1. The Most Beneficent (Allāh)!
2. Has taught (you mankind) the Qur'ān (by His
Mercy).
3. He created man.
4. He taught him eloquent speech.
5. The sun and the moon run on their fixed
courses (exactly) calculated with measured out stages for each (for reckoning, etc.).
6. And the herbs (or stars) and the trees both
prostrate.
7. And the heaven He has raised high, and He has
set up the Balance.
8. In order that you may not transgress (due)
balance.
9. And observe the weight with equity and do not
make the balance deficient.
10. And the earth He has put for the creatures.
11. Therein are fruits, date-palms producing
sheathed fruit-stalks (enclosing dates).
12. And also corn, with (its) leaves and stalk
for fodder, and sweet-scented plants.
13. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
14. He created man (Adam) from sounding clay
like the clay of pottery.
15. And the jinns did He create from a
smokeless flame of fire.
16. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
17. (He is) the Lord of the two easts (places
of sunrise during early summer and early winter) and the Lord of the two wests (places of
sunset during early summer and early winter).
18. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
19. He has let loosed the two seas (the salt
water and the sweet) meeting together.
20. Between them is a barrier which none of
them can transgress.
21. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
22. Out of them both come out pearl and coral.
23. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
24. And His are the ships going and coming in
the seas, like mountains.
25. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
26. Whatsoever is on it (the earth) will
perish.
27. And the Face of your Lord full of Majesty
and Honour will abide forever.
28. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
29. Whosoever is in the heavens and on earth
begs of Him (its needs from Him). Every day He has a matter to bring forth (such as giving
honour to some, disgrace to some, life to some, death to some, etc.)!
30. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
31. We shall attend to you, O you two classes
(jinns and men)!
32. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
33. O assembly of jinns and men! If you have
power to pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, then pass (them)! But you
will never be able to pass them, except with authority (from Allāh)!
34. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
35. There will be sent against you both,
smokeless flames of fire and (molten) brass, and you will not be able to defend
yourselves.
36. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
37. Then when the heaven is rent asunder, and
it becomes rosy or red like red-oil, or red hide.
38. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
39. So on that Day no question will be asked of
man or jinn as to his sin, (because they have already been known from their faces either
white or black).
40. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
41. The Mujrimūn (polytheists,
criminals, sinners, etc.) will be known by their marks (black faces), and they will be
seized by their forelocks and their feet.
42. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
43. This is Hell which the Mujrimūn
(polytheists, criminals, sinners, etc.) denied.
44. They will go between it (Hell) and the
boiling hot water!
45. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
46. But for him who [the true believer of
Islāmic Monotheism who performs all the duties ordained by Allāh and His Messenger
Muhammad , and keeps away (abstain) from all kinds of sin and evil deeds prohibited in
Islām and] fears the standing before his Lord, there will be two Gardens (i.e. in
Paradise).
47. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
48. With spreading branches;
49. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
50. In them (both) will be two springs flowing
(free)
51. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
52. In them (both) will be every kind of fruit
in pairs.
53. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
54. Reclining upon the couches lined with silk
brocade, and the fruits of the two Gardens will be near at hand.
55. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
56. Wherein both will be those (maidens)
restraining their glances upon their husbands, whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna
(has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them.
57. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
58. (In beauty) they are like rubies and coral.
59. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
60. Is there any reward for good other than
good?
61. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
62. And besides these two, there are two other
Gardens (i.e. in Paradise).
63. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
64. Dark green (in colour).
65. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
66. In them (both) will be two springs gushing
forth water.
67. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
68. In them (both) will be fruits, and date-
palms and pomegranates.
69. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
70. Therein (gardens) will be fair (wives) good
and beautiful;
71. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
72. Houris
(beautiful, fair females) restrained in pavilions;
73. Then which of the Blessings of your
Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
74. Whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna
(has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them.
75. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
76. Reclining on green cushions and rich
beautiful mattresses.
77. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord
will you both (jinns and men) deny?
78. Blessed be the Name of your Lord (Allāh),
the Owner of Majesty and Honour. |