The Quran

¹IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God

²Praise belongs to God, the Lord of the worlds

³the merciful, the compassionate

⁴the ruler of the day of judgment

⁵Thee we serve and Thee we ask for aid

⁶Guide us in the right path

⁷the path of those Thou art gracious to; not of those Thou art wroth with; nor of those who err

¹ALIF LAM MIM

²That is the book! there is no doubt therein; a guide to the pious

³who believe in the unseen, and are steadfast in prayer, and of what we have given them expend in alms

⁴who believe in what is revealed to thee, and what was revealed before thee, and of the hereafter they are sure

⁵These are in guidance from their Lord, and these are the prosperous

⁶Verily, those who misbelieve, it is the same to them if ye warn them or if ye warn them not, they will not believe

⁷God has set a seal upon their hearts and on their hearing; and on their eyes is dimness, and for them is grievous woe

⁸And there are those among men who say, 'We believe in God and in the last day;' but they do not believe

⁹They would deceive God and those who do believe; but they deceive only themselves and they do not perceive

¹⁰In their hearts is a sickness, and God has made them still more sick, and for them is grievous woe because they lied

¹¹And when it is said to them, 'Do not evil in the earth,' they say, 'We do but what is right

¹²Are not they the evildoers? and yet they do not perceive

¹³And when it is said to them, 'Believe as other men believe,' they say, 'Shall we believe as fools believe?' Are not they themselves the fools? and yet they do not know

¹⁴And when they meet those who believe, they say, 'We do believe;' but when they go aside with their devils, they say, 'We are with you; we were but mocking

¹⁵God shall mock at them and let them go on in their rebellion, blindly wandering on

¹⁶Those who buy error for guidance, their traffic profits not, and they are not guided

¹⁷Their likeness is as the likeness of one who kindles a fire; and when it lights up all around, God goes off with their light, and leaves them in darkness that they cannot see

¹⁸Deafness, dumbness, blindness, and they shall not return

¹⁹Or like a storm-cloud from the sky, wherein is darkness and thunder and lightning; they put their fingers in their ears at the thunder-clap, for fear of death, for God encompasses the misbelievers

²⁰The lightning well-nigh snatches off their sight, whenever it shines for them they walk therein; but when it is dark for them they halt; and if God willed He would go off with their hearing and their sight; verily, God is mighty over all

²¹O ye folk! serve your Lord who created you and those before you; haply ye may fear

²²who made the earth for you a bed and the heaven a dome; and sent down from heaven water, and brought forth therewith fruits as a sustenance for you; so make no peers for God, the while ye know

²³And if ye are in doubt of what we have revealed unto our servant, then bring a chapter like it, and call your witnesses other than God if ye tell truth

²⁴But if ye do it not, and ye shall surely do it not, then fear the fire whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for misbelievers

²⁵But bear the glad tidings to those who believe and work righteousness, that for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow; whenever they are provided with fruit therefrom they say, 'This is what we were provided with before,' and they shall be provided with the like; and there are pure wives for them therein, and they shall dwell therein for aye

²⁶Why, God is not ashamed to set forth a parable of a gnat, or anything beyond; and as for those who believe, they know that it is truth from the Lord; but as for those who disbelieve, they say, 'What is it that God means by this as a parable? He leads astray many and He guides many;' - but He leads astray only the evildoers

²⁷who break God's covenant after the fixing thereof, and cut asunder what God has ordered to be joined, and do evil in the earth;- these it is who lose

²⁸How can ye disbelieve in God, when ye were dead and He made you alive, and then He will kill you and then make you alive again, and then to Him will ye return

²⁹It is He who created for you all that is in the earth, then he made for the heavens and fashioned them seven heavens; and He knows all things

³⁰And when thy Lord said unto the angels, 'I am about to place a vicegerent in the earth,' they said, 'Wilt Thou place therein one who will do evil therein and shed blood? we celebrate Thy praise and hallow Thee.' Said (the Lord), 'I know what ye know not

³¹And He taught Adam the names, all of them; then He propounded them to the angels and said, 'Declare to me the names of these, if ye are truthful

³²They said, 'Glory be to Thee! no knowledge is ours but what Thou thyself hast taught us, verily, Thou art the knowing, the wise

³³Said the Lord, 'O Adam declare to them their names;' and when he had declared to them their names He said, Did I not say to you, I know the secrets of the heavens and of the earth, and I know what ye show and what ye were hiding

³⁴And when we said to the angels, 'Adore Adam,' they adored him save only Iblis, who refused and was too proud and became one of the misbelievers

³⁵And we said, 'O Adam dwell, thou and thy wife, in Paradise, and eat therefrom amply as you wish; but do not draw near this tree or ye will be of the transgressors

³⁶And Satan made them backslide therefrom and drove them out from what they were in, and we said, 'Go down, one of you the enemy of the other, and in the earth there is an abode and a provision for a time

³⁷And Adam caught certain words from his Lord, and He turned towards him, for He is the compassionate one easily turned

³⁸We said, 'Go down therefrom altogether and haply there may come from me a guidance, and whoso follows my guidance, no fear is theirs, nor shall they grieve

³⁹But those who misbelieve, and call our signs lies, they are the fellows of the Fire, they shall dwell therein for aye

⁴⁰O ye children of Israel! remember my favours which I have favoured you with; fulfil my covenant and I will fulfil your covenant; me therefore dread

⁴¹Believe in what I have revealed, verifying what ye have got, and be not the first to disbelieve in it, and do not barter my signs for a little price, and me do ye fear

⁴²Clothe not truth with vanity, nor hide the truth the while ye know

⁴³Be steadfast in prayer, give the alms, and bow down with those who bow

⁴⁴Will ye order men to do piety and forget yourselves? ye read the Book, do ye not then understand

⁴⁵Seek aid with patience and prayer, though it is a hard thing save for the humble

⁴⁶who think that they will meet their Lord, and that to Him will they return

⁴⁷O ye children of Israel! remember my favours which I have favoured you with, and that I have preferred you above the worlds

⁴⁸Fear the day wherein no soul shall pay any recompense for another soul, nor shall intercession be accepted for it, nor shall compensation be taken from it, nor shall they be helped

⁴⁹When we saved you from Pharaohs people who sought to wreak you evil and woe, slaughtering your sons and letting your women live; in that was a great trial for you from your Lord

⁵⁰When we divided for you the sea and saved you and drowned Pharaohs people while ye looked on

⁵¹When we treated with Moses forty nights, then ye took the calf after he had gone and ye did wrong

⁵²Yet then we forgave you after that; perhaps ye may be grateful

⁵³And when we gave Moses the Scriptures and the Discrimination; perhaps ye will be guided

⁵⁴When Moses said to his people, 'O my people! Ye have wronged yourselves in taking this calf; repent unto your Creator and kill each other; that will be better for you in your Creators eyes; and He turned unto you, for He is the compassionate one easily turned

⁵⁵And when ye said to Moses, 'O Moses! we will not believe in thee until we see God manifestly,' and the thunderbolt caught you while ye yet looked on

⁵⁶Then we raised you up after your death; perhaps ye may be grateful

⁵⁷And we overshadowed you with the cloud, and sent down the manna and the quails; 'Eat of the good things we have given you.' They did not wrong us, but it was themselves they were wronging

⁵⁸And when we said, 'Enter this city and eat therefrom as plentifully as ye wish; and enter the gate worshipping and say 'hittatun. So will we pardon you your sins and give increase unto those who do well

⁵⁹But those who did wrong changed it for another word than that which was said to them: and we sent down upon those who did wrong, wrath from heaven for that they had so sinned

⁶⁰When Moses, too, asked drink for his people and we said, 'Strike with thy staff the rock,' and from it burst forth twelve springs; each man among them knew his drinking place. 'Eat and drink of what God has provided, and transgress not on the earth as evildoers

⁶¹And when they said, 'O Moses, we cannot always bear one kind of food; pray then thy Lord to bring forth for us of what the earth grows, its green herbs, its cucumbers, its garlic, its lentils, and its onions.' Said he, 'Do ye ask what is meaner instead of what is best? Go down to Egypt,- there is what ye ask.' Then were they smitten with abasement and poverty, and met with wrath from God. That was because they had misbelieved in God's signs and killed the prophets undeservedly; that was for that they were rebellious and had transgressed

⁶²Verily, whether it be of those who believe, or those who are Jews or Christians or Sabaeans, whosoever believe in God and the last day and act aright, they have their reward at their Lords hand, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve

⁶³And when we took a covenant with you and held the mountain over you; ' Accept what we have brought you with strong will, and bear in mind what is therein, haply ye yet may fear

⁶⁴Then did ye turn aside after this, and were it not for God's grace towards you and His mercy, ye would have been of those who lose

⁶⁵Ye know too of those among you who transgressed upon the Sabbath, and we said, 'Become ye apes, despised and spurned

⁶⁶Thus we made them an example unto those who stood before them, and those who should come after them, and a warning unto those who fear

⁶⁷And when Moses said to his people, 'God bids you slaughter a cow,' they said, 'Art thou making a jest of us?' Said he, 'I seek refuge with God from being one of the unwise

⁶⁸They said, 'Then pray thy Lord for us to show us what she is to be.' He answered, 'He saith it is a cow, nor old, nor young, of middle age between the two; so do as ye are bid

⁶⁹They said, 'Pray now thy Lord to show us what her colour is to be.' He answered, 'He saith it is a dun cow, intensely dun, her colour delighting those who look upon her

⁷⁰Again they said, 'Pray thy Lord to show us what she is to be; for cows appear the same to us; then we, if God will, shall be guided

⁷¹He answered, 'He saith, it is a cow, not broken in to plough the earth or irrigate the tilth, a sound one with no blemish on her.' They said, 'Now hast thou brought the truth.' And they slaughtered her, though they came near leaving it undone

⁷²When too ye slew a soul and disputed thereupon, and God brought forth that which ye had hidden

⁷³then we said, 'Strike him with part of her.' Thus God brings the dead to life and shows you His signs, that haply ye may understand

⁷⁴Yet were your hearts hardened even after that, till they were as stones or harder still, for verily of stones are some from which streams burst forth, and of them there are some that burst asunder and the water issues out, and of them there are some that fall down for fear of God; but God is never careless of what ye do

⁷⁵Do ye crave that they should believe you when already a sect of them have heard the word of God and then perverted it after they had understood it, though they knew

⁷⁶And when they meet those who believe they say, 'We believe,' but when one goes aside with another they say, 'Will ye talk to them of what God has opened up to you, that they may argue with you upon it before your Lord? Do ye not therefore understand

⁷⁷Do they not then know that God knoweth what they keep secret and what they make known abroad

⁷⁸And some of them there are, illiterate folk, that know not the Book, but only idle tales; for they do but fancy

⁷⁹But woe to those who write out the Book with their hands and say 'this is from God;' to buy therewith a little price! and woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them for what they gain

⁸⁰And then they say, 'Hell fire shall not touch us save for a number of days.' Say, 'Have ye taken a covenant with God?' but God breaks not His covenant. Or do ye say of God that which ye do not know

⁸¹Yea! whoso gains an evil gain, and is encompassed by his sins, those are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye

⁸²But such as act aright, those are the fellows of Paradise, and they shall dwell therein for aye

⁸³And when we took from the children of Israel a covenant, saying, 'Serve ye none but God, and to your two parents show kindness, and to your kindred and the orphans and the poor, and speak to men kindly, and be steadfast in prayer, and give alms;' and then ye turned back, save a few of you, and swerved aside

⁸⁴And when we took covenant from you, 'shed ye not your kinsmans blood, nor turn your kinsmen out of their homes:' then did ye confirm it and were witnesses thereto

⁸⁵Yet ye were those who slay your kinsmen and turn a party out of their homes, and back each other up against them with sin and enmity. But if they come to you as captives ye ransom them!- and yet it is as unlawful for you to turn them out. Do ye then believe in part of the Book and disbelieve in part? But the reward of such among you as do that shall be nought else but disgrace in this worldly life, and on the day of the resurrection shall they be driven to the most grievous torment, for God is not unmindful of what ye do

⁸⁶Those who have bought this worldly life with the Future, the torment shall not be lightened from them nor shall they be helped

⁸⁷We gave Moses the Book and we followed him up with other apostles, and we gave Jesus the son of Mary manifest signs and aided him with the Holy Spirit. Do ye then, every time an apostle comes to you with what your souls love not, proudly scorn him, and charge a part with lying and slay a part

⁸⁸They say, 'Our hearts are uncircumcised;' nay, God has cursed them in their unbelief, and few it is who do believe

⁸⁹And when a book came down from God confirming what they had with them, though they had before prayed for victory over those who misbelieve, yet when that came to them which they knew, then they disbelieved it,- God's curse be on the misbelievers

⁹⁰For a bad bargain have they sold their souls, not to believe in what God has revealed, grudging because God sends down of His grace on whomsoever of His servants He will; and they have brought on themselves wrath after wrath and for the misbelievers is there shameful woe

⁹¹And when they are told to believe in what God has revealed, they say, 'We believe in what has been revealed to us;' but they disbelieve in all beside, although it is the truth confirming what they have. Say, 'Wherefore did ye kill God's prophets of yore if ye were true believers

⁹²Moses came to you with manifest signs, then ye took up with the calf when he had gone and did so wrong

⁹³And when we took a covenant with you and raised the mountain over you, 'Take what we have given you with resolution and hear;' they said, 'We hear but disobey;' and they were made to drink the calf down into their hearts for their unbelief. Say, 'An evil thing is it which your belief bids you do, if ye be true believers

⁹⁴Say, 'If the abode of the future with God is yours alone and not mankinds: long for death then if ye speak the truth

⁹⁵But they will never long for it because of what their hands have sent on before; but God is knowing as to the wrong doers

⁹⁶Why, thou wilt find them the greediest of men for life; and of those who associate others with God one would fain live for a thousand years,- but he will not be reprieved from punishment by being let live, for God seeth what they do

⁹⁷Say, 'Who is an enemy to Gabriel?' for he hath revealed to thy heart, with God's permission, confirmation of what had been before, and a guidance and glad tidings to believers

⁹⁸Who is an enemy to God and His angels and His apostles and Gabriel and Michael?- Verily, God is an enemy to the unbelievers

⁹⁹We have sent down to thee conspicuous signs, and none will disbelieve therein except the evildoers

¹⁰⁰Or every time they make a covenant, will a part of them repudiate it? Nay, most of them do not believe

¹⁰¹And when there comes to them an apostle confirming what they have, a part of those who have received the Book repudiate God's book, casting it behind their backs as though they did not know

¹⁰²And they follow that which the devils recited against Solomons kingdom;- it was not Solomon who misbelieved, but the devils who misbelieved, teaching men sorcery,- and what has been revealed to the two angels at Babylon, Harut and Marut; yet these taught no one until they said, 'We are but a temptation, so do not misbelieve.' Men learn from them only that by which they may part man and wife; but they can harm no one therewith, unless with the permission of God, and they learn what hurts them and profits them not. And yet they knew that he who purchased it would have no portion in the future; but sad is the price at which they have sold their souls, had they but known

¹⁰³But had they believed and feared, a reward from God were better, had they but known

¹⁰⁴O ye who believe! say not 'ra'hina,' but say 'unthurna,' and hearken; for unto misbelievers shall be grievous woe

¹⁰⁵They who misbelieve, whether of those who have the Book or of the idolaters, would fain that no good were sent down to you from your Lord; but God specially favours with His mercy whom He will, for God is Lord of mighty grace

¹⁰⁶Whatever verse we may annul or cause thee to forget, we will bring a better one than it, or one like it; dost thou not know that God is mighty over all

¹⁰⁷Dost thou not know that God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth? nor have ye besides God a patron or a help

¹⁰⁸Do ye wish to question your apostle as Moses was questioned aforetime? but whoso takes misbelief in exchange for faith has erred from the level road

¹⁰⁹Many of those who have the Book would fain turn you back into misbelievers after ye have once believed, through envy from themselves, after the truth has been made manifest to them; but pardon and shun them till God brings His command; verily, God is mighty over all

¹¹⁰Be ye steadfast in prayer, and give alms; and whatsoever good ye send before for your own souls, ye shall find it with God, for God in all ye do doth see

¹¹¹They say, 'None shall enter Paradise save such as be Jews or Christians;' that is their faith. Say thou, 'Bring your proofs, if ye be speaking truth

¹¹²Aye, he who resigns his face to God, and who is kind, he shall have his reward from his Lord, and no fear shall be on them, and they shall not grieve

¹¹³The Jews say, 'The Christians rest on nought;' and the Christians say, 'The Jews rest on nought;' and yet they read the Book. So, too, say those who know not, like to what these say; but God shall judge between them on the resurrection day concerning that whereon they do dispute

¹¹⁴But who is more unjust than he who prohibits God's mosques, that His name should not be mentioned there, and who strives to ruin them? 'Tis not for such to enter into them except in fear, for them is disgrace in this world, and in the future mighty woe

¹¹⁵God's is the east and the west, and wherever ye turn there is God's face; verily, God comprehends and knows

¹¹⁶They say, 'God takes unto Himself a son.' Celebrated be His praise! Nay, His is what is in the heavens and the earth, and Him all things obey

¹¹⁷The Originator of the heavens and the earth, when He decrees a matter He doth but say unto it, 'BE,' and it is

¹¹⁸And those who do not know (the Scriptures) say, 'Unless God speak to us, or there comes a sign.' So spake those before them like unto their speech. Their hearts are all alike. We have made manifest the signs unto a people that are sure

¹¹⁹We have sent thee with the truth, a bearer of good tidings and of warning, and thou shalt not be questioned as to the fellows of hell

¹²⁰The Jews will not be satisfied with thee, nor yet the Christians, until thou followest their creed. Say, 'God's guidance is the guidance;' and if thou followest their lusts after the knowledge that has come to thee, thou hast not then from God a patron or a help

¹²¹They to whom we have brought the Book and who read it as it should be read, believe therein; and whoso disbelieve therein, 'tis they who lose thereby

¹²²O children of Israel! remember my favours with which I favoured you, and that I have preferred you over the worlds

¹²³And fear the day when no soul shall pay a recompense for a soul, nor shall an equivalent be received therefrom, nor any intercession avail; and they shall not be helped

¹²⁴And when his Lord tried Abraham with words, and he fulfilled them, He said, 'Verily, I will set thee as a high priest for men.' Said he, ' And of my seed?' God said, 'My covenant touches not the evildoers

¹²⁵And when we made the House a place of resort unto men, and a sanctuary, and (said) take the station of Abraham for a place of prayer; and covenanted with Abraham and Ishmael, saying, 'Do ye two cleanse my house for those who make the circuit, for those who pay devotions there, for those who bow down, and for those too who adore

¹²⁶When Abraham said, 'Lord, make this a town of safety, and provide the dwellers there with fruits, such as believe in God and the last day!' (God) said, ' And he who misbelieves, I will give him but little to enjoy, then will drive him to the torment of the fire, an evil journey will it be

¹²⁷And when Abraham raised up the foundations of the House with Ishmael, 'Lord! receive it from us, verily, thou art hearing and dost know

¹²⁸Lord! and make us too resigned unto Thee, and of our seed also a nation resigned unto Thee, and show us our rites, and turn towards us, verily, Thou art easy to be turned and merciful

¹²⁹Lord! and send them an apostle from amongst themselves, to read to them Thy signs and teach them the Book and wisdom, and to purify them; verily, Thou art the mighty and the wise

¹³⁰Who is averse from the faith of Abraham save one who is foolish of soul? for we have chosen him in this world, and in the future he is surely of the righteous

¹³¹When his Lord said to him, 'Be resigned,' he said, 'I am resigned unto the Lord of the worlds

¹³²And Abraham instructed his sons therein, and Jacob (saying), 'O my sons! verily, God has chosen for you a religion, do not therefore die unless ye be resigned

¹³³Were ye then witnesses when Jacob was facing death, when he said to his sons, 'What will ye serve when I am gone?' They said, 'We will serve thy God, the God of thy fathers Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, one God; and we are unto Him resigned

¹³⁴That is a nation that has passed away, theirs is what they gained; and yours shall be what ye have gained; ye shall not be questioned as to that which they have done

¹³⁵They say, 'Be ye Jews or Christians so shall ye of Abraham be guided.' Say, 'Not so! but the faith of Abraham the 'Hanif, be was not of the idolaters

¹³⁶Say ye, 'We believe in God, and what has been revealed to us, and what has been revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Tribes, and what was brought to Moses and Jesus, and what was brought unto the Prophets from their Lord; we will not distinguish between any one of them, and unto Him are we resigned

¹³⁷If they believe in that in which ye believe, then are they guided; but if they turn back, then are they only in a schism, and God will suffice thee against them, for He both hears and knows

¹³⁸The dye of God! and who is better than God at dyeing? and we are worshippers of Him

¹³⁹Say, 'Do ye dispute with us concerning God, and He is our Lord and your Lord? Ye have your works and we have ours, and unto Him are we sincere

¹⁴⁰Do ye say that Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say, 'Are ye more knowing than God? Who is more unjust than one who conceals a testimony that he has from God?' But God is not careless of what ye do

¹⁴¹That is a nation that has passed away; theirs is what they gained, and yours shall be what ye have gained; ye shall not be questioned as to that which they have done

¹⁴²The fools among men will say, 'What has turned them from their qiblah, on which they were agreed?' Say, 'God's is the east and the west, He guides whom He will unto the right path

¹⁴³Thus have we made you a middle nation, to be witnesses against men, and that the Apostle may be a witness against you. We have not appointed the qiblah on which thou wert agreed, save that we might know who follows the Apostle from him who turns upon his heels although it is a great thing save to those whom God doth guide. But God will not waste your faith, for verily, God with men is kind and merciful

¹⁴⁴We see thee often turn about thy face in the heavens, but we will surely turn thee to a qiblah thou shalt like. Turn then thy face towards the Sacred Mosque; wherever ye be, turn your faces towards it; for verily, those who have the Book know that it is the truth from their Lord;- God is not careless of that which ye do

¹⁴⁵And if thou shouldst bring to those who have been given the Book every sign, they would not follow your qiblah; and thou art not to follow their qiblah; nor do some of them follow the qiblah of the others: and if thou followest their lusts after the knowledge that has come to thee then art thou of the evildoers

¹⁴⁶Those whom we have given the Book know him as they know their sons, although a sect of them do surely hide the truth, the while they know

¹⁴⁷The truth (is) from thy Lord; be not therefore one of those who doubt thereof

¹⁴⁸Every sect has some one side to which they turn (in prayer); but do ye hasten onwards to good works; wherever ye are God will bring you all together; verily, God is mighty over all

¹⁴⁹From whencesoever thou comest forth, there turn thy face towards the Sacred Mosque, for it is surely truth from thy Lord; God is not careless about what ye do

¹⁵⁰And from whencesoever thou comest forth, there turn thy face towards the Sacred Mosque, and wheresoever ye are, turn your faces towards it, that men may have no argument against you, save only those of them who are unjust; and fear them not, but fear me and I will fulfil my favours to you, perchance ye may be guided yet

¹⁵¹Thus have we sent amongst you an apostle of yourselves, to recite to you our signs, to purify you and teach you the Book and wisdom, and to teach you what ye did not know

¹⁵²remember me, then, and I will remember you; thank me, and do not misbelieve

¹⁵³O ye who do believe! seek aid from patience and from prayer, verily, God is with the patient

¹⁵⁴And say not of those who are slain in God's way (that they are) dead, but rather living; but ye do not perceive

¹⁵⁵We will try you with something of fear, and hunger and loss of wealth, and souls and fruit; but give good tidings to the patient

¹⁵⁶who when there falls on them a calamity say, 'Verily, we are God's and, verily, to Him do we return

¹⁵⁷These, on them are blessings from their Lord and mercy, and they it is who are guided

¹⁵⁸Verily, Zafa and Merwah are of the beacons of God, and he who makes the pilgrimage unto the House, or visits it, it is no crime for him to compass them both about; and he who obeys his own impulse to a good work,- God is grateful and doth know

¹⁵⁹Verily, those who hide what we have revealed of manifest signs and of guidance after we have manifested it to men in the Book, them God shall curse, and those who curse shall curse them too

¹⁶⁰Save those who turn and do right and make (the signs) manifest; these will I turn to again, for I am easy to be turned and merciful

¹⁶¹Verily, those who misbelieve and die while still in misbelief, on them is the curse of God, and of the angels, and of mankind altogether

¹⁶²to dwell therein for aye; the torment shall not be lightened for them, nor shall they be looked upon

¹⁶³Your God is one God; there is no God but He, the merciful, the compassionate

¹⁶⁴Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, and in the ship that runneth in the sea with that which profits man, and in what water God sends down from heaven and quickens therewith the earth after its death, and spreads abroad therein all kinds of cattle, and in the shifting of the winds, and in the clouds that are pressed into service betwixt heaven and earth, are signs to people who can understand

¹⁶⁵Yet are there some amongst mankind who take to themselves peers other than God; they love them as they should love God while those who believe love God more. O that those who are unjust could only see, when they see the torment, that power is altogether God's! Verily, God is keen to torment

¹⁶⁶When those who are followed clear themselves of those who followed them, and see the torment, and the cords are cut asunder

¹⁶⁷those who followed shall say, 'Had we but another turn, then would we clear ourselves of them as they have cleared themselves of us.' So will God show them their works; for them are sighs, and they shall not come forth from out the fire

¹⁶⁸O ye folk! eat of what is in the earth, things lawful and things good, and follow not the footsteps of Satan, verily, to you he is an open foe

¹⁶⁹He does but bid you evil and sin, and that ye should speak against God what ye do not know

¹⁷⁰When it is said to them, 'Follow what God has revealed,' they say, 'Nay, we will follow what we found our fathers agreed upon.' What! and though their fathers had no sense at all or guidance

¹⁷¹The likeness of those who misbelieve is as the likeness of him who shouts to that which hears him not, save only a call and a cry; deafness, dumbness, blindness, and they shall not understand

¹⁷²O ye who do believe! eat of the good things wherewith we have provided you, and give thanks unto God if it be Him ye serve

¹⁷³He has only forbidden for you what is dead, and blood, and flesh of swine, and whatsoever has been consecrated to other than God; but he who is forced, neither revolting nor transgressing, it is in no sin for him; verily, God is forgiving and merciful

¹⁷⁴Verily, those who hide what God has revealed of the Book, and sell it for a little price, they shall eat nothing in their bellies save fire; and God will not speak to them on the day of resurrection, nor will He purify them, but for them is grievous woe

¹⁷⁵They who sell guidance for error, and pardon for torment, how patient must they be of fire

¹⁷⁶That (is), because God has revealed the Book with truth, and verily those who disagree about the Book are in a wide schism

¹⁷⁷Righteousness is not that ye turn your faces towards the east or the west, but righteousness is, one who believes in God, and the last day, and the angels, and the Book, and the prophets, and who gives wealth for His love to kindred, and orphans, and the poor, and the son of the road, beggars, and those in captivity; and who is steadfast in prayer, and gives alms; and those who are sure of their covenant when they make a covenant; and the patient in poverty, and distress, and in time of violence; these are they who are true, and these are those who fear

¹⁷⁸O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you for the slain: the free for the free, the slave for the slave, the female for the female; yet he who is pardoned at all by his brother, must be prosecuted in reason, and made to pay with kindness. That is an alleviation from your Lord, and a mercy; and he who transgresses after that for him is grievous woe

¹⁷⁹For you in retaliation is there life, O ye possessors of minds! it may be ye will fear

¹⁸⁰It is prescribed for you that when one of you is face to face with death, if he leave (any) goods, the legacy is to his parents, and to his kinsmen, in reason. A duty this upon all those that fear

¹⁸¹But he who alters it after that he has heard it, the sin thereof is only upon those who alter it; verily, God doth hear and know

¹⁸²And he who fears from the testator a wrong intention, or a crime, and doth make up the matter between the parties, it is no sin to him; verily, God is forgiving and merciful

¹⁸³O ye who believe! There is prescribed for you the fast as it was prescribed for those before you; haply ye may fear

¹⁸⁴A certain number of days, but he amongst you who is ill or on a journey, then (let him fast) another number of days. And those who are fit to fast may redeem it by feeding a poor man; but he who follows an impulse to a good work it is better for him; and if ye fast it is better for you, if ye did but know

¹⁸⁵The month of Ramadhan, wherein was revealed the Koran, for a guidance to men, and for manifestations of guidance, and for a Discrimination. And he amongst you who beholds this month then let him fast it; but he who is sick or on a journey, then another number of days;- God desires for you what is easy, and desires not for you what is difficult,- that ye may complete the number, and say, 'Great is God,' for that He has guided you; haply ye may give thanks

¹⁸⁶When my servants ask thee concerning me, then, verily, I am near; I answer the prayers prayer whenever he prays to me. So let them ask me for an answer, and let them believe in me; haply they may be directed aright

¹⁸⁷Lawful for you on the night of the fast is commerce with your wives; they are a garment unto you, and ye a garment unto them. God knows that ye did defraud yourselves, wherefore He has turned towards you and forgiven you; so now go in unto them and crave what God has prescribed for you, and eat and drink until a white thread can be distinguished by you from a black one at the dawn. Then fulfil the fast until the night, and go not in unto them, and ye at your devotions in the mosques the while. These are the bounds that God has set, so draw not near thereto. Thus does God make manifest His signs to men, that haply they may fear

¹⁸⁸Devour not your wealth among yourselves vainly, nor present it to the judges that ye may devour a part of the wealth of men sinfully, the while ye know

¹⁸⁹They will ask thee about the phases of the moon; say, 'They are indications of time for men and for the pilgrimage.' And it is not righteousness that ye should enter into your houses from behind them, but righteousness is he who fears; so enter into your houses by the doors thereof and fear God; haply ye may prosper yet

¹⁹⁰Fight in God's way with those who fight with you, but transgress not; verily, God loves not those who do transgress

¹⁹¹Kill them wherever ye find them, and drive them out from whence they drive you out; for sedition is worse than slaughter; but fight them not by the Sacred Mosque until they fight you there; then kill them, for such is the recompense of those that misbelieve

¹⁹²But if they desist, then, verily, God is forgiving and merciful

¹⁹³But fight them that there be no sedition and that the religion may be God's; but, if they desist, then let there be no hostility save against the unjust

¹⁹⁴The sacred month for the sacred month; for all sacred things demand retaliation; and whoso transgresses against you, transgress against him like as he transgressed against you; but fear ye God, and know that God is with those who fear

¹⁹⁵Expend in alms in God's way and be not cast by your own hands into perdition; but do good, for God loves those who do good

¹⁹⁶And fulfil the pilgrimage and the visitation to God; but if ye be besieged, then what is easiest for you by way of gift. But shave not your heads until your gift shall reach its destination; and he amongst you who is sick or has a hurt upon his head, then the redemption is by fasting or by alms or by an offering. But when ye are safe again, then let him who would enjoy the visitation until the pilgrimage (bring) what is easiest as a gift. And he who cannot find (anything to bring), then let him fast three days on the pilgrimage and seven when ye return; these make ten days complete. That is, for him whose family are not present in the Sacred Mosque; and fear God and know that God is keen to punish

¹⁹⁷The pilgrimage is (in) well-known months: whosoever then makes it incumbent on himself (let him have neither) commerce with women, nor fornication, nor a quarrel on the pilgrimage; and whatsoever of good ye do, God knoweth it; then provide yourself for your journey; but the best provision is piety. Fear ye me ye who possess minds

¹⁹⁸It is no crime to you that ye seek good from your Lord; but when ye pour forth from 'Arafat, remember God by the sacred beacon. Remember Him how He guided you, although ye were surely before of those who err

¹⁹⁹Then pour ye forth from whence men do pour forth and ask pardon of God; verily, God is forgiving and merciful

²⁰⁰And when ye have performed your rites, remember God as ye remember your fathers, or with a keener memory still. There is among men such as says, 'Our Lord! give us in this world;' but of the future life no portion shall he have

²⁰¹And some there be who say, 'Our Lord! give us in this world good and in the future good; and keep us from the torment of the fire

²⁰²These,- they have their portion from what they have earned; for God is swift at reckoning up

²⁰³Remember God for a certain number of days; but whoso hastens off in two days, it is no sin to him, and he who lingers on it is no sin to him,- for him who fears. So fear ye God and know that unto Him shall ye be gathered

²⁰⁴There is among men one whose speech about the life of this world pleases thee, and he calls on God to witness what is in his heart; yet is he most fierce in opposition unto thee

²⁰⁵And when he turns away, he strives upon the earth to do evil therein, and to destroy the tilth and the stock; verily, God loves not evil doing

²⁰⁶And when it is said to him, 'Fear God,' then pride takes hold upon him in sin; but hell is enough for him! surely an evil couch is that

²⁰⁷And there is among men one who selleth his soul craving, those things that are pleasing unto God and God is kind unto His servants

²⁰⁸O ye who believe! enter ye into the peace, one and all, and follow not the footsteps of Satan; verily, to you he is an open foe

²⁰⁹And if ye slip after that the manifest signs have come to you, then know that God is the mighty, the wise

²¹⁰What can they expect but that God should come unto them in the shadow of a cloud, and the angels too? But the thing is decreed, and unto God do things return

²¹¹Ask the children of Israel how many a manifest sign we gave to them; and whoso alters God's favours after that they have come to him, then God is keen at following up

²¹²Made fair to those who misbelieve is this worlds life; they jest at those who do believe. But those who fear shall be above them on the resurrection day. God gives provision unto whom He will without account

²¹³Men were one nation once, and God sent prophets with good tidings and with warnings, and sent down with them the Book in truth, to judge between men in that wherein they disagreed; but none did disagree therein save those who had been given it after that manifest signs had come to them, through greed amongst themselves; and God guided those who did believe to that truth concerning which they disagreed by His permission, for God guides whom He will unto the right path

²¹⁴Did ye count to enter Paradise, while there had nothing come to you like those who passed away before you; there touched them violence and harm, and they were made to quake, until the Apostle and those who believed with him said, 'When (comes) God's help? Is not God's help then surely nigh

²¹⁵They will ask thee what they are to expend in alms: say, 'Whatsoever good ye expend it should be for parents and kinsmen, and the orphan and the poor, and the son of the road; and whatsoever good ye do, verily, of it God knows

²¹⁶Prescribed for you is fighting, but it is hateful to you. Yet peradventure that ye hate a thing while it is good for you, and peradventure that ye love a thing while it is bad for you; God knows, and ye,- ye do not know

²¹⁷They will ask thee of the sacred month,- of fighting therein. Say, 'Fighting therein is a great sin; but turning folks off God's way, and misbelief in Him and in the Sacred Mosque, and turning His people out therefrom, is a greater in God's sight; and sedition is a greater sin than slaughter.' They will not cease from fighting you until they turn you from your religion if they can; but whosoever of you is turned from his religion and dies while still a misbeliever; these are those whose works are vain in this world and the next; they are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye

²¹⁸Verily, those who believe, and those who flee, and those who wage war in God's way; these may hope for God's mercy, for God is forgiving and merciful

²¹⁹They will ask thee about wine and el maisar, say, 'In them both is sin and profit to men; but the sin of both is greater than the profit of the same.' They will ask thee what they shall expend in alms: say, 'The surplus.' Thus does God manifest to you His signs; haply ye may reflect on this world and the next

²²⁰They will ask thee about orphans: say, 'To do good to them is best.' But if ye interfere with them - they are your brethren, and God knows the evildoer from the well doer; and if God will He will surely trouble you. Verily, God is mighty, wise

²²¹Wed not with idolatrous women until they believe, for surely a believing handmaid is better than an idolatrous woman, even though she please you. And wed not to idolatrous men until they believe, for a believing slave is better than an idolater, even though he please you. Those invite you to the fire, but God invites you to paradise and pardon by His permission, and makes clear His signs to men; haply they may remember

²²²They will ask thee about menstruation: say, 'It is a hurt.' So keep apart from women in their menstruation, and go not near them till they be cleansed; but when they are cleansed come in to them by where God has ordered you verily, God loves those who turn to Him, and those who keep themselves clean

²²³Your women are your tilth, so come into your tillage how you choose; but do a previous good act for yourselves, and fear God, and know that ye are going to meet Him; and give good tidings unto those who do believe

²²⁴Make not God the butt of your oaths, that ye will keep clear and fear and make peace amongst men, for God both hears and knows

²²⁵He will not catch you up for a casual word in your oaths, but He will catch you up for what your hearts have earned; but God is forgiving and clement

²²⁶Those who swear off from their women, they must wait four months; but if they break their vow God is forgiving and merciful

²²⁷And if they intend to divorce them, verily, God hears and knows

²²⁸Divorced women must wait for themselves three courses; and it is not lawful to them that they hide what God has created in their wombs, if they believe in God and in the last day. Their husbands will do better to take them back in that (case) if they wish for reconciliation; for, the same is due to them as from them; but the men should have precedence over them. God is mighty and wise

²²⁹Divorce (may happen) twice; then keep them in reason, or let them go with kindness. It is not lawful for you to take from them anything of what you have given them, unless both fear that they cannot keep within God's bounds. So if ye fear that ye cannot keep within God's bounds there is no crime in you both about what she ransoms herself with. These are God's bounds, do not transgress them; and whoso transgresses God's bounds, they it is who are unjust

²³⁰But if he divorce her (a third time) she shall not be lawful to him after that, until she marry another husband; but, if he divorce her too, it is no crime in them both to come together again, if they think that they can keep within God's bounds. These are God's bounds which He explains to a people who know

²³¹When ye divorce women, and they have reached the prescribed time, then keep them kindly, or let them go in reason, but do not keep them by force to transgress; for whoso does that, he is unjust to his own soul: and do not take God's signs in jest; and remember God's favours to you, and what He has sent down to you of the Book and wisdom, to admonish you thereby; and fear God, and know that God doth all things know

²³²When ye divorce women, and they have reached their prescribed term, do not prevent them from marrying their (fresh) husbands, when they have agreed with each other reasonably. That is what he is admonished with who amongst you believes in God and in the last day. That is more pure for you and cleaner. But God knows, and ye know not

²³³Mothers must suckle their children two whole years for one who wishes to complete the time of suckling; and on him to whom it is born its sustenance and clothing are incumbent; but in reason, for no soul shall be obliged beyond its capacity. A mother shall not be forced for her child; nor he to whom it is born for his child. And the same (is incumbent) on the heir (of the father). But if both parties wish to wean, by mutual consent and counsel, then it is no crime in them. And if ye wish to provide a wet-nurse for your children, it is no crime in you when you pay what you have promised her, in reason. Fear God, and know that God on what ye do doth look

