of when it will come) is only with Allah: I
proclaim to you the mission on which I have been sent: but I see that ye are a
people in ignorance!"..
24. Then, when they saw a cloud advancing towards their valleys, they said,
"This cloud will give us rain!" "Nay, it is the (Calamity) ye were asking to be
hastened!- a wind wherein is a Grievous Chastisement!
25. "Everything will it destroy by the command of its Lord!" Then by the morning
they - nothing was to be seen but (the ruins of) their houses! Thus do We
recompense those given to sin!
26. And We had firmly established them in a (prosperity and) power which We have
not given to you (ye Quraish!) and We had endowed them with (faculties of)
hearing, seeing, heart and intellect: but of no profit to them were their
(faculties of) hearing, sight, and heart and intellect, when they went on
rejecting the Signs of Allah: and they were (completely) encircled by that which
they used to mock at!
27. We destroyed aforetime towns round about you; and We have shown the Signs in
various ways, that they may turn (to Us).
28. Why then was no help forthcoming to them from those whom they worshipped as
gods, besides Allah, as a means of access (to Allah)? Nay, they left them in the
lurch: but that was their falsehood and their invention.
29. Behold, We turned towards thee a company of Jinns (quietly) listening to the Qurán: when they stood in the presence thereof, they said, "Listen in silence!"
When the (reading) was finished, they returned to their people, to warn them.
30. They said, "O our people! We have heard a Book revealed after Moses,
confirming what came before it: it guides (men) to the Truth and to a Straight
Path.
31. "O our people, hearken to the one who invites (you) to Allah, and believe in
him: He will forgive you your faults, and deliver you from a Chastisement
Grievous.
32. "If any does not hearken to the one who invites (us) to Allah, he cannot
escape in the earth, and no protectors can he have besides Allah: such men (are)
in manifest error."
33. See they not that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth, and never
wearied with their creation, is able to give life to the dead? Yea, verily He
has power over all things.
34. And on the Day that the Unbelievers will be placed before the Fire, (they
will be asked,) "Is this not the Truth?" they will say, "Yea, by our Lord!" (He
will say:) "Then taste ye the Chastisement, for that ye were wont to deny
(Truth)!"
35. Therefore patiently persevere, as did (all) messengers of firm resolution;
and be in no haste about the (Unbelievers). On the Day that they see the
(Punishment) promised them, (it will be) as if they had not tarried more than an
hour in a single day. (Thine but) to proclaim the Message: but shall any be
destroyed except those who transgress?
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