1. AlifLāmMīm.
[These letters are one of the miracles of the Qur'ān, and none but
Allāh (Alone) knows their meanings.]
2. The revelation of the Book (this Qur'ān) is
from the Lord of the 'Alamīn (mankind, jinns and all that exists) in which there
is not doubt!
3. Or say they: "He (Muhammad  ) has
fabricated it?" Nay, it is the truth from your Lord, that you may warn a people to
whom no warner has come before you (O Muhammad ), in order that they may be guided.
4. Allāh it is He Who has created the heavens
and the earth, and all that is between them in six Days. Then He Istawā (rose
over) the Throne (in a manner that suits His Majesty). You (mankind) have none, besides
Him, as a Walī (protector or helper etc.) or an intercessor. Will you not then
remember (or be admonished)?
5. He arranges (every) affair from the heavens
to the earth, then it (affair) will go up to Him, in one Day, the space whereof is a
thousand years of your reckoning (i.e. reckoning of our present world's time).
6. That is He, the AllKnower of the unseen and
the seen, the AllMighty, the Most Merciful.
7. Who made everything He has created good, and
He began the creation of man from clay.
8. Then He made his offspring from semen of
worthless water (male and female sexual discharge).
9. Then He fashioned him in due proportion, and
breathed into him the soul (created by Allāh for that person), and He gave you hearing
(ears), sight (eyes) and hearts. Little is the thanks you give!
10. And they say: "When we are (dead and
become) lost in the earth, shall we indeed be recreated anew?" Nay, but they deny the
Meeting with their Lord!
11. Say: "The angel of death, who is set
over you, will take your souls, then you shall be brought to your Lord."
12. And if you only could see when the Mujrimūn
(criminals, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, etc.) shall hang their heads before their
Lord (saying): "Our Lord! We have now seen and heard, so send us back (to the world),
we will do righteous good deeds. Verily! We now believe with certainty."
13. And if We had willed, surely! We would have
given every person his guidance, but the Word from Me took effect (about evildoers),
that I will fill Hell with jinn and mankind together.
14. Then taste you (the torment of the Fire)
because of your forgetting the Meeting of this Day of yours, (and) surely! We too will
forget you, so taste you the abiding torment for what you used to do.
15. Only those believe in Our Ayāt (proofs,
evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), who, when they are reminded of them
fall down prostrate, and glorify the Praises of their Lord, and they are not proud.
16. Their sides forsake their beds, to invoke
their Lord in fear and hope, and they spend (charity in Allāh's Cause) out of what We
have bestowed on them.
17. No person knows what is kept hidden for
them of joy as a reward for what they used to do.
18. Is then he who is a believer like him who
is Fāsiq (disbeliever and disobedient to Allāh)? Not equal are they.
19. As for those who believe (in the Oneness of
Allāh Islāmic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, for them are Gardens (Paradise)
as an entertainment, for what they used to do.
20. And as for those who are Fāsiqūn (disbelievers
and disobedient to Allāh), their abode will be the Fire, every time they wish to get away
therefrom, they will be put back thereto, and it will be said to them: "Taste you the
torment of the Fire which you used to deny."
21. And verily, We will make them taste of the
near torment (i.e. the torment in the life of this world, i.e. disasters, calamities,
etc.) prior to the supreme torment (in the Hereafter), in order that they may (repent and)
return (i.e. accept Islām).
22. And who does more wrong than he who is
reminded of the Ayāt (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations,
etc.) of his Lord, then he turns aside therefrom? Verily, We shall exact retribution from
the Mujrimūn (criminals, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, etc.).
23. And indeed We gave Mūsa (Moses) the
Scripture [the Taurāt (Torah)]. So be not you in doubt of meeting him [i.e.when you met
Mūsa (Moses) during the night of AlIsra' and AlMi'rāj
over the heavens]. And We made it [the Taurāt (Torah)] a guide to the Children of Israel.
24. And We made from among them (Children of
Israel), leaders, giving guidance under Our Command, when they were patient and used to
believe with certainty in Our Ayāt (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs,
revelations, etc.).
25. Verily, your Lord will judge between them
on the Day of Resurrection, concerning that wherein they used to differ.
26. Is it not a guidance for them, how many
generations We have destroyed before them in whose dwellings they do walk about? Verily,
therein indeed are signs. Would they not then listen?
27. Have they not seen how We drive water (rain
clouds) to the dry land without any vegetation, and therewith bring forth crops providing
food for their cattle and themselves? Will they not then see?
28. They say: "When will this AlFath (Decision)
be (between us and you, i.e. the Day of Resurrection), if you are telling the truth?"
29. Say: "On the Day of AlFath (Decision),
no profit will it be to those who disbelieve if they (then) believe! Nor will they be
granted a respite."
30. So turn aside from them (O Muhammad )
and await, verily they (too) are awaiting. |