²³⁴Those of you who die and leave wives behind, let these wait by themselves for four months and ten days; and when they have reached their prescribed time, there is no crime in them for what they do with themselves in reason; for God of what ye do is well aware

²³⁵Nor is there any crime in you for that ye make them an offer of marriage, or that ye keep it secret, in your minds. God knows that ye will remember them; but do not propose to them in secret, unless ye speak a reasonable speech; and resolve not on marriage tie until the Book shall reach its time; but know that God knows what is in your souls; so beware! and know that God is forgiving and clement

²³⁶It is no crime in you if ye divorce your women ere you have yet touched them, or settled for them a settlement. But provide maintenance for them; the wealthy according to his power, and the straitened in circumstances according to his power, must provide, in reason;- a duty this upon the kind

²³⁷And if ye divorce them before ye have touched them, but have already settled for them a settlement; the half of what ye have settled, unless they remit it, or he in whose hand is the marriage tie remits it; and that ye should remit is nearer to piety, and forget not liberality between you. Verily, God on what ye do doth look

²³⁸Observe the prayers, and the middle prayer, and stand ye attent before God

²³⁹And if ye fear, then afoot or on horseback; but when ye are in safety remember God, how He taught you while yet ye did not know

²⁴⁰Those of you who die and leave wives, should bequeath to their wives maintenance for a year, without expulsion (from their home); but if they go out, there is no crime in you for what they do of themselves, in reason; but God is mighty and wise

²⁴¹And divorced women should have a maintenance in reason,- a duty this on those that fear

²⁴²Thus does God explain to you His signs; haply ye may understand

²⁴³Dost thou not look at those who left their homes by thousands, for fear of death; and God said to them 'Die,' and then He quickened them again? Verily God is Lord of grace to men, but most men give no thanks

²⁴⁴Fight then in God's way, and know that God both hears and knows

²⁴⁵Who is there that will lend to God a good loan? He will redouble it many a double; God closes His hand and holds it out, and unto Him shall ye return

²⁴⁶Dost thou not look at the crowd of the children of Israel after Moses time, when they said to a prophet of theirs, 'Raise up for us a king, and we will fight in God's way?' He said, 'Will ye perhaps, if it be written down for you to fight, refuse to fight?' They said, ' And why should we not fight in God's way, now that we are dispossessed of our homes and sons?' But when it was written down for them to fight they turned back, save a few of them, and God knows who are evildoers

²⁴⁷Then their prophet said to them, 'Verily, God has raised up for you Talut as a king;' they said, 'How can the kingdom be his over us; we have more right to the kingdom than he, for he has not an amplitude of wealth?' He said, 'Verily, God has chosen him over you, and has provided him with an extent of knowledge and of form. God gives the kingdom unto whom He will; God comprehends and knows

²⁴⁸Then said to them their prophet, 'The sign of his kingdom is that there shall come to you the ark with the shechina in it from your Lord, and the relics of what the family of Moses and the family of Aaron left; the angels shall bear it.' In that is surely a sign to you if ye believe

²⁴⁹And when Talut set out with his soldiery, he said, 'God will try you with a river, and he who drinks therefrom, he is not of mine; but whoso tastes it not, he is of mine, save he who laps it lapping with his hand.' And they drank from it save a few of them, and when he crossed it, he and those who believed with him, they said, 'We have no power this day against Galut and his soldiery,' those who thought that they should meet their Lord said, 'How many a small division of men have conquered a numerous division, by the permission of God, for God is with the patient

²⁵⁰And when they went out against a Galut and his soldiery, they said, 'Lord, pour out patience over us, and make firm our steps, and help us against the misbelieving people

²⁵¹And they put them to flight by the permission of God, and David killed Galut, and God gave him the kingdom and wisdom, and taught him of what He willed. And were it not for God's repelling men one with another the earth would become spoiled; but God is Lord of grace over the worlds

²⁵²These are the signs of God, we recite them to thee in truth, for, verily, thou art of those who are sent

²⁵³These apostles have we preferred one of them above another. Of them is one to whom God spake; and we have raised some of them degrees; and we have given Jesus the son of Mary manifest signs, and strengthened him by the Holy Spirit. And, did God please, those who came after them would not have fought after there came to them manifest signs. But they did disagree, and of them are some who believe, and of them some who misbelieve, but, did God please, they would not have fought, for God does what He will

²⁵⁴O ye who believe! expend in alms of what we have bestowed upon you, before the day comes in which is no barter, and no friendship, and no intercession; and the misbelievers, they are the unjust

²⁵⁵God, there is no god but He, the living, the self-subsistent. Slumber takes Him not, nor sleep. His is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth. Who is it that intercedes with Him save by His permission? He knows what is before them and what behind them, and they comprehend not aught of His knowledge but of what He pleases. His throne extends over the heavens and the earth, and it tires Him not to guard them both, for He is high and grand

²⁵⁶There is no compulsion in religion; the right way has been distinguished from the wrong, and whoso disbelieves in Taghut and believes in God, he has got hold of the firm handle in which is no breaking off; but God both hears and knows

²⁵⁷God is the patron of those who believe, He brings them forth from darkness into light. But those who misbelieve, their patrons are Taghut, these bring them forth from light to darkness,- fellows of the Fire, they dwell therein for aye

²⁵⁸Do you not look at him who disputed with Abraham about his Lord, that God had given him the kingdom? When Abraham said, 'My Lord is He who giveth life and death,' he said, 'I give life and death.' Abraham said, 'But verily, God brings the sun from the east, do thou then bring it from the west?' And he who misbelieved was dumbfounded, for God does not guide unjust folk

²⁵⁹Or like him who passed by a village, when it was desolate and turned over on its roofs, and said, 'How will God revive this after its death?' And God made him die for a hundred years, then He raised him, and said, 'How long hast thou tarried?' Said he, 'I have tarried a day, or some part of a day.' He said, 'Nay, thou hast tarried a hundred years; look at thy food and drink, they are not spoiled, and look at thine ass; for we will make thee a sign to men. And look at the bones how we scatter them and then clothe them with flesh.' And when it was made manifest to him, he said, 'I know that God is mighty over all

²⁶⁰And when Abraham said, 'Lord, show me how thou wilt revive the dead,' He said, 'What, dost thou not yet believe?' Said he, 'Yea, but that my heart may be quieted.' He said, 'Then take four birds, and take them close to thyself; then put a part of them on every mountain; then call them, and they will come to thee in haste; and know that God is mighty, wise

²⁶¹The likeness of those who expend their wealth in God's way is as the likeness of a grain that grows to seven ears, in every ear a hundred grains, for God will double unto whom He pleases; for God both embraces and knows

²⁶²Those who expend their wealth in God's way, then do not follow up what they expend by taunting with it and by annoyance, these have their hire with their Lord, and no fear is on them, neither shall they grieve

²⁶³Kind speech and pardon are better than almsgiving followed by annoyance, and God is rich and clement

²⁶⁴O ye who believe! make not your almsgiving vain by taunts and annoyance, like him who expends what he has for the sake of appearances before men, and believes not in God and the last day; for his likeness is as the likeness of a flint with soil upon it, and a heavy shower falls on it and leaves it bare rock; they can do nought with what they earn, for God guides not the misbelieving folk

²⁶⁵But the likeness of those who expend their wealth craving the goodwill of God, and as an insurance for their souls, is as the likeness of a garden on a hill. A heavy shower falls on it, and it brings forth its eatables twofold; and if no heavy shower falls on it, the dew does; and God on what ye do doth look

²⁶⁶Would one of you fain have a garden of palms and vines, with rivers flowing beneath it, in which is every fruit; and when old age shall reach him, have weak seed, and there fall on it a storm wind with fire therein, and it gets burnt? Thus does God manifest to you His signs, mayhap ye will reflect

²⁶⁷O ye who believe! expend in alms of the good things that ye have earned, and of what we have brought forth for you out of the earth, and do not take the vile thereof to spend in alms,- what you would not take yourselves save by connivance at it; but know that God is rich and to be praised

²⁶⁸The devil promises you poverty and bids you sin, but God promises you pardon from Him and grace, for God both embraces and knows

²⁶⁹He bringeth wisdom unto whom He will, and he who is brought wisdom is brought much good; but none will remember save those endowed with minds

²⁷⁰Whatever expense ye expend, or vow ye vow, God knows it; but the unjust have no helpers

²⁷¹If ye display your almsgiving, then well is it; but if ye hide it and bring it to the poor, then is it better for you, and will expiate for you your evil deeds; for God of what ye do is well aware

²⁷²Thou art not bound to guide them; but God guides whom He will; and whatever good ye expend it is for yourselves, and do not expend save craving for God's face. And what ye expend of good, it shall be repaid you, and ye shall not be wronged

²⁷³unto the poor who are straitened in God's way, and cannot knock about in the earth. The ignorant think them to be rich because of their modesty; you will know them by their mark, they do not beg from men importunately; but what ye spend of good God knows

²⁷⁴Those who expend their wealth by night and day, secretly and openly, they shall have their hire with their Lord. No fear shall come on them, nor shall they grieve

²⁷⁵Those who devour usury shall not rise again, save as he riseth whom Satan hath paralysed with a touch; and that is because they say 'selling is only like usury,' but God has made selling lawful and usury unlawful; and he to whom the admonition from his Lord has come, if he desists, what has gone before is his: his matter is in God's hands. But whosoever returns (to usury) these are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye

²⁷⁶God shall blot out usury, but shall make almsgiving profitable, for God loves not any sinful misbeliever

²⁷⁷Verily, those who believe, and act righteously, and are steadfast in prayer, and give alms, theirs is their hire with their Lord; there is no fear on them, nor shall they grieve

²⁷⁸O ye who believe! fear God, and remit the balance of usury, if ye be believers

²⁷⁹and if ye will not do it, then hearken to the proclamation of war from God and His Apostle; but if ye repent, your capital is yours. Ye shall not wrong, nor shall ye be wronged

²⁸⁰And if it be one in difficulties, then wait for easy circumstances; but that ye remit it as alms is better for you, if ye did but know

²⁸¹Fear the day wherein ye shall return to God; then shall each soul be paid what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged

²⁸²O ye who believe! if ye engage to one another in a debt for a stated time, then write it down, and let a scribe write it down between you faithfully; nor let a scribe refuse to write as God taught him, but let him write, and let him who owes dictate; but let him fear God his Lord, and not diminish therefrom aught; but if he who owes be a fool, or weak, or cannot dictate himself, then let his agent dictate faithfully, and let them call two witnesses out from amongst their men; or if there be not two men, then a man and two women, from those whom he chooses for witnesses, so that if one of the two should err, the second of the two may remind the other; and let not the witnesses refuse when they are summoned; and let them not tire of writing it, be it small or great, with its time of payment. That is more just in the sight of God, and more upright for testimony, and brings you nearer to not doubting. Unless, indeed, it be a ready-money transaction between you, which ye arrange between yourselves, then it is no crime against you that ye do not write it down; but bring witnesses to what ye sell one to another, and let not either scribe or witness come to harm, for if ye do it will be abomination in you; but fear God, for God teaches you, and God knows all things

²⁸³But if ye be upon a journey, and ye cannot find a scribe, then let a pledge be taken. But if one of you trust another, then let him who is trusted surrender his trust, and let him fear God his Lord, and conceal not testimony, for he who conceals it, verily, sinful is his heart: God knows what ye do

²⁸⁴God's is what is in heaven and in the earth, and if ye show what is in your souls, or hide it, God will call you to account; and He forgives whom He will, and punishes whom He will, for God is mighty over all

²⁸⁵The Apostle believes in what is sent down to him from his Lord, and the believers all believe on God, and His angels, and His Books, and His apostles,- we make no difference between any of His apostles,- they say, 'We hear and obey, Thy pardon, O Lord! for to Thee our journey tends

²⁸⁶God will not require of the soul save its capacity. It shall have what it has earned, and it shall owe what has been earned from it. Lord, catch us not up, if we forget or make mistake; Lord, load us not with a burden, as Thou hast loaded those who were before us. Lord, make us not to carry what we have not strength for, but forgive us, and pardon us, and have mercy on us. Thou art our Sovereign, then help us against the people who do not believe

¹ALIF LAM MIM

²God, there is no god but He, the living, the self-subsistent

³He has sent down to thee the Book, in truth, confirming what was before it, and has revealed the law, and the gospel

⁴before for the guidance of men, and has revealed the Discrimination. Verily, those who disbelieve in the signs of God, for them is severe torment, for God is mighty and avenging

⁵Verily, God, there is nothing hidden from Him in the earth, nor in the heaven

⁶He it is who fashions you in the womb as He pleases. There is no God but He, the mighty, the wise

⁷He it is who has revealed to thee the Book, of which there are some verses that are decisive, they are the mother of the Book; and others ambiguous; but as for those in whose hearts is perversity, they follow what is ambiguous, and do crave for sedition, craving for (their own) interpretation of it; but none know the interpretation of it except God. But those who are well grounded in knowledge say, 'We believe in it; it is all from our Lord; but none will remember save those who possess minds

⁸O Lord! pervert not our hearts again when Thou hast guided them, and grant us mercy from Thee, for Thou art He who grants

⁹O Lord! Thou shalt gather together men unto the day wherein is no doubt. Verily, God will not depart from His promise

¹⁰Verily, those who misbelieve, their wealth shall not help them, nor their children, against God at all; and they it is who are the fuel of the fire

¹¹As was the wont of Pharaoh's people, and those before them, they said our signs were lies, and God caught them up in their sins, for God is severe to punish

¹²Say to those who misbelieve, 'Ye shall be overcome and driven together to hell, an ill couch will it be

¹³Ye have had a sign in the two parties who met; one party fighting in the way of God, the other misbelieving; these saw twice the same number as themselves to the eye-sight, for God aids with His help those whom He pleases.' Verily, in that is a lesson for those who have perception

¹⁴Seemly unto men is a life of lusts, of women, and children, and hoarded talents of gold and silver, and of horses well-bred, and cattle, and tilth;- that is the provision for the life of this world; but God, with Him is the best resort

¹⁵Say, 'But shall we tell you of a better thing than this?' For those who fear are gardens with their Lord, beneath which rivers flow; they shall dwell therein for aye, and pure wives and grace from God; the Lord looks on His servants

¹⁶who say, 'Lord, we believe, pardon Thou our sins and keep us from the torment of the fire

¹⁷the patient, the truthful, the devout, and those who ask for pardon at the dawn

¹⁸God bears witness that there is no god but He, and the angels, and those possessed of knowledge standing up for justice. There is no God but He, the mighty, the wise

¹⁹Verily, (the true) religion in God's sight is Islam, and those to whom the Book was given disagreed not until after that there was given to them knowledge, through mutual envy. But whoso disbelieves in God's signs, truly God is quick at reckoning up

²⁰And if they would dispute with thee, then say, 'I turn my face with resignation unto God, and whoso follows me.' And say to those who have been given the Book, unto the Gentiles, 'Are ye, too, resigned' and if they are resigned, then are they guided. But if they turn their backs, then thou hast only to preach, and God looks on his servants

²¹Verily, those who disbelieve in God's signs, and kill the prophets without right, and kill those from among men, who bid what is just,- to them give the glad tidings of grievous woe

²²These are they whose works are void in this world and the next, and helpers have they none

²³Did ye not see those who have been given a portion of the Book? they were called unto the Book of God to decide between them; and then a sect of them turned their backs and turned away

²⁴that is because they say the fire shall not touch us save for a certain number of days. But that deceived them in their religion which they had invented

²⁵How will it be when we have gathered them together for a day whereof there is no doubt, when each soul shall be paid what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged

²⁶Say, 'O God, Lord of the kingdom! Thou givest the kingdom to whomsoever Thou pleasest, and strippest the kingdom from whomsoever Thou pleasest; Thou honourest whom Thou pleasest, and abasest whom Thou pleasest; in Thy hand is good. Verily, Thou art mighty over all

²⁷Thou dost turn night to day, and dost turn day to night, and dost bring forth the living from the dead, and dost provide for whom Thou pleasest without taking count

²⁸Those who believe shall not take misbelievers for their patrons, rather than believers, and he who does this has no part with God at all, unless, indeed, ye fear some danger from them. But God bids you beware of Himself, for unto Him your journey is

²⁹Say, 'If ye hide that which is in your breasts, or if ye show it, God knows it: He knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, for God is mighty over all

³⁰The day that every soul shall find what it has done of good present before it; and what it has done of evil, it would fain that there were between itself and that a wide interval. 'God bids you beware of Himself, but God is gentle with His servants

³¹Say, 'If ye would love God then follow me, and God will love you and forgive you your sins, for God is forgiving and merciful

³²Say, 'Obey God and the Apostle; but if ye turn your backs God loves not misbelievers

³³Verily, God has chosen Adam, and Noah, and Abraham's people, and Imran's people above the world

³⁴a seed, of which one succeeds the other, but God both hears and knows

³⁵When Imran's wife said, 'Lord! I have vowed to Thee what is within my womb, to be dedicated unto Thee, receive it then from me. Verily, Thou dost hear and know

³⁶And when she brought it forth she said, 'Verily, I have brought it forth a female' - but God knew best what she brought forth; and a male is not like a female - 'I have called her Mary, and I seek a refuge in Thee for her and for her seed from Satan the pelted

³⁷And her Lord received her with a good reception, and made her grow up with a good growth, and Zachariah took care of her. Whenever Zachariah entered the chamber to her he found beside her a provision, and said, 'O Mary, how hast thou this?' She said, 'It is from God, for God provides for whom He pleases without count

³⁸Therefore prayed Zachariah to his Lord, and said, 'Lord, grant me from Thee a good seed. Verily, Thou hearest prayer

³⁹And an angel cried out to him as he was standing praying in the chamber (and said) that 'God gives thee the glad tidings of John, to confirm the Word from God,- of a chief and a chaste one, and a prophet from amongst the righteous

⁴⁰He said, 'My Lord, how can there be to me a boy when old age has reached me, and my wife is barren?' Said he, 'Thus God does what He pleaseth

⁴¹He said, 'My Lord, make for me a sign.' He said, 'Thy sign is that thou shalt not speak to men for three days, save by gesture; but remember thy Lord much, and celebrate His praises in the evening and the morning

⁴²And when the angels said, 'O Mary! verily, God has chosen thee, and has purified thee, and has chosen thee above the women of the world

⁴³O Mary! be devout unto thy Lord, and adore and bow down with those who bow

⁴⁴That is (one) of the declarations of the unseen world which we reveal to thee, though thou wert not by them when they threw their lots which of them should take care of Mary, nor were ye by them when they did dispute

⁴⁵When the angel said, 'O Mary! verily, God gives thee the glad tidings of a Word from Him; his name shall be the Messiah Jesus the son of Mary, regarded in this world and the next and of those whose place is nigh to God

⁴⁶And he shall speak to people in his cradle, and when grown up, and shall be among the righteous

⁴⁷She said, 'Lord! how can I have a son, when man has not yet touched me?' He said, 'Thus God creates what He pleaseth. When He decrees a matter He only says BE and it is

⁴⁸and He will teach him the Book, and wisdom, and the law, and the gospel

⁴⁹and he shall be a prophet to the people of Israel (saying), that I have come to you, with a sign from God, namely, that I will create for you out of clay as though it were the form of a bird, and I will blow thereon and it shall become a bird by God's permission; and I will heal the blind from birth, and lepers; and I will bring the dead to life by God's permission; and I will tell you what you eat and what ye store up in your houses. Verily, in that is a sign for you if ye be believers

⁵⁰And I will confirm what is before you of the law, and will surely make lawful for you some of that which was prohibited from you. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear God and follow me

⁵¹for God is my Lord, and your Lord, so worship Him:- this is the right path

⁵²And when Jesus perceived their unbelief, He said, 'Who are my helpers for God?' Said the apostles, 'We are God's helpers. We believe in God, so bear witness that we are resigned

⁵³Lord, we have believed in what Thou hast revealed, and we have followed the Apostle, so write us down with those which bear witness

⁵⁴But they (the Jews) were crafty, and God was crafty, for God is the best of crafty ones

⁵⁵When God said, 'O Jesus! I will make Thee die and take Thee up again to me and will clear thee of those who misbelieve, and will make those who follow thee above those who misbelieve, at the day of judgment, then to me is your return. I will decide between you concerning that wherein ye disagree

⁵⁶And as for those who misbelieve, I will punish them with grievous punishment in this world and the next, and they shall have none to help them

⁵⁷But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay them their reward, for God loves not the unjust

⁵⁸That is what we recite to thee of the signs and of the wise reminder

⁵⁹Verily the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He created him from earth, then He said to him BE, and he was

⁶⁰the truth from thy Lord, so be thou not of those who are in doubt

⁶¹And whoso disputeth with thee after what has come to thee of knowledge, say, 'Come, let us call our sons and your sons, and our women and your women, and ourselves and yourselves: then we will imprecate and put God's curse on those who lie

⁶²Verily, those are the true stories, and there is no god but God, and, verily, God He is the mighty, the wise

⁶³but if they turn back, God knows the evildoers

⁶⁴Say, 'O ye people of the Book, come to a word laid down plainly between us and you, that we will not serve other than God, nor associate aught with him, nor take each other for lords rather than God.' But if they turn back then say, 'Bear witness that we are resigned

⁶⁵O people of the Book, why do ye dispute about Abraham, when the law and the gospel were not revealed until after him? What! do ye not understand

⁶⁶Here ye are, disputing about what ye have some knowledge of; why then do ye dispute about what ye have no knowledge of? God knows and ye know not

⁶⁷Abraham was not a Jew, nor yet a Christian, but he was a `Hanif resigned, and not of the idolaters

⁶⁸Verily, the people most worthy of Abraham are those who follow him and his prophets, and those who believe;- God is the patron of the believers

⁶⁹A sect of the people of the Book would fain they could lead you astray, but they only lead themselves astray, and they do not perceive

⁷⁰O people of the Book! why do ye disbelieve in the signs of God, the while ye witness them

⁷¹O people of the Book! why do ye clothe the truth with falsehood and hide the truth the while ye know

⁷²A sect of the people of the Book say, 'Believe in what was revealed to those who believed at the first appearance of the day, and disbelieve it at the end thereof,' - that (others) may perchance go back (from their faith)

⁷³do not believe save one who followeth your religion.' Say, 'Verily, the (true) guidance is the guidance of God, that one should be given like what ye are given.' Or would they dispute with you before your Lord, say, 'Grace is in the hand of God, He gives it to whom he pleases, for God both comprehends and knows

⁷⁴He specially favours with his mercy whom he pleases, for God is Lord of mighty grace

⁷⁵And of the people of the Book, there are some of them who, if thou entrust them with a talent give it back to you; and some of them, if thou entrust them with a dinar, he will not give it back to thee except so long as thou dost stand over him. That is because they say, We owe no duty to the Gentiles;' but they tell a lie against God, the while they know

⁷⁶Yea, whoso fulfils his covenant and fears,- verily, God loves those who fear

⁷⁷Those who sell God's covenant and their oaths for a little price, these have no portion in the future life. God will not speak to them, and will not look upon them on the resurrection day, and will not purify them; but for them is grievous woe

⁷⁸And, verily, amongst them is a sect who twist their tongues concerning the Book, that ye may reckon it to be from the Book, but it is not from the Book. They say, 'It is from God,' but it is not from God, and they tell a lie against God, the while they know

⁷⁹It is not right for a man that God should give him a Book, and judgment, and prophecy, and that then he should say to men, 'Be ye servants of mine rather than of God;' but be ye rather masters of teaching the Book and of what ye learn

⁸⁰He does not bid you take the angels and the prophets for your lords; shall He bid you misbelieve again when you are once resigned

⁸¹And when God took the compact from the prophets '(this is) surely what we have given you of the Book and wisdom. Then shall come to you the Apostle confirming what is with you. Ye must believe in him and help him.' He said, moreover, 'Are ye resolved and have ye taken my compact on that (condition).' They say, 'We are resolved.' He said, 'Then bear witness, for I am witness with you

⁸²but he who turns back after that, these are sinners

⁸³What is it other than God's religion that they crave? when to Him is resigned whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, will he or nill he, and to him shall they return

⁸⁴Say, 'We believe in God, and what has been revealed to thee, and what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and what was given to Moses, and Jesus, and the prophets from their Lord,- we will make no distinction between any of them,- and we are unto Him resigned

⁸⁵Whosoever craves other than Islam for a religion, it shall surely not be accepted from him, and he shall, in the next world, be of those who lose

⁸⁶How shall God guide people who have disbelieved after believing and bearing witness that the Apostle is true, and after there come to them manifest signs? God guides the unjust folk

⁸⁷These, their reward is, that on them is the curse of God, and of the angels, and of men together

⁸⁸they shall dwell therein for aye - the torment shall not be alleviated from them, nor shall they be respited

⁸⁹save those who repent after that, and act aright, for verily, God is forgiving and merciful

⁹⁰Verily, those who misbelieve after believing, and then increase in misbelief, their repentance shall not be accepted; these are those who err

⁹¹Verily, those who misbelieve and die in misbelief, there shall not be accepted from any one of them the earth-full of gold, though he should give it as a ransom. For them is grievous woe, and helpers have they none

⁹²Ye cannot attain to righteousness until ye expend in alms of what ye love. But what ye expend in alms, that God knows

⁹³All food was lawful to the children of Israel save what Israel made unlawful to himself before that the law was revealed. Say, 'Bring the law and recite it, if ye speak the truth

⁹⁴But whoso forges against God a lie, after that, they are the unjust

⁹⁵Say, 'God speaks the truth, then follow the faith of Abraham, a `hanif, who was not of the idolaters

⁹⁶Verily, the first House founded for men was surely that at Bekkah, for a blessing and a guidance to the worlds

⁹⁷Therein are manifest signs,- Abraham's station, and whosoever enters in is safe. There is due to God from man a pilgrimage unto the House, for whosoever can find his way there. But whoso misbelieves - God is independent of the worlds

⁹⁸Say, 'O people of the Book! why do ye misbelieve in God's signs, while God is witness of what ye do

⁹⁹Say, 'O people of the Book! why do ye turn from the way of God him who believes, craving to make it crooked, while ye are witnesses? But God is not careless of what ye do

¹⁰⁰O ye who believe! if ye obey the sect of those to whom the Book was brought, they will turn you, after your faith, to unbelievers again

¹⁰¹How can ye misbelieve while unto you are recited the signs of God, and among you is His Apostle? But whoso takes tight hold on God, he is guided into the right way

¹⁰²O ye who believe! fear God with the fear that He deserves, and die not save ye be resigned

¹⁰³Take tight hold of God's rope altogether, and do not part in sects; but remember the favours of God towards you, when ye were enemies and He made friendship between your hearts, and on the morrow ye were, by His favour, brothers. Ye were on the edge of a pit of fire, but he rescued you therefrom. Thus does God show to you His signs, perchance ye may be guided

¹⁰⁴and that there may be of you a nation who shall invite to good, and bid what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong; these are the prosperous

¹⁰⁵Be not like those who parted in sects and disagreed after there came to them manifest signs; for them is mighty woe

¹⁰⁶on the day when faces shall be whitened and faces shall be blackened. As for those whose faces are blackened,- 'Did ye misbelieve after your faith, then taste the torment for your misbelief

¹⁰⁷But as for those whose faces are whitened, they are in God's mercy, and they shall dwell therein for aye

¹⁰⁸These are the signs of God. We recite them to you in truth, for God desires not wrong unto the worlds

¹⁰⁹God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and unto God affairs return

¹¹⁰Ye were the best of nations brought forth unto man. Ye bid what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong, believing in God. Had the people of the Book believed, it would have been better for them. There are believers among them, though most of them are sinners

¹¹¹They shall surely not harm you save a hurt; and if they fight you, they shall show you their backs, then they shall not be helped

¹¹²They are smitten with abasement wherever they be found, save for the rope of God and the rope of man; and they draw on themselves wrath from God. They are smitten, too, with poverty; that is because they did disbelieve in God's signs, and kill the prophets undeservedly. That is because they did rebel and did transgress

¹¹³They are not all alike. Of the people of the Book there is a nation upright, reciting God's signs throughout the night, as they adore the while

¹¹⁴They believe in God, and in the last day, and bid what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong, and vie in charity; these are among the righteous

¹¹⁵What ye do of good surely God will not deny, for God knows those who fear

¹¹⁶Verily, those who misbelieve, their wealth is of no service to them, nor their children either, against God; they are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye

¹¹⁷The likeness of what they expend in this life of the world, is as the likeness of wind wherein is a cold blast that falls upon a people's tilth who have wronged themselves and destroys it. It is not God who wrongs them, but it is themselves they wrong

¹¹⁸O ye who believe! take not to intimacy with others than yourselves; they will not fail to spoil you; they would fain ye came to trouble,- hatred is shown by their mouths; but what their breasts conceal is greater still. We have made manifest to you our signs, did ye but understand

¹¹⁹Ye it is who love them, but they love not you; and ye believe in the Book, all of it. But when they meet you they say, 'We believe;' and when they go aside they bite their finger tips at you through rage. Say, 'Die in your rage, for God doth know the nature of men's breasts

¹²⁰If good luck touch you it is bad for them, but if bad luck befall you they rejoice therein; yet if ye are patient and fear, their tricks shall not harm you, for what they do God comprehends

¹²¹When thou didst set forth early from thy people to settle for the believers a camp to fight;- but God both hears and knows

¹²²when two companies of you were on the point of showing cowardice; but God was their guardian, for on God surely the believers do rely

¹²³Why! God gave you victory at Bedr when ye were in a poor way; fear God, then, haply ye may give thanks

¹²⁴When thou didst say unto the believers, 'Is it not enough for you that your Lord assists you with three thousand of the angels sent down from on high

¹²⁵Yea, if ye are patient and fear God, and they come upon you on a sudden, now, your Lord will assist you with five thousand of His angels, (angels) of mark

¹²⁶God only made this as glad tidings for you to comfort your hearts withal,- for victory is but from God, the mighty, the wise

¹²⁷to cut off the flank of those who misbelieve, or make them downcast, that they may retire disappointed

¹²⁸Thou hast nothing to do with the affair at all, whether He turn towards them again or punish them; for, verily, they are unjust

¹²⁹God's is what is in the heavens and in the earth. He forgives whom He pleases, and punishes whom He pleases; for God is forgiving and merciful

¹³⁰O ye who believe! devour not usury doubly doubled, but fear God, perchance ye may be prosperous

¹³¹fear the fire which is prepared for the unbelievers

¹³²and obey God and His Apostle, perchance ye may get mercy

¹³³And vie with one another for pardon from your Lord, and for Paradise, the breadth of which is as the heaven and the earth, prepared for those who fear

¹³⁴for those who expend in alms, in prosperity and adversity, for those who repress their rage, and those who pardon men; God loves the kind

¹³⁵Those who when they do a crime, or wrong themselves, remember God, and ask forgiveness for their sins,- and who forgives sins save God?- and do not persevere in what they did, the while they know

¹³⁶these have their reward:- pardon from their Lord, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, dwelling therein for aye; for pleasant is the hire of those who act like this

¹³⁷Incidents have passed before your time, go on then in the earth, and see what was the end of those who called (the prophets) liars

¹³⁸This is an explanation unto men, and a guidance and a warning unto those who fear

¹³⁹Do not give way nor grieve, for ye shall have the upper hand if ye but be believers

¹⁴⁰If a sore touch you, a sore like it has touched people: these are days which we make to alternate amongst mankind that God may know who it is that believe, and may take from you witnesses, for God loves not the unjust

¹⁴¹and that God may assay those who believe, and blot out the misbelievers

¹⁴²Do ye think that ye can enter Paradise and God not know those of you who have fought well, or know the patient

¹⁴³Why, ye longed for death before ye met it! Now ye have looked upon it and ye halt

¹⁴⁴Mohammed is but an apostle; apostles have passed away before his time; what if he die or is killed, will ye retreat upon your heels? He who retreats upon his heels does no harm to God at all; but God will recompense the thankful

¹⁴⁵It is not for any soul to die, save by God's permission written down for an appointed time; but he who wishes for the reward of this world we will give him of it, and he who wishes for the reward of the future we will give him of it, and we will recompense the grateful

¹⁴⁶How many prophets have myriads fought against! yet they did not give way at what befel them in God's way Nor were they weak, nor did they demean themselves:- God loves the patient

¹⁴⁷And their word was only to say, 'Lord, forgive us our sins and our extravagance in our affairs; and make firm our footing, and help us against the misbelieving folk

¹⁴⁸and God gave them the reward of this world, and good reward for the future too, for God doth love the kind

¹⁴⁹O ye who believe! if ye obey those who misbelieve, they will turn you back upon your heels, and ye will retreat the losers

¹⁵⁰Nay, God is your Lord, He is the best of helpers

¹⁵¹We will throw dread into the hearts of those who misbelieve, for that they associate that with God which He has sent down no power for; but their resort is fire, and evil is the resort of the unjust

¹⁵²God has truly kept His promise, when ye knocked them senseless by His permission, until ye showed cowardice, and wrangled, and rebelled, after he had shown you what ye loved. Amongst you are those who love this world, and amongst you are those who love the next. Then He turned you away from them to try you; but He has pardoned you, for God is Lord of grace unto believers

¹⁵³when ye went up and looked not round upon any one, although the Apostle was calling you from your rear. Therefore did God reward you with trouble on trouble that ye should not grieve after what ye had missed, nor for what befel you, for God is well aware of what ye do

¹⁵⁴Then He sent down upon you after trouble safety,- drowsiness creeping over one company of you, and one company of you getting anxious about themselves, suspecting about God other than the truth, with the suspicion of the ignorant, and saying, 'Have we any chance in the affair?' Say, 'Verily, the affair is God's.' They conceal in themselves what they will not show to thee, and say, 'If we had any chance in the affair we should not be killed here.' Say, 'If ye were in your houses, surely those against whom slaughter was written down, would have gone forth to fight even to where they are lying now; that God may try what is in your breasts and assay what is in your hearts, for God doth know the nature of men's breasts

¹⁵⁵Verily, those of you who turned your backs on that day when the two armies met, it was but Satan who made them slip for something they had earned. But God has now pardoned them; verily, God is forgiving and clement

¹⁵⁶O ye who believe! be not like those who misbelieve, and say unto their brethren when they knock about in the earth, or are upon a raid, 'Had they but been at home, they had not died and had not been killed.' It was that God might make a sighing in their hearts, for God gives life and death; and God on what ye do doth look

¹⁵⁷And if, indeed, ye be killed in God's way or die, surely forgiveness from God and mercy is better than what ye gather

¹⁵⁸and if ye die or be killed it is to God ye shall be assembled

¹⁵⁹It was by a sort of mercy from God thou didst deal gently with them, for hadst thou been rough and rude of heart they had dispersed from around thee. But pardon them, and ask forgiveness for them, and take counsel with them in the affair. As for what thou hast resolved, rely upon God; verily, God loves those who do rely

¹⁶⁰If God help you, there is none can overcome you; but if He leave you in the lurch, who is there can help you after Him? Upon God then let believers rely

¹⁶¹It is not for the prophet to cheat; and he who cheats shall bring what he has cheated on the resurrection day. Then shall each soul be paid what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged

¹⁶²Is he who follows the pleasure of God, like him who has drawn on himself anger from God, whose resort is hell? An evil journey shall it be

¹⁶³These are degrees with God, and God sees what ye do

¹⁶⁴God was surely very gracious to the believers, when He sent amongst them an apostle from themselves, to recite to them His signs, and purify them, and teach them the Book and wisdom, although they surely were before his time in manifest error

¹⁶⁵Or when an accident befals you, and ye have fallen on twice as much, ye say, 'How is this?' Say, 'It is from yourselves. Verily, God is mighty over all

¹⁶⁶And what befell you the day when the two armies met, it was by God's permission; that He might know the believers

¹⁶⁷and might know those who behaved hypocritically; for it was said to them, 'Come, fight in God's way,' or 'repel (the foe);' they said, 'If we knew how to fight we would surely follow you.' They were that day far nigher unto misbelief than they were to faith. They say with their mouths what is not in their hearts, but God doth know best what they hid

¹⁶⁸Those who said of their brethren, whilst they themselves stayed at home, 'Had they obeyed us they would not have been killed.' Say, 'Ward off from yourselves death, if ye do speak the truth

¹⁶⁹Count not those who are killed in the way of God as dead, but living with their Lord;- provided for

¹⁷⁰rejoicing in what God has brought them of His grace, and being glad for those who have not reached them yet,- those left behind them; there is no fear for them, and they shall not be grieved

¹⁷¹glad at favour from God and grace, and that God wasteth not the hire of the believers

¹⁷²Whoso answered to the call of God and of His prophet after sorrow had befallen them, for those, if they do good and fear God, is a mighty hire

¹⁷³To whom when men said, 'Verily, men have gathered round you, fear then them,' it only increased their faith, and they said, 'God is enough for us, a good guardian is He

¹⁷⁴Then they retired in favour from God and grace; no evil touched them; they followed the pleasure of God, and God is Lord of mighty grace

¹⁷⁵It is only that Satan who frightens his friends. Do not ye fear them, but fear me, if ye be believers

¹⁷⁶Let them not grieve thee who vie with each other in misbelief. Verily, they cannot hurt God at all. God wills not to make for them a portion in the future life; but for them is mighty woe

¹⁷⁷Verily, those who purchase misbelief for faith, they do not hurt God at all, and for them is grievous woe

¹⁷⁸Let not those who misbelieve reckon that our letting them range is good for themselves. We only let them have their range that they may increase in sin. And for them is shameful woe

¹⁷⁹God would not leave believers in the state which ye are in, until He discerns the vile from the good. And God would not inform you of the unseen, but God chooses of His apostles whom He pleases. Wherefore believe ye in God and His Apostle; and if ye believe and fear, for you is mighty hire

¹⁸⁰And let not those who are niggard of what God has given them of His grace, count that it is best for them;- nay, it is worse for them. What they have been niggard of shall be a collar round their necks upon the resurrection day. And God's is the heritage of the heavens and the earth, and God of what ye do is well aware

¹⁸¹God heard the speech of those who said, 'Verily, God is poor and we are rich.' We will write down what they said, and how they killed the prophets undeservedly, and say, 'Taste ye the torment of burning

¹⁸²this shall they suffer for what their hands have sent on before;- for, verily, God is no unjust one to His servants

¹⁸³who say, 'Verily, God has covenanted with us that we should not believe in an apostle until he gives us a sacrifice which fire devours.' Say, 'There have come to you apostles before me with manifest signs, and with what ye talk about; why then did ye kill them, if ye speak the truth

¹⁸⁴And if they did call thee a liar, apostles before thee have been called liars too, who came with manifest signs, and with scriptures, and with the illuminating Book

¹⁸⁵Every soul must taste of death; and ye shall only be paid your hire upon the resurrection day. But he who is forced away from the fire and brought into Paradise is indeed happy; but the life of this world is but a possession of deceit

¹⁸⁶Ye shall surely be tried in your wealth, and in your persons, and ye shall surely hear from those who have had the Book brought them before you, and from those who associate others with God, much harm. But if ye be patient and fear,- verily, that is one of the determined affairs

¹⁸⁷When God took the compact from those who have had the Book brought them that 'Ye shall of a surety manifest it unto men, and not hide it,' they cast it behind their backs, and bought therewith a little price,- but evil is what they buy

¹⁸⁸Count not that those who rejoice in what they have produced, and love to be praised for what they have not done,- think not that they are in safety from woe,- for them is grievous woe

¹⁸⁹God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and God is mighty over all

¹⁹⁰Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the succession of night and day, are signs to those possessed of minds

¹⁹¹who remember God standing and sitting or lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth. 'O Lord! thou hast not created this in vain. We celebrate Thy praise; then keep us from the torment of the fire

¹⁹²Lord! verily, whomsoever Thou hast made to enter the fire, Thou hast disgraced him; and the unjust shall have none to help them

¹⁹³Lord! verily, we heard a crier calling to the faith, "Believe in your Lord," and we did believe. Lord! forgive us our sins and cover our offences, and let us die with the righteous

¹⁹⁴Lord! and bring us what Thou hast promised us by Thy apostles, and disgrace us not upon the resurrection day; for, verily, Thou dost not break Thy promises

¹⁹⁵And the Lord shall answer them, 'I waste not the works of a worker amongst you, be it male or female,- one of you is from the other. 'Those who fled, and were turned out of their houses, and were harmed in my way, and who fought and were killed, I will cover their offences, and I will make them enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow.' A reward from God; for God, with Him are the best of rewards

¹⁹⁶Let it not deceive you that those who misbelieve go to and fro in the earth

¹⁹⁷It is a slight possession, and then their resort is Hell; an evil couch shall it be

¹⁹⁸But those who fear their Lord, for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow, and they shall dwell therein for aye,- an entertainment from God; and that which is with God is best for the righteous

¹⁹⁹Verily, of the people of the Book are some who do believe in God, and in what has been revealed to you, and what was revealed to them, humbling themselves before God, and selling not the signs of God for a little price. These shall have their reward with their Lord; verily, God is quick at reckoning up

²⁰⁰O ye who believe! be patient and vie in being patient, and be on the alert, and fear God, that haply ye may prosper

¹O ye folk! fear your Lord, who created you from one soul, and created therefrom its mate, and diffused from them twain many men and women. And fear God, in whose name ye beg of one another, and the wombs; verily, God over you doth watch

²And give unto the orphans their property, and give them not the vile in exchange for the good, and devour not their property to your own property; verily, that were a great sin

³But if ye fear that ye cannot do justice between orphans, then marry what seems good to you of women, by twos, or threes, or fours; and if ye fear that ye cannot be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands possess. That keeps you nearer to not being partial

⁴And give women their dowries freely; and if they are good enough to remit any of it of themselves, then devour it with good digestion and appetite

⁵But do not give up to fools their property which God has made you to stand by; but maintain them from it, and clothe them, and speak to them with a reasonable speech

⁶Prove orphans until they reach a marriageable age, and if ye perceive in them right management, then hand over to them their property, and do not devour it extravagantly in anticipation of their growing up. And he who is rich, let him abstain; but he who is poor, let him devour in reason, and when ye hand over to them their property, then take witnesses against them; but God sufficeth for taking account

⁷Men should have a portion of what their parents and kindred leave, and women should have a portion of what their parents and kindred leave, whether it be little or much, a determined portion

⁸And when the next of kin and the orphans and the poor are present at the division, then maintain them out of it, and speak to them a reasonable speech

⁹And let these fear lest they leave behind them a weak seed, for whom they would be afraid; and let them fear God, and speak a straightforward speech

¹⁰Verily, those who devour the property of orphans unjustly, only devour into their bellies fire, and they shall broil in flames

¹¹God instructs you concerning your children; for a male the like of the portion of two females, and if there be women above two, then let them have two-thirds of what (the deceased) leaves; and if there be but one, then let her have a half; and as to the parents, to each of them a sixth of what he leaves, if he has a son; but if he have no son, and his parents inherit, then let his mother have a third, and if he have brethren, let his mother have a sixth after payment of the bequest he bequeaths and of his debt. Your parents or your children, ye know not which of them is nearest to you in usefulness: - an ordinance this from God; verily, God is knowing and wise

¹²And ye shall have half of what your wives leave, if they have no son; but if they have a son, then ye shall have a fourth of what they leave, after payment of the bequests they bequeath or of their debts. And they shall have a fourth of what ye leave, if ye have no son; but if ye have a son, then let them have an eighth of what ye leave, after payment of the bequest ye bequeath and of your debts. And if the man's or the woman's (property) be inherited by a kinsman who is neither parent nor child, and he have a brother or sister, then let each of these two have a sixth; but if they are more than that, let them share in a third after payment of the bequest he bequeaths and of his debts, without prejudice, - an ordinance this from God, and God is knowing and clement

¹³These be God's bounds, and whoso obeys God and the Apostle He will make him enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow, and they shall dwell therein for aye;- that is the mighty happiness

¹⁴But whoso rebels against God and His Apostle, and transgresses His bounds, He will make him enter into fire, and dwell therein for aye; and for him is shameful woe

¹⁵Against those of your women who commit adultery, call witnesses four in number from among yourselves; and if these bear witness, then keep the women in houses until death release them, or God shall make for them a way

¹⁶And if two of you commit it, then hurt them both; but if they turn again and amend, leave them alone, verily, God is easily turned, compassionate

¹⁷God is only bound to turn again towards those who do evil through ignorance and then turn again. Surely, these will God turn again to, for God is knowing, wise

¹⁸His turning again is not for those who do evil, until, when death comes before one of them, he says, 'Now I turn again;' nor yet forth those who die in misbelief. For such as these have we prepared a grievous woe

¹⁹O ye who believe! it is not lawful for you to inherit women's estates against their will; nor to hinder them, that ye may go off with part of what ye brought them, unless they commit fornication manifestly; but associate with them in reason, for if ye are averse from them, it may be that ye are averse from something wherein God has put much good for you

²⁰But if ye wish to exchange one wife for another, and have given one of them a talent, then take not from it anything. What! would you take it for a calumny and a manifest crime

²¹How care ye take it when one of you has gone in unto the other, and they have taken from you a rigid compact

²²And do not marry women your fathers married,- except bygones,- for it is abominable and hateful, and an evil way

²³unlawful for you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your paternal aunts and maternal aunts, and your brother's daughters, and your sister's daughters, and your foster mothers, and your foster sisters, and your wives' mothers, and your step daughters who are your wards, born of your wives to whom ye have gone in; but if ye have not gone in unto them, then it is no crime in you; and the lawful spouses of your sons from your own loins, and that ye form a connexion between two sisters,- except bygones,- verily, God is forgiving, merciful

²⁴and married women, save such as your right hands possess,- God's Book against you! - but lawful for you is all besides this, for you to seek them with your wealth, marrying them and not fornicating; but such of them as ye have enjoyed, give them their hire as a lawful due; for there is no crime in you about what ye agree between you after such lawful due, verily, God is knowing and wise

²⁵But whosoever of you cannot go the length of marrying marriageable women who believe, then take of what your right hands possess, of your maidens who believe;- though God knows best about your faith. Ye come one from the other; then marry them with the permission of their people, and give them their hire in reason, they being chaste and not fornicating, and not receivers of paramours. But when they are married, if they commit fornication, then inflict upon them half the penalty for married women; that is for whomsoever of you fears wrong; but that ye should have patience is better for you, and God is forgiving and merciful

²⁶God wishes to explain to you and to guide you into the ordinances of those who were before you, and to turn towards you, for God is knowing, wise

²⁷God wishes to turn towards you, but those who follow their lusts wish that ye should swerve with a mighty swerving

²⁸God wishes to make it light for you, for man was created weak

²⁹O ye who believe! devour not your property amongst yourselves vainly, unless it be a merchandise by mutual consent. And do not kill yourselves; verily, God is compassionate unto you

³⁰But whoso does that maliciously and unjustly, we will broil him with fire; for that is easy with God

³¹If ye avoid great sins from which ye are forbidden, we will cover your offences and make you enter with a noble entrance

³²And do not covet that by which God has preferred one of you over another. The men shall have a portion of what they earn, and the women a portion of what they earn; ask God for His grace, verily, God knows all

³³To every one have we appointed kinsfolk as heirs of what parents and relatives and those with whom ye have joined right hands leave; so give them their portion, for, verily, God is over all a witness

³⁴Men stand superior to women in that God hath preferred some of them over others, and in that they expend of their wealth: and the virtuous women, devoted, careful (in their husbands') absence, as God has cared for them. But those whose perverseness ye fear, admonish them and remove them into bed-chambers and beat them; but if they submit to you, then do not seek a way against them; verily, God is high and great

³⁵And if ye fear a breach between the two, then send a judge from his people and a judge from her people. If they wish for reconciliation, God will arrange between them; verily, God is knowing and aware

³⁶And serve God, and do not associate aught with Him; and to your parents show kindness, and to kindred, and orphans, and the poor, and the neighbour who is akin, and the neighbour who is a stranger, and the companion who is strange, and the son of the road, and what your right hands possess, verily, God loves not him who is proud and boastful

³⁷who are miserly and bid men be miserly too, and who hide what God has given them of His grace;- but we have prepared for the misbelievers shameful woe

³⁸And those who expend their wealth in alms for appearance sake before men, and who believe not in God nor in the last day; - but whosoever has Satan for his mate, an evil mate has he

³⁹What harm would it do them if they believed in God and in the last day, and expended in alms of what God has provided them with? but God knows about them

⁴⁰Verily, God would not wrong by the weight of an atom; and if it's a good work, He will double it and bring from Himself a mighty hire

⁴¹How then when we bring from every nation a witness, and bring thee as a witness against these

⁴²on the day when those who misbelieve and rebel against the Apostle would fain that the earth were levelled with them? but they cannot hide the news from God

⁴³O ye who believe! approach not prayer while ye are drunk, until ye well know what ye say; nor yet while polluted,- unless ye be passing by the way,- until ye have washed yourselves. But if ye are sick, or on a journey, or one of you come from the privy, or if ye have touched a woman, and ye cannot find water, then use good surface sand and wipe your faces and your hands therewith; verily, God pardons and forgives

⁴⁴Do ye not see those who have been given a portion of the Book? they buy error, and they wish that ye may err from the way

⁴⁵But God knows best who your enemies are, and God suffices as a patron, and sufficient is God as a help

⁴⁶And those who are Jews, and those who pervert the words from their places, and say, 'We hear but we rebel, and do thou listen without hearing,' and (who say) 'rahina,' distorting it with their tongues and taunting about religion., But had they said, 'We hear and we obey, so listen and look upon us,' it would have been better for them and more upright; - but may God curse them in their misbelief, for they will not believe except a few

⁴⁷O ye who have been given the Book! believe in what we have revealed, confirming what ye had before; ere we deface your faces and turn them into hinder parts, or curse you as we cursed the fellows of the Sabbath when God's command was done

⁴⁸Verily, God pardons not associating aught with Him, but He pardons anything short of that to whomsoever He pleases; but he who associates aught with God, he hath devised a mighty sin

⁴⁹Do ye not see those who purify themselves? nay, God purifies whom He will, and they shall not be wronged a straw

⁵⁰Behold, how they devise against God a lie, and that is manifest sin enough

⁵¹Do ye not see those to whom a portion of the Book has been given? They believe in Gibt and Taghut, and they say of those who misbelieve, 'These are better guided in the way than those who believe

⁵²These are those whom God has cursed, and whom God has cursed no helper shall he find

⁵³Shall they have a portion of the kingdom? Why even then they would not give to men a jot

⁵⁴Do they envy man for what God has given of His grace? We have given to Abraham's people the Book and wisdom, and we have given them a mighty kingdom

⁵⁵And of them are some who believe therein, and of them are some who turn from it, but Hell is flaming enough for them

⁵⁶Verily, those who disbelieve in our signs, we will broil them with fire; whenever their skins are well done, then we will change them for other skins, that they may taste the torment. Verily, God is glorious and wise

⁵⁷But those who believe and do aright, we will make them enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, and they shall dwell therein for ever and aye, for them therein are pure wives, and we will make them enter into a shady shade

⁵⁸Verily, God bids you pay your trusts to their owners, and when ye judge between men to judge with justice. Verily, God, excellent is what He admonishes you with; verily, God both hears and sees

⁵⁹O ye who believe! obey God, and obey the Apostle and those in authority amongst you; and if ye quarrel about anything, refer to God and the Apostle, if ye believe in God and the last day; that is better and fairer as a settlement

⁶⁰Do ye not see those who pretend that they believe in what has been revealed to them, and what was revealed before thee; they wish to refer their judgment to Taghut, but they are bidden to disbelieve therein, and Satan wishes to lead them into a remote error

⁶¹And when it is said to them, 'Come round to what God has sent down and unto the Apostle,' thou seest the hypocrites turning from thee, turning away

⁶²How then when there befalls them a mischance through what their hands have sent on before? then will they come to you, and swear by God, 'We meant naught but good and concord

⁶³These, God knows what is in their hearts. Turn thou away from them and admonish them, and speak to them into their souls with a searching word

⁶⁴We have never sent an apostle save that he should be obeyed by the permission of God; and if they, when they have wronged themselves, come to thee and ask pardon of God, and the Apostle asks pardon for them, then they will find God easy to be turned, compassionate

⁶⁵But no! by thy Lord! they will not believe, until they have made thee judge of what they differ on; then they will not find in themselves aught to hinder what thou hast decreed, and they will submit with submission

⁶⁶But had we prescribed for them, 'Kill yourselves, or go ye forth out of your houses,' they would not have done it, save only a few of them; but had they done what they are admonished, then it would have been better for them, and a more firm assurance

⁶⁷And then we would surely have brought them from ourselves a mighty hire

⁶⁸and would have guided them into a right path

⁶⁹Whoso obeys God and the Apostle, these are with those God has been pleased with, of prophets and confessors and martyrs and the righteous; - a fair company are they

⁷⁰That is grace from God, and God knows well enough

⁷¹O ye who believe! take your precautions and sally in detachments or altogether

⁷²Verily, there is of you who tarries behind, and, if a mischance befalls you, says, 'God has been gracious to me, since I am not with them a martyr

⁷³But if there befalls you grace from God, he would say - as though there were no friendship between you and him - 'O would that I had been with thee to attain this mighty happiness

⁷⁴Let those then fight in God's way who sell this life of the world for the next; and whoso fights in God's way, then, be he killed or be he victorious, we will give him a mighty hire

⁷⁵What ails you that ye do not fight in God's way, and for the weak men and women and children, who say, 'Lord, bring us out of this town of oppressive folk, and make for us from Thee a patron, and make for us from Thee a help

⁷⁶Those who believe fight in the way of God; and those who disbelieve fight in the way of Taghut; fight ye then against the friends of Satan, verily, Satan's tricks are weak

⁷⁷Do ye not see those to whom it is said, 'Restrain your hands, and be steadfast in prayer and give alms;' and when it is prescribed for them to fight then a band of them fear men, as though it were the fear of God or a still stronger fear, and they say, 'O our Lord! why hast thou prescribed for us to fight, couldst thou not let us abide till our near appointed time?' Say, 'The enjoyment of this world is but slight, and the next is better for him who fears:- but they shall not be wronged a straw

⁷⁸Wheresoe'er ye be death will overtake you, though ye were in lofty towers. And if a good thing befall them, they say, 'This is from God,' but if a bad thing, they say, 'This is from thee.' Say, 'It is all from God.' What ails these people? they can hardly understand a tale

⁷⁹What befalls thee of good it is from God; and what befalls thee of bad it is from thyself. We have sent thee to mankind as an apostle, and God sufficeth for a witness

⁸⁰Whoso obeys the prophet he has obeyed God; and he who turns back - we have not sent thee to watch over them

⁸¹They say, 'Obedience!' but when they sally forth from you, a company of them brood by night over something else than that which thou hast said; but God writes down that over which they brood. Turn then from them and rely on God, for God sufficeth for a guardian

⁸²Do they not meditate on the Qur'ran? if it were from other than God they would find in it many a discrepancy

⁸³And when there comes to them a matter of security or fear they publish it; but if they were to report it to the Apostle and to those in authority amongst them, then those of them who would elicit it from them would know it; but were it not for God's grace upon you and His mercy ye had followed Satan, save a few

⁸⁴Fight, then, in the way of God; impose not aught on any but thyself, and urge on the believers; it may be that God will restrain the violence of those who misbelieve, for God is more violent and more severe to punish

⁸⁵Whoso intercedes with a good intercession shall have a portion therefrom; but he who intercedes with a bad intercession shall have the like thereof, for God keeps watch over all things

⁸⁶And when ye are saluted with a salutation, salute with a better than it, or return it;- verily, God of all things takes account

⁸⁷God, there is no God but He! He will surely assemble you on the resurrection day, there is no doubt therein; who is truer than God in his discourse

⁸⁸Why are ye two parties about the hypocrites, when God hath overturned them for what they earned? Do ye wish to guide those whom God hath led astray? Whoso God hath led astray ye shall not surely find for him a path

⁸⁹They would fain that ye misbelieve as they misbelieve, that ye might be alike; take ye not patrons from among them until they too flee in God's way; but if they turn their backs, then seize them and kill them wheresoever ye find them, and take from them neither patron nor help

⁹⁰save those who reach a people betwixt whom and you is an alliance - or who come to you while their bosoms prevent them from fighting you or fighting their own people. But had God pleased He would have given you dominion over them, and they would surely have fought you. But if they retire from you and do not fight you, and offer you peace,- then God hath given you no way against them

⁹¹Ye will find others who seek for quarter from you, and quarter from their own people; whenever they return to sedition they shall be overturned therein: but if they retire not from you, nor offer you peace, nor restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wheresoever ye find them;- over these we have made for you manifest power

⁹²It is not for a believer to kill a believer save by mistake; and whosoever kills a believer by mistake then let him free a believing neck; and the blood-money must be paid to his people save what they shall remit as alms. But if he be from a tribe hostile to you and yet a believer, then let him free a believing neck. And if it be a tribe betwixt whom and you there is an alliance, then let the blood-money be paid to his friends, and let him free a believing neck; but he who cannot find the means, then let him fast for two consecutive months - a penance this from God, for God is knowing, wise

⁹³And whoso kills a believer purposely, his reward is hell, to dwell therein for aye; and God will be wrath with him, and curse him, and prepare for him a mighty woe

⁹⁴O ye who believe! when ye are knocking about in the way of God be discerning, and do not say to him who offers you a salutation, 'Thou art no believer,' craving after the chances of this world's life, for with God are many spoils! So were ye aforetime, but God was gracious to you, be ye then discerning; verily, God of what ye do is well aware

⁹⁵Not alike are those of the believers who sit at home without harm, and those who are strenuous in God's way with their wealth and their persons. God hath preferred those who are strenuous with their wealth and their persons to those who sit still, by many degrees, and to each hath God promised good, but God hath preferred the strenuous for a mighty hire over those who sit still

⁹⁶degrees from him, and pardon and mercy, for God is forgiving and merciful

⁹⁷Verily, the angels when they took the souls of those who had wronged themselves, said, 'What state were ye in?' they say, 'We were but weak in the earth;' they said, 'Was not God's earth wide enough for you to flee away therein?' These are those whose resort is hell, and a bad journey shall it be

⁹⁸Save for the weak men, and women, and children, who could not compass any stratagem, and were not guided to a way

⁹⁹these it may be God will pardon, for God both pardons and forgives

¹⁰⁰Whosoever flees in the way of God shall find in the earth many a spacious refuge; and he who goes forth from his house, fleeing unto God and His prophet, and then death catches him up,- his hire devolves on God, and God is forgiving and merciful

¹⁰¹And when ye knock about in the earth, it is no crime to you that ye come short in prayer, if ye fear that those who disbelieve will set upon you; verily, the misbelievers are your obvious foes

¹⁰²When thou art amongst them, and standest up to pray with them, then let a party of them stand up with thee, and let them take their arms; and when they adore, let them go behind you, and let another party who have not yet prayed come forward and pray with thee; and let them take their precautions and their arms. Fain would those who misbelieve that ye were careless of your arms and your baggage, that they might turn upon you with a single turning. And it is no crime to you if ye be annoyed with rain or be sick, that ye lay down your arms; but take your precautions,- verily, God has prepared for those who misbelieve a shameful woe

¹⁰³But when ye have fulfilled your prayer, remember God standing and sitting and lying on your sides; and when ye are in safety then be steadfast in prayer; verily, prayer is for the believers prescribed and timed

¹⁰⁴And do not give way in pursuit of the people; if ye suffer they shall surely suffer too, even as ye suffer; and ye hope from God, but they hope not! and God is knowing, wise

¹⁰⁵Verily, we have revealed to thee the Book in truth that thou mayest judge between men of what God has shown thee; so be not with the treacherous a disputant

¹⁰⁶but ask God's pardon: verily, God is forgiving, merciful

¹⁰⁷And wrangle not for those who defraud themselves; for God loves not him who is a fraudulent sinner

¹⁰⁸They hide themselves from men; but they cannot hide themselves from God, for He is with them while they brood at night over speeches that please Him not;- but God doth compass what they do

¹⁰⁹Here are ye, wrangling for them about this world's life;- but who shall wrangle with God for them on the day of judgment, or who shall be a guardian over them

¹¹⁰Yet whoso does evil and wrongs himself, and then asks pardon of God, shall find God forgiving and merciful

¹¹¹and whoso commits a crime, he only commits it against himself, for God is knowing, wise

¹¹²And whoso commits a fault or a sin and throws it on the innocent, he hath to bear a calumny and a manifest sin

¹¹³Were it not for God's grace upon thee, and His mercy, a party of them would have tried to lead thee astray; but they only lead themselves astray; they shall not hurt you in aught: for God hath sent down upon thee the Book and the wisdom, and taught thee what thou didst not know, for God's grace was mighty on thee

¹¹⁴There is no good in most of what they talk in private; save in his who bids almsgiving, or kindness, or reconciliation between men; and whoso does this, craving the good pleasure of God, we will give to him a mighty hire

¹¹⁵But he who severs himself from the prophet after that we have made manifest to him the guidance, and follows other than the way of the believers, we will turn our backs on him as he hath turned his back; and we will make him reach hell, and a bad journey shall it be

¹¹⁶Verily, God forgives not associating aught with Him, but He pardons anything short of that, to whomsoever He will; but whoso associates aught with God, he hath erred a wide error

¹¹⁷Verily, they call not beside Him on aught save females; and they do not call on aught save a rebellious devil

¹¹⁸God curse him! for he said, 'I will take from thy servants a portion due to me

¹¹⁹and I will lead them astray; and I will stir up vain desires within them; and I will order them and they shall surely crop the ears of cattle; and I will order them and they shall surely alter God's creation;' but he who takes the devil for his patron instead of God, he loses with a manifest loss

¹²⁰He promises them, and stirs up vain desires within them; but the devil promises only to deceive

¹²¹These, their resort is hell; they shall not find an escape therefrom

¹²²But those who believe, and do what is right, we will make them enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye,- God's promise in truth; and who is truer than God in speech

¹²³Not for your vain desires, nor the vain desires of the people of the Book. He who doeth evil shall be recompensed therewith, and shall not find for him beside God a patron, or a help

¹²⁴But he who doeth good works,- be it male or female,- and believes, they shall enter into Paradise, and they shall not be wronged a jot

¹²⁵Who has a better religion than he who resigns his face to God, and does good, and follows the faith of Abraham, as a 'Hanif?- for God took Abraham as a friend

¹²⁶And God's is what is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses all things

¹²⁷They will ask thee a decision about women; say, 'God decides for you about them, and that which is rehearsed to you in the Book; about orphan women to whom ye do not give what is prescribed for them, and whom ye are averse from marrying; and about weak children; and that ye stand fairly by orphans;- and what ye do of good, verily, that God knows

¹²⁸And if a woman fears from her husband perverseness or aversion, it is no crime in them both that they should be reconciled to each other, for reconciliation is best. For souls are prone to avarice; but if ye act kindly and fear God, of what ye do He is aware

¹²⁹Ye are not able, it may be, to act equitably to your wives, even though ye covet it; do not however be quite partial, and leave one as it were in suspense; but if ye be reconciled and fear, then God is forgiving and merciful

¹³⁰but if they separate, God can make both independent out of His abundance; for God is abundant, wise

¹³¹God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth! We have ordained to those who have been given the Book before you, and to you too that ye fear God;- but if ye misbelieve, verily, God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and God is rich and to be praised

¹³²God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth! and God sufficeth for a guardian

¹³³If He will He can make ye pass away, O men! and can bring others ;- God is able to do all that

¹³⁴He who wishes for a reward in this world,- with God is the reward of this world and of the next, and God both hears and sees

¹³⁵O ye who believe! be ye steadfast in justice, witnessing before God though it be against yourselves, or your parents, or your kindred, be it rich or poor, for God is nearer akin than either. Follow not, then, lusts, so as to act partially; but if ye swerve or turn aside, God of what ye do is well aware

¹³⁶O ye who believe! believe in God and His apostles, and the Book which He hath revealed to His Apostle, and the Book which He sent down before; for whoso disbelieves in God, and His angels, and His Apostle, and the last day, has erred a wide error

¹³⁷Verily, those who believe and then misbelieve, and then believe and then misbelieve, and then increase in misbelief, God will never pardon them, nor will He guide them in the path

¹³⁸Give to the hypocrites the glad tidings that for them is grievous woe

¹³⁹Those who take the misbelievers for their patrons rather than believers,- do they crave honour from them? Verily, honour is altogether God's

¹⁴⁰He hath revealed this to you in the Book, that when ye hear the signs of God disbelieved in and mocked at, then sit ye not down with them until they plunge into another discourse, for verily, then ye would be like them. Verily, God will gather the hypocrites and misbelievers into hell together

¹⁴¹Those who lie in wait for you, and if the victory be yours from God, say, 'Were we not with you?' and if the misbelievers have a chance, they say, 'Did we not get the mastery over you, and defend you from the believers?' But God shall judge between you on the resurrection day; for God will not give the misbelievers a way against believers

¹⁴²Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive God, but He deceives them; and when they rise up to pray, they rise up lazily to be seen of men, and do not remember God, except a few

¹⁴³wavering between the two, neither to these nor yet to those! but whomsoever God doth lead astray thou shall not find for him a way

¹⁴⁴O ye who believe! take not misbelievers for patrons rather than believers; do ye wish to make for God a power against you

¹⁴⁵Verily, the hypocrites are in the lowest depths of hell-fire, and thou shalt not find for them a help

¹⁴⁶Save those who turn again, and do right, and take tight hold on God, and are sincere in religion to God; these are with the believers, and God will give to the believers mighty hire

¹⁴⁷Why should God punish you, if ye are grateful and believe? for God is grateful and knowing

¹⁴⁸God loves not publicity of evil speech, unless one has been wronged; for God both hears and knows

¹⁴⁹If ye display good or hide it, or pardon evil, verily, God is pardoning and powerful

¹⁵⁰Verily, those who disbelieve in God and His apostles desire to make a distinction between God and His apostles, and say, 'We believe in part and disbelieve in part, and desire to take a midway course between the two

¹⁵¹these are the misbelievers, and we have prepared for misbelievers shameful woe

¹⁵²But those who believe in God and His apostles, and who do not make a distinction between any one of them,- to these we will give their hire, for God is forgiving and merciful

¹⁵³The people of the Book will ask thee to bring down for them a book from heaven; but they asked Moses a greater thing than that, for they said, 'Show us God openly;' but the thunderbolt caught them in their injustice. Then they took the calf, after what had come to them of manifest signs; but we pardoned that, and gave Moses obvious authority

¹⁵⁴And we held over them the mountain at their compact, and said to them, 'Enter ye the door adoring;' and we said to them, 'Transgress not on the Sabbath day,' and we took from them a rigid compact

¹⁵⁵But for that they broke their compact, and for their misbelief in God's signs, and for their killing the prophets undeservedly, and for their saying, 'Our hearts are uncircumcised,' - nay, God hath stamped on them their misbelief, so that they cannot believe except a few

¹⁵⁶and for their misbelief, and for their saying about Mary a mighty calumny

¹⁵⁷and for their saying, 'Verily, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, the apostle of God'.... but they did not kill him, and they did not crucify him, but a similitude was made for them. And verily, those who differ about him are in doubt concerning him; they have no knowledge concerning him, but only follow an opinion. They did not kill him, for sure

¹⁵⁸nay, God raised him up unto Himself; for God is mighty and wise

¹⁵⁹And there shall not be one of the people of the Book but shall believe in him before his death; and on the day of judgment he shall be a witness against them

¹⁶⁰And for the injustice of those who are Jews have we forbidden them good things which we had made lawful for them, and for their obstructing so much the way of God

¹⁶¹and for their taking usury when we had forbidden it, and for their devouring the wealth of people in vain,- but we have prepared for those of them who misbehave a grievous woe

¹⁶²But those amongst them who are firm in knowledge, and the believers who believe in what is revealed to thee, let what is revealed before thee, and the steadfast in prayer, and the givers of alms, and the believers in God and the last day,- unto these we will give a mighty hire

¹⁶³Verily, we have inspired thee as we inspired Noah and the prophets after him, and as we inspired Abraham, and Ishmael, and Jacob, and the tribes, and Jesus, and Job, and Jonas, and Aaron, and Solomon; and to David did we give Psalms

¹⁶⁴Of apostles we have already told thee of some before; and of apostles some we have not told thee of;- But Moses did God speak to, speaking

¹⁶⁵apostles giving glad tidings and warning, that men should have no argument against God, after the apostles, for God is mighty, wise

¹⁶⁶But God bears witness to what He has revealed to thee: He revealed it in His knowledge, and the angels bear witness too; though God is witness enough

¹⁶⁷Verily, those who misbelieve and obstruct the way of God, have erred a wide error

¹⁶⁸Verily those who misbelieve and are unjust, God will not pardon them, nor will He guide them on the road

¹⁶⁹save the road to hell, to dwell therein for aye;- that is easy enough to God

¹⁷⁰O ye folk! the Apostle has come to you with truth from your Lord: believe then, for it is better for you. But if ye misbelieve, then God's is what is in the heavens and the earth, and God is knowing, wise

¹⁷¹O ye people of the Book! do not exceed in your religion, nor say against God aught save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is but the apostle of God and His Word, which He cast into Mary and a spirit from Him; believe then in God and His apostles, and say not 'Three.' Have done! it were better for you. God is only one God, celebrated be His praise that He should beget a Son! His is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and God sufficeth for a guardian

¹⁷²The Messiah doth surely not disdain to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who are nigh to Him; and whosoever disdains His service and is too proud, He will gather them altogether to Himself

¹⁷³But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay their hire and will give increase to them of His grace. But as for those who disdain and are too proud, He will punish them with a grievous woe, and they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help

¹⁷⁴O ye folk! proof has come to you from your Lord, and we have sent down to you manifest light

¹⁷⁵As for those who believe in God, and take tight hold of Him, He will make them enter into mercy from Him and grace; and He will guide them to Himself by a right way

¹⁷⁶They will ask thee for a decision; say, 'God will give you a decision concerning remote kinship.' If a man perish and have no child, but have a sister, let her have half of what he leaves; and he shall be her heir, if she have no son. But if there be two sisters, let them both have two thirds of what he leaves; and if there be brethren, both men and women, let the male have like the portion of two females. God makes this manifest to you lest ye err; for God all things doth know

¹O ye who believe! fulfill your compacts. - Lawful for you are brute beasts, save what is here recited to you, not allowing you the chase while ye are on pilgrimage; verily, God ordaineth what He will

²O ye who believe! do not deem the monuments of God to be lawful, nor the sacred month, nor the offering, nor its neck garlands, nor those who sojourn at the sacred house, craving grace from their Lord and His pleasure. But when ye are in lawful state again, then chase; and let not ill-will against the people who turned you from the Sacred Mosque make you transgress; but help one another in righteousness and piety, and do not help one another to sin and enmity; but fear God, - verily, God is keen to punish

³Forbidden to you is that which dies of itself, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that which is devoted to other than God, and the strangled and the knocked down, and that which falls down, and the gored, and what wild beasts have eaten - except what ye slaughter in time - and what is sacrificed to idols, and dividing carcases by arrows. Today shall those who disbelieve in your religion despair; do ye not then fear them, but fear me - Today is perfected for you your religion, and fulfilled upon you is my favour, and I am pleased for you to have Islam for a religion. But he who is forced by hunger, not inclined willfully to sin, verily, God is forgiving, compassionate

⁴They will ask thee what is lawful for them? say, 'Lawful for you are good things and what ye have taught beasts of prey (to catch), training them like dogs; - ye teach them as God taught you; - so eat of what they catch for you, and mention the name of God over it, and fear God, for verily, God is swift in reckoning up

⁵Lawful for you today are good things, and the food of those to whom the Book has been given is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them; and chaste women of those who believe, and chaste women of those to whom the Book has been given before you, - when you have given them their hire, living chastely and not fornicating, and not taking paramours. But whoso disbelieves in the faith, of a truth his work is vain, and he shall be in the next life of those who lose

⁶O ye who believe! when ye rise up to prayer wash your faces, and your hands as far as the elbows, and wipe - your heads, and your feet down to the ankles. And if ye are polluted, then purify yourselves. But if ye are sick, or on a journey, or if one of you comes from the privy, or if ye have touched women and cannot find water, then take fine surface sand and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. God does not wish to make any hindrance for you; but he wishes to purify you and to fulfill his favour upon you; haply ye may give thanks

⁷Remember the favour of God to you and His covenant which He covenanted with, you, when ye said, 'We hear and we obey;' and fear God, verily, God knows the nature of men's breasts

⁸O ye who believe! stand steadfast to God as witnesses with justice; and let not ill-will towards people make you sin by not acting with equity. Act with equity, that is nearer to piety, and fear God; for God is aware of what ye do

⁹God has promised to those who believe and work righteousness, that for them is pardon and a mighty hire

¹⁰But those who disbelieve and call our signs lies, these are the fellows of hell

¹¹O ye who believe! remember God's favour towards you, when a people intended to stretch their hands against you, but He withheld their hands from you; and upon God let believers rely

¹²God did take a compact from the children of Israel, and raised up of them twelve wardens; and God said, 'Verily, I am with you, if ye be steadfast in prayer, and give alms, and believe in my apostles, and assist them, and lend to God a goodly loan; then will I cover your offences and make you enter gardens beneath which rivers flow: and whoso disbelieves after that, he hath erred from the level way

¹³And for that they broke their compact, we cursed them, and placed in their hearts hardness, so that they perverted the words from their places, and forgot a portion of what they were reminded of. But thou wilt not cease to light upon treachery amongst them, save a few of them; but pardon them and shun them; verily, God loves the kind

¹⁴And of those who say, 'Verily, we are Christians,' we have taken a compact; but they have forgotten a portion of what they were reminded of; wherefore have we excited amongst them enmity and hatred till the resurrection day; but God will tell them of what they have done

¹⁵O ye people of the Book! our Apostle has come to you to explain to you much of what ye had hidden of the Book, and to pardon much. There has come to you from God a light, and a perspicuous Book

¹⁶God guides thereby those who follow His pleasure to the way of peace, and brings them into a right way

¹⁷They misbelieve who say, 'Verily, God is the Messiah the son of Mary;' say, 'Who has any hold on God, if he wished to destroy the Messiah the son of Mary, and his mother, and those who are on earth altogether?' God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between the two; He createth what He will, for God is mighty over all

¹⁸But the Jews and the Christians say, 'We are the sons of God and His beloved.' Say, 'Why then does He punish you for your sins? nay, ye are mortals of those whom He has created! He pardons whom He pleases, and punishes whom He pleases; for God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two, and unto Him the journey is

¹⁹O people of the Book! our Apostle has come to you, explaining to you the interval of apostles; lest ye say, 'There came not to us a herald of glad tidings nor a warner.' But there has come to you now a herald of glad tidings and a warner, and God is mighty over all

²⁰When Moses said to his people, 'O my people! remember the favour of God towards you when He made amongst you prophets, and made for you kings, and brought you what never was brought to anybody in the worlds

²¹O my people! enter the Holy Land which God has prescribed for you; and be ye not thrust back upon your hinder parts and retreat losers

²²They said, ' O Moses! verily, therein is a people, giants; and we will surely not enter therein until they go out from thence; but if they go out then we will enter in

²³Then said two men of those who fear, - God had been gracious to them both, - 'Enter ye upon them by the door, and when ye have entered it, verily, ye shall be victorious; and upon God do ye rely if ye be believers

²⁴They said, 'O Moses! we shall never enter it so long as they are therein; so, go thou and thy Lord and fight ye twain; verily, we will sit down here

²⁵Said he, 'My Lord, verily, I can control only myself and my brother; therefore part us from these sinful people

²⁶He said, 'Then, verily, it is forbidden them; for forty years shall they wander about in the earth; so vex not thyself for the sinful people

²⁷Recite to them the story of the two sons of Adam; truly when they offered an offering and it was accepted from one of them, and was not accepted from the other, that one said, 'I will surely kill thee;' he said, 'God only accepts from those who fear

²⁸If thou dost stretch forth to me thine hand to kill me, I will not stretch forth mine hand to kill thee; verily, I fear God the Lord of the worlds

²⁹verily, I wish that thou mayest draw upon thee my sin and thy sin, and be of the fellows of the Fire, for that is the reward of the unjust

³⁰But his soul allowed him to slay his brother, and he slew him, and in the morning he was of those who lose

³¹And God sent a crow to scratch in the earth and show him how he might hide his brother's shame, he said, ' Alas, for me! Am I too helpless to become like this crow and hide my brother's shame?' and in the morning he was of those who did repent

³²For this cause have we prescribed to the children of Israel that whoso kills a soul, unless it be for another soul or for violence in the land, it is as though he had killed men altogether; but whoso saves one, it is as though he saved men altogether. Our apostles came to them with manifest signs; then, verily, many of them did after that commit excesses in the earth

³³The reward of those who make war against God and His Apostle, and strive after violence in the earth, is only that they shall be slaughtered or crucified, or their hands cut off and their feet on alternate sides, or that they shall be banished from the land; - that is a disgrace for them in this world, and for them in the next is mighty woe

³⁴save for those who repent before ye have them in your power, for know ye that God is forgiving, merciful

³⁵O ye who believe! fear God and crave the means to approach Him, and be strenuous in His way, haply ye will prosper then

³⁶Verily, those who disbelieve, even though they had what is in the earth, all of it, and the like thereof with it, to offer as a ransom from the punishment of the resurrection day, it would not be accepted from them; but for them is grievous woe

³⁷They may wish to go forth from the Fire, but they shall not go forth therefrom, for them is lasting woe

³⁸The man thief and the woman thief, cut off the hands of both as a punishment, for that they have erred; - an example from God, for God is mighty, wise

³⁹But whoso turns again after his injustice and acts aright, verily, God will turn to him, for, verily, God is forgiving, merciful

⁴⁰Do ye not know that God, His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He punishes whom He pleases, and forgives whom He pleases, for God is mighty overall

⁴¹O thou Apostle! let not those grieve thee who vie in misbelief; or those who say with their mouths 'We believe,' but their hearts do not believe; or of those who are Jews, listeners to a lie, - listeners to other people, but who come not to thee. They pervert the words from their places and say, ' If this is what ye are given, take it; but if ye are not given it, then beware!' but he whom God wishes to mislead, thou canst do nothing with God for him; these are those whose hearts God wishes not to purify, for them in this world is disgrace, and for them in the next is mighty woe

⁴²listeners to a lie, eaters of unlawful things! But if they come to thee, then judge between them or turn aside from them; but if thou turnest aside from them they shall not harm thee at all, but if thou judgest, then judge between them with justice, verily, God loves the just

⁴³But how should they make thee their judge, when they have the law wherein is God's judgment? Yet they turn back after that, for they do not believe

⁴⁴Verily, we have revealed the law in which is guidance and light; the prophets who we're resigned did judge thereby those who were Jews, as did the masters and doctors by what they remembered of the Book of God and by what they were witnesses of. Fear not men, but fear me, and sell not my signs for a little price; for whoso will not judge by what God has revealed, these be the misbelievers

⁴⁵We have prescribed for thee therein 'a life for a life, and an eye for an eye, and a nose for a nose, and an ear for an ear, and a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds retaliation;' but whoso remits it, it is an expiation for him, but he whoso will not judge by what God has revealed, these be the unjust

⁴⁶And we followed up the footsteps of these (prophets) with Jesus the son of Mary, confirming that which was before him and the law, and we brought him the gospel, wherein is guidance and light, verifying what was before it of the law, and a guidance and an admonition unto those who fear

⁴⁷Then let the people of the gospel judge by that which is revealed therein, for whoso will not judge by what God has revealed, these be the evildoers

⁴⁸We have revealed to thee the Book in truth verifying what was before it, and preserving it; judge then between them by what God has revealed, and follow not their lusts, turning away from what is given to thee of the truth. For each one of you have we made a law and a pathway; and had God pleased He would have made you one nation, but He will surely try you concerning that which He has brought you. Be ye therefore emulous in good deeds; to God is your return altogether, and He will let you know concerning that wherein ye do dispute

⁴⁹Wherefore judge thou between them by what God has revealed, and follow not their lusts; but beware lest they mislead thee from part of what God has revealed to thee; yet if they turn back, then know that God wishes to fall on them for some sins of theirs, - verily, many men are evildoers

⁵⁰Is it the judgment of the Ignorance they crave? but who is better than God to judge for people who are sure

⁵¹O ye who believe! take not the Jews and Christians for your patrons : they are patrons of each other; but whoso amongst you takes them for patrons, verily, he is of them, and, verily, God guides not an unjust people

⁵²Thou wilt see those in whose hearts is a sickness vieing with them; they say, 'We fear lest there befall us a reverse.' It may be God will give the victory, or an order from Himself, and they may awake repenting of what they thought in secret to themselves

⁵³Those who believe say, 'Are these they who swore by God with their most strenuous oath that they were surely with you?' - their works are in vain and they shall wake the losers

⁵⁴O ye who believe! whoso is turned away from his religion - God will bring (instead) a people whom He loves and who love Him, lowly to believers, lofty to unbelievers, strenuous in the way of God, fearing not the blame of him who blames. That is God's grace! He gives it unto whom He pleases, for God both comprehends and knows

⁵⁵God only is your patron, and His Apostle and those who believe, who are steadfast in prayer and give alms, bowing down

⁵⁶Whoso taketh as patrons God and His apostles and those who believe; - verily, God's crew, they are victorious

⁵⁷O ye who believe! take not for patrons those who take your religion for a jest or a sport, from amongst those who have been given the Book before and the misbelievers; but fear God if ye be believers

⁵⁸Nor those who, when ye call to prayer, take it for a jest and a sport; that is because they are a people who do not understand

⁵⁹Say, 'O people of the Book! do ye disavow us, for aught but that we believe in God, and what was revealed to us before, and for that most of you are evildoers

⁶⁰Say, 'Can I declare unto you something worse than retribution from God?' Whomsoever God has cursed and been wroth with - and he has made of them apes and swine - and who worship Taghut, they are in a worse plight and are more erring from the level path

⁶¹When they come to you they say, 'We believe;' but they entered in with unbelief, and they went out therewith, and God knows best what they did hide

⁶²Thou wilt see many of them vieing in sin and enmity, and in eating unlawful things, - evil is it that they have done

⁶³The masters and their doctors prohibit them from speaking sin and eating unlawful things, - evil is what they have performed

⁶⁴The Jews say, - 'God's hand is fettered;' their hands are fettered and they are cursed for what they said; nay! His hands are outspread, He expends how He pleases! and that which has been sent down to thee from thy Lord will surely increase many of them in their rebellion and misbelief, for we have cast amongst them enmity and hatred till the resurrection day. Whenever they light a fire for war, God puts it out; they strive for corruption in the earth, but God loves not the corrupt

⁶⁵But did the people of the Book believe and fear, we would cover their offences, and we would make them enter into gardens of pleasure

⁶⁶and were they steadfast in the law and the gospel, and what has been sent down to them from their Lord, they should eat from above them and below them. Amongst them are a nation who are moderate, but many of them - bad is what they do

⁶⁷O thou Apostle! preach what has been revealed to thee from thy Lord; if thou do it not thou hast not preached His message, and God will not hold thee free from men; for God guides not people who misbelieve

⁶⁸Say, 'O people of the Book! ye rest on naught until ye stand fast by the law and the gospel, and what is revealed to you from your Lord.' But what has been revealed to thee from thy Lord will of a surety increase many of them in rebellion and misbelief, vex not thyself then for a people who misbelieve

⁶⁹Verily, those who believe and those who are Jews, and the Sabaeans, and the Christians, whosoever believes in God and the last day, and does what is right, there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve

⁷⁰We took a compact of the children of Israel, and we sent to them apostles; every time there came to them an apostle with what their souls loved not, a part of them they did call liars and a part of them they slew

⁷¹And they reckoned that there would be no disturbance; but they were blind and deaf! and then God turned again towards them: and then many amongst them were blind and deaf! but God saw what they did

⁷²They misbelieve who say, 'Verily, God is the Messiah the son of Mary;' but the Messiah said, 'O children of Israel! worship God, my Lord and your Lord;' verily, he who associates aught with God, God hath forbidden him Paradise, and his resort is the Fire, and the unjust shall have none to help them

⁷³They misbelieve who say, 'Verily, God is the third of three;' for there is no God but one, and if they do not desist from what they say, there shall touch those who misbelieve amongst them grievous woe

⁷⁴Will they not turn again towards God and ask pardon of Him? for God is forgiving and merciful

⁷⁵The Messiah the son of Mary is only a prophet: prophets before him have passed away; and his mother was a confessor; they used both to eat food. - See how we explain to them the signs, yet see how they turn aside

⁷⁶Say, 'Will ye serve, other than God, what can neither hurt you nor profit you?' but God, He both hears and knows

⁷⁷Say, 'O people of the Book! exceed not the truth in your religion, and follow not the lusts of a people who have erred before, and who lead many astray, and who go away from the level path

⁷⁸Those of the children of Israel who disbelieved were cursed by the tongue of David and Jesus the son of Mary; that is because they rebelled and did transgress

⁷⁹they would not desist from the wrong they did; evil is that which they did

⁸⁰Thou wilt see many of them taking those who disbelieve for their patrons; evil is that which their souls have sent before them, for God's wrath is on them, and in the torment shall they dwell for aye

⁸¹But had they believed in God and the prophet, and what was revealed to him, they had not taken these for their patrons; but many of them are evildoers

⁸²Thou wilt surely find that the strongest in enmity against those who believe are the Jews and the idolaters; and thou wilt find the nearest in love to those who believe to be those who say, 'We are Christians;' that is because there are amongst them priests and monks, and because they are not proud

⁸³And when they hear what has been revealed to the prophet, you will see their eyes gush with tears at what they recognise as truth therein; and they will say, 'O our Lord! we believe, so write us down amongst the witnesses

⁸⁴Why should we not believe in God and the truth that is given to us, nor desire that our Lord should make us enter with the upright people

⁸⁵Therefore has God rewarded them, for what they said, with gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; that is the reward of those who do good

⁸⁶but those who disbelieve and say our signs are lies, they are the fellows of hell

⁸⁷O ye who believe! forbid not the good things which God has made lawful for you, nor transgress; verily, God loves not the transgressors

⁸⁸But eat of what God has provided you lawfully of good things; and fear God, in whom ye believe

⁸⁹God will not catch you up for a casual word in your oaths, but He will catch you up for having what ye make deliberate oaths about; and the expiation thereof is to feed ten poor men with the middling food ye feed your families withal, or to clothe them, or to free a neck; but he who has not the means, then let him fast three days. That is the expiation of your oaths, when ye have sworn to keep your oaths; thus does God explain to you His signs, - haply ye may be grateful

⁹⁰O ye who believe! verily, wine, and el maisar, and statues, and divining (arrows) are only an abomination of Satan's work; avoid them then that haply ye may prosper

⁹¹Satan only desires to place enmity and hatred between you by wine and maisar, and to turn you from the remembrance of God and from prayer; but will ye not desist

⁹²and obey God, and obey the apostles, and beware, for if ye turn back then know that our Apostle has only his message to preach

⁹³There is no crime in those who believe and do right, for having tasted food, when they fear God, and believe, and do what is right, and then fear Him, and believe, and then fear, and do good, for God loves those who do good

⁹⁴O ye who believe! God will try you with something of the game that your hands and your lances take, that God may know who fears Him in secret; and whoso transgresses after that, for him is grievous woe

⁹⁵O ye who believe! kill not game while ye are on pilgrimage. But he amongst you who kills it purposely, his compensation is the like of that which he has killed, in sheep -- of which two equitable persons amongst you shall be judge -- an offering brought to the Kaabah; or as an expiation, the food of poor persons, or an equivalent thereof in fasting, that he may taste the evil result of his deed. God pardons bygones; but whoso returns, God will take vengeance on him, for God is mighty and the avenger

⁹⁶Lawful for you is the game of the sea, and to eat thereof; a provision for you and for travellers; but forbidden you is the game of the land while ye are on pilgrimage; so fear God to whom ye shall be gathered

⁹⁷God has made the Kaabah, the sacred House, to be a station for men, and the sacred month, and the offering and its neck garland; this is that ye may know that God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and that God knows all things

⁹⁸Know that God is keen to punish, but that God is forgiving, merciful

⁹⁹The Apostle has only to preach his message, but God knows what ye show and what ye hide

¹⁰⁰Say, 'The vile shall not be deemed equal with the good, although the abundance of the vile please thee.' Fear God then, O ye who have minds! haply ye may prosper

¹⁰¹O ye who believe! ask not about things which if they be shown to you will pain you; but if ye ask about them when the (whole) Qur'an is revealed, they shall be shown to you. God pardons that, for God is forgiving and clement

¹⁰²People before you have asked about that, yet on the morrow did they disbelieve therein

¹⁰³And God has not ordained any Ba'hirah or Saibah, nor Wazilah nor 'Hami, but those who misbelieve invent a lie against God, for most of them do not understand

¹⁰⁴And when it is said to them, 'Come round to what God has revealed unto His Apostle,' they say, 'Enough for us is what we found our fathers agreed upon.' What! though their fathers knew nothing and were not guided

¹⁰⁵O ye who believe! mind yourselves; he who errs can do you no hurt when ye are guided: unto God is your return altogether, and He will declare to you that which ye do not know

¹⁰⁶O ye who believe! let there be a testimony between you when any one of you is on the point of death - at the time he makes his will - two equitable persons from amongst you; or two others from some other folk, if ye be knocking about in the land, and the calamity of death befall you; ye shall shut them both up after prayer, and they shall both swear by God, if ye doubt them, (saying), 'We will not sell (our testimony) for a price, though it were to a relative, nor will we hide God's testimony, verily, then, we should be among sinners

¹⁰⁷But if it shall be lit upon that they too have deserved the imputation of sin, then let two others stand up in their place with those who think them deserving of the imputation, the nearest two in kin, and they shall both swear by God, 'Indeed, our testimony is truer than the testimony of those two, and we have not transgressed, for then we should surely be of the unjust

¹⁰⁸thus is it easier for men to bear testimony according to the purport thereof, else must they fear lest an oath be given to rebut their own oath; but let them fear God and listen, for God guides not the people who do ill

¹⁰⁹On the day when God shall assemble the apostles and shall say, 'How were ye answered?' they will say, 'We have no knowledge; verily, thou art He who knoweth the unseen

¹¹⁰When God said, 'O Jesus, son of Mary! remember my favours towards thee and towards thy mother, when I aided thee with the Holy Ghost, till thou didst speak to men in the cradle and when grown up. ' And when I taught thee the Book and wisdom and the law and the gospel; when thou didst create of clay, as it were, the likeness of a bird, by my power, and didst blow thereon, it became a bird; and thou didst heal the blind from birth, and the leprous by my permission; and when thou didst bring forth the dead by my permission; and when I did ward off the children of Israel from thee, when thou didst come to them with manifest signs, and those who misbelieved amongst them said, "This is naught but obvious magic

¹¹¹And when I inspired the apostles that they should believe in him and in my Apostle, they said, "We believe; do thou bear witness that we are resigned

¹¹²When the apostles said, 'O Jesus, son of Mary! is thy Lord able to send down to us a table from heaven?' he said, 'Fear God, if ye be believers

¹¹³and they said, 'We desire to eat therefrom that our hearts may be at rest, and that we may know that what thou hast told us is the truth, and that we may be thereby amongst the witnesses

¹¹⁴Said Jesus the son of Mary, 'O God, our Lord! send down to us a table from heaven to be to us as a festival, - to the first of us and to the last, and a sign from Thee, - and grant us provision, for Thou art the best of providers

¹¹⁵God said, 'Verily, I am about to send it down to you; but whoso disbelieves amongst you after that, verily, I will torment him with the torment which I have not tormented any one with in all the worlds

¹¹⁶And when God said, 'O Jesus, son of Mary! is it thou who didst say to men, take me and my mother for two gods, beside God?' He said, 'I celebrate Thy praise! what ails me that I should say what I have no right to? If I had said it, Thou wouldst have known it; Thou knowest what is in my soul, but I know not what is in Thy soul; verily, Thou art one who knoweth the unseen

¹¹⁷I never told them save what Thou didst bid me, - "Worship God, my Lord and your Lord," and I was a witness against them so long as I was amongst them; but when Thou didst take me away to thyself Thou wert the watcher over them, for Thou art witness over all

¹¹⁸If Thou shouldst punish them, verily, they are Thy servants; if Thou shouldst forgive them, verily, Thou art the mighty and the wise

¹¹⁹God said, 'This is the day when their confession shall profit the, confessors, for them are gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever and for aye.' God is well pleased with them, and they well pleased with Him; that is the mighty happiness

¹²⁰God's is the kingdom of the heavens, and the earth, and all that is therein, and He is mighty over all

¹Praise belongs to God who created the heavens and the earth, and brought into being the darkness and the light. Yet do those who misbelieve hold Him to have peers

²He it is who created you from clay; then He decreed a term, a term ordained with Him. And yet ye doubt thereof

³He is God in the heavens and the earth. He knows your secret conduct and your plain, and He knows what ye earn

⁴There came not to them any sign of the signs of their Lord, but they turned away

⁵and they have called the truth a lie now that it has come to them, but there shall come to them the message of that at which they mocked

⁶Do not they see how many a generation we have destroyed before them, whom we had settled in the earth as we have not settled for you, and sent the rain of heaven upon them in copious showers, and made the waters flow beneath them? Then we destroyed them in their sins, and raised up other generations after them

⁷Had we sent down to thee a book on paper, and they had touched it with their hands, still those who misbelieve would have said, 'This is naught but obvious magic

⁸They say, 'Why has not an angel been sent down to him?' but if we had sent down an angel, the affair would have been decided, and then they would have had no respite

⁹And had we made him an angel, we should have made him as a man too; and we would have made perplexing for them that which they deem perplexing now

¹⁰There have been prophets before thee mocked at, but that encompassed them which the scoffers among them mocked at

¹¹Say, 'Go about in the earth, then wilt thou see how has been the end of those who called them liars

¹²Say, 'Whose is what is in the heavens and the earth?' Say, 'God's, who has imposed mercy on himself.' He will surely gather you together for the resurrection day. There is no doubt in that, but those who waste their souls will not believe

¹³His is whatsoever dwells in the night or in the day, He both hears and knows

¹⁴Say, 'Other than God shall I take for a patron, the Originator of the heavens and the earth? He feedeth men, but is not fed.' Say, 'I am bidden to be the first of those resigned;' and it was said to me, 'Be not thou of the idolaters

¹⁵Say, 'I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of the mighty day

¹⁶Whomsoever it is averted from on that day, God will have had mercy on; and that is obvious happiness

¹⁷And if God touch thee with harm, there is none to take it off but He; and if He touch thee with good, He is mighty over all

¹⁸He is sovereign over His servants, He is the wise, the aware

¹⁹Say, 'What is the greatest witness?' Say, 'God is witness between you and me.' This Qur'an was inspired to me to warn you and those it reaches. Do ye really bear witness that with God are other gods? Say, 'I bear not witness thereto:' say, 'He is but one God, and I am clear of your associating (gods with him)

²⁰Those to whom we have brought the Book know him as they know their sons;- those who lose their souls do not believe

²¹Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie, or says His signs are lies? verily, the unjust shall not prosper

²²On the day when we shall gather them all together, then shall we say to those who have associated others with ourself, 'Where are your associates whom ye did pretend

²³Then they will have no excuse but to say, 'By God our Lord, we did not associate (others with thee)

²⁴See how they lie against themselves, and how what they did forge deserts them

²⁵And they are some who listen unto thee, but we have placed a veil upon their hearts lest they should understand it, and in their ears is dullness of hearing; and though they saw each sign they would not believe therein; until when they come to thee to wrangle with thee, the unbelievers say, 'These are but old folks' tales

²⁶They forbid it and they avoid it;- but they destroy none but themselves; yet they do not perceive

²⁷But couldst thou see when they are set over the fire and say, 'Would that we were sent back! we would not call our Lord's signs lies, but we would be of the believers

²⁸Nay! now is shown to them what they did hide before; and could they be sent back, they would return to that they were forbidden, for they are very liars

²⁹They say there is naught but this life of ours in the world and we shall not be raised

³⁰But couldst thou see when they are set before their Lord; he says, 'Is not this the truth?' They say, 'Yea, by our Lord !' he says, 'Then taste the torment, for that ye did misbelieve

³¹Losers are they who disbelieved in meeting God, until when the hour comes suddenly upon them they say, 'Woe is us for our neglect thereof!' for they shall bear their burdens on their backs, evil is what they bear

³²The life of this world is nothing but a game and a sport, and surely the next abode were better for those who fear. What! do they not understand

³³Full well we know that verily that which they say grieves thee; but they do not call thee only a liar for the unjust gainsay the signs of God

³⁴Called liars too were apostles before thee; but they were patient of being called liars and of being hurt until our help came to them; for there is none to change the words of God - now has there come to thee the story of those He sent

³⁵And if their turning from thee be hard for thee, and if thou canst seek for a shaft down into the earth, or a ladder up into the sky, to bring them a sign - but if God pleased He would bring them all to guidance, be thou not then of the ignorant

³⁶He only answers the prayer of those who listen; but the dead will God raise up, then unto Him shall they return

³⁷They say, 'Unless there be sent down some sign from his Lord' - say, 'Verily, God is able to send down a sign, but most of them do not know

³⁸There is not a beast upon the earth nor a bird that flies with both its wings, but is a nation like to you; we have omitted nothing from the Book; then to their Lord shall they be gathered

³⁹Those who say our signs are lies - deafness, dumbness, in the dark! whom He pleases does God lead astray, and whom He pleases He places on the right way

⁴⁰Say, 'Look you now! if there should come God's torment, or there should come to you the hour, on other than God would ye call, if ye do tell the truth

⁴¹Nay, it is on Him that ye would call, and He will avert that which ye call upon Him for if He but please; and ye shall forget that which ye did associate with Him

⁴²Ere this we sent unto nations before thee, and we caught them in distress and trouble that haply they might humble themselves

⁴³And do they not, when our violence falls upon them, humble themselves?- but their hearts were hard, and Satan made seemly to them that which they had done

⁴⁴And when they forgot what they were reminded of, we opened for them the gates of everything, until when they rejoiced at what they had, we caught them up suddenly, and lo! they were in despair

⁴⁵And the uttermost part of the people who did wrong were cut off; praise be to God, Lord of the worlds

⁴⁶Say, 'Look you now! if God should catch your hearing and your sight, and should set a seal upon your hearts - who is god but God to bring you it again

⁴⁷Say, 'Look you now! if God's torment should come upon you suddenly or openly, would any perish save the people who do wrong

⁴⁸We do not send our messengers save as heralds of glad tidings and of warning, and whoso believes and acts aright, there is no fear for them, and they shall not be grieved

⁴⁹but those who say our signs are lies, torment shall touch them, for that they have done so wrong

⁵⁰Say, 'I do not say to you, mine are the treasuries of God, nor that I know the unseen; I do not say to you, I am an angel - if I follow aught but what I am inspired with -:' say, 'Is the blind equal to him who sees?' what! do ye not reflect

⁵¹Admonish therewith those who fear that they shall be gathered unto their Lord; there is no patron for them but Him, and no intercessor; haply they may fear

⁵²Repulse not those who call upon their Lord in the morning and in the evening, desiring His face; they have no reckoning against thee at all, and thou hast no reckoning against them at all;- repulse them and thou wilt be of the unjust

⁵³So have we tried some of them by others, that they may say, 'Are these those unto whom God has been gracious amongst ourselves?' Does not God know those who give thanks

⁵⁴And when those who believe in our signs come to thee, say, 'Peace be on you! God hath prescribed for Himself mercy; verily, he of you who does evil in ignorance, and then turns again and does right,- verily, He is forgiving and merciful

⁵⁵Thus do we detail our signs, that the way of the sinners may be made plain

⁵⁶Say, 'I am forbidden to worship those ye call upon beside God;' say, 'I will not follow your lusts, for then should I err and not be of the guided

⁵⁷Say, 'I stand on a manifestation from my Lord, which ye call a lie. I have not with me what ye fain would hasten on, ???MISSING

⁵⁸Missing??? that the matter might be settled between me and you; but God knows best who are the unjust

⁵⁹With Him are the keys of the unseen. None knows them save He; He knows what is in the land and in the sea; and there falls not a leaf save that He knows it; nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor aught that is moist, nor aught that is dry, save that is in His perspicuous Book

⁶⁰He it is who takes you to Himself at night, and knows what ye have gained in the day; then He raises you up again, that your appointed time may be fulfilled; then unto Him is your return, and then will He inform you of what ye have done

⁶¹He triumphs over His servants; He sends to them guardian angels, until, when death comes to any one of you, our messengers take him away; they pass not over any one

⁶²and then are they returned to God, their true sovereign. Is not His the rule? but He is very quick at reckoning up

⁶³Say, 'Who rescues you from the darkness of the land and of the sea?' ye call upon Him in humility and in secret, 'Indeed, if He would rescue us from this, we will surely be of those who give Him thanks

⁶⁴Say, 'God rescues from the darkness thereof, and from every trouble, yet ye associate others with Him

⁶⁵Say, 'He is able to send torment on you from above you and from beneath your feet, and to confuse you in sects, and to make some of you taste the violence of others.' See how we turn about the signs, that haply they may discriminate

⁶⁶Thy people called it a lie, and yet it is the truth. Say, 'I have not charge over you

⁶⁷to every prophecy is a set time, and in the end ye shall know

⁶⁸When thou dost see those who plunge deeply into the discussion of our signs, turn from them until they plunge deeply into some other discourse; for it may be that Satan may make thee forget; but sit not, after thou hast remembered, with the unjust people

⁶⁹Those who fear are not bound to take account of them at all, but mind!- haply they may fear

⁷⁰Leave those who have taken their religion for a play and a sport, whom this world's life hath deceived, and remind them thereby that a soul shall be given up for what it has earned; nor has it, beside God, patron or intercessor; and though it should compensate with the fullest compensation, it would not be accepted. Those who are given up for what they have gained, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe for that they have misbelieved

⁷¹Say, 'Shall we call on what neither profits us nor harms us, and be thrown back upon our heels after God has guided us, like him whom Satan hath led away bewildered in the earth, who has companions who call him to guidance, "Come to us?" ' Say, 'Verily, God's guidance is the guidance, and we are bidden to resign ourselves unto the Lord of the worlds

⁷²and be ye steadfast in prayer and fear Him, for He it is to whom we shall be gathered

⁷³He it is who has created the heavens and the earth in truth; and on the day when He says, 'BE,' then it is. His word is truth; to Him is the kingdom on the day when the trumpets shall be blown; the knower of the unseen and of the evident; He is wise and well aware

⁷⁴When Abraham said to his father Azar, 'Dost thou take idols for gods? verily, I see thee and thy people in obvious error

⁷⁵Thus did we show Abraham the kingdom of heaven and of the earth, that he should be of those who are sure

⁷⁶And when the night overshadowed him he saw a star and said, 'This is my Lord;' but when it set he said, 'I love not those that set

⁷⁷And when he saw the moon beginning to rise he said, 'This is my Lord;' but when it set he said, 'If God my Lord guides me not I shall surely be of the people who err

⁷⁸And when he saw the sun beginning to rise he said, 'This is my Lord, this is greatest of all;' but when it set he said, 'O my people! verily, I am clear of what ye associate with God

⁷⁹verily, I have turned my face to him who originated the heaven and the earth, as a 'Hanif, and I am not of the idolaters

⁸⁰And his people disputed with him;- he said, 'Do ye dispute with me concerning God, when He has guided me? but I fear not what ye associate with Him unless my Lord should wish for anything. My Lord doth comprehend all things in His knowledge, will ye not then remember

⁸¹How should I fear what ye associate with Him, when ye yourselves fear not to associate with God what He has sent down to you no power to do? Which then of the two sects is worthier of belief, if indeed ye know

⁸²Those who believe and do not obscure their faith with wrong, they are those who shall have security, and they are guided

⁸³These are our arguments which we gave to Abraham against his people;- we raise the rank of whom we will; verily, thy Lord is wise and knowing

⁸⁴And we gave to him Isaac and Jacob, each did we guide. And Noah we guided before and all his seed,- David and Solomon and Job and Joseph and Moses and Aaron,- for thus do we reward those who do good

⁸⁵And Zachariah and John and Jesus and Elias, all righteous ones

⁸⁶and Ishmael and Elisha and Jonas and Lot, each one have we preferred above the worlds

⁸⁷and of their fathers and their seed and brethren; we have chosen them and guided them into a right way

⁸⁸That is God's guidance; He guides those whom He will of His servants; and if they associate aught with Him,- vain is that which they have worked

⁸⁹It is to these we give the Book and judgment and prophecy; and if these disbelieve therein we have given them in charge to a people who shall not disbelieve

⁹⁰It is these that God hath guided, and by their guidance be thou led. Say, 'I will not ask you for it a hire: it is naught save a reminder to the worlds

⁹¹They do not prize God at His true worth when they say, 'God has never revealed to mortal anything.' Say, 'Who revealed the Book wherewith Moses came, a light and a guidance unto men? Ye put it on papers which ye show, though ye hide much; and ye are taught what ye knew not, neither you nor your fathers.' Say, 'God,' then leave them in their discussion to play

⁹²This is the Book which we have revealed, a blessing and a confirmation to those which were before it, and that the mother of cities may be warned, with those who are round about her. Those who believe in the last day believe therein, and they unto their prayers will keep

⁹³Who is more unjust than he who devises against God a lie, or says, 'I am inspired,' when he was not inspired at all? and who says, 'I will bring down the like of what God has sent down;' but didst thou see when the unjust are in the floods of death, and the angels stretch forth their hands, 'Give ye forth your souls; today shall ye be recompensed with the torment of disgrace, for that ye did say against God what was not true, and were too proud to hear His signs

⁹⁴And ye come now single-handed as we created you at first, and ye have left behind your backs that which we granted you; and we see not with you your intercessors whom ye pretended were partners amongst you; betwixt you have the ties been cut asunder; and strayed away from you is what ye did pretend

⁹⁵Verily, God it is who cleaves out the grain and the date-stone; He brings forth the living from the dead, and it is He who brings the dead from the living. There is God! how then can ye be beguiled

⁹⁶He it is who cleaves out the morning, and makes night a repose, and the sun and the moon two reckonings - that is the decree of the mighty, the wise

⁹⁷He it is who made for you stars that ye might be guided thereby in the darkness of the land and of the sea. Now have we detailed the signs unto a people who do know

⁹⁸He it is who made you spring from one soul, and gave you a settlement and a depository. Now have we detailed the signs unto a people who discern

⁹⁹He it is who sends down from the heavens water; and we bring forth therewith growths of everything; and we bring forth therefrom green things, where - from we bring forth grain in full ear; and the palm, from its spathe come clusters within reach; and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, alike and unlike;- behold its fruit when it fruits and ripens! verily, in that ye have a sign for the people who believe

¹⁰⁰Yet they made the ginn partners with God, though He created them! and they ascribed to Him sons and daughters, though they have no knowledge; celebrated be His praise! and exalted be He above what they attribute to Him

¹⁰¹The inventor of the heavens and the earth! how can He have a son, when He has no female companion, and when He has created everything, and everything He knows

¹⁰²There is God for you,- your Lord! There is no god but He, the Creator of everything; then worship Him, for He o'er everything keeps guard

¹⁰³Sight perceives Him not, but He perceives men's sights; for He is the subtle, the aware

¹⁰⁴Now has an insight from your Lord come unto you, and he who looks therewith it is for himself; but he who is blind thereto, it is against his soul; and I am not your keeper

¹⁰⁵Thus do we turn about the signs, that they may say, 'Thou hast studied,' and that we may explain to those who know

¹⁰⁶Follow what is revealed to thee from thy Lord; there is no god but He, and shun the idolaters

¹⁰⁷But had God pleased, they would not have associated aught with Him; but we have not made thee a keeper over them, nor art thou for them a warder

¹⁰⁸Do not abuse those who call on other than God, for then they may abuse God openly in their ignorance. So do we make seemly to every nation their work, then unto their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they have done

¹⁰⁹They swore by God with their most strenuous oath, that if there come to them a sign they will indeed believe therein. Say, 'Signs are only in God's hands;- but what will make you understand that even when one has come, they will not believe

¹¹⁰We will overturn their hearts and their eye-sights, even as they believed not at first; and we will leave them, in their rebellion, blindly wandering on

¹¹¹And had we sent down unto them the angels, or the dead had spoken to them, or we had gathered everything unto them in hosts, they would not have believed unless that God pleased - but most of them are ignorant

¹¹²So have we made for every prophet an enemy,- devils of men and ginns; some of them inspire others with specious speech to lead astray; but had thy Lord pleased they would not have done it; so leave them with what they do devise

¹¹³And let the hearts of those who believe not in the hereafter listen to it; and let them be well pleased with it; and let them gain what they may gain

¹¹⁴Of other than God shall I crave a decree, when it is He who has sent down to you the Book in detail, and those to whom we gave the Book know that it is sent down from thy Lord, in truth? be thou not then of those who doubt

¹¹⁵The words of thy Lord are fulfilled in truth and justice; there is none to change His words, for He both hears and knows

¹¹⁶But if thou followest most of those who are in the land, they will lead thee astray from the path of God; they only follow suspicion and they only (rest on) conjecture

¹¹⁷Thy Lord, He knows best who errs from His path, and He knows best the guided

¹¹⁸Eat then of what God's name has been pronounced over, if ye believe in His signs

¹¹⁹What ails you that ye do not eat from what God's name is pronounced over, when He has detailed to you what is unlawful for you? Save what ye are forced to; but, verily, many will lead you astray by their fancies, without knowledge. Verily, thy Lord knows best the transgressors

¹²⁰Leave alone the outside of sin and the inside thereof; verily, those who earn sin shall be recompensed for what they have gained

¹²¹But eat not of what the name of God has not been pronounced over, for, verily, it is an abomination. Verily, the devils inspire their friends that they may wrangle with you; but if ye obey them, verily, ye are idolaters

¹²²Is he who was dead and we have quickened him, and made for him a light, that he might walk therein amongst men, like him whose likeness is in the darkness whence he cannot come forth? Thus is made seemly to the misbelievers what they have done

¹²³And thus have we placed in every town the great sinners thereof, that they may use craft therein; but they use not craft except against themselves, although they do not understand

¹²⁴And when there comes to them a sign, they say, 'We will not believe until we are brought like what the apostles were brought;' God knows best where to put His message. There shall befall those who sin, meanness in God's eyes, and grievous torment for the craft they used

¹²⁵Whomsoever God wishes to guide, He expands his breast to Islam; but whomsoever He wishes to lead astray, He makes his breast tight and straight, as though he would mount up into heaven; thus does God set His horror on those who do not believe

¹²⁶This is the way of thy Lord - straight. We have detailed the signs unto a mindful people

¹²⁷for them is an abode of peace; and their Lord, He is their patron for what they have done

¹²⁸And on the day when He shall gather them all together, 'O assembly of the ginns! ye have got much out of mankind.' And their clients from among mankind shall say, 'O our Lord! much advantage had we one from another;' but we reached our appointed time which thou hadst appointed for us. Says He, 'The fire is your resort, to dwell therein for aye! save what God pleases; verily, thy Lord is wise and knowing

¹²⁹Thus do we make some of the unjust patrons of the others, for that which they have earned

¹³⁰O assembly of ginns and men! did there not come to you apostles from among yourselves, relating to you our signs, and warning you of the meeting of this very day of yours? They say, 'We bear witness against ourselves.' The life of this world deceived them, and they bear witness against themselves that they were unbelievers

¹³¹That is because thy Lord would never destroy towns unjustly while their people are careless

¹³²but for every one are degrees of what they have done and thy Lord is not careless of that which they do

¹³³Thy Lord is rich, merciful; if He pleases He will take you off, and will cause what He pleases to succeed you; even as He raised you up from the seed of other people

¹³⁴Verily, what ye are promised will surely come, nor can ye frustrate it

¹³⁵Say, 'O my people! act according to your power, verily, I am acting too; and soon shall ye know whose is the future of the abode!' verily, the unjust shall not prosper

¹³⁶They set apart for God, from what He raises of tilth and of cattle, a portion, and they say, 'This is God's;' - as they pretend - ' and this is for our associates;' but that which is for their associates reaches not to God, and that which was for God does reach to their associates;- evil is it what they judge

¹³⁷Thus too have their associates made seemly to many of the idolaters the killing of their children, to destroy them, and to obscure for them their religion; but had God pleased they would not have done it, leave them alone and that which they have forged

¹³⁸And they say, 'These cattle and tilth are inviolable; none shall taste thereof, save such as we please' - as they pretend - and there are cattle whose backs are prohibited, and cattle over whom God's name is not pronounced,- forging a lie against Him! He shall reward them for what they have forged

¹³⁹And they say, 'What is in the wombs of these cattle is unlawful for our wives, but if it be (born) dead, then are they partners therein.' He will reward them for their attribution; verily, He is wise and knowing

¹⁴⁰Losers are they who kill their children foolishly, without knowledge, and who prohibit what God has bestowed upon them, forging a lie against God; they have erred and are not guided

¹⁴¹He it is who brought forth gardens with trailed and untrailed vines, and the palms and corn land, with various food, and olives, and pomegranates, alike and unlike. Eat from the fruit thereof whene'er it fruits, and bring the dues thereof on the day of harvest, and be not extravagant; verily, He loves not the extravagant

¹⁴²Of cattle are there some to ride on and to spread. Eat of what God has bestowed upon you, and follow not the footsteps of Satan; verily, he is to you an open foe

¹⁴³Eight pairs,- of sheep two, and of goats two; say, 'Are the two males unlawful, or the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain? inform me with knowledge if ye tell the truth

¹⁴⁴And of camels two, and cows two; say, 'Are the two males unlawful, or the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain? Were ye witnesses when God ordained for you these?- Then who is more unjust than he who devises a lie against God, to lead men astray without knowledge? verily, God guides not the unjust people

¹⁴⁵Say, 'I cannot find in what I am inspired with anything unlawful for the taster to taste; unless it be dead (of itself), or blood that has been shed, or the flesh of swine,- for that is a horror - or an abomination that is consecrated to other than God. But he who is forced, not willfully nor transgressing,- then, verily, thy Lord is forgiving and merciful

¹⁴⁶To those who were Jews did we prohibit everything that hath a solid hoof; and of oxen and sheep did we prohibit to them the fat, save what the backs of both do bear, or the inwards, or what is mixed with bone; with that did we recompense them for their rebellion, for, verily, we are true

¹⁴⁷And if they give thee the lie, say, 'Your Lord is of ample mercy, nor shall His violence be turned back from the sinful people

¹⁴⁸Those who associate others with God will say, 'Had God pleased, we had not so associated, nor our fathers; nor should we have forbidden aught.' Thus did they give the lie to those who came before them, until they tasted of our violence! Say, 'Have ye any knowledge? if so, bring it forth to us: ye only follow suspicion, and ye do but conjecture

¹⁴⁹Say, 'God's is the searching argument; and had He pleased He would have guided you all

¹⁵⁰Say, 'Come on then with your witnesses, who bear witness that God has prohibited these!' but if they do bear witness, bear thou not witness with them; nor follow the lust of those who say our signs are lies, and those who do not believe in the last day, or those who for their Lord make peers

¹⁵¹Say, 'Come! I will recite what your Lord has forbidden you, that ye may not associate aught with Him, and (may show) kindness to your parents, and not kill your children through poverty;- we will provide for you and them;- and draw not nigh to flagrant sins, either apparent or concealed, and kill not the soul, which God hath forbidden save by right; that is what God ordains you, haply ye may understand

¹⁵²And draw not nigh unto the wealth of the orphan, save so as to better it, until he reaches full age; and give weight and measure with justice. We do not compel the soul save what it can compass; and when ye pronounce, then be just, though it be in the case of a relative

¹⁵³And God's compact fulfill ye; that is what He ordained you, haply ye may be mindful. Verily, this is my right way; follow it then, and follow not various paths, to separate yourselves from His way; that is what He has ordained you, haply ye may fear

¹⁵⁴Then we gave Moses the Book, complete for him who acts aright, and a decision and a guidance and a mercy; haply in the meeting of their Lord they will believe

¹⁵⁵This is the Book which we have sent down; it is a blessing; follow it then and fear; haply ye may obtain mercy

¹⁵⁶Lest ye say, 'The Book was only sent down to two sects before us; verily, we, for what they read, care naught

¹⁵⁷Or, lest ye should say, 'Had we had a book revealed to us we should surely have been more guided than they;' but there is come to them a manifest sign from their Lord, and a guidance and a mercy; who then is more unjust than he who calls God's signs lies, and turns from them? we will reward those who turn from our signs with an evil punishment for that they turned away

¹⁵⁸What do they expect but that the angels should come for them, or that thy Lord should come, or that some signs of thy Lord should come? On the day when some signs do come, its faith shall profit no soul which did not believe before, unless it has earned some good by its faith. Say, 'Wait ye expectant, then we wait expectant too

¹⁵⁹Verily, those who divided their religion and became sects, thou hast not to do with them, their matter is in God's hands, He will yet inform them of that which they have done

¹⁶⁰He who brings a good work shall have ten like it; but he who brings a bad work shall be recompensed only with the like thereof, for they shall not be wronged

¹⁶¹Say, 'As for me, my Lord has guided me to the right way, a right religion,- the faith of Abraham the 'Hanif, for he was not of the idolaters

¹⁶²Say, 'Verily, my prayers and my devotion and my life and my death belong to God, the Lord of the worlds

¹⁶³He has no partner; that is what I am bidden; for I am first of those who are resigned

¹⁶⁴Say, 'Other than God shall I crave for a Lord when He is Lord of all?' but no soul shall earn aught save against itself; nor shall one bearing a burden bear the burden of another; and then unto your Lord is your return, and He will inform you concerning that whereon ye do dispute

¹⁶⁵He it is who made you vicegerents, and raised some of you above others in degree, to try you by that which he has brought you;- verily, thy Lord is swift to punish, but, verily, He is forgiving and merciful

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²A book revealed to thee,- so let there be no straitness in thy breast, that thou mayest warn thereby,- and a reminder to the believers

³Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord, and follow not beside Him patrons; little is it that ye mind

⁴Yet how many a town have we destroyed, and our violence came upon it by night, or while they slept at noon; and their cry, when our violence came upon them

⁵was only to say, 'Verily, we were unjust

⁶But we will of a surety question those to whom the prophets were sent

⁷and we will narrate to them with knowledge, for we were not absent

⁸The balance on that day is true, and whosesoever scales are heavy, they are prosperous

⁹but whosesoever scales are light, they it is who lose themselves, for that they did act unjustly by our signs

¹⁰We have established you in the earth, and we have made for you therein livelihoods; little is it that ye thank

¹¹and we created you, then we fashioned you, then we said unto the angels, ' Adore Adam,' and they adored, save Iblis, who was not of those who did adore

¹²Said He, 'What hinders thee from adoring when I order thee?' he said, 'I am better than he; Thou hast created me from fire, and him Thou hast created out of clay

¹³Said He, 'Then go down therefrom; what ails thee that thou shouldst be big with pride therein? go forth! verily, thou art of the little ones

¹⁴He said, 'Respite me until the day when they shall be raised

¹⁵He said, 'Verily, thou art of the respited

¹⁶said he, 'For that Thou hast led me into error, I will lie in wait for them in Thy straight path

¹⁷then I will surely come to them, from before them and from behind them; and most of them Thou shalt not find thankful

¹⁸He said, 'Go forth there-from, despised, expelled; whoso follows thee, I will surely fill hell with you altogether

¹⁹But, O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in Paradise and eat from whence ye will, but draw not nigh unto this tree or ye will be of the unjust

²⁰But Satan whispered to them to display to them what was kept back from them of their shame, and he said, 'Your Lord has only forbidden you this tree lest ye should be twain angels, or should become of the immortals

²¹and he swore to them both, 'Verily, I am unto you a sincere adviser

²²and he beguiled them by deceit, and when they twain tasted of the tree, their shame was shown them, and they began to stitch upon themselves the leaves of the garden. And their Lord called unto them, 'Did I not forbid you from that tree there, and say to you, Verily, Satan is to you an open foe

²³They said, 'O our Lord! we have wronged ourselves - and if Thou dost not forgive us and have mercy on us, we shall surely be of those who are lost

²⁴He said, 'Go ye down, one of you to the other a foe; but for you in the earth there is an abode, and a provision for a season

²⁵He said, 'Therein shall ye live and therein shall ye die, from it shall ye be brought forth

²⁶O sons of Adam! we have sent down to you garments wherewith to cover your shame, and plumage; but the garment of piety, that is better. That is one of the signs of God, haply ye may remember

²⁷O sons of Adam! let not Satan infatuate you as he drove your parents out of Paradise, stripping from them their garments, and showing them their shame; verily, he sees you - he and his tribe, from whence ye cannot see them. Verily, we have made the devils patrons of those who do not believe

²⁸and when they commit an abomination they say, 'We found our fathers at this, and God bade us do it.' Say, 'God bids you not to do abomination; do ye say against God that which ye do not know

²⁹Say, 'My Lord bids only justice: - set steadfastly your faces at every mosque and pray to Him, being sincere in your religion. As He brought you forth in the beginning, shall ye return

³⁰A sect He guides, and for a sect of them was error due; verily, they did take the devils for their patrons instead of God, and they did count that they were guided

³¹O sons of Adam! take your ornaments to every mosque; and eat and drink, but do not be extravagant, for He loves not the extravagant

³²Say, 'Who has prohibited the ornaments of God which He brought forth for His servants, and the good things of His providing?' say, 'On the day of judgment they shall only be for those who believed when in the life of this world.' Thus do we detail the signs unto a people that do know

³³Say, 'My Lord has rely prohibited abominable deeds, the apparent thereof and the concealed thereof, and sin, and greed for that which is not right, and associating with God what He has sent down no power for, and saying against God that which ye do not know

³⁴Every nation has its appointed time, and when their appointed time comes they cannot keep it back an hour, nor can they bring it on

³⁵O sons of Adam! verily, there will come to you apostles from amongst you, narrating unto you my signs; then whoso fears God and does what is right, there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve

³⁶But those who say my signs are lies, and who are too big with pride for them, these are the fellows of the Fire, they shall dwell therein for aye

³⁷Who is more unjust than he who devises against God a lie, or says His signs are lies? These, their portion of the Book shall reach them, until when our messengers come to take their souls away, and say, 'Where is what ye used to call upon instead of God?' they say, 'They have strayed away from us;' and they shall bear witness against themselves that they have been misbelievers

³⁸He will say, 'Enter ye - amongst the nations who have passed away before you, both of ginns and men - into the fire;' whenever a nation enters therein, it curses its mate; until, when they have all reached it, the last of them will say unto the first, 'O our Lord! these it was who led us astray, give them double torment of the fire!' He will say, 'To each of you double! but ye do not know

³⁹And the first of them will say unto the last, 'Ye have no preference over us, so taste ye the torment for that which ye have earned

⁴⁰Verily, those who say our signs are lies and are too big with pride for them; for these the doors of heaven shall not be opened, and they shall not enter into Paradise until a camel shall pass into a needle's eye

⁴¹It is thus that we reward the sinners; for them is a couch of hell-fire, with an awning above them! thus do we reward the unjust

⁴²But those who believe and do what is right - we will not oblige a soul more than its capacity - they are the fellows of Paradise, they shall dwell therein for aye

⁴³We will strip away what ill feeling is in their breasts - there shall flow beneath them rivers, and they shall say, 'Praise belongs to God who guided us to this! for we should not have been guided had not God guided us! - the apostles of our Lord did come to us with truth!' And it shall be cried out to them, 'This is Paradise which ye have as an inheritance for that which ye have done

⁴⁴And the fellows of Paradise will call out to the fellows of the Fire, 'We have now found that what our Lord promised us is true; have ye found that what your Lord promised you is true?' They will say, 'Yea!' And a crier from amongst them will cry out, 'The curse of God is on the unjust

⁴⁵who turn from the way of God and crave to make it crooked, while in the hereafter they do disbelieve

⁴⁶And betwixt the two there is a veil, and on al Aaraf are men who know each by marks; and they shall cry out to the fellows of Paradise, 'Peace be upon you!' they cannot enter it although they so desire

⁴⁷But when their sight is turned towards the fellows of the Fire, they say, 'O our Lord! place us not with the unjust people

⁴⁸And the fellows on al Aaraf will cry out to the men whom they know by their marks, and say, 'Of no avail to you were your collections, and what ye were so big with pride about

⁴⁹are these those ye swore that God would not extend mercy to? Enter ye Paradise; there is no fear for you, nor shall ye be grieved

⁵⁰But the fellows of the Fire shall cry out to the fellows of Paradise, 'Pour out upon us water, or something of what God has provided you with.' They will say, 'God has prohibited them both to those who misbelieve

⁵¹who took their religion for a sport and a play; whom the life of the world beguiled.' - Today do we forget them as they forgot the meeting of this day, and for that they did deny our signs

⁵²Now we have brought them a book explaining it in knowledge, a guidance and a mercy to a people who believe

⁵³Do they wait now for aught but its interpretation?- on the day when its interpretation shall come, those who forgot it before will say, There did come to us the apostles of our Lord in truth, have we intercessors to intercede for us? or, could we return, we would do otherwise than we did.' They have lost themselves, and that which they devised has strayed away from them

⁵⁴Verily, your Lord is God who created the heavens and the earth in six days; then He made for the Throne. He covers night with the day - it pursues it incessantly - and the sun and the moon and the stars are subject to His bidding. Aye!- His is the creation and the bidding,- blessed be God the Lord of the worlds

⁵⁵Call on your Lord humbly and secretly, verily, He loves not the transgressors

⁵⁶And do not evil in the earth after it has been righted; and call upon Him with fear and earnestness; verily, the mercy of God is nigh unto those who do well

⁵⁷He it is who sends forth the winds as heralds before His mercy; until when they lift the heavy cloud which we drive to a dead land, and send down thereon water, and bring forth therewith every kind of fruit; - thus do we brine, forth the dead; haply ye may remember

⁵⁸And the good land brings forth its vegetation by the permission of its Lord; and that which is vile brings forth naught but scarcity. Thus do we turn about our signs for a people who are grateful

⁵⁹We did send Noah unto his people, and he said, 'O my people! serve God, ye have no god but Him; verily, I fear for you the torment of the mighty day

⁶⁰Said the chiefs of his people, 'Verily, we do surely see you in obvious error

⁶¹Said he, 'O my people! there is no error in me; but I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds

⁶²I preach to you the messages of my Lord, and I give you sincere advice; and I know from God what ye know not

⁶³What! do ye wonder that there came to you a reminder from your Lord by a man from amongst yourselves, to warn you, and that ye may fear? but haply ye may receive mercy

⁶⁴But they called him a liar, and we rescued him and those who were with him in the ark; and we drowned those who said our signs were lies, verily, they were a blind people

⁶⁵And unto 'Ad (we sent) their brother Hud, who said, 'O my people! serve God, ye have no god save Him; what! will ye not then fear

⁶⁶Said the chiefs of those who misbelieved amongst his people, 'Verily, we see thee in folly, and, verily, we certainly think thou art of the liars

⁶⁷He said, 'O my people! there is no folly in me; but I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds

⁶⁸I preach to you the messages of your Lord; and, verily, I am to you a faithful adviser

⁶⁹What! do ye then wonder that there comes to you a reminder from your Lord by a man from amongst yourselves, to warn you? remember when He made you vicegerents after Noah's people and increased you in length of stature; remember, then, the benefits of God,- haply ye may prosper

⁷⁰They said, 'Hast thou come to us that we may worship God alone, and leave what our fathers used to worship? then bring us what thou dost threaten us with, if thou art of those who tell the truth

⁷¹He said, 'There shall fall upon you from your Lord horror and wrath; do ye wrangle with me about names, which ye and your fathers have named yourselves, for which God sent down no power; wait then expectant, and I with you will wait expectant too

⁷²But we rescued him and those with him, by mercy from ourselves, and we cut off the hindermost parts of those who said our signs were lies and who were not believers

⁷³Unto Thamud (we sent) their brother Zalih, who said, 'O my people! worship God; ye have no god but Him: there has come to you a manifest sign from your Lord. This she-camel of God's is a sign for you; leave her then to eat in the land of God, and touch her not with evil, or there will overtake you grievous woe

⁷⁴And remember how he made you vicegerents after 'Ad and established you in the earth, so that ye took for yourselves castles on its plains and hewed out mountains into houses; and remember the benefits of God, and waste not the land, despoiling it

⁷⁵Said the chiefs of those who were big with pride from amongst his people to those who were weak,- to those amongst them who believed, 'Do ye know that Zalih is sent from his Lord?' They said, 'We do believe in that with which he is sent

⁷⁶Said those who were big with pride, 'Verily, in what ye do believe we disbelieve

⁷⁷Then they did hamstring the camel, and rebelled against the bidding of their Lord and said, 'O Zalih! bring us what thou didst threaten us with, if thou art of those who are sent

⁷⁸Then the earthquake took them, and in the morning they lay prone in their dwellings

⁷⁹and he turned away from them and said, 'O my people! I did preach to you the message of my Lord, and I gave you good advice! but ye love not sincere advisers

⁸⁰And Lot, when he said to his people, 'Do ye approach an abomination which no one in all the world ever anticipated you in

⁸¹verily, ye approach men with lust rather than women - nay, ye are a people who exceed

⁸²But his people's answer only was to say, 'Turn them out of your village, verily, they are a people who pretend to purity

⁸³But we saved him and his people, except his wife, who was of those who lingered

⁸⁴and we rained down upon them a rain; - see then how was the end of the sinners

⁸⁵And unto Midian did we send their brother Shohaib, who said, 'O my people! serve God, ye have no god save Him. There has come to you a manifest sign from your Lord; then give good weight and measure, and be not niggardly of your gifts to men, and do not evil in the earth after it has been righted. That is better for you if ye are believers

⁸⁶and sit not down in every path, threatening and turning from the path of God those who believe in Him, and craving to make it crooked. Remember when ye were few and He multiplied you; and see what was the end of the evildoers

⁸⁷And if there be a party of you who believe in what I am sent with, and a party who believe not, then wait patiently until God judges between us, for He is the best of judges

⁸⁸Said the crowd of those who were big with pride amongst His people, 'We will of a surety turn thee out, O Shohaib! and those who believe with thee, from our village; or else thou shalt return unto our faith.' Said he, 'What even if we be averse therefrom

⁸⁹We shall have devised a lie against God if we return unto your faith, after God has saved us from it; and what should ail us that we should return thereto, unless that God our Lord should please? our Lord embraces everything in His knowledge; - on God do we rely. O our Lord! open between us and between our people in truth, for Thou art the best of those who open

⁹⁰And the chiefs of those who disbelieved amongst his people said, 'If ye follow Shohaib, verily, ye shall be the losers

⁹¹then there took them the earthquake, and in the morning they lay in their dwellings prone

⁹²Those who called Shohaib a liar, (were) as though they had not dwelt therein! - Those who called Shohaib a liar, they were the losers then

⁹³And he turned away from them and said, 'O my people! I preached to you the messages of my Lord, and I gave you good advice; how should I be vexed for a people who do misbelieve

⁹⁴We have not sent unto a city any prophet except we overtook the people thereof with trouble and distress, that haply they might humble themselves

⁹⁵and then did we give them, in exchange for evil, good, until they increased and said, 'Distress and joy both touched our fathers;' then we overtook them suddenly ere they could perceive

⁹⁶Had the people of the town but believed and feared, we would have opened up for them blessings from the heavens and from the earth; but they said it was a lie, so we overtook them for that which they had earned

⁹⁷Were the people of these cities then secure that our violence would not come on them by night, while they slept

⁹⁸were the people of these cities secure that our violence would not come on them in the morning whilst they played

⁹⁹were they secure from the craft of God? none feel secure from the craft of God except a people that shall lose

¹⁰⁰Is it not shown to those who inherit the earth after its (former) people, that, did we please, we would smite them in their sins, and would set a stamp upon their hearts, and then they should not hear

¹⁰¹These cities, we do relate to thee their stories. There came to them our apostles with manifest signs; but they did not at all believe in what they called a lie before.- Thus doth God set a stamp upon the hearts of those who misbelieve

¹⁰²Nor did we find in most of them a covenant; but we did find most of them workers of abomination

¹⁰³Then we raised up after them Moses with our signs to Pharaoh and his chiefs; but they dealt unjustly therewith, and see what was the end of the evildoers

¹⁰⁴Moses said, 'O Pharaoh! verily, I am an apostle from the Lord of the worlds

¹⁰⁵it is not right for me to speak against God aught but the truth. I have come to you with a manifest sign from my Lord; send then the children of Israel with me

¹⁰⁶Said he, 'If thou hast come with a sign, then bring it, if thou art of those who speak the truth

¹⁰⁷Then he threw his rod down, and lo! it was an obvious snake

¹⁰⁸and he drew out his hand, and lo! it was white to the beholders

¹⁰⁹Said the chiefs of Pharaoh's people, 'Verily, this is surely a knowing magician

¹¹⁰he desires to turn you out of your land; - what is it then ye bid

¹¹¹They said, 'Give him and his brother some hope; and send into the cities to collect

¹¹²and bring you every knowing magician

¹¹³And the magician came to Pharaoh and said, 'Is there indeed a reward for us if we are conquerors

¹¹⁴He said, 'Yea! and ye shall be of those who draw nigh unto me

¹¹⁵They said, 'O Moses! wilt thou cast down (thy rod) or shall we be (first) to throw

¹¹⁶Said he, 'Throw down;' and when they threw down, they did enchant the people's eyes, and made them dread, and brought a mighty magic

¹¹⁷But we inspired Moses (saying), 'Throw down thy rod, and it will gulp down that which they devise

¹¹⁸and the truth stood fast, and vain was that which they had done

¹¹⁹and they were conquered there, and turned back feeling small

¹²⁰and the magicians threw themselves down adoring

¹²¹Said they, 'We believe in the Lord of the worlds

¹²²the Lord of Moses and Aaron

¹²³Said Pharaoh, 'Do ye believe in him ere I give you leave? This is craft which ye have devised in the land, to turn its people out therefrom, but soon shall ye know

¹²⁴I will cut off your hands and your feet from opposite sides, then I will crucify you altogether

¹²⁵They said, 'Verily, we unto our Lord return

¹²⁶nor dost thou take vengeance on us, save for that we believe in the signs of our Lord, when they come to us. 'O our Lord! pour out upon us patience, and take us to Thyself resigned

¹²⁷And the chiefs of Pharaoh's people said, 'Will ye leave Moses and his people, to do evil in the land, and to leave thee and thy gods?' Said he, 'We will have their sons slain and their women we will let live, for, verily, we are triumphant over them

¹²⁸Said Moses unto his people, 'Ask for aid from God and be patient; verily, the earth is God's! He gives it for an inheritance to whom He pleases of His servants, and the future is for those who fear

¹²⁹They said, 'We have been hurt before thou didst come to us, and since thou hast come to us.' Said he, 'It may be that your Lord will destroy your foe, and will make you succeed him in the earth; and He will see how ye act

¹³⁰We had overtaken Pharaoh's people with the years (of dearth) and scarcity of fruits, that haply they might remember

¹³¹but when there came to them a good thing they said, 'This is ours;' and if there befell them an evil, they took the augury from Moses and those with him; - is not their augury only in God's hands? - but most of them know not

¹³²And they said, 'Whatever thou dost bring us as a sign to enchant us therewith, yet will we not believe in thee

¹³³Then we sent upon them the flood and the locusts and the lice and the frogs and the blood, - signs detailed; but they were big with pride and were a people who did sin

¹³⁴And when there fell upon them the plague, they said, 'O Moses! call upon thy Lord for us, as He has covenanted with thee; verily, if thou dost remove the plague from us, we will believe in thee; and we will assuredly send with thee the children of Israel

¹³⁵But when we removed from them the plague until the appointed time which they should reach, lo! then they broke their promise

¹³⁶But we took vengeance on them, and we drowned them in the sea, for that they said our signs were lies and were careless thereof

¹³⁷And we gave as an inheritance unto the people who had been weak, the eastern quarters of the earth and the western quarters thereof, which we had blest; and the good word of thy Lord was fulfilled on the children of Israel, for that they were patient; and we destroyed that which Pharaoh and his people had made and that which they had piled

¹³⁸And with the children of Israel we passed across the sea; and they came unto a people devoted to their idols, and said, 'O Moses! make for us a god as they have gods.' Said he, 'Verily, ye are ignorant people

¹³⁹Verily, these - destroyed shall be that which they are given to; and vain is that which they have done

¹⁴⁰He said, 'Other than God then do ye crave for a god, when He has preferred you above the worlds

¹⁴¹And when we saved you from Pharaoh's people who wrought you evil woe, killing your sons, and letting your women live; and in that was a mighty trial from your Lord

¹⁴²And we appointed for Moses thirty nights, and completed them with ten (more), so that the time appointed by his Lord was completed to forty nights. And Moses said unto his brother Aaron, 'Be thou my vicegerent amongst my people, and do what is right, and follow not the path of the evildoers

¹⁴³And when Moses came to our appointment, and his Lord spake unto him, he said, 'O my Lord! show me, - that I may look on thee!' He said, Thou canst not see me; but look upon the mountain, and if it remain steady in its place, thou shalt see me;' but when his Lord appeared unto the mountain He made it dust, and Moses fell down in a swoon! And when he came to himself, he said, 'Celebrated be thy praise! I turn repentant unto Thee, and I am the first of those who are resigned

¹⁴⁴He said, 'O Moses! verily, I have chosen thee over the people with my messages and my words, take then what I have brought thee, and be of those who thank

¹⁴⁵And we wrote for him upon tablets an admonition concerning everything, and a detailing of everything: 'Take them then with firmness, and bid thy people take them for what is best thereof. I will show you the abode of those who work abominations

¹⁴⁶I will turn from my signs those who are big with pride in the earth without right; and if they see every sign they shall not believe therein, and if they see the path of rectitude they shall not take it for a path; but if they see the path of error they shall take it for a path; - that is because they have said our signs are lies and have been careless of them

¹⁴⁷But those who say our signs and the meeting of the last day are lies,-- vain are their works: shall they be rewarded save for that which they have done

¹⁴⁸And Moses' people after him took to themselves of their ornaments a corporeal calf that lowed; did they not see that it could not speak with them, nor could it guide them in the path? They took it and they were unjust

¹⁴⁹but when they bit their hands with fruitless rage and saw that they had gone astray, they said,' Verily, if our Lord have not compassion on us and forgive us we shall surely be of those who lose

¹⁵⁰And when Moses returned unto his people angry and grieved, he said, 'Evil is it that ye have done after me! Would ye hasten on the bidding of your Lord?' and he threw down the tablets and took his brother by the head to drag him towards him, but he said, 'O son of my mother! verily, the people weakened me and well-nigh killed me; make not then mine enemies glad about me, and put me not with the unjust people

¹⁵¹He said, 'O Lord! pardon me and my brother, and let us enter into Thy mercy; for Thou art the most merciful of the merciful

¹⁵²Verily, these have taken to themselves a calf; there shall reach them wrath from their Lord, and abasement in the life of this world; for thus do we reward those who forge a lie

¹⁵³But those who have done bad works, and then turn again after them and believe,- verily, thy Lord, after that, is forgiving and merciful

¹⁵⁴And when Moses' wrath calmed down he took the tables, in the inscription of which was guidance and mercy for those who dread their Lord

¹⁵⁵And Moses chose from his people seventy men for our appointment; and when the earthquake took them he said, 'O my Lord! hadst Thou willed, Thou hadst destroyed them before and me. Wilt Thou destroy us for what the fools amongst us have done? This is naught but Thy trial, wherewith Thou dost lead astray whom Thou pleasest and guidest whom Thou pleasest; Thou art our patron! forgive us and have mercy on us, for Thou art the best of those who do forgive

¹⁵⁶And write down for us in this world good, and in the future too; verily, we are guided unto Thee.' He said, 'My punishment - with it I fall on whom I will; and my mercy embraceth everything; and I will write it down for those who fear, and who give alms, and those who in our signs believe

¹⁵⁷who follow the Apostle - the illiterate prophet, whom they find written down with them in the law and the gospel, bidding them what is reasonable and forbidding them what is wrong, and making lawful for them what is good, and making unlawful evil things; and setting down for them their burdens and the yokes which were upon them; - to those who believe in him and aid him and help him and follow the law which has been sent down with him - they shall be the prosperous

¹⁵⁸Say, 'O ye folk! verily, I am the Apostle of God unto you all' -, of Him whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, there is no god but He! He quickens and He kills! believe then in God and His Apostle, the illiterate prophet,- who believes in God and in His words - then follow him that haply ye may be guided

¹⁵⁹Amongst Moses' people is a nation guided in truth, and thereby act they justly

¹⁶⁰And we cut them up into twelve tribes, each a nation; and we revealed unto Moses, when his people asked him for drink, 'Strike with thy staff the rock!' and there gushed forth from it twelve springs, each folk knew their drinking place. And we overshadowed them with the cloud; and sent down upon them the manna and the quails, 'Eat of the good things we have provided you with!' - Yet they did not wrong us, but it was themselves they wronged

¹⁶¹And when it was said unto them, 'Dwell in this city and eat therefrom as ye will, and say 'hittatun and enter the gate adoring; so will we pardon you your sins; - we will increase those who do well

¹⁶²But those amongst them who did wrong changed it for another word than which was said to them; and we sent upon them a plague from heaven for that they were unjust

¹⁶³Ask them too about the city which stood by the sea, when they transgressed upon the Sabbath; when their fish came to them on the Sabbath day sailing straight up to them; but on the days when they kept not the Sabbath, they came not to them, thus did we try them for the abominations that they wrought

¹⁶⁴And when a nation from amongst them said, 'Why do ye warn a people whom God would destroy, or punish with severe torment?' they said, 'As an excuse to your Lord, that haply they may fear

¹⁶⁵But when they forgot what they had been reminded of, we saved those who forbade evil, but we overtook those who did wrong with punishment; - evil was the abomination that they did

¹⁶⁶but when they rebelled against what they were forbidden, we said to them, 'Become ye apes, despised and spurned

¹⁶⁷and then thy Lord proclaimed that He would surely send against them till the resurrection day, those who should wreak them evil torment; verily, thy Lord is quick at following up, but, verily, He is forgiving, merciful

¹⁶⁸We cut them up in the earth into nations. Of them are the righteous, and of them are the reverse of that; we have tried them with good things and with bad things; haply they may return

¹⁶⁹But there succeeded them successors who inherited the Book! They take the goods of this lower world and say, 'It will be forgiven us.' But if the like goods came to them they would take them too! Was there not taken from them a covenant by the Book, that they should not say against God aught but the truth? Yet they study therein! But the abode of the future life is better for those who fear - do ye not then understand

¹⁷⁰But those who hold fast by the Book and are steadfast in prayer - verily, we will not waste the hire of those who do right

¹⁷¹And when we shook the mountain over them, as though it were a shadow, and they thought it would fall upon them (saying), 'Take ye what we have given you with firmness, and remember what is therein; haply ye may fear

¹⁷²And when thy Lord took from the children of Adam out of their loins their seed, and made them bear witness against themselves, ' Am I not your Lord?' They said, 'Yea! we do bear witness' - lest ye should say on the day of resurrection, 'Verily, for this we did not care

¹⁷³or say, 'Verily, our fathers associated others with God before us, and we were but their seed after them: wilt Thou then destroy us for what vaindoers did

¹⁷⁴Thus do we detail the signs; haply they may return

¹⁷⁵Read to them the declaration of him to whom we brought our signs, and who stepped away therefrom, and Satan followed him, and he was of those who were beguiled

¹⁷⁶Had we pleased we would have exalted him thereby, but lie crouched upon the earth and followed his lust, and his likeness was as the likeness of a dog, whom if thou shouldst attack he hangs out his tongue, or if thou should leave him, hangs out his tongue too. That is the likeness of the people who say our signs are lies. Tell them then these tales - haply they may reflect

¹⁷⁷Evil is the likeness of a people who say our signs are lies; themselves it is they wrong

¹⁷⁸Whoever Allah guides - he is the [rightly] guided; and whoever He sends astray - it is those who are the losers

¹⁷⁹We have created for hell many of the ginn and of mankind; they have hearts and they discern not therewith; they have eyes and they see not therewith; they have ears and they hear not therewith; they are like cattle, nay, they go more astray! these it is who care not

¹⁸⁰But God's are the good names; call on Him then thereby, and leave those who pervert His names; they shall be rewarded for that which they have done

¹⁸¹And of those whom we have created is a nation who are guided in truth and thereby act with equity

¹⁸²but they who say our signs are lies, we will bring them down by degrees from whence they know not

¹⁸³I will let them range; - verily, my stratagem is efficacious

¹⁸⁴Do they not then reflect that their companion is not possessed? he is but an obvious warner

¹⁸⁵Do they not behold the kingdoms of the heavens and of the earth, and what things God has created, and (see that), it may be, their time is already drawing nigh? in what relation then will they believe

¹⁸⁶He whom God leads astray there is no guide for him! He leaves them in their rebellion, blindly wandering on

¹⁸⁷They will ask you about the Hour, for what time it is fixed? - say, 'The knowledge thereof is only with my Lord; none shall manifest it at its time but He; it is heavy in the heavens and the earth, it will not come to you save on a sudden.' They will ask as though thou wert privy to it, say, 'The knowledge thereof is only with God,' - but most folk do not know

¹⁸⁸Say, 'I cannot control profit or harm for myself, save what God will. If I knew the unseen I should surely have much that is good, nor would evil touch me; I am but a warner and a herald of good tidings unto a people who believe

¹⁸⁹He it is who created you from one soul, and made therefrom its mate to dwell therewith; and when he covered her she bore a light burden and went about therewith; but when it grew heavy they called on God, Lord of them both, 'Surely if thou givest us a rightly-shaped child we shall of a surety be of those who thank

¹⁹⁰And when He gave them both a rightly-shaped child they joined partners with Him for that which He had given them, but exalted be God above that which they associate with Him

¹⁹¹Will they associate with Him those who cannot create aught, but are themselves created

¹⁹²which have no power to help them, and cannot even help themselves

¹⁹³But if ye call them unto guidance they will not follow you. It is the same to them if Thou dost call them or if Thou dost hold thy tongue

¹⁹⁴Those whom ye call on other than God are servants like yourselves. Call on them then, and let them answer you, if so be ye tell the truth

¹⁹⁵Have they feet to walk with? or have they hands to hold with? or have they eyes to see with? or have they ears to hear with? Call upon your partners; then plot against me, and do not wait

¹⁹⁶Verily, my patron is God, who hath sent down the Book, and He is the patron of the righteous

¹⁹⁷But those whom ye call on beside Him cannot help you, nor can they even help themselves

¹⁹⁸But if ye call them unto the guidance they will not hear, thou mayest see them looking towards thee, yet they do not see

¹⁹⁹Take to pardon, and order what is kind, and shun the ignorant

²⁰⁰and if an incitement from the devil incites you, then seek refuge in God: verily, He both hears and knows

²⁰¹Verily, those who fear God, if a wraith from the devil touch, mention Him, and lo! they see

²⁰²And their brethren he shall increase in error, then they shall not desist

²⁰³Shouldst Thou not bring them a sign they say, 'Hast Thou not yet made choice of one?' Say, 'I only follow what is inspired to me by my Lord. These are perceptions from my Lord, and a guidance and a mercy to a people who believe

²⁰⁴And when the Qur'an is read, then listen thereto and keep silence; haply ye may obtain mercy

²⁰⁵And remember thy Lord within thyself humbly and with fear, not openly in words, in the morning and in the evening; and be not of those who do not care

²⁰⁶Verily, they who are with my Lord are not too big with pride for His service, but they do celebrate His praise, and Him they do adore

¹They will ask thee about the spoils. Say, 'The spoils are God's and the Apostle's; fear God and settle it amongst yourselves; obey God and the Apostle if ye do believe

²Verily, the believers are those who, when God's name is mentioned, their hearts sink with fear; and when His signs are rehearsed to them they increase them in faith; and on their Lord do they rely

³who are steadfast in prayer, and of what we have bestowed upon them give in alms

⁴these are in truth believers; to them are degrees with their Lord, and forgiveness, and a generous provision

⁵As thy Lord caused thee to go forth from thy house with the truth, although a sect of the believers were averse therefrom

⁶They wrangled with thee about the truth after it was made plain, as though they were being driven on to death and looked thereon

⁷and when God promised you that one of the two troops should be yours, and ye would fain have had those who had no arms. God wished to prove the truth true by His words, and to cut off the hindermost parts of those who misbelieve

⁸to prove the truth true, and to make vain the vain, although the sinners are averse

⁹When ye asked for succour from your Lord, and He answered you, 'I will assist you with a thousand angels, with others in reserve

¹⁰God made it only glad tidings to quiet your hearts therewith; for victory is only from God! verily, God is mighty and wise

¹¹When drowsiness covered you as a security from Him, and He sent down upon you from the heavens water to purify you withal, and to take away from you the plague of Satan, and to tie up your hearts and to make firm your footsteps

¹²When your Lord inspired the angels - 'Verily, I am with you; make ye firm then those who believe; I will cast dread into the hearts of those who misbelieve,- strike off their necks then, and strike off from them every finger tip

¹³That is, because they went into opposition against God and His Apostle; for he who goes into opposition against God and His Apostle - verily, God is keen to punish

¹⁴There, taste it! since for the misbelievers is the torment of the Fire

¹⁵O ye who believe! when ye meet those who misbelieve in swarms, turn not to them your hinder parts

¹⁶for he who turns to them that day his hinder parts, save turning to fight or rallying to a troop, brings down upon himself wrath from God, and his resort is hell, and an ill journey shall it be

¹⁷Ye did not slay them, but it was God who slew them; nor didst thou shoot when thou didst shoot, but God did shoot, to try the believers from Himself with a goodly trial; verily, God both hears and knows

¹⁸There! verily, God weakens the stratagem of the misbelievers

¹⁹If ye wish the matter to be decided, a decision has now come to you; but if ye desist, it is better for you; and if ye turn back we will turn too, and your troop shall avail nothing, great in number though it be, since God is with the believers

²⁰O ye who believe! obey God and His Apostle, and turn not from Him while ye hear

²¹and be not like those who say, 'We hear,' and yet they hear not

²²Verily, the worst of beasts in God's sight are the deaf, the dumb who do not understand

²³Had God known any good in them, He would have made them hear; but had He made them hear, they would have turned back and have swerved aside

²⁴O ye who believe! answer God and His Apostle when He calls you to that which quickens you; and know that God steps in between man and his heart; and that to Him ye shall be gathered

²⁵And fear temptation, which will not light especially on those of you who have done wrong; but know that God is keen to punish

²⁶Remember when ye were few in number and weak in the land, fearing lest people should snatch you away; then He sheltered you and aided you with victory, and provided you with good things; haply ye may give thanks

²⁷O ye who believe! be not treacherous to God and His Apostle; nor be treacherous to your engagement while ye know

²⁸Know that your wealth and your children are but a temptation, and that God - with Him is mighty hire

²⁹O ye who believe! if ye fear God He will make for you a discrimination, and will cover for you your offences, and will forgive you; for God is Lord of mighty grace

³⁰And when those who misbelieve were crafty with thee to detain thee a prisoner, or kill thee, or drive thee forth; they were crafty, but God was crafty too, for God is best of crafty ones

³¹But when our verses were rehearsed to them they said, 'We have already heard.- If we pleased we could speak like this; verily, this is nothing but tales of those of yore

³²When they said, 'O God! if this be truth, and from Thee, then rain upon us stones from heaven or bring us grievous woe

³³But God would not torment them while thou art amongst them; nor was God going to torment them while they asked Him to forgive

³⁴But what ails them that God should not torment them while they turn folk away from the Holy Mosque, though they are not the guardians thereof - its guardians are only the pious?- but most of them know not

³⁵Their prayer at the House was naught but whistling and clapping hands!- taste then the torment for that ye misbelieved

³⁶Verily, those who misbelieve expend their wealth to turn folk from the path of God; but they shall spend it, and then it shall be for them sighing, and then they shall be overcome! Those who misbelieve, into hell shall they be gathered

³⁷that God may distinguish the vile from the good, and may put the vile, some on the top of the other, and heap all up together, and put it into hell!- These are those who lose

³⁸Say to those who misbelieve, if they desist they will be forgiven what is past; but if they return,- the course of those of former days has passed away

³⁹Fight them then that there should be no sedition, and that the religion may be wholly God's; but if they desist, then God on what they do doth look

⁴⁰But if they turn their backs, then know that God is your Lord; a good Lord is He, and a good help

⁴¹and know that whenever ye seize anything as a spoil, to God belongs a fifth thereof, and to His Apostle, and to kindred and orphans, and the poor and the wayfarer; if ye believe in God and what we have revealed unto our servants on the day of the discrimination,- the day when the two parties met; and God is mighty over all

⁴²When ye were on the near side of the valley, and they were on the far side, and the camels were below you; had ye made an appointment then ye would have failed to keep your appointment - but it was that God might accomplish a thing that was as good as done! that he who was to perish might perish with a manifest sign; and that he who was to live might live with a manifest sign; for, verily, God hears and knows

⁴³When God showed thee them in thy dream as though they were but few; but had He shown thee them as though they were many, ye would have been timid, and ye would have quarrelled about the matter;- but God preserved you; verily, He knows the nature of men's breasts

⁴⁴And when He showed them to you, as ye encountered them, as few in your eyes; and made you seem few in their eyes; that God might accomplish a thing that was as good as done; for unto God do things return

⁴⁵O ye who believe! when ye encounter a troop, then stand firm and remember God; and haply ye may prosper

⁴⁶and fear God and His Apostle, and do not quarrel or be timid, so that your turn of luck go from you; but be ye patient, verily, God is with the patient

⁴⁷And be not like those who went forth from their homes with insolence, and for appearance sake before men, and to turn folks off God's way; for all they do God comprehends

⁴⁸And when Satan made their works appear seemly to them, and said, 'There is none amongst mankind to conquer you today, for, verily, I am your neighbour!' and when the two troops came in sight of each other, he turned upon his heels and said, 'Verily, I am clear of you! verily, I see what you see not! verily, I fear God, for God is keen to punish

⁴⁹And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was sickness said, 'Their religion hath beguiled these men, but he who relies upon God, verily, God is mighty and wise

⁵⁰Couldst thou see when the angels take away the souls of those who misbelieve; they smite them on their faces and hinder parts.- 'Taste ye the torment of burning

⁵¹that is for what your hands have sent on before; and for that God is no unjust one towards his servants

⁵²As was the wont of Pharaoh's people and those before them! they disbelieved in the signs of God, and God overtook them in their sins; verily, God is strong and keen to punish

⁵³That is because God is not one to change a favour He has favoured a people with, until they change what they have in themselves, and for that God both hears and knows

⁵⁴As was the wont of Pharaoh's people and those before them! they said our signs were lies, and we destroyed them in their sins, and drowned Pharaoh's people; and all of them were evildoers

⁵⁵Verily, the worst of beasts in God's eyes are those who misbelieve and will not believe

⁵⁶with whom if thou dost make a league, they break their league each time, for they fear not God

⁵⁷but shouldst thou ever catch them in war, then make those who come after them run by their example, haply they may remember then

⁵⁸And shouldst thou ever fear from any people treachery, then throw it back to them in like manner; verily, God loves not the treacherous

⁵⁹Deem not that those who misbelieve can win; verily, they cannot make (God) powerless

⁶⁰Prepare ye against them what force and companies of horse ye can, to make the enemies of God, and your enemies, and others beside them, in dread thereof. Ye do not know them, but God knows them! and whatever ye expend in God's way He will repay you; and ye shall not be wronged

⁶¹But if they incline to peace, incline thou to it too, and rely upon God; verily, He both hears and knows

⁶²But if they wish to betray thee, then God is enough for thee! He it is who supports thee with His help and with the believers

⁶³and reconciles their hearts! Didst thou expend all that is in the earth thou couldst not reconcile their hearts, but God reconciled them, verily, He is mighty and wise

⁶⁴O thou prophet ! God is sufficient for thee, with those of the believers who follow thee

⁶⁵O thou prophet! urge on the believers to fight. If there be of you twenty patient men, they shall conquer two hundred; if there be of you a hundred, they shall conquer a thousand of those who misbelieve, because they are a people who did not discern

⁶⁶Now has God made it light for you; He knows that there is a weakness amongst you: but if there be amongst you but a patient hundred, they will conquer two hundred; and if there be of you a thousand, they will conquer two thousand, by the permission of God,- for God is with the patient

⁶⁷It has not been for any prophet to take captives until he hath slaughtered in the land! Ye wish to have the goods of this world, but God wishes for the next, for God is mighty, wise

⁶⁸Were it not for a book from God that had gone before, there would have touched you, for that which ye took, a mighty punishment

⁶⁹Eat of what spoils ye have taken, what is lawful and good; and fear God, verily, God is forgiving and merciful

⁷⁰O thou prophet! say to such of the captives as are in your hands, 'If God knows of any good in your hearts, he will give you better than that which is taken from you, and will forgive you; for God is forgiving and merciful

⁷¹But if they desire to betray thee,- they have betrayed God before! but He hath given you power over them; for God is knowing, wise

⁷²Verily, those who believe and have fled and fought strenuously with their wealth and persons in God's way, and those who have given refuge and help, these shall be next of kin to each other. But those who believe, but have not fled, ye have naught to do with their claims of kindred, until they flee as well. But if they ask you for aid for religion's sake, then help is due from you, except against a people between whom and you there is an alliance; for God on what ye do doth look

⁷³And those who misbelieve, some of them are next of kin to others - unless ye act the same there will be sedition in the land, and great corruption

⁷⁴Those who believe and have fled and fought strenuously in God's cause, and those who have given a refuge and a help, those it is who believe; to them is forgiveness and generous provision due

⁷⁵And those who have believed afterwards and have fled and fought strenuously with you; these too are of you, but blood relations are nearer in kin by the Book of God. Verily, God all things doth know

¹AN immunity from God and His Apostle to those idolaters with whom ye have made a league

²Roam ye at large in the land for four months, but know that ye cannot make God helpless, and that God disgraces the misbelievers

³A proclamation from God and His Apostle to the people on the day of the greater pilgrimage, that God is clear of the idolaters as is His Apostle! If then ye repent it is better for you; but if ye turn your backs, then know that ye cannot make God helpless. Give to those who misbelieve glad tidings of grievous woe

⁴Except to those of the idolaters with whom ye have made a league, and who then have not failed you at all, and have not backed up any one against you. Fulfill for them then your covenant until the time agreed upon with them; verily, God loves those who fear

⁵But when the sacred months are passed away, kill the idolaters wherever ye may find them; and take them, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in every place of observation; but if they repent, and are steadfast in prayer, and give alms, then let them go their way; verily, God is forgiving and merciful

⁶And if any one of the idolaters ask thee for aid, then aid him, in order that he may hear the word of God; then let him reach his place of safety,- that is, because they are a folk who do not know

⁷How can there be for the idolaters a treaty with God and with His Apostle, save those with whom ye have made a league at the Sacred Mosque! Then while they stand by you, stand ye by them; verily, God loves those who fear

⁸How!- if they prevail against you, they will not observe either ties of blood or ties of client ship; they please you with their mouths, but their hearts refuse; and most of them do work abomination

⁹They barter God's signs for a little price, and they turn folk from His way; verily, they - evil is that which they have done

¹⁰They will not observe in a believer ties of kindred nor ties of clientship; but they it is are the transgressors

¹¹But if they repent and are steadfast in prayer and give alms, then they are your brethren in religion - we detail the signs unto a people that do know

¹²But if they break faith with you after their treaty, and taunt your religion, then fight the leaders of misbelief; verily, they have no faith, haply they may desist

¹³Will ye not fight a people who broke their oaths, and intended to expel the Apostle? They began with you at first, are ye afraid of them? God is more deserving that ye should fear Him! If ye be believers

¹⁴kill them! God will torment them by your hands, and disgrace them, and aid you against them, and heal the breasts of a people who believe

¹⁵and will remove rage from their hearts; for God turns unto Him whomsoever He pleases, and God is knowing, wise

¹⁶Did ye reckon that ye would be left, when God knows not as yet those of you who fought strenuously, and who did not take other than God and His Apostle, and the believers for an intimate friend? for God is well aware of what ye do

¹⁷It is not for idolaters to repair to the mosques of God, bearing witness against themselves to unbelief; they it is whose works are vain, and in the Fire shall they dwell for, aye

¹⁸He only shall repair to the mosques of God who believes in God and the last day, and is steadfast in prayer, and gives the alms, and fears only God;- it may be that these will be of those who are guided

¹⁹Have ye made out the giving drink to the pilgrims and the repairing to the Sacred Mosque to be like being one who believes in God and in the last day, and is strenuous in the way of God?- they are not equal in God's sight, and God guides not an unjust people

²⁰Those who believe and who have fled and been strenuous in the way of God, with their wealth and with their persons, are highest in rank with God, and these it is who are happy

²¹Their Lord gives them glad tidings of mercy from Himself, and goodwill; and gardens shall they have therein and lasting pleasure

²²to dwell therein for aye! Verily, God, with Him is mighty here

²³O ye who believe! take not your fathers and your brothers for patrons if they love misbelief rather than faith; for whosoever amongst you takes them for patrons these are the unjust

²⁴Say, 'If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your clansmen, and the wealth which ye have gained, and the merchandise which ye fear may be slack, and the dwellings which ye love are dearer to you than God and His Apostle, and than fighting strenuously in His way,- then wait awhile, until God brings His bidding, for God guides not a people who work abomination

²⁵God has helped you in many a place, and on the day of 'Honein when ye were so pleased with your numbers; but it did not serve you at all, and the road grew too strait for you, where it had been broad; and then ye turned your backs retreating

²⁶then God sent down His shechina upon His Apostle and upon the believers; and sent down armies which ye could not see, and punished those who misbelieved

²⁷for that is the reward of the misbelievers, then God turns after that to whom He will, for God is forgiving and merciful

²⁸O ye who believe! it is only the idolaters who are unclean; they shall not then approach the Sacred Mosque after this year. But if ye fear want then God will enrich you from His grace if He will; verily, God is knowing, wise

²⁹Fight those who believe not in God and in the last day, and who forbid not what God and His Apostle have forbidden, and who do not practice the religion of truth from amongst those to whom the Book has been brought, until they pay the tribute by their hands and be as little ones

³⁰The Jews say Ezra is the son of God; and the Christians say that the Messiah is the son of God; that is what they say with their mouths, imitating the sayings of those who misbelieved before.- God fight them! how they lie

³¹They take their doctors and their monks for lords rather than God, and the Messiah the son of Mary; but they are bidden to worship but one God, there is no god but He; celebrated be His praise, from what they join with Him

³²They desire to put out the light of God with their mouths, but God will not have it but that we should perfect His light, averse although the misbelievers be

³³He it is who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of truth, to make it prevail over every other religion, averse although idolaters may be

³⁴O ye who believe! verily, many of the doctors and the monks devour the wealth of men openly, and turn folk from God's way; but those who store up gold and silver and expend it not in God's way,- give them glad tidings of grievous woe

³⁵On the day when it shall be heated in the fire of hell, and their brows shall be branded therewith, and their sides and their backs! - 'This is what ye stored up for yourselves, taste then what ye stored up

³⁶Verily, the number of months with God is twelve months in God's Book, on the day when He created the heavens and the earth; of these are four that are sacred; that is the subsisting religion. Then do not wrong yourselves therein, but fight the idolaters, one and all, as they fight you one and all, and know that God is with those who fear

³⁷Verily, putting off is but an increase in misbelief to lead astray therewith those who misbelieve. They make it lawful one year, but they make it unlawful another year, that they may come to an understanding as to the number which God has made sacred, and make lawful what God has prohibited. Seemly to them are their evil works, but God guides not a misbelieving people

³⁸O ye who believe! what ailed you when ye were told to march forth in God's way, that ye sank down heavily upon the earth? were ye content with the life of this world instead of the next? but the provision of this world's life is but a little to the next

³⁹Unless ye march forth He will punish you with grievous woe, and will put in your stead a people other than you! ye cannot hurt Him at all, for God is mighty over all

⁴⁰Unless ye help him - and God did help him, when those who misbelieved drove him forth the second of two. When they twain were in the cave; when he said to his comrade, 'Grieve not, verily, God is with us;' and God sent down His shechina upon him, and aided him with hosts ye could not see, and made the word of those who misbelieved inferior, and the word of God superior; for God is mighty and wise

⁴¹March ye then, light and heavy, and fight strenuously with your wealth and persons in God's way; that is better for you if ye did but know

⁴²Were there goods nigh at hand, and a moderate journey, they would have followed you; but the distance was too far for them; they will swear by God, 'If we could, we would have gone forth with you.' They destroy themselves, but God knows that they lie

⁴³God forgive thee; why didst thou give them leave (to stay) until it was made manifest to thee who spake the truth - until thou mightest know the liars

⁴⁴Those who believe in God and in the last day will not beg off from fighting strenuously with their wealth and their persons; but God knows those who fear

⁴⁵It is only those who believe not in God and in the last day who beg off from thee, and those whose hearts are in doubt, and in their doubt do hesitate

⁴⁶Had they wished to go forth, they would have prepared for it a preparation; but God was averse from their starting off, and made them halt, and they were told to sit with those who sit

⁴⁷Had they gone forth with you they would but have made you more trouble, and they would have hurried about amongst you craving a sedition; amongst you are some who would have listened to them; but God knows those who are unjust

⁴⁸They used to crave sedition before and upset thy affairs; until the truth came, and God's bidding was made manifest, averse although they were

⁴⁹Of them are some who say, 'Permit me, and do not try me!' Have they not fallen into the trial already, but hell shall encompass the misbelievers

⁵⁰If good befall thee it seems ill to them; but if a calamity befall thee they say, 'We had taken care for our affair before;' and they turn their backs and they are glad

⁵¹Say, 'Nought shall befall us save what God has written down for us; He is our Lord, and upon God believers do rely

⁵²Say, 'Do ye await for us aught but one of the two best things?' we too await for you that God will inflict on you torment from Himself, or by our hands. Wait then; and we with you are waiting too

⁵³Say, 'Expend ye in alms, whether ye will or no, it shall not be accepted from you; verily, ye are a people who do work abomination

⁵⁴But nought hinders their alms-giving from being accepted save that they misbelieve in God and His Apostle, and perform not prayer save lazily, and expend not in alms save reluctantly

⁵⁵Let not their wealth please you nor their children, God only wishes to torment them therewith in the life of this world, and that their souls may pass away while still they misbelieve

⁵⁶They swear by God that, verily, they are of you; but they are not of you, and they are a people who do stand aside in fear

⁵⁷Could they but have found a refuge, or some caves, or a place in which to creep, they would have turned round in haste thereto

⁵⁸Of them are some who defame thee, with respect to alms; though if they are given a part thereof, they are content; and if they are not given a part thereof, then are they in a rage

⁵⁹Would that they were content with what God and His Apostle had brought them, and would say, 'God is enough for us! God will bring us of His grace, and so will His Apostle; verily, unto God is our desire

⁶⁰Alms are only for the poor and needy, and those who work for them, and those whose hearts are reconciled, and those in captivity, and those in debt, and those who are on God's path, and for the wayfarer;- an ordinance this from God, for God is knowing, wise

⁶¹And of them are some who are by the ears with the prophet, and say, 'He is all ear.' Say, 'An ear of good for you!' he believes in God, and believes in those who do believe, and is a mercy unto such of you as believe; but those who are by the ears with the Apostle of God, for them is grievous woe

⁶²They swear by God to please you; but God and His Apostle are more worthy for them to please if they be believers

⁶³Do they not know that whoso setteth himself against God and His Apostle, for him is the fire of hell, to dwell therein for aye? and that is mighty shame

⁶⁴The hypocrites are cautious lest there be revealed against them a surah to inform them of what is in their hearts; say, 'Mock ye! verily, God will bring forth that of which ye are so cautious

⁶⁵But if thou shouldst ask them, they will say, 'We did but discuss and jest;' say, 'Was it at God and His signs, and His Apostle, that ye mocked

⁶⁶Make no excuse! Ye have misbelieved after your faith; if we forgive one sect of you, we will torment another sect, for that they sinned

⁶⁷The hypocrites, men and women, some of them follow others, bidding what is wrong and forbidding what is right, and they clench their hands. They forget God and He forgets them! Verily, the hypocrites, they are the doers of abomination

⁶⁸God has promised unto the hypocrites, men and women, and unto the misbelievers, hell-fire, to dwell therein for aye; it is enough for them! God shall curse them, and theirs shall be enduring woe

⁶⁹Ye are like those who were before you. They were stronger than you and more abundant in wealth and children; they enjoyed their portion then, and ye enjoy your portion, as they enjoyed their portion before you; and ye discuss as they discussed. Their works are vain in this world and the next, and they it is who lose

⁷⁰Did there not come to them the declaration of those who were before them? of the people of Noah and 'Ad and Thamud, and of the people of Abraham, and the people of Midian? and of the overturned (cities)? Their apostles came to them with manifest signs; for God would not wrong them, but it was themselves they wronged

⁷¹And the believers, men and women, are some the patrons of others; they bid what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong, and are steadfast in prayer, and give alms, and obey God and His Apostle. On these will God have mercy; verily, God is mighty, wise

⁷²God has promised to believers, men and women, gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; and goodly places in the garden of Eden. But good-will from God is the greatest of all! that is the mighty happiness

⁷³O thou prophet! strive strenuously against the misbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern against them; for their resort is hell, and an ill journey shall it be

⁷⁴They swear by God they did not speak it, but they did speak the word of misbelief; and they disbelieved after they had embraced Islam, and they designed what they could not attain; and they only disapproved it because God and His Apostle had enriched them of His grace. If they turn again 'tis better for them; but if they turn their backs, God will torment them with mighty woe in this world and in the next, nor shall they have upon the earth a patron or protector

⁷⁵And of them are some who make a treaty with God, that 'If He bring us of His grace, we will give alms and we will surely be among the righteous

⁷⁶But when He gave them of His grace they were niggardly thereof, and turned their backs and swerved aside

⁷⁷So He caused hypocrisy to pursue them in their hearts unto the day when they shall meet Him,- for that they did fail God in what they promised Him, and for that they were liars

⁷⁸Do they not know that God knows their secrets and their whisperings, and that God knows the unseen things

⁷⁹Those who defame such of the believers as willingly give their alms, and such as can find nothing to give but their exertions, and who mock at them,- God will mock at them, and for them is grievous woe

⁸⁰Ask forgiveness for them or ask not forgiveness, for them! if they shouldst ask forgiveness for them seventy times, yet would not God forgive them; that is because they disbelieved in God and His Apostle, for God guides not a people who work abomination

⁸¹Those who were left behind rejoiced in staying behind the Apostle of God, and were averse from fighting strenuously with their wealth and their persons in God's way, and said, 'March not forth in the heat.' Say, 'The fire of hell is hotter still, if ye could but discern

⁸²Let them then laugh little, and let them weep much, as a recompense for that which they have earned

⁸³But if God bring thee back to a sect of them, and they ask thee then for leave to sally forth; say, 'Ye shall by no means ever sally forth with me, nor shall ye ever fight a foe with me! verily, ye were content to sit at home the first time, sit ye then now with those who stay behind

⁸⁴Pray not for any one of them who dies, and stand not by his tomb; verily, they disbelieved in God and His Apostle and died workers of abomination

⁸⁵Let not their wealth and their children please you, God only wishes to torment them therewith in this world, and that their souls may pass away the while they misbelieve

⁸⁶Whenever a surah is sent down to them, 'Believe ye in God, and fight strenuously together with His Apostle,' those of them who have the means will ask thee for leave to stay at home and say, 'Let us be amongst those who stay behind

⁸⁷They are content to be with those who are left behind. A stamp is set upon their hearts that they should not discern

⁸⁸But the Apostle and those who believe with him are strenuous with their wealth and with their persons; these shall have good things, and these it is shall prosper

⁸⁹God has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; that is the mighty happiness

⁹⁰There came certain desert Arabs that they might be excused; and those stayed behind who had called God and His Apostle liars. There shall befall those of them who misbelieved, a mighty woe

⁹¹For the weak, and the sick, and those who cannot find wherewith to expend in alms there is no hindrance, so they be only sincere towards God and His Apostle. There is no way against those who do well; for God is forgiving and merciful

⁹²Nor against those to whom, when they came to thee that thou shouldst mount them, thou didst say, 'I cannot find wherewith to mount you,' turned their backs while their eyes poured forth with tears, for grief that they could not find wherewith to expend

⁹³Only is there a way against those who ask thee for leave, to stay at home while they are rich; content to be with those who are left behind; on whose hearts God has set a stamp, so that they should not know

⁹⁴They make excuses to you when ye return to them: say, 'Make no excuse, we believe you not; God has informed us concerning you. God sees your works and His Apostle too!' Then shall ye be brought back unto Him who knows the unseen and the seen; and He shall inform you of that which ye have done

⁹⁵They will adjure you by God when ye have come back to them, to turn aside from them; turn ye aside then from them; verily, they are a plague, and their resort is hell! a recompense for that which they have earned

⁹⁶They will adjure you to be pleased with them; but if ye are pleased with them, God will not be pleased with a people who work abomination

⁹⁷The Arabs of the desert are keener in misbelief and hypocrisy, and are more likely not to know the bounds which God has sent down to His Apostle; but God is knowing and wise

⁹⁸And of the Arabs of the desert are some who take what they expend to be a forced loan, and they wait a turn of fortune against you; against them shall a turn of evil fortune be; for God both hears and knows

⁹⁹And of the Arabs of the desert are some who believe in God and the last day, and who take what they expend in alms to be a means of approach to God and to the Apostle's prayers,- is it not a means of approach for them? God will make them enter into His mercy; verily, God is forgiving and merciful

¹⁰⁰As for the foremost in the race, the first of those who fled, and the helpers, and those who followed them in their kindness, God is well pleased with them, and they are well pleased with Him; He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; that is the mighty happiness

¹⁰¹And of those who are round about you of the Arabs of the desert, some are hypocrites, and of the people of Medinah, some are stubborn in hypocrisy; thou dost not know them - we know them; we will torment them twice over; then shall they be sent off into mighty woe

¹⁰²And others have confessed their sins,- that they have mixed with a righteous action another evil action;- haply it may be God will turn again to them; verily, God is forgiving and merciful

¹⁰³Take from their wealth alms to cleanse and purify them thereby; and pray for them; verily, thy prayer is a repose for them; for God both hears and knows

¹⁰⁴Do they not know that God accepts repentance from His servants, and takes alms; and that God is He who is easily turned and merciful

¹⁰⁵And say, ' Act ye;' and God and His Apostle and the believers shall see your acts, and ye shall be brought back to Him who knows the seen and the unseen, and He shall inform you of that which ye have done

¹⁰⁶And others are in hopes of God's bidding; whether He will torment them, or whether He turn again towards them; for God is knowing, wise

¹⁰⁷And there are those who have taken to a mosque for mischief, and for misbelief, and to make a breach amongst the believers, and for an ambush for him who made war against God and His Apostle before; they surely swear, 'We only wished for what was good;' but God bears witness that they are liars

¹⁰⁸Never stand up therein!- there is a mosque founded on piety from the first day: it is more right that thou shouldst stand therein;- therein are men who love to be clean; for God doth love the clean

¹⁰⁹Is he who has laid his foundation upon the fear of God and of His good-will better, or he who has laid his foundation upon a crumbling wall of sand, which crumbles away with him into the fire of hell?- but God guides not a people who do wrong

¹¹⁰The building which they have built will not cease to be a source of doubt in their hearts until their hearts are cut asunder; but God is knowing, wise

¹¹¹Verily, God hath bought of the believers their persons and their wealth, for the paradise they are to have; they shall fight in the way of God, and they shall slay and be slain: promised in truth, in the law and the gospel and the Qur'an;- and who is more faithful to His covenant than God ? Be ye glad then in the covenant which ye have made with Him, for that is the mighty happiness

¹¹²Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those who fast, those who bow down, those who adore, those who bid what is right and forbid what is wrong, and those who keep the bounds of God,- glad tidings to those who believe

¹¹³It is not for the prophet and those who believe to ask forgiveness for the idolaters, even though they be their kindred, after it has been made manifest to them, that they are the fellows of hell

¹¹⁴Nor was Abraham's asking pardon for his father aught else but through a promise he had promised him; but when it was made manifest to him that he was an enemy to God, he cleansed himself of him; verily, Abraham was pitiful and clement

¹¹⁵Nor will God lead astray a people after He has guided them until that is made manifest to them which they have to fear; verily, God all things doth know

¹¹⁶Verily, God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth! He quickens and He kills! Nor have ye beside God a patron or protector

¹¹⁷God has now turned towards the prophet and those who fled with him, and towards the helpers who followed him in the hour of difficulty, after that the hearts of a part of them had well-nigh gone amiss. Then He turned unto them; verily to them He is kind and merciful

¹¹⁸unto the three who were left behind, so that the earth with all its ample space was too strait for them, and their souls were straitened for them, and they thought that there was no refuge for them from God save unto Him. Then He turned again towards them that they might also turn; verily, God, He is easily turned and merciful

¹¹⁹O ye who believe! fear God and be with those who speak the truth

¹²⁰It was not for the people of Medinah, and those around about them of the Arabs of the desert, to stay behind the Apostle of God and not to prefer their souls to his: that is because neither thirst, nor toil, nor heat, nor hunger befell them on God's way. Nor do they stop to anger the misbelievers, nor do they get any (harm) from the enemy without a good work being written down to them; verily, God wastes not the hire of those who do well

¹²¹Nor do they expend in alms a small or great expense, nor do they cross a wady without it being written down to them; that God may reward them with better than that which they have done

¹²²The believers should not march forth altogether; and if a troop of every division of them march not forth, it is only that they may study their religion and warn their people when they return to them, that haply they may beware

¹²³O ye who believe! fight those who are near to you of the misbelievers, and let them find in you sternness; and know that God is with those who fear

¹²⁴And whenever a surah is sent down, there are some of them who say, 'Which of you has this increased in faith?' But as for those who believe, it does increase them in faith, and they shall rejoice

¹²⁵but as for those in whose hearts is sickness, it only adds a plague to their plague, and they die misbelievers

¹²⁶Do they not see that they are tried in every year once or twice? Yet they do not turn again, nor do they mind

¹²⁷And whenever a surah is sent down, some of them look at the others - 'Does any one see you?' - Then they turn away! God has turned their hearts, for that they are a people who do not discern

¹²⁸There has come to you an apostle from amongst yourselves; hard for him to bear is it that ye commit iniquity; he is anxious over you after the believers, pitiful, compassionate

¹²⁹But if they turn their backs, then say, 'God is enough for me! there is no god but He! upon Him do I rely, for He is Lord of the mighty throne

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²Those are the signs of the wise Book! was it a wonder to the folk I that we inspired a man from amongst themselves, 'Warn thou the folk; and give glad tidings to those who believe, that for them there is an advance of sincerity gone before them with their Lord?' The misbelievers say, 'Verily, this is an obvious sorcerer

³Verily, your Lord is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days; then He made for the throne, to govern the affair; there is no intercessor, except after His permission. That is God for you - your Lord! Then worship Him - do ye not mind

⁴To Him is your return all of you - God's promise in truth; verily, He produces the creature, then He makes it return again, that He may recompense those who believe and do what is right with justice; but those who misbelieve, for them is a drink of boiling water, and grievous woe, for that they did misbelieve

⁵He it is who made the sun for a brightness, and the moon for a light, and decreed for it mansions, that ye may know the number of the years and the reckoning.- God only created that in truth. He details the signs unto a people who do know

⁶Verily, in the alternation of night and day, and in what God has created of the heavens and the earth, are signs unto a people who do fear

⁷Verily, those who hope not for our meeting, and are content with the life of this world, and are comforted thereby, and those who are neglectful of our signs

⁸these, their resort is fire for that which they have earned

⁹Verily, those who believe and do what is right, their Lord guides them by their faith; beneath them shall rivers flow in the gardens of pleasure

¹⁰Their cry therein shall be, 'Celebrated be Thy praises, O God!' and their salutation therein shall be, 'Peace!' and the end of their cry shall be, 'Praise (belongs) to God, the Lord of the worlds

¹¹And if God should hasten on the bad to men as they would hasten on the good, their appointed time would surely be fulfilled. But we will let those who hope not for our meeting go on in their rebellion, blindly wandering on

¹²When distress touches man, he calls us to his side, whether sitting or standing; but when we have removed from him his distress, he passes on as though he had not called on us in a distress that touched him. Thus unto the extravagant is made seemly that which they have done

¹³We have already destroyed generations before you when they did wrong, and there came to them their apostles with manifest signs, but they would not believe. Thus do we reward the sinful people

¹⁴Then we made you their successors in the earth after them, that we may see how ye will act

¹⁵But when our evident signs are recited to them, those who hope not for our meeting say, 'Bring a Qur'an other than this; or change it.' Say, 'It is not for me to change it of my own accord; I do not follow aught but what I am inspired with; verily, I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of a mighty day

¹⁶Say, 'Had God pleased, I should not have recited it to you, nor taught you therewith. I have tarried a lifetime amongst you before it;- have ye not then any sense

¹⁷Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie, or says His signs are lies? verily, the sinners shall not prosper

¹⁸They worship beside God what can neither harm them nor profit them, and they say, 'These are our intercessors with God!' Say, 'Will ye inform God of aught in the heavens or the earth, that He knows not of?' Celebrated be His praise! and exalted be He, above what they associate with Him

¹⁹People were but one nation once, then they disagreed; and had it not been for thy Lord's word already passed, there would have been decided between them that concerning which they disagreed

²⁰They say, 'Why is not a sign sent down upon him from his Lord?' Say, 'The unseen is only God's; but wait ye for a while, verily, I with you am one of those who wait

²¹When we have let men taste of mercy after distress which has touched them, lo! they use a stratagem against our signs! Say, 'God is quicker at stratagem.' Verily, our messengers write down what stratagem ye use

²²He it is who makes you travel in the land and sea, until when ye are in the ships - and these carry them afloat with a favouring wind, and they rejoice therein, there comes to them a violent wind, and there comes to them the wave from every place, and they think that they are encompassed about; then they call on God, sincere in religion towards Him, 'If thou dost save from this we will surely be of those who thank

²³But when He has saved them, lo! they are willful in the earth unjustly;- O ye folk! your willfulness against yourselves is but a provision of this world's life; then unto us is your return, and we will inform you of that which ye have done

²⁴Verily, the likeness of this world's life is like water which we send down from the sky, and the plants of the earth, from which men and cattle eat, are mingled therewith; until when the earth puts on its gilding and is adorned, the people thereof think that they have power over it. Our order comes to it by night or day, and we make it as it were mown down - as though it had not yesterday been rich!- Thus do we detail the signs unto a people who reflect

²⁵God calls unto the abode of peace, and guides whom He will into the right path

²⁶To those who do what is good, goodness and increase! nor shall blackness or abasement cover their faces! these are the fellows of Paradise, they shall dwell therein for aye

²⁷But, as for those who have earned ill, the reward of evil is the like thereof; abasement shall cover them! they shall have none to defend them against God;- as though their faces were veiled with the deep darkness of the night; these are the fellows of the Fire, and they shall dwell therein for aye

²⁸And on the day we gather them all together then we will say to those who associated other gods (with us), 'To your places, ye and your associates!' and we will part them; and their associates will say, 'It was not us ye worshipped

²⁹But God is witness enough between us and you, that we were heedless of your worshipping us

³⁰There shall every soul prove what it has sent on before; and they shall be returned unto God, their God, their true sovereign, and that which they devised shall stray away from them

³¹Say, 'Who provides you from the heaven and the earth? who has dominion over hearing and sight? and who brings forth the living from the dead, and brings forth the dead from the living? and who governs the affair?' And they will say, 'God.' Say, 'Do ye not then fear

³²That is God, your true Lord! and what is there after the truth but error? how then can ye turn away

³³Thus is the word of thy Lord verified against those who commit abomination; verily, they will not believe

³⁴Say, 'Is there any of your associates who can produce a creature and then turn it back again?' Say, 'God produces a creature, then turns it back again; how then can ye lie

³⁵Say, 'Is there any of your associates who guides unto the truth?' Say, 'God guides unto the truth.' Is then He who guides unto the truth more worthy to be followed, or he that guides not except he be himself guided? What ails you then, bow ye judge

³⁶But most of them follow only suspicion; verily, suspicion does not avail against the truth at all; verily, God knows what they do

³⁷This Qur'an could not have been devised by any beside God; but it verifies that which was before it, and details the Book - there is no doubt therein - from the Lord of the worlds

³⁸Do they say, 'He hath devised it?' say then, 'Bring a surah like it,- and call, if ye can, on other than God, if ye do tell the truth

³⁹Yet they call that a lie, the knowledge of which they cannot compass, while its interpretation has not yet come to them; so did those before them charge with lying, and see what was the end of the unjust

⁴⁰Of them are some who believe therein; and of them are some who do not believe therein; but thy Lord knows best who are corrupters

⁴¹But if they call thee liar, say, 'I have my work, and ye have your work; ye are clear of what I work, and I am clear of what ye work

⁴²There are some of them who listen to thee - canst thou make the deaf to hear, although they have no sense

⁴³And of them are some who look at thee - canst thou guide the blind, although they cannot see

⁴⁴Verily, God wrongs not man at all, but men do wrong themselves

⁴⁵And on the day when we will gather them together it will be as though they had not tarried save an hour of the day, they shall know each other. Lost are those who called the meeting with God a lie, and were not guided

⁴⁶Either we will show thee something of that with which we threatened them, or we will take thee to ourself, for unto us is their return; then is God a witness to what they do

⁴⁷Every nation has its apostle; and when their apostle comes to them, it is decided between them with justice, and they are not wronged

⁴⁸But they say, 'When is this threat (to come), if ye tell the truth

⁴⁹Say, 'I have no power over myself for harm or for profit, save what God will. Every nation has its appointed time; when their appointed time comes to them they cannot delay it for an hour or bring it on

⁵⁰Say, 'Let us see now when the torment comes to you, by night or day, what will the sinners fain bring on thereof

⁵¹And when it has fallen - will ye believe in it now!- And yet ye wish to bring it on

⁵²Then shall it be said to those who have done wrong, Taste ye the torment of eternity! shall ye be recompensed except for that which ye have earned

⁵³They will ask thee to inform them whether it be true. Say, 'Aye, by my Lord! verily, it is the truth, nor can ye weaken him

⁵⁴And if every soul that hath done wrong had whatever is in the earth, it would give it as a ransom. They will utter their repentance when they see the torment; and it shall be decided between them with justice, nor shall they be wronged

⁵⁵Is not indeed what is in the heavens and what is in the earth God's? is not indeed the promise of God true? Though most of them know not

⁵⁶He quickens and He kills, and unto Him are ye returned

⁵⁷O ye folk! there has come to you a warning from your Lord, and a balm for what is in your breasts, and a guidance and a mercy to believers

⁵⁸Say, 'By the grace of God and by His mercy,- and in that let them rejoice! It is better than that which they collect

⁵⁹Let us see now what God has sent down to you of provision! and yet ye have made of it unlawful and lawful. Say, 'Does God permit you, or against God do ye forge lies

⁶⁰What will those who forge lies against God think on the resurrection day? Verily, God is Lord of grace towards men, but most of them do not give thanks

⁶¹Nor shalt thou be in any affair, nor shalt thou recite concerning it a Qur'an - nor shall ye do a work, without our being witness against you, when ye are engaged therein: nor does the weight of an atom escape thy Lord in earth or in heaven; nor is there less than that or greater, but it is in the perspicuous Book

⁶²Are not, verily, the friends of God those on whom there is no fear, neither shall they be grieved

⁶³They who believed and who did fear

⁶⁴for them are good tidings in the life of this world, and in the future too; there is no changing the words of God! That is the mighty happiness

⁶⁵Let not their speech grieve thee; verily, power is wholly God's! He both hears and knows

⁶⁶Is not, verily, whoever is in the heavens and whoever is in the earth God's? What then do they follow who call on associates other than God? Verily, they follow nothing but suspicion, and verily, they are telling naught but lies

⁶⁷He it is who made for you the night, that ye might rest therein, and the day to see therein; verily, in that are signs unto a people who can hear

⁶⁸They say, 'God has taken to Himself a son.' Celebrated be His praises! He is the rich one! His is whatever is in the heavens, and whatever is in the earth. Ye have no authority for this! will ye say against God, that which ye do not know

⁶⁹Say, 'Verily, those who forge against God a lie shall not prosper

⁷⁰A provision in this world - then unto us is their return! then we will make them taste keen torment for that they misbelieved

⁷¹Recite to them the story of Noah, when he said to his people, 'O my people! if my stay with you be grievous to you, and my reminding you of the signs of God, yet upon God do I rely! Collect then your affairs and your associates; nor let your affair (be ordered) for you in the dark; then decide respecting me, and do not wait

⁷²and if ye turn your backs, I ask you not for hire; my hire is only due from God, and I am bidden to be of those resigned

⁷³But they called him a liar; and we saved him, and those with him, in the ark; and we made these successors, and drowned those who had said our signs were lies; see then how was the end of those who had been warned

⁷⁴Then we raised up after him apostles unto their people, and they came to them with manifest signs; but they would not believe in what they had called a lie before. Thus do we set a stamp upon the hearts of the transgressors

⁷⁵Then we raised up after them Moses and Aaron, unto Pharaoh and his chiefs with our signs; but they were too big with pride, and were a sinful people

⁷⁶and when the truth came to them from us they said, verily, 'This is obvious sorcery

⁷⁷Moses said, 'Will ye say of the truth when it comes to you, Is this sorcery? But sorcerers shall not prosper

⁷⁸They said, 'Hast thou come to turn us away from what we found our fathers at, that there may be for you twain grandeur in the earth? but we will not believe you

⁷⁹And Pharaoh said, 'Bring me every knowing sorcerer

⁸⁰and when the sorcerers came, Moses said to them, 'Throw down what ye have to throw

⁸¹and when they threw down, Moses said, 'What ye have brought is sorcery! verily, God will make it vain; verily, God rights not the work of evildoers

⁸²But God verifies the truth by His words, although the sinners are averse therefrom

⁸³But none believed in Moses, save a race of his own people, through fear of Pharaoh and his chiefs; lest he should afflict them, for verily, Pharaoh was lofty in the earth, and verily, he was extravagant

⁸⁴And Moses said, 'O my people! if ye did believe in God, then on Him rely, if ye be resigned

⁸⁵They said, 'Upon God do we rely. O our Lord! make us not a cause of trial for a people who do wrong

⁸⁶but save us by Thy mercy from the people who misbelieve

⁸⁷And we inspired Moses and his brother thus, 'Establish, ye twain, houses for your people in Egypt; and make ye your houses a qiblah; and be ye steadfast in prayer, and give glad tidings to those who believe

⁸⁸Moses said, 'O our Lord! verily, Thou hast brought to Pharaoh and his chiefs ornaments and wealth in the life of this world; O our Lord! that they may err from Thy way! O our Lord! confound their wealth and harden their hearts that they may not believe until they see grievous woe

⁸⁹He said, 'Your prayer is answered; be upright then, ye two, and follow not the path of those who do not know

⁹⁰And we brought the children of Israel across the sea; and Pharaoh and his hosts followed them eager and hostile, until when drowning overtook him, he said, 'I believe that there is no god but He in whom the children of Israel believe, and I am of those who are resigned

⁹¹Now! but thou didst rebel aforetime, and wert of those who do evil

⁹²but today we will save thee in thy body, that thou mayest be to those who come after thee a sign, for verily, many men are careless of our signs

⁹³And we established the people of Israel with a sure establishment, and we provided them with good things; nor did they disagree until there came to them the knowledge. Verily, thy Lord shall decide between them on the resurrection day concerning that whereon they did dispute

⁹⁴And if thou art in doubt of that which we have sent down unto thee, ask those who read the Book before thee; verily, the truth is come to thee from thy Lord, be not then of those who are in doubt

⁹⁵And be not of those who say the signs of God are lies, or thou wilt be of those who lose

⁹⁶Verily, those against whom God's word is pronounced will not believe

⁹⁷even though there come to them every sign, until they see the grievous woe

⁹⁸Were it not so, a city would have believed and its faith would have profited it. But (none did) except the people of Jonas; when they believed we removed from them the torment of disgrace in this world, and we gave them provision for a while

⁹⁹But had thy Lord pleased, all who are in the earth would have believed altogether; as for thee, wilt thou force men to become believers

¹⁰⁰It is not for any person to believe save by the permission of God; He puts horror on those who have no sense

¹⁰¹Say, 'Behold what is in the heavens and in the earth! but signs and warners avail not a people who do not believe

¹⁰²Do they await aught but the like of the days of those who passed away before them?' Say, 'Wait ye then! verily, I am with you one of those who wait

¹⁰³Then we will save our apostles and those who believe; thus is it due from us to save believers

¹⁰⁴Say, 'O ye folk! if ye are in doubt concerning my religion, I will not worship those ye worship other than God; but I worship God, who takes you to Himself, and I am bidden to be of the believers

¹⁰⁵And, 'Make steadfast thy face to the religion as a 'Hanif; and be not of the idolaters

¹⁰⁶and call not besides God on what can neither profit thee nor harm thee; for if thou dost, verily, thou art then of the unjust

¹⁰⁷And should God touch thee with harm, there is none to remove it save He; and if He wish thee well, there is none to repel His grace; He makes it fall on whom He will of His servants; for He is pardoning and merciful

¹⁰⁸Say, 'O ye people! there has come to you the truth from your Lord, and he who is guided, his guidance is only for his soul; and he who errs, errs only against it; and I am not a guardian over you

¹⁰⁹Follow what is revealed to thee, and be patient until God judges, for He is the best of judges

¹A book whose signs are confirmed and then detailed, from the wise one, the aware

²that ye worship not other than God,- verily, I am to you from Him a warner and a herald of glad tidings

³and that ye seek pardon from your Lord, then turn again to Him! He will cause you to enjoy a good provision to a named and appointed time, and will give His grace to every one deserving grace; but if ye turn your backs, I fear for you the torment of a great day

⁴Unto God is your return, and He is mighty over all

⁵Do they not, verily, fold up their breasts, that they may hide from Him? But when they cover themselves with their garments, does He not know what they conceal and what they display? verily, He knows the nature of men's breasts

⁶There is no beast that walks upon the earth but its provision is from God. He knows its settlement and its resting-place; all is in the perspicuous Book

⁷He it is who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and His throne was upon the water that He might try you, which of you did best. But shouldst thou say, 'Ye will be raised up after death,' those who misbelieve will surely say, 'This is naught but obvious sorcery

⁸and if we keep back from them the torment to a stated generation, they will surely say, 'What hinders it?' - Aye! on the day it comes to them there is no turning it away from them, but that shall close in on them at which they mocked

⁹And if we make man taste of mercy from us and then strip it off from him, verily, he is despairing, ungrateful

¹⁰and if we make him taste of comfort after distress has touched him, he will surely say, 'The evils have gone away from me;' verily, then he is joyful and boasting

¹¹Save those who are patient and do right; these - for them is pardon and a mighty hire

¹²Haply thou art leaving part of what is revealed to thee and thy breast is straitened thereby, lest they should say, 'Why is not a treasure sent down to him? or why did not an angel come with him?- thou art only a warner, and God is guardian over all

¹³Or they will say, 'He hath devised it;' say, 'Bring ten surahs like it devised; and call upon whom ye can beside God, if ye do tell the truth

¹⁴And if they do not answer, then know that it is revealed by the knowledge of God, and that there is no god but He - are ye then resigned

¹⁵Whosoever shall wish for the life of this world and its ornaments, we will pay them their works therein, and they shall not be cheated

¹⁶These are those for whom there is nothing in the hereafter save the Fire; and void is what they made therein, and vain what they were doing

¹⁷Is he (like them) who stands upon a manifest sign from his Lord, which is a witness from Him, and recites it, with the book of Moses before him for a model and a mercy? These believe in it; and whosoever of the crews disbelieves in him, the Fire is his promise. Be not thou in doubt about it; verily, it is truth from thy Lord, though most men do not believe

¹⁸Who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie? they shall be set before their Lord, and the witnesses shall say, 'These it is who lied against their Lord.' Aye! God's curse is on the unjust

¹⁹who turn men away from the path, and crave to make it crooked, and in the hereafter disbelieve

²⁰They cannot make Him helpless in the earth, nor have they other than God for patrons. Doubled for them is the torment. They could not hear, nor did they see

²¹Those it is who lose themselves; and that which they did devise has strayed away from them

²²No doubt but that in the hereafter these are those who lose

²³Verily, those who believe and do what is right, and humble themselves to their Lord, they are the fellows of Paradise; they shall dwell therein for aye

²⁴The two parties' likeness is as the blind and the deaf, and the seeing and the hearing; shall they two be equal in likeness? will ye not mind

²⁵We did send Noah unto his people, 'Verily, I am to you an obvious warner

²⁶that ye should not worship any save God. Verily, I fear for you the torment of the grievous day

²⁷But the chiefs of those who misbelieved amongst his people said, 'We only see in thee a mortal like ourselves; nor do we see that any follow thee except the reprobates amongst us by a rash judgment; nor do we see that you have any preference over us; nay more, we think you liars

²⁸He said, 'O my people! let us see! if I stand upon a manifest sign from my Lord, and there come to me mercy from him, and ye are blinded to it; shall we force you to it while ye are averse therefrom

²⁹O my people! I do, not ask you for wealth in return for it; my hire is only from God; nor do I repulse those who believe; verily, they shall meet their Lord. But I see you, a people who are ignorant

³⁰O my people! who will help me against God, were I to repulse you? do ye not then mind

³¹I do not say that I have the treasures of God; nor do I know the unseen; nor do I say, " Verily, I am an angel; " nor do I say of those whom your eyes despise, "God will never give them any good!"- God knows best what is in their souls - verily, then should I be of the unjust

³²They said, 'O Noah! thou hast wrangled with us, and hast multiplied wranglings with us; bring us then what thou hast threatened us with, if thou art of those who tell the truth

³³Said he, 'God will only bring it on you if He pleases, nor can ye make Him helpless

³⁴nor will my advice profit you, should I wish to advise you, if God wish to lead you into error. He is your Lord, and unto Him shall ye be returned

³⁵Do they say, 'He has devised it? Say, 'If I have devised it, then on me be my sin. But I am clear of that wherein ye sin

³⁶And Noah was inspired, 'None shall surely believe amongst thy people but those who have believed already; take not then ill that which they do

³⁷And make the ark under our eyes, and at our inspiration; and plead not with me for those who have done wrong; verily, they shall be drowned

³⁸So he made the ark, and every time the chiefs of his people passed by him they jested at him. Said he, 'If ye jest at us, verily, we shall jest at you even as ye are jesting, and ye shall surely know

³⁹He to whom a torment comes, it shall shame him, and there shall light upon him lasting torment

⁴⁰Until at length when our order came, and the oven boiled, we said, 'Load therein of every kind two, and likewise thy family,- save those on whom the sentence has already been passed - likewise those who believe;' but there believed not with him save a few

⁴¹And he said, 'Ride ye therein; in the name of God is its course, and its mooring. Verily, my Lord is forgiving and merciful

⁴²And it floated on with them mid waves like mountains; and Noah cried to his son who had gone aside, 'O my boy! ride with us and be not with the misbelievers

⁴³Said he, 'I will betake me to a mountain that shall save me from the water.' Said he, 'There is none to save today from the command of God, except for him on whom He may have mercy.' And the wave came between them, and he was amongst the drowned

⁴⁴And it was said, 'O earth! swallow down thy water!' and, 'O heaven! hold!' and the water abated; and the affair was decided, and it I settled on Gudi, and it was said, 'Away with the people who are evildoers

⁴⁵And Noah went unto his Lord and said, 'My Lord, verily, my son is of my people, and, verily, Thy promise is true, and Thou art the justest of judges

⁴⁶He said, 'O Noah! he is not of thy people; verily, it is a work that is not right. Then, ask me not for that of which thou knowest naught. Verily, I admonish thee that thou shouldst not be of the ignorant

⁴⁷He said, 'My Lord, verily, I seek refuge in Thee from asking Thee for aught of which I know nothing; and, unless Thou dost forgive me and have mercy on me, I shall be of those who lose

⁴⁸It was said, 'O Noah! descend in safety from us, and blessings upon thee and upon (some) nations of those who are with thee; but (some) nations we will allow to enjoy prosperity and then there shall touch them from us grievous woe

⁴⁹These are stories of the unseen which we reveal to thee; thou didst not know them, thou nor thy people before this. Be patient, then; verily, the issue is for those who fear

⁵⁰And unto 'Ad (we sent) their brother Hud; he said, 'O my people! serve God; ye have no god but Him. Ye do but devise a lie

⁵¹O my people! I do not ask you for hire in return; my hire is only from Him who created me: have ye then no sense

⁵²O my people! ask pardon of your Lord; then turn to Him; He will send the skies down on you in torrents; and He will add strength to your strength: do not then turn back sinners

⁵³They said, 'O Hud! thou hast not come to us with a manifest sign; nor will we leave our gods at thy word; nor will we believe in thee

⁵⁴We can only say that some of our gods have attacked thee with evil.' Said he, 'Verily, I call God to witness, and do ye bear witness too, that I am free from that which ye associate beside Him

⁵⁵Plot then against me altogether, and give me no delay

⁵⁶Verily, I rely upon God, my Lord and your Lord. There is no beast that walks, but He taketh it by its forelock. Verily, my Lord is on the right way

⁵⁷But if ye turn your backs,- then I have conveyed to you what I was sent to you with; and my Lord will make another people your successors. Ye cannot harm Him at all; verily, my Lord is guardian over all

⁵⁸And when our order came we saved Hud, and those who believed with him, by mercy from us; and we saved them from harsh torment

⁵⁹That (tribe of) 'Ad denied the signs of their Lord, and rebelled against His apostles, and followed the bidding of every headstrong tyrant

⁶⁰They were followed in this world by a curse, and on the resurrection day - 'Did not 'Ad disbelieve their Lord? Aye! away with 'Ad the people of Hud

⁶¹And unto Thamud (we sent) their brother Zalih; said he, 'O my people! worship God; ye have no god but Him. He it is that produced you from the earth, and made you live therein! Then ask pardon of Him; then turn again to Him: verily, my Lord is nigh and answers

⁶²They said, 'O Zalih! thou wert amongst us one we hoped in before this: dost thou forbid us to worship what our fathers worshipped? verily, we are in hesitating doubt as to that to which thou callest us

⁶³He said, 'O my people! let us see; if I stand upon a manifest sign from my Lord, and there come from Him mercy, who will help me against God if I rebel against Him? Ye will add only to my loss

⁶⁴O my people! this she-camel of God is a sign for you; leave her, then, to feed in God's earth, and touch her not with evil, or there will catch you torment that is nigh

⁶⁵But they did hamstring her, and he said, 'Enjoy yourselves in your houses for three days;- that is the promise that shall not be belied

⁶⁶And when our order came we saved Zalih, and those who believed with him, by our mercy, from disgrace upon that day. Verily, thy Lord He is powerful and mighty

⁶⁷And the noise caught those who had done wrong; and on the morrow they were lying corpses in their houses

⁶⁸as though they had never dwelt therein. Did not Thamud indeed disbelieve in their Lord? Aye! away with Thamud

⁶⁹Our messengers did come to Abraham with glad tidings; they said, ' Peace!' He said, 'Peace be it!' nor did he delay to bring the roasted calf

⁷⁰But when he saw that their hands reached not thereto, he could not understand them, and harboured fear of them. They said, 'Fear not. Verily, we are sent unto the people of Lot

⁷¹And his wife was standing by, laughing; and we gave her the glad tidings of Isaac, and of Jacob after Isaac

⁷²Said she, ' Alas for me! shall I bear a son when I am an old woman, and this husband of mine an old man? Verily, this is a wonderful thing

⁷³They said, ' Dost thou wonder at the bidding of God? God's mercy and blessings upon you, ye people of the house! Verily, He is to be praised and glorified

⁷⁴And when his terror left Abraham, and the glad tidings came to him, he wrangled with us about the people of Lot

⁷⁵verily, Abraham was clement, pitiful, relenting

⁷⁶O Abraham! avoid this; verily, the bidding of thy Lord has come; verily, there is coming to them torment that cannot be put off

⁷⁷And when our messengers came to Lot, he was grieved for them; but his arm was straitened for them, and he said, 'This is a troublesome day

⁷⁸And his people came to him, rushing at him, for before that they used to work evil. He said, 'O my people! here are my daughters, they are purer for you; then, fear God, and do not disgrace me through my guests;- is there not among you one right-thinking man

⁷⁹They said, 'Thou knowest that we have no claim on thy daughters; verily, thou knowest what we want

⁸⁰He said, 'Had I but power over you; or could I but resort to some strong column

⁸¹(The angels) said, 'O Lot! verily, we are the messengers of thy Lord, they shall certainly not reach thee; then travel with thy people in the darkness of the night, and let none of you look round except thy wife: verily, there shall befall her what befalls them. Verily, their appointment is for the morning! and is not the morning nigh

⁸²And when our bidding came, we made their high parts their low parts. And we rained down upon them stones and baked clay one after another

⁸³marked, from thy Lord, and these are not so far from the unjust

⁸⁴And unto Midian (we sent) their brother Sho'haib. He said, 'O my people! serve God; ye have no god but Him, and give not short measure and weight. Verily, I see you well off; but, verily, I fear for you the torments of an encompassing day

⁸⁵O my people! give measure and weight fairly, and defraud not men of their things; and wreak not wrong in the earth, corrupting it

⁸⁶God's residue is better for you if ye be believers. But I am not a guardian over you

⁸⁷They said, 'O Shohaib! Do thy prayers bid thee that we should forsake what our fathers served, or that we should not do as we please with our wealth? Thou art, forsooth, the clement and straightforward one

⁸⁸He said, 'O my people! Do ye see? If I stand upon a manifest sign from my Lord, and He provides me from Himself with a goodly provision, and I consent not with you to that which I forbid you, I only wish to better you so far as I can,- nor comes my grace through any one but God; on Him do I rely, and unto Him I turn

⁸⁹O my people! let not a breach with me make you so sin that there befall you the like of that which befell the people of Noah, or the people of Hud, or the people of Zalih - nor are the people of Lot so far from you

⁹⁰Ask pardon, then, from your Lord, then turn to Him; verily, my Lord is merciful, loving

⁹¹They said, 'O Sho'haib! we do not understand much of what thou sayest, and we see that thou art weak amongst us; and were it not for thy family we would stone thee, nor couldst thou be powerful over us

⁹²He said, 'O my people! are my family more esteemed by you than God? or have you taken Him as something to cast behind your backs? Verily, my Lord, whate'er ye do, doth comprehend

⁹³O my people! act according to your power; verily, I too will act, and ye at length shall know! To whomsoever torment comes it shall disgrace him, and him who is a liar. Watch then; verily, I with you am watching too

⁹⁴And when our bidding came we saved Sho'haib, and those who believed with him, by our mercy; and the noise caught those who had done wrong, and on the morrow they were in their houses prone

⁹⁵as though they had not dwelt therein. Aye! 'Away with Midian!' as it was, 'Away with Thamud

⁹⁶And we sent Moses with our signs and with obvious power

⁹⁷unto Pharaoh and his chiefs; but they followed Pharaoh's bidding, and Pharaoh's bidding was not straightforward

⁹⁸He shall approach his people on the resurrection day, and take them down to water at the Fire,- an evil watering-place to water at

⁹⁹In this (world) were they followed by a curse; and on the resurrection day evil shall be the aid they are aided with

¹⁰⁰That is one of the stories of the cities which we recite to thee - some of them are standing now and some mown down

¹⁰¹We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. Their gods availed them naught, on which they called instead of God, when once the bidding of thy Lord had come; nor did they add save to their downfall

¹⁰²Thus is thy Lord's overtaking when He overtakes the cities that have done wrong; verity, His overtaking is grievous, keen

¹⁰³Verily, in that is a sign to him who fears the torment of the last day;- that is a day unto which men shall be gathered;- that is a witnessed day

¹⁰⁴We will not delay it, save unto a numbered and appointed time

¹⁰⁵The day when it shall come no soul shall speak save by His permission, and amongst them (shall be) the wretched and the glad

¹⁰⁶And as for those who are wretched - why, in the Fire! there shall they groan and sob! to dwell therein for aye

¹⁰⁷so long as the heavens and the earth endure; save what thy Lord will. Verily, thy Lord is one who works His will

¹⁰⁸And as for those who are glad - why, in Paradise! to dwell therein for aye, so long as the heavens and the earth endure; save what thy Lord will,- a ceaseless boon

¹⁰⁹Be not then in doubt concerning what these men do serve;- they only serve as their fathers served before; and we will give them their portion undiminished

¹¹⁰We gave Moses the Book before, and then they disagreed concerning it, and, had it not been for a word that had been passed by thy Lord, it would have been decided between them; but, verily, they are (still) in hesitating doubt concerning it

¹¹¹But, verily, every one thy Lord will surely repay for their works; verily, He of what they do is well aware

¹¹²Do thou then be upright, as thou art bidden, and whosoever turns repentantly with thee; and transgress ye not:- verily, He on what ye do doth look

¹¹³Lean not unto, those who do wrong, lest the Fire touch you, for ye have no patrons but God; and, moreover, ye shall not be helped

¹¹⁴And be thou steadfast in prayer at the two ends of the day and the (former and latter) parts of the night. Verily, good works remove evil works;- that is a reminder to the mindful

¹¹⁵And be thou patient, for God wastes not the hire of those who do good

¹¹⁶And were there among the generations before you any endowed with a remnant (of piety) forbidding evildoing in the earth, save a few of those whom we saved; but the evildoers followed what they enjoyed, and were sinners

¹¹⁷Thy Lord would not have destroyed the cities unjustly while the people of them were well doers

¹¹⁸Had thy Lord pleased, He would have made men one nation; but they will not cease to differ

¹¹⁹save those thy Lord has had mercy on. For this has He created them, and the word of thy Lord is fulfilled, 'I will surely fill hell with ginns and mankind altogether

¹²⁰And all that we relate to thee of the stories of the apostles is what will establish thy heart: and herein has the truth come to thee, and an admonition and a reminder to the believers

¹²¹Say to those who believe not, ' Act according to your power, verily, we are acting too

¹²²And wait ye, verily, we are waiting too

¹²³God's are the unseen things of the heavens and of the earth; and unto Him the affair doth all return. Then serve Him and rely on Him; for thy Lord is not heedless of that which ye do

¹Those are the signs of the perspicuous Book

²Verily, we have revealed it, an Arabic Qur'an; haply ye may understand

³We tell thee the best of stories, in inspiring thee with this Qur'an, though thou wert before it among the heedless

⁴When Joseph said to his father, 'O my sire! Verily, I saw eleven stars, and the sun, and the moon,- I saw them adoring me

⁵He said, 'O my boy! tell not thy vision to thy brethren, for they will plot a plot against thee verily, the devil is to man an open foe

⁶Thus does thy Lord choose thee, and teach thee the interpretation of sayings, and fulfill His favour upon thee, and upon Jacob's people, as He fulfilled it upon thy two forefathers before thee, Abraham and Isaac,- verily, thy Lord is knowing, wise

⁷In Joseph and his brethren were signs to those who enquire

⁸When they said, 'Surely, Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than we, a band although we be; verily, our father is in obvious error

⁹Slay Joseph, or cast him in some land; that your father's face may be free for you, and ye may be, after he is gone, a people who do right

¹⁰A speaker from amongst them spake, 'Slay not Joseph, but throw him into the bottom of the pit; some of the travellers may pick him up, if so ye do

¹¹Said they, 'O our father! what ails thee that thou wilt not trust us with Joseph while we are unto him sincere

¹²Send him with us tomorrow to revel and to play, and, verily, we over him will keep good guard

¹³Said he, 'Verily, it grieves me that ye should go off with him, for I fear lest the wolf devour him while ye of him do take no heed

¹⁴Said they, 'Why, if the wolf should devour him while we are (such) a band, verily, we then should deserve to lose

¹⁵And when they had gone off with him and agreed to put him in the depths of the pit, and we inspired him, 'Thou shalt surely inform them of this affair of theirs and they shall not perceive

¹⁶And they came to their father at eve and weeping

¹⁷said, 'O our father! verily, we went forth to race and left Joseph by our goods, and the wolf devoured him,- but thou wilt not believe us, truth tellers though we be

¹⁸And they brought his shirt with lying blood upon it. Said he, 'Nay, but your souls have induced you to do this; but patience is fair! and God is He whom I ask for aid against that which ye describe

¹⁹And travellers came and sent their water-drawer; and he let down his bucket. Said he, 'O glad tidings! this is a youth.' And they kept him secret, as a chattel; but God knew what they were doing

²⁰And they sold him for a mean price,- drachmae counted out,- and they parted with him cheaply

²¹And the man from Egypt who had bought him said to his wife, 'Honour his abiding here; it may be he will be of use to us, or we may adopt him as a son.' Thus did we establish Joseph in the land; and we did surely teach him the interpretation of sayings; for God can overcome His affairs, though most men do not know

²²And when he had reached his strength we brought him judgment and knowledge, for thus do we reward those who do good

²³And she in whose house he was desired him for his person; and she locked the doors and said, 'Come along with thee!' Said he, 'Refuge in God! verily, my Lord has made good my abiding here; verily, the wrong-doers shall not prosper

²⁴And she was anxious for him, and he would have been anxious for her, had it not been that he saw the demonstration of his Lord; thus did we turn evil and fornication from him; verily, he was of our sincere servants

²⁵And they raced to the door and she rent his shirt from behind; and they met her master at the door. Said she, 'What is the recompense of him who wishes evil for thy family, but that imprisonment or a grievous torment

²⁶Said he, 'She desired me for my person.' And a witness from among her family bore witness: 'If his shirt be rent from in front, then she speaks the truth and he is of the liars

²⁷but if his shirt be rent from behind, then she lies and he is of the truth tellers

²⁸And when he saw his shirt rent from behind he said, 'This is one of your tricks; verily, your tricks are mighty

²⁹Joseph! turn aside from this. And do thou, woman, ask pardon for thy fault; verily, thou wert of the sinners

³⁰And women in the city said, 'The wife of the prince desires her young man for his person; he has infatuated her with love: verily, we see her in obvious error

³¹And when she heard of their craftiness, she sent to them and prepared for them a banquet, and gave each of them a knife; and she said, 'Come forth to them!' And when they saw him they said, 'Great God!' and cut their hands and said, 'God forbid! This is no mortal, this is nothing but an honourable angel

³²Said she, 'This is he concerning whom ye blamed me. I did desire him for his person, but he was too continent. But if he do not what I bid him he shall surely be imprisoned and shall surely be among the small

³³Said he, 'My Lord! Prison is dearer to me than what they call on me to do; and unless Thou turn from me their craftiness I shall feel a passion for them and shall be among the ignorant

³⁴And his Lord answered him and turned from him their craftiness; verily, He both hears and knows

³⁵Then it appeared good to them, even after they had seen the signs, to imprison him until a time

³⁶And there entered the prison with him two young men. Said one of them, 'Verily, I see myself pressing wine.' And the other said, 'Verily, I see myself bearing on my head loaves from which the birds do eat; inform us of the interpretation thereof; verily, we see that thou art of those who do good

³⁷He said, 'There shall not come to you any food with which ye are provided, but I will inform you both of its interpretation before it comes to you. That is (some) of what my Lord has taught me; verily, I have left the faith of a people who do not believe in God, while in the future too they disbelieve

³⁸And I have followed the faith of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac and Jacob; we could not associate aught with God; that is from God's grace upon us and upon men: but most men give not thanks

³⁹O ye twain fellow-prisoners! Are manifold lords better, or God, the one, the dominant

⁴⁰What ye worship beside Him are naught but names which ye have named, ye and your fathers, for which God has sent down no authority. Judgment is only God's; He bids you worship only Him. That is the standard of religion,- but most men do not know

⁴¹O ye twain fellow-prisoners! as for one of you, he shall pour out wine for his lord: and as for the other, he shall be crucified, and the birds shall eat of his head. The matter is decreed whereon ye asked me for a decision

⁴²And he said to him whom he thought would escape of those two, 'Remember me with thy lord!' But Satan made him forget the remembrance of his lord, so he tarried in prison a few years

⁴³Then said the king, 'Verily, I see seven fat kine which seven lean kine devoured; and seven green ears of corn and others dry. O ye chiefs! Explain to me my vision, if a vision ye can expound

⁴⁴Said they, 'Confused dreams, and naught of the exposition of such dreams know we

⁴⁵Then he who had escaped of those twain said,- remembering after a while,- 'Verily, I will inform you of the interpretation thereof, so send me

⁴⁶Joseph! O thou truth teller! explain to us the seven fat kine which seven lean devoured; and the seven green ears of corn and others dry. Haply I may go back to the men, haply they then may know

⁴⁷He said, 'Ye shall sow for seven years, as is your wont; but what ye reap, let it remain in the ear, except a little whereof ye shall eat

⁴⁸Then there shall come after that seven severe (years) which shall devour what ye have put by before for them, save a little of what ye shall preserve

⁴⁹Then there will come after that a year in which men shall have rain and in which they shall press

⁵⁰Then said the king, 'Bring him to me.' And when the messenger came to him, he said, 'Go back to thy lord, and ask him, "What meant the women who cut their hands? Verily, my lord knows their craftiness

⁵¹He said, 'What was your design when ye desired Joseph for his person?' They said, 'God forbid! we know no bad of him.' Said the wife of the prince, ' Now does the truth appear! I desired him for his person and, verily, he is of those who tell the truth

⁵²That' (said Joseph) 'was that he might know that I did not betray him in his absence, and that God guides not the craft of those who do betray

⁵³Yet I do not clear myself, for the soul is very urgent to evil, save what my Lord has had mercy on; verily, my Lord is forgiving and merciful

⁵⁴And the king said, 'Bring him to me. I will take him specially for myself.' And when he had spoken with him he said, 'Verily, today thou art with us in a permanent place of trust

⁵⁵He said, 'Place me over the treasures of the land; verily, I will be a knowing keeper

⁵⁶Thus did we establish Joseph in the land that he might settle in what part thereof he pleased - we overtake with our mercy whom we will, nor do we waste the hire of those who do good

⁵⁷and surely the hire of the future life is better for those who believe and who have feared

⁵⁸And his brethren came to Joseph, and they entered in unto him and he knew them, but they recognised not him

⁵⁹And when he had equipped them with their equipment he said, 'Bring me a brother that ye have from your father; do ye not see that I give good measure, and that I am the best of entertainers

⁶⁰But if ye bring him not to me, no measure shall ye have with me, nor shall ye come nigh me

⁶¹They said, 'We will desire him of our father, and we will surely do it

⁶²Then he said to his young men, 'Put their chattels in their packs, haply they may know it when they are come back to their family; haply they may return

⁶³And when they returned to their father, they said, 'O our father! Measure is withheld from us; so send with us our brother that we may get measure, and, verily, him we will keep

⁶⁴He said, 'Shall I entrust you with him, save as I entrusted you with his brother before? but God is the best of keepers, and He is the most merciful of the merciful

⁶⁵And when they opened their goods they found their chattels restored to them. Said they, 'O our father! What more can we crave? Here are our chattels restored to us, and we shall guard our brother, and shall have an additional measure beside that - a small measure

⁶⁶He said, 'I will by no means send him with you until you give me a compact from God that ye will surely bring him to me, unless ye be encompassed.' So when they had given him their compact he said, 'God over what ye say has charge

⁶⁷And he said, 'O my sons! enter not by one gate, but enter by several gates; but I cannot avail you aught against God. Judgment is only God's; upon Him do I rely, and on Him do the reliant rely

⁶⁸And when they had entered as their father bade them, it availed them nothing against God, save for a want in Jacob's soul which it fulfilled; for, verily, he was possessed of knowledge, for that we had taught him;- but most men do not know

⁶⁹And when they entered in unto Joseph, he took his brother to stay with him, and said, 'Verily, I am thy brother - then take not ill that which they have been doing

⁷⁰And when he had equipped them with their equipment he placed the drinking cup in his brother's pack; then a crier cried out, 'O ye caravan! verily, ye are thieves

⁷¹They said, approaching them, 'What is it that ye miss

⁷²Said they, 'We miss the goblet of the king, and whoso brings it shall have a camel-load, and I am guarantee thereof

⁷³They said, 'By God! Ye knew we came not to do evil in the land, and that we were not thieves

⁷⁴They said, 'And what shall be the recompense thereof if ye be liars

⁷⁵They said, 'The recompense thereof is he in whose pack it is found - he shall be the recompense thereof; thus do we recompense the unjust

⁷⁶And he began with their sacks before the sacks of his brother; then he drew it forth from his brother's sack. Thus did we devise a stratagem for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the king's religion except God pleased;- we raise the degrees of whomsoever we please, and over every possessor of knowledge is one who knows

⁷⁷They said, 'If he has stolen, a brother of his has stolen before him.' But Joseph kept it secret in his soul and disclosed it not to them. Said he, 'Ye are in a bad case, and God knows best about what ye describe

⁷⁸They said, 'O prince! Verily, he has a father, a very old man; take then one of us instead of him; verily, we can see that thou art of those who do good

⁷⁹Said he, '(I seek) refuge in God from taking any save him with whom we found our property; verily, we should then be certainly unjust

⁸⁰And when they despaired of him they retired to consult privately. Said the eldest of them, 'Do ye not know that your father has taken a compact from God against you? Aforetime ye exceeded in the matter of Joseph - I will surely not quit the land until my father give me leave, or God judge for me, for He is the best of judges

⁸¹Return ye to your father and say, "O our father! verily, thy son has committed theft, and we bore testimony to naught but what we knew; for of the unforeseen we were not keepers

⁸²Ask then in the city where we were, and of the caravan in which we approached it, for, verily, we tell the truth

⁸³Said he, 'Nay, your souls have induced you to do this thing. But patience is fair. It may be that God will give me them all together;- verily, He is knowing, wise

⁸⁴And he turned away from them and said, 'O my lament for Joseph!' and his eyes grew white with grief, for he repressed (his woe)

⁸⁵They said, 'By God! thou wilt not cease to remember Joseph till thou art at the point of death, or art of those who perish

⁸⁶Said he, 'I only complain of my emotion and my grief to God, for I know that from God which ye know nothing of

⁸⁷O my sons! go and enquire concerning Joseph and his brother, and despair not of God's comfort; for, verily, none need despair of God's comfort save a misbelieving people

⁸⁸And when they entered in unto him they said, 'O prince! distress has touched both us and our families, and we have brought trifling chattels. So give us full measure and bestow upon us in charity; verily, God rewards the charitable

⁸⁹He said, 'Do ye know what ye did with Joseph and his brother, while ye were ignorant

⁹⁰They said, 'Art thou then indeed Joseph? He said, 'I am Joseph, and this is my brother; God has been gracious towards us. Verily, whoso fears God and is patient,- verily, God wastes not the hire of those who do good

⁹¹They said, 'By God! God has chosen thee over us; and we indeed were sinners

⁹²He said, 'No reproach against you today! God will pardon you, for He is the most merciful of the merciful

⁹³Take this my shirt, and throw it over the face of my father, he will become able to see; and bring, me your families all together

⁹⁴And when the caravan departed, their father said, 'Verily, I find the smell of Joseph, unless ye think I dote

⁹⁵They said, 'By God! thou art in thy old error

⁹⁶And when the herald of glad tidings came he threw it on his face, and he was restored to sight. Said he, 'Did I not tell you that I know from God that of which ye know not

⁹⁷They said, 'O our father! ask pardon for us of our sins;- verily, we were sinners

⁹⁸He said, 'I will ask pardon for you from my Lord; verily, He is the pardoning and merciful

⁹⁹And when they entered in unto Joseph, he took his father to stay with him, and said, 'Enter ye into Egypt, if it please God, safe

¹⁰⁰And he raised his father upon the throne, and they fell down before him adoring. And he said, 'O my sire! This is the interpretation of my vision aforetime; my Lord has made it come true, and He has been good to me, in bringing me forth out of prison, and bringing you from the desert, after Satan had made a breach between me and my brethren;- verily, my Lord is kind to whomsoever He will;- verily, He is the knowing, the wise

¹⁰¹O my Lord! thou least given me dominion, and hast taught me the interpretation of sayings; O originator of the heavens and the earth! Thou art my patron in this world and the next; take me to Thyself resigned, And let me reach the righteous

¹⁰²That is one of the stories of the unseen which we inspire thee with, though thou wert not with them when they agreed in their affair, when they were so crafty

¹⁰³And yet most men, though thou shouldst be urgent, will not believe

¹⁰⁴Thou dost not ask them for it a hire; it is naught but a reminder to the world

¹⁰⁵How many a sign in the heavens and the earth do they pass by and turn away therefrom

¹⁰⁶Nor do most of them believe in God without associating (other gods) with Him

¹⁰⁷Are they safe, then, from overwhelming vengeance coming on them from the torment of God? or from the Hour coming upon them suddenly while they do not perceive

¹⁰⁸Say, 'This is my way; I call now unto God on clear proof, I and those who follow me; and celebrated be God's praises, for I am not of the idolaters

¹⁰⁹Nor did we ever send before thee any save men whom we inspired, of the people of the cities. Have they not journeyed on in the earth, and beheld how was the end of those before them? But the abode of the future is surely better for those who believe;- what! have they then no sense

¹¹⁰Until when the apostles despaired and they thought that they were proved liars, our help came to them, and whosoever we pleased was saved; but our violence is not averted from the sinful people

¹¹¹Their stories were a lesson to those endowed with minds. It was not a tale forged, but a verification of what was before it, and a detailing of everything, and a guide and a mercy to a people who believe

¹R. Those are the signs of the Book, and that which is sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth; but most people will not believe

²God it is who has raised the heavens without columns that ye can see; then He made for the throne, and subjected the sun and the moon; each one runs on to a stated and appointed time; He governs the affair, details the signs;- haply of the meeting with your Lord ye will be sure

³And He it is who has stretched out the earth and placed therein firm mountains and rivers, and of every fruit has He placed therein two kinds. He makes the night cover the day;- verily, in that are signs unto a people who reflect

⁴And on the earth are neighbouring portions, and gardens of grapes and corn and palms growing together (from one root) and not growing together; they are watered with one water, yet we distinguish one over the other as food;- verily, in that are signs unto a people who have sense

⁵And if thou shouldst wonder, wondrous is their speech: 'What! when we have become dust, shall we really then be created anew?' These are they who disbelieve in their Lord, and these are they with fetters round their necks, and these are the fellows of the Fire; they shall dwell therein for aye

⁶They will wish thee to hasten on the evil rather than the good; examples have passed away before them: but thy Lord is possessor of forgiveness unto men, notwithstanding their injustice; but, verily, thy Lord is keen to punish

⁷Those who misbelieve say, 'Unless a sign be sent down upon him from his Lord....' - Thou art only a warner, and every people has its guide

⁸God knows what each female bears, and what the wombs fall short of or add; for dimensions of every thing are with Him

⁹He who knows the unseen and the visible,- the great, the lofty one

¹⁰Alike among you is he who keeps secret his speech and he who displays it; and he who hides by night and he who stalks abroad by day

¹¹Each of them has pursuers before him and behind him, to keep guard over him at the command of God; verily, God changes not what a people has until they change it for themselves. And when God wishes evil to a people there is no averting it, nor have they a protector beside Him

¹²He it is who shows you the lightning for fear and hope; and He brings up the heavy clouds

¹³And the thunder celebrates His praise, and the angels too for fear of Him; and He sends the thunder-clap and overtakes therewith whom He will;- yet they wrangle about God! But He is strong in might

¹⁴On Him is the call of truth, and those who call on others than Him shall not be answered at all, save as one who stretches out his hand to the water that it may reach his mouth, but it reaches it not! The call of the misbelievers is only in error

¹⁵And God do those who are in the heavens and the earth adore, whether they will or no! as do their shadows also morn and eve

¹⁶Say, 'Who is Lord of the heavens and the earth?' say, 'God;' say, 'Do ye take beside God patrons who cannot control profit or harm for themselves?' say, 'Shall the blind and the seeing be held equal? or shall the darkness and the light be held equal? or have they made associates with God who can create as He creates, so that the creation seem familiar to them?' say, 'God is the creator of everything, and He is the one, the dominant

¹⁷He sends down from the sky water, and the water-courses flow according to their bulk, and the torrent bears along the floating scum: and from what they set fire to, craving ornaments or utensils, comes a scum like that;- thus does God hit the truth and the falsehood;- and as for the scum it is thrown off, and as for what profits man it stays on the earth. Thus does God strike out parables

¹⁸For those who respond to their Lord is good; but those who respond not to Him, had they all that is in the earth and the like thereof as well, they would give it for a ransom; these shall have an evil reckoning up! and their resort is hell,- an evil couch shall it be

¹⁹Is he who knows that naught but the truth is sent down upon thee from thy Lord like him who is blind? Only those possessed of minds will remember

²⁰Those who fulfill God's covenant and break not the compact

²¹and those who attain what God has bidden to be attained, and dread their Lord and fear the evil reckoning up

²²and those who are patient, craving their Lord's face, and are steadfast in prayer, and expend in alms of what we have bestowed upon them secretly and openly, and ward off evil with good,- these shall have the recompense of the abode

²³gardens of Eden, into which they shall enter with the righteous amongst their fathers and their wives and their seed; and the angels shall enter in unto them from every gate

²⁴Peace be upon you! for that ye were patient; and goodly is the recompense of the abode

²⁵And those who break God's covenant after compacting for it, and who cut asunder what God hath bidden to be joined, and who do evil in the earth, these - upon them is the curse of God, and for them is an evil abode

²⁶God extends his bounty freely to whomsoever He will, or He metes it out; and they rejoice in the life of this world, but the life of this world is naught but a (temporary) provision compared with the next

²⁷Those who 'misbelieve say, 'Unless a sign is sent down upon him from his Lord . . . ' Say, 'God leads whom He will astray, but guides unto Him those who turn again

²⁸Those who believe and whose hearts are comforted by the mention of God,- aye! by the mention of God shall their hearts be comforted

²⁹who believe and do what is right. Good cheer for them and an excellent resort

³⁰Thus have we sent thee to a nation before which other nations have passed away, to recite to them that which we have inspired thee with; yet they misbelieve in the merciful! Say, 'He is my Lord; there is no god but He; upon Him do I rely, and unto Him is my repentance

³¹And though it were a Qur'an by which the mountains were moved, or by which the earth were cut up, or the dead made to speak - nay, God's is the command altogether! Did not those who believed know that if God had pleased He would have guided men altogether? And a striking calamity shall not cease to overtake those who misbelieve for what they have wrought, or to alight close by their dwellings; until God's promise comes - verily, God fails not in His promise

³²Before thee have apostles been mocked at; and those who misbelieved have I allowed to range at large; and then it caught them up! How then was my punishment

³³Shall He who is standing over every soul (to note) what it has earned -? And they join partners with God! Say, 'Name them; can ye inform Him of what He does not know in the earth? or is it for name's sake only (that ye call upon them)? 'Nay, then, stratagem is made seemly to those who misbelieve, and they turn folks from the path of God! But whomsoever God doth lead astray, no guide has he

³⁴For them is torment in this world's life; but surely the torment of the next is more wretched still - nor have they against God a keeper

³⁵The likeness of the Paradise which those who fear God are promised, beneath it rivers flow, its food is enduring, and likewise its shade! That is the recompense of those who fear; but the recompense of misbelievers is the Fire

³⁶And those to whom we brought the Book rejoice in that which we have sent down to thee; but of the confederates are some who deny a part thereof. Say, 'I am only bidden to serve God and not to associate any with Him; on Him I call and to Him is my recourse

³⁷Thus have we sent it down, an Arabic judgment, but hadst thou followed their lusts, after the knowledge that has come to thee, thou hadst not had against God a patron or a keeper

³⁸And we sent apostles before thee, and we made for them wives and seed; and no apostle could bring a sign save by God's permission;- for every period there is a book

³⁹God blots out what He will, or He confirms; and with Him is the Mother of the Book

⁴⁰Either we will let thee see a part of what we threaten them with, or we will take thee to Ourself; but thy duty is only to deliver thy message, and ours to reckon up

⁴¹Did they not see that we come to the land and diminish the borders thereof? God judges, and there is none to reverse His judgment, and He is swift at reckoning up

⁴²And those who were before them were crafty too; but God's is the craft altogether! He knows what every soul earns; and the misbelievers shall know whose is the recompense of the abode

⁴³And those who misbelieve say, 'Thou art not sent!' Say, 'God is witness enough between me and you; and so is he who has the knowledge of the Book

¹A book which we have sent down to thee, to bring men forth from darkness into light, by permission of their Lord, unto the way of the mighty and praiseworthy one

²God is He whose is whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. Alas for the misbelievers, for their torment is keen

³Who love this world's life better than the next, and turn folks from the path of God, and crave to make it crooked; these are in remote error

⁴We have not sent any apostle save with the language of his people, that he might explain to them. But God leads whom He will astray, and guides whom He will; and He is the mighty, the wise

⁵We did send Moses with our signs, 'Bring forth thy people from the darkness into the light, and remind them of the days of God!' verily, in that are signs to every patient, grateful one

⁶When Moses said to his people, 'Remember the favours of God towards you, when He saved you from Pharaoh's people, who sought to wreak you evil woe, slaughtering your sons and letting your women live;' in that was a great trial for you from your Lord

⁷When your Lord proclaimed, 'If ye give thanks I will surely give you increase; but if ye misbelieve, verily, my torment is severe

⁸And Moses said, 'if ye misbelieve, ye and those who are on the earth altogether - then, verily, God is rich, and to be praised

⁹Has not the story come to you of those who were before you, of the people of Noah, and 'Ad, and Thamud, and those who came after them? none knows them save God. Apostles came unto them with manifest signs; but they thrust their hands into their mouths and said, 'Verily, we disbelieve in that which ye are sent with, and we are in hesitating doubt concerning that to which ye call us

¹⁰Their apostles said, 'Is there doubt about God, the originator of the heavens and the earth? He calls you to pardon you for your sins, and to respite you until an appointed time.' They said, 'Ye are but mortals like ourselves; ye wish to turn us from what our fathers used to serve. Bring us, then, obvious authority

¹¹Their apostles said unto them, 'We are only mortals like yourselves; but God is gracious unto whomsoever He will of His servants, and it is not for us to bring you an authority, save by His permission; but upon God do the believers rely

¹²What ails us that we should not rely on God when He has guided us in our paths? we will be surely patient in your hurting us; for upon God rely those who do rely

¹³And those who misbelieved said to their apostles, 'We will drive you forth from our land; or else ye shall return to our faith! ' And their Lord inspired them, 'We will surely destroy the unjust

¹⁴and we will make you to dwell in the land after them. That is for him who fears my place and fears my threat

¹⁵Then they asked for an issue; and disappointed was every rebel tyrant

¹⁶Behind such a one is hell, and he shall be given to drink liquid pus

¹⁷He shall try to swallow it, but cannot gulp it down; and death shall come upon him from every place, and yet he shall not die; and behind him shall be rigorous woe

¹⁸The likeness of those who disbelieve on their Lord,- their works are as ashes whereon the wind blows fiercely on a stormy day. They have no power at all over that which they have earned.' That is the remote error

¹⁹Dost not thou see that God created the heavens and the earth in truth? If He please He can take you off and bring a new creation

²⁰nor is that hard for God

²¹They all come out to God; and the weak say to those who were big with pride, 'We were followers of yours, can ye now avail us aught against God's torment?' They say, 'If God had guided us we would have guided you. It is the same to us if we are agonized or if we are penitent, we have no escape

²²And Satan says, when the affair is decided, 'Verily, God promised you a promise of truth; but I promised you and failed you; for I had no authority over you. I only called you, and ye did answer me; then blame me not, but blame yourselves; I cannot help you, nor can you help me. I disbelieved in your associating me (with God) before; verily, the wrong-doers, for them is grievous woe

²³But I will cause those who believe and do aright to enter gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye by the permission of their Lord; their salutation therein is 'Peace

²⁴Dost thou not see how God strikes out a parable? A good word is like a good tree whose root is firm, and whose branches are in the sky

²⁵it gives its fruit at every season by the permission of its Lord - but God strikes out parables for men that haply they may be mindful

²⁶And the likeness of a bad word is as a bad tree, which is felled from above the earth, and has no staying place

²⁷God answers those who believe with the sure word in this world's life and in the next; but God leads the wrong-doers astray; for God does what He will

²⁸Dost not thou see those who have changed God's favours for misbelief, and have made their people to alight at the abode of perdition

²⁹in hell they shall broil, and an ill resting-place shall it be

³⁰And they made peers for God, to lead men astray from His path. Say, 'Enjoy yourselves, for, verily, your journey is to the Fire

³¹Say to my servants who believe, that they be steadfast in prayer and expend in alms of what we have bestowed upon them in secret and in public, before there comes the day when there shall be no buying and no friendship

³²God it is who created the heavens and the earth; and sent down from the sky water, and brought forth therewith fruits as a provision for you; and subjected to you the ships, to float therein upon the sea at His bidding; and subjected for you the rivers

³³and subjected for you the sun and the moon, constant both; and subjected for you the night and the day

³⁴and brought you of everything ye asked Him: but if ye try to number God's favours, ye cannot count them;- verily, man is very unjust and ungrateful

³⁵And when Abraham said, 'My Lord, make this land safe, and turn me and my sons away from serving idols

³⁶My Lord, verily, they have led many men astray; but he who follows me, verily, he is of me; but he who rebels against me,- verily, thou art pardoning, merciful

³⁷O our Lord! verily, I have made some of my seed dwell in a valley without corn, by thy Sacred House. O our Lord! let them be steadfast in prayer and make the hearts of men yearn towards them, and provide them with fruits, haply they may give thanks

³⁸O our Lord! verily, Thou knowest what we hide and what we publish; for naught is hid from God in the earth or in the sky

³⁹Praise to God who hath bestowed on me, notwithstanding my old age, Ishmael and Isaac!- verily, my Lord surely hears prayer

⁴⁰O my Lord! make me steadfast in prayer, and of my seed likewise! O our Lord! and accept my prayer

⁴¹O our Lord! pardon me and my parents and the believers on the reckoning day

⁴²So think not God careless of what the unjust do; He only respites them until the day on which all eyes shall stare

⁴³Hurrying on, raising up their heads, with their looks not turned back to them, and their hearts void

⁴⁴and warn men of the day when the torment shall come! And those who have done wrong shall say, 'O our Lord! respite us until an appointed time nigh at hand, and we will respond to Thy call, and follow the apostles!' - 'What! did ye not swear before, ye should have no decline

⁴⁵And ye dwelt in the dwellings of those who had wronged themselves; and it was made plain to you how we did with them; and we struck out parables for you

⁴⁶but they plotted their stratagems, but with God is a stratagem for them, although at their stratagem the mountains should give way

⁴⁷Think then not indeed that God fails in his promise to his apostles;- verily, God is mighty, the Lord of vengeance

⁴⁸on the day when the earth shall be changed for another earth, and the heavens too; and (all) shall go forth unto God, the one, the dominant

⁴⁹Thou shalt see the sinners on that day bound together in fetters

⁵⁰with shirts of pitch, and fire covering their faces

⁵¹that God may reward each soul according to what it has earned; verily, God is swift at reckoning up

⁵²This is a message to be delivered to men that they may be warned thereby, and know that only He is God,- one,- and that those who have minds may remember

¹Those are the signs of the Book and of a perspicuous Qur'an

²Many a time will those who disbelieve fain they had been resigned

³Leave them to eat and enjoy themselves and let hope beguile them, but they at length shall know

⁴We never destroyed a city without it had its noted doom

⁵No nation can hasten on its appointed time, nor put it off

⁶But they say, 'O thou to whom the Reminder has been sent down! verily, thou art possessed

⁷Why dost thou not bring us the angels if thou dost tell the truth

⁸We sent not down the angels save by right nor even then would these be respited

⁹Verily, we have sent down the Reminder, and, verily, we will guard it

¹⁰And we sent before thee among the sects of those of yore

¹¹But there never came an apostle to them but they mocked at him

¹²Such conduct also will we put into the hearts of the sinners

¹³They will not believe therein, but the course of those of yore is run

¹⁴But had we opened to them a door of the sky and they had mounted up into it all the while

¹⁵then also had they said, 'Our eye-sight is only intoxicated; nay, we are an enchanted people

¹⁶And we have placed in the sky the signs of the zodiac, and have made them seemly to the beholders

¹⁷and we have guarded them from every pelted devil

¹⁸save from such as steal a hearing, and there follows him an obvious shooting-star

¹⁹And the earth we have stretched out and have thrown on it firm mountains, and have caused to grow upon it of everything a measured quantity

²⁰And we have made for you means of livelihood therein, and for those for whom ye have not to provide

²¹Nor is there aught but the treasuries of it are with us, and we do not send it down save in a noted quantity

²²And we send forth the impregnating winds, and we send down water from the sky, and we give it to you to drink, nor is it ye who store it up

²³And we, verily, we quicken and kill; and we are of (all things) heirs

²⁴And we already know the foremost of you, and we know the laggards too

²⁵And, verily, it is your Lord who will gather you; verily, He is wise and knowing

²⁶And we did create man from crackling clay of black mull wrought in form

²⁷And the ginns had we created before of smokeless fire

²⁸And when thy Lord said to the angels, 'Verily, I am creating a mortal from crackling clay of black mud wrought into shape

²⁹And when I have fashioned it, and breathed into it of my spirit, then fall ye down before it adoring

³⁰And the angels adored all of them together

³¹save Iblis, who refused to be among those who adored

³²He said, 'O Iblis! what ails thee that thou art not among those who adore

³³Said he, 'I would not adore a mortal whom Thou hast created from crackling clay of black mud wrought into form

³⁴He said, 'Then get thee forth therefrom, and, verily, thou art to be pelted

³⁵And, verily, the curse is upon thee until the day of judgment

³⁶Said he, 'O my Lord! respite me until the day when they shall be raised

³⁷He said, 'Then, verily, thou art of the respited

³⁸until the day of the noted time

³⁹He said, 'O my Lord! for that Thou hast seduced me I will surely make it seem seemly for them on earth, and I will surely seduce them all together

⁴⁰save such of Thy servants amongst them as are sincere

⁴¹Said He, 'This is a right way against me

⁴²Verily, my servants thou hast no authority over, save over those who follow thee of such as are seduced

⁴³and, verily, hell is promised to them all together

⁴⁴It has seven doors; at every door is there a separate party of them

⁴⁵Verily, those who fear God shall dwell amidst gardens and springs

⁴⁶Enter ye therein with peace in safety

⁴⁷And we will strip off whatever ill-feeling is in their breasts; as brethren on couches face to face

⁴⁸No toil shall touch them therein, nor shall they be brought forth therefrom

⁴⁹Inform my servants that I am the pardoning, the merciful

⁵⁰and that my woe is the grievous woe

⁵¹And inform them concerning Abraham's guests

⁵²when they entered in unto him and said, 'Peace!' he said, 'Verily, we are afraid of you

⁵³They said, 'Be not afraid! verily, we give thee glad tidings of a knowing boy

⁵⁴He said, 'Do ye give me this glad tidings although old age has touched me? give me the glad tidings then

⁵⁵They said, 'We give the glad tidings of the truth, then be not of those who despair

⁵⁶He said, 'Who would despair of the mercy of his Lord save those who err

⁵⁷He said, 'What is your business, O ye messengers

⁵⁸They said, 'Verily, we are sent unto a sinful people

⁵⁹save only Lot's family, them will we save all together

⁶⁰except his wife; we have decreed, verily, she shall be of those who linger

⁶¹And when the messengers came unto Lot's family

⁶²he said, 'Verily, ye are a people whom I recognise not

⁶³They said, 'Nay, but we have come to thee with that whereof they did doubt

⁶⁴And we have brought thee the truth, and, verily, we speak the truth

⁶⁵Travel then with thy family in the deep darkness of the night, and follow thou their rear; and let not any one of you turn round to look; but go on to where ye are bidden

⁶⁶And we decided for him this affair because the uttermost one of these people should be cut off on the morrow

⁶⁷Then the people of the city came, clad at the tidings

⁶⁸Said he, 'Verily, these are my guests, therefore disgrace me not

⁶⁹but fear God, and put me not to shame

⁷⁰They said, 'Have we not forbidden thee everybody in the world

⁷¹He said, 'Here are my daughters, if do it ye must

⁷²By thy life! verily, they were surely in their intoxication blindly wandering on

⁷³And the noise caught them at the dawn

⁷⁴And we made the higher parts (of the cities) their lower parts, and rained down on them stones of baked clay

⁷⁵Verily, in that is a sign to those who mark

⁷⁶And, verily, the (cities) are on a path that still remains

⁷⁷Verily, in that is a sign to the believers

⁷⁸And the fellows of the Grove too were unjust

⁷⁹and we took vengeance on them, and, verily, they both are for an obvious example

⁸⁰And the fellows of El 'Hagr called the messengers liars

⁸¹and we brought them our signs, but they therefrom did turn away

⁸²And they did hew them in the mountain houses to dwell in in safety

⁸³But the noise caught them in the morn

⁸⁴and that which they had earned availed them naught

⁸⁵We did not create the heavens and the earth and all that is between them both, save in truth. And, verily, the Hour is surely coming; then do thou pardon with a fair pardon

⁸⁶Verily, thy Lord He is the creator, the knowing

⁸⁷We have already brought thee Seven of the Repetition, and the mighty Qur'an

⁸⁸Let not thine eyes strain after what we have allowed a few pairs of them to enjoy, nor grieve for them; but lower thy wing to the believers

⁸⁹and say, 'Verily, I am an obvious warner

⁹⁰As we sent down (punishment) on the separatists

⁹¹who dismember the Qur'an

⁹²But, by thy Lord! we will question them, one and all

⁹³about what they have done

⁹⁴Therefore, publish what thou art bidden, and turn aside from the idolaters

⁹⁵Verily, we are enough for thee against the scoffers

⁹⁶Who place with God other gods; but they at length shall know

⁹⁷And we knew that thy breast was straitened at what they say

⁹⁸Then celebrate the praises of thy Lord, and be thou of those who adore

⁹⁹And serve thy Lord until the certainty shall come to thee

¹God's bidding will come; seek not then to hasten it on. Celebrated be His praises from what they join with Him

²He sends down the angels with the Spirit at His bidding upon whom He will of His servants (to say), 'Give warning that there is no god but Me; Me therefore do ye fear

³He created the heavens and the earth in truth! Exalted be He above that which they join with Him

⁴He created man from a clot; and yet, behold, he is an open opponent

⁵The cattle too have we created for you; in them is warmth and profit, and from them do ye eat

⁶In them is there beauty for you when ye drive them home to rest, and when ye drive them forth to graze

⁷And they bear your heavy burdens to towns which ye could not otherwise reach, except with great wretchedness of soul;- verily, your Lord is kind and merciful

⁸And horses too, and mules, and asses, for you to ride upon and for an ornament.- He creates also what ye know not of

⁹God's it is to show the path; from it some turn aside: but had He pleased He would have guided you one and all

¹⁰He it is who sends down water from the sky, whence ye have drink, and whence the trees grow whereby ye feed your flocks

¹¹He makes the corn to grow, and the olives, and the palms, and the grapes, and some of every fruit;- verily, in that is a sign unto a people who reflect

¹²And He subjected to you the night and the day, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars are subjected to His bidding. Verily, in that are signs to a people who have sense

¹³And what He has produced for you in the earth varying in hue, verily, in that is a sign for a people who are mindful

¹⁴He it is who has subjected the sea, that ye may eat fresh flesh therefrom; and ye bring forth from it ornaments which ye wear,- and thou mayest see the ships cleaving through it,- and that ye may search after His grace,- and haply ye may give thanks

¹⁵And He has cast firm mountains on the earth lest it move with you; and rivers and roads; haply ye may be guided

¹⁶And landmarks; and by the stars too are they guided

¹⁷Is He who creates like him who creates not?- are they then unmindful

¹⁸But if ye would number the favours of God, ye cannot count them. Verily, God is forgiving, merciful

¹⁹God knows what ye keep secret, and what ye disclose

²⁰And those on whom ye call beside God cannot create anything, for they are themselves created

²¹Dead, not living, nor can they perceive! When shall they be raised

²²Your God is one God, and those who believe not in the hereafter their hearts are given to denial, and they are big with pride

²³Without a doubt God knows what ye keep secret and what ye disclose! Verily, He does not love those big with pride

²⁴And when it is said to them, 'What is it that your Lord has sent down?' they say, 'Old folks' tales

²⁵Let them bear the burden of their sins entirely on the resurrection day, and some of the burdens of those whom they led astray without knowledge.- Aye! an ill burden shall they bear

²⁶Those who were before them devised a stratagem, but God brought their building off its foundations, and the roof fell over them, and the torment came to them, from whence they could not perceive

²⁷Then on the resurrection day He will put them to shame, and say, 'Where are your associates whom ye divided into parties about?' Those to whom knowledge is brought will say, 'Verily, disgrace today, and evil are upon the misbelievers

²⁸Those whom the angels took away were wronging themselves; then they offered peace: 'We have done no evil.' - 'Yea! verily, God knows what ye did

²⁹Wherefore enter ye the doors of hell, to dwell therein for aye; for ill is the resort of the proud

³⁰And it will be said to those who fear God, 'What is it that your Lord has sent down?' They will say, 'The best,' for those who do good, good in this world; but certainly the abode of the next is best, and surely pleasant is the abode of those who fear

³¹Gardens of Eden which they shall enter, beneath them rivers flow; therein shall they have what they please;- thus does God reward those who fear Him

³²To those whom the angels take off in a goodly state they shall say, 'Peace be upon you! enter ye into Paradise for that which ye have done

³³Do they expect other than that the angels should come to take them off, or that thy Lord's bidding should come?- thus did those before them; God did not wrong them; but it was themselves they wronged

³⁴And the evil which they had done befell them, and that environed them at which they used to mock

³⁵And those who associated (others with God) said, 'Had God pleased we had not served aught beside Him, neither we nor our fathers; nor had we prohibited aught without Him;' - thus did those before them: but have messengers aught to do but to deliver their message plainly

³⁶We have sent in every nation an apostle (to say), 'Serve ye God, and avoid Taghut!' and amongst them are some whom God has guided, and amongst them are some for whom error is due;- go ye about then on the earth, and behold how was the end of those who called (the apostles) liars

³⁷If thou art ever so eager for their guidance, verily, God guides not those who go astray, nor have they any helpers

³⁸They swear by their most strenuous oath, 'God will not raise up him who dies.' - Yea! a promise binding on him true!- but most men do not know

³⁹To explain to them that which they disputed about, and that those who misbelieved may know that they are liars

⁴⁰We only say unto a thing we wish,' BE,' and it is

⁴¹But those who fled for God's sake, after they were wronged, we will surely establish them in this world with good things; but the hire of the future, life is greater, if ye did but know

⁴²Those who are patient, and upon their Lord rely

⁴³And we have not sent before thee any but men whom we inspire,- ask ye those who have the Reminder, if ye know not yourselves

⁴⁴with manifest signs and with scriptures; and we have sent down the Reminder to thee too, that thou mayest explain to men what has been sent down to them, and haply they may reflect

⁴⁵Are those who were so crafty in evil sure that God will not cleave open the earth with them, or bring them torment from whence they cannot perceive

⁴⁶or seize them in their going to and fro? for they cannot make Him helpless

⁴⁷Or that He should seize them with a gradual destruction? for, verily, your Lord is kind, merciful

⁴⁸Do they not regard whatever thing God has created; its shadow falls on the right or the left, adoring God and shrinking up

⁴⁹Whatever is in the heavens and in the earth, beast or angel, adores God; nor are they big with pride

⁵⁰They fear their Lord above them, and they do what they are bidden

⁵¹And God says, 'Take not to two gods; God is only one; me then do ye fear

⁵²His is what is in the heavens and in the earth; to Him is obedience due unceasingly; other than God then will ye fear

⁵³And whatever favours ye have, they are from God; then, whenever distress touches you, unto Him ye turn for succour

⁵⁴Yet, when He removes the distress from you, lo! a party of you join partners with their Lord

⁵⁵That they may disbelieve in what we have brought them and may enjoy,- but at length they shall know

⁵⁶And they set aside for what they know not a portion of what we have bestowed upon them.- By God! ye shall be questioned concerning that which ye have devised

⁵⁷They make for God daughters;- celebrated be His praise!- and for themselves they like them not

⁵⁸When any one of them has tidings of a female child, his face is overclouded and black, and he has to keep back his wrath

⁵⁹He skulks away from the people, for the evil tidings he has heard;- is he to keep it with its disgrace, or to bury it in the dust?- aye! evil is it that they judge

⁶⁰For those who disbelieve in the future life is a similitude of evil: but for God is the loftiest similitude; for He is the mighty, the wise

⁶¹If God were to punish men for their wrong-doing. He would not leave upon the earth a single beast; but He respites them until a stated time; and when their time comes they cannot put it off an hour, nor can they bring it on

⁶²They set down to God what they abhor themselves; and their tongues describe the lie that 'good is to be theirs.' Without a doubt theirs is the Fire, for, verily, they shall be sent on there

⁶³By God! we sent (messengers) to nations before thee, but Satan made their works seemly to them, for he is their patron today, and for them is grievous woe

⁶⁴We have only sent down to thee the Book, that thou mayest explain to them that which they did dispute about, and as a guidance and a mercy to a people who believe

⁶⁵And God sends down water from the sky, and quickens therewith the earth after its death; verily, in that is a sign to a people who can hear

⁶⁶Verily, ye have in cattle a lesson; we give you to drink from that which is in their bellies, betwixt chyme and blood,- pure milk,- easy to swallow for those who drink

⁶⁷And of the fruit of the palms and the grapes ye take therefrom an intoxicant and a goodly provision; verily, in that is a sign to a people who have sense

⁶⁸And thy Lord inspired the bee, 'Take to houses in the mountains, and in the trees, and in the hives they build

⁶⁹Then eat from every fruit, and walk in the beaten paths of thy Lord;' there cometh forth from her body a draught varying in hue, in which is a cure for men; verily, in that are signs unto a people who reflect

⁷⁰God created you; then He will take you to Himself; but amongst you are some whom He will thrust into the most decrepit age; so that he may not know aught that once he knew. Verily, God is knowing, powerful

⁷¹And God has preferred some of you over others in providing for you; but those who have been preferred will not restore their provision to those whom their right hands possess that they may share equally therein:- is it God's favours they gainsay

⁷²And God has made for you from amongst yourselves wives, and has made for you from your wives sons and grandchildren; and has provided you with good things;- is it in vanity that they believe, while for God's favour they are ungrateful

⁷³And they serve beside God what cannot control for them any provision from the heavens or the earth, and have no power at all

⁷⁴Do not then strike out parables for God! Verily, God knows, but ye do not know

⁷⁵God has struck out a parable; an owned slave, able to do nothing; and one whom we have provided with a good provision, and who expends therefrom in alms secretly and openly:- shall they be held equal?- Praise be to God, most of them do not know

⁷⁶And God has struck out a parable: two men, one of them dumb, able to do nothing, a burden to his lord wherever he directs him he comes not with success; is he to be held equal with him who bids what is just and who is on the right way

⁷⁷God's are the unseen things of the heavens and the earth; nor is the matter of the Hour aught but as the twinkling of an eye, or nigher still! Verily, God is mighty over all

⁷⁸God brings you forth out of the wombs of your mothers knowing naught; and He makes for you hearing, and sight, and hearts,- haply ye may give thanks

⁷⁹Do they not see the birds subjected in the vault of the sky?- none holds them in but God: verily, in that is a sign unto a people who believe

⁸⁰God made for you in your houses a repose; and made for you, of the skins of cattle, houses, that ye may find them light, on the day ye move your quarters and the day when ye abide; and from their wool, and from their fur, and from their hair come furniture and chattels for a season

⁸¹And God has made for you, of what He has created, shades; and has made for you shelters in the mountains; and He has made for you shirts to keep you from the heat, and shirts to keep you from each other's violence:- thus does He fulfill His favours towards you,- haply ye yet may be resigned

⁸²But if they turn their backs,- thine is only to preach thy plain message

⁸³They recognise the favours of God, and yet they deny them, for most men are ungrateful

⁸⁴And on the day when we shall send from every nation a witness; then shall those who misbelieve not be allowed (to excuse themselves), and they shall not be taken back into favour

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⁸⁶And when those who join their partners with God say, 'Our Lord! these be our partners on whom we used to call beside Thee.' And they shall proffer them the speech, 'Verily, ye are liars

⁸⁷And they shall proffer on that day peace unto God; and that which they had devised shall stray away from them

⁸⁸Those who misbelieve and turn folks off God's path, we will add torment to their torment, for that they were evildoers

⁸⁹And on the day when we will raise up in every nation a witness against them from among themselves, and we will bring thee as a witness against these;- for we have sent down to thee a book explaining clearly everything, and a guidance, and a mercy, and glad tidings to the believers

⁹⁰Verily, God bids you do justice and good, and give to kindred (their due), and He forbids you to sin, and do wrong, and oppress; He admonishes you, haply ye may be mindful

⁹¹Fulfill God's covenant when ye have covenanted, and break not your oaths after asseverating them, for ye thereby make God your surety; verily, God knows what ye do

⁹²And be not like her who unravels her yarn, fraying it out after she hath spun it close, by taking your oaths for mutual intrigue, because one nation is more numerous than another; God only tries you therewith, but He will make manifest to you on the resurrection day that whereon ye did dispute

⁹³But had God pleased He would have made you one nation; but He leads astray whom He will, and guides whom He will;- but ye shall be questioned as to that which ye have done

⁹⁴Take not therefore your oaths for mutual intrigue, lest a foot slip after being planted firmly, and ye taste of evil for that ye turned folks off the path of God, and for you there be mighty woe

⁹⁵And sell not God's covenant for a little price; with God only is what is better for you, if ye did but know

⁹⁶What ye have is spent, but what God has endures; and we will recompense the patient with their hire for the best deeds they have done

⁹⁷Whoso acts aright, male or female, and is a believer, we will quicken with a goodly life; and we will recompense them with their hire for the best deeds they have done

⁹⁸When thou dost read the Qur'an, ask refuge with God from Satan the pelted one

⁹⁹Verily, he has no power over those who believe and who upon their Lord rely

¹⁰⁰His power is only over those who take him for a patron, and over the idolaters

¹⁰¹And whenever we change one verse for another,- God knows best what He sends down. They say, 'Thou art but a forger!' - Nay, most of them do not know

¹⁰²Say, 'The Holy Spirit brought it down from thy Lord in truth, to stablish those who believe, and for a guidance and glad tidings to those who are resigned

¹⁰³We knew that they said, 'It is only some mortal who teaches him.' - The tongue of him they lean towards is barbarous, and this is plain Arabic

¹⁰⁴Verily, those who believe not in God's signs, God will not guide them, and for them is grievous woe

¹⁰⁵Only they are the forgers of a lie who believe not in God's signs; and these, they are the liars

¹⁰⁶Whoso disbelieves in God after having believed, unless it be one who is forced and whose heart is quiet in the faith,- but whoso expands his breast to misbelieve,- on them is wrath from God, and for them is mighty woe

¹⁰⁷That is because they preferred the love of this world's life to the next;- but, verily, God guides not the unbelieving people

¹⁰⁸These are they on whose hearts, and hearing, and eyesight, God has set a stamp, and these, they are the careless

¹⁰⁹Without a doubt that in the next life they will be the losers

¹¹⁰Then, verily, thy Lord, to those who fled after they had been tried, and then fought strenuously and were patient,- verily, thy Lord after that will be forgiving and merciful

¹¹¹On the day every soul will come to wrangle for itself, and every soul shall be paid what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged

¹¹²God has struck out a parable: a city which was safe and quiet, its provision came to it in plenty from every place, and then it denied God's favours, and God made it feel the clothing of hunger and fear, for that which they had wrought

¹¹³And there came to them an apostle from amongst themselves, but they called him a liar, and the torment seized them, while yet they were unjust

¹¹⁴Eat, then, from what God has provided you with, things lawful and good, and give thanks for the favours of God, if it be Him ye serve

¹¹⁵He has only forbidden you that which dies of itself, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that which is devoted to other than God; but he who is forced, neither revolting nor transgressing, it is no sin for him: verily, God is forgiving and merciful

¹¹⁶And say not of the lie your tongues pronounce, 'This is lawful, and this is unlawful,' forging against God a lie; verily, those who forge against God a lie shall not prosper

¹¹⁷A little enjoyment - then for them is grievous woe

¹¹⁸For those who are Jews we have forbidden what we have narrated to thee before; we did not wrong them, but it was themselves they wronged

¹¹⁹Then, verily, thy Lord to those who have done evil in ignorance and then repented after that and done aright,- verily, thy Lord afterwards is forgiving and merciful

¹²⁰Verily, Abraham was a high priest, a 'Hanif, and was not of the idolaters

¹²¹thankful for His favours; He chose him and He guided him unto the right way

¹²²And we gave him in this world good things; and, verily, in the next he will be among the righteous

¹²³Then we inspired thee, 'Follow the faith of Abraham, a 'Hanif, for he was not of the idolaters

¹²⁴The Sabbath was only made for those who dispute thereon; but, verily, thy Lord will judge between them on the resurrection day concerning that whereon they do dispute

¹²⁵Call unto the way of thy Lord with wisdom and goodly warning; and wrangle with them in the kindest way; verily, thy Lord He knows best who has erred from His way, for He knows best the guided ones

¹²⁶But if ye punish, punish (only) as ye were punished; but if ye are patient, it is best for those who are patient

¹²⁷Be thou patient then; but thy patience is only in God's hands. Do not grieve about them; and be not in a strait at their craftiness

¹²⁸verily, God is with those who fear Him, and with those who do well

¹Celebrated be the praises of Him who took His servant a journey by night from the Sacred Mosque, to the Remote Mosque, the precinct of which we have blessed, to show him of our signs! verily, He both hears and looks

²And we gave Moses the Book and made it a guidance to the children of Israel: 'Take ye to no guardian but me

³Seed of those we bore with Noah (in the ark)! verily, he was a thankful servant

⁴And we decreed to the children of Israel in the Book, 'Ye shall verily do evil in the earth twice, and ye shall rise to a great height (of pride)

⁵And when the threat for the first (sin) of the two came, we sent over them servants of ours, endued with violence, and they searched inside your houses; and it was an accomplished threat

⁶Then we rallied you once more against them, and aided you with wealth and sons, and made you a numerous band

⁷If ye do well, ye will do well to your own souls; and if ye do ill, it is against them! 'And when the threat for the last came - to harm your faces and to enter the mosque as they entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had got the upper-hand over with utter destruction

⁸It may be that thy Lord will have mercy on you;- but if ye return we will return, and we have made hell a prison for the misbelievers

⁹Verily, this Qur'an guides to the straightest path, and gives the glad tidings to the believers who do aright that for them is a great hire

¹⁰and that for those who believe not in the hereafter, we have prepared a mighty woe

¹¹Man prays for evil as he prays for good; and man was ever hasty

¹²We made the night and the day two signs; and we blot out the sign of the night and make the sign of the day visible, that ye may seek after plenty from your Lord, and that ye may number the years and the reckoning; and we have detailed everything in detail

¹³And every man's augury have we fastened on his neck; and we will bring forth for him on the resurrection day a book offered to him wide open

¹⁴Read thy book, thou art accountant enough against thyself today

¹⁵He who accepts guidance, accepts it only for his own soul: and he who errs, errs only against it; nor shall one burdened soul bear the burden of another. Nor would we punish until we had sent an apostle

¹⁶And when we desired to destroy a city we bade the opulent ones thereof; and they wrought abomination therein; and its due sentence was pronounced; and we destroyed it with utter destruction

¹⁷How many generations have we destroyed after Noah! but thy Lord of the sins of his servant is well aware, and sees enough

¹⁸Whoso is desirous of this life that hastens away, we will hasten on for him therein what we please,- for whom we please. Then we will make hell for him to broil in - despised and outcast

¹⁹But whoso desires the next life, and strives for it and is a believer - these, their striving shall be gratefully received

²⁰To all - these and those - will we extend the gifts of thy Lord; for the gifts of thy Lord are not restricted

²¹See how we have preferred some of them over others, but in the next life are greater degrees and greater preference

²²Put not with God other gods, or thou wilt sit despised and forsaken

²³Thy Lord has decreed that ye shall not serve other than Him; and kindness to one's parents, whether one or both of them reach old age with thee; and say not to them, 'Fie!' and do not grumble at them, but speak to them a generous speech

²⁴And lower to them the wing of humility out of compassion, and say, 'O Lord! have compassion on them as they brought me up when I was little

²⁵Your Lord knows best what is in your souls if ye be righteous, and, verily, He is forgiving unto those who come back penitent

²⁶And give thy kinsman his due and the poor and the son of the road; and waste not wastefully

²⁷for the wasteful were ever the devil's brothers; and the devil is ever ungrateful to his Lord

²⁸But if thou dost turn away from them to seek after mercy from thy Lord, which thou hopest for, then speak to them an easy speech

²⁹Make not thy hand fettered to thy neck, nor yet spread it out quite open, lest thou shouldst have to sit down blamed and straitened in means

³⁰Verily, thy Lord spreads out provision to whomsoever He will or He doles it out. Verily, He is ever well aware of and sees His servants

³¹And slay not your children for fear of poverty; we will provide for them; beware! for to slay them is ever a great sin

³²And draw not near to fornication; verily, it is ever an abomination, and evil is the way thereof

³³And slay not the soul that God has forbidden you, except for just cause; for he who is slain unjustly we have given his next of kin authority; yet let him not exceed in slaying; verily, he is ever helped

³⁴And draw not near to the wealth of the orphan, save to improve it, until he reaches the age of puberty, and fulfil your compacts; verily, a compact is ever enquired of

³⁵And give full measure when ye measure out, and weigh with a right balance; that is better and a fairer determination

³⁶And do not pursue that of which thou hast no knowledge; verily, the hearing, the sight, and the heart, all of these shall be enquired of

³⁷And walk not on the earth proudly; verily, thou canst not cleave the earth, and thou shalt not reach the mountains in height

³⁸All this is ever evil in the sight of your Lord and abhorred

³⁹That is something of what thy Lord has inspired thee with of wisdom; do not then put with God other gods, or thou wilt be thrown into hell reproached and outcast

⁴⁰What! has your Lord chosen to give you sons, and shall He take for Himself females from among the angels? verily, ye are speaking a mighty speech

⁴¹Now have we turned it in various ways in this Qur'an, so let them bear in mind; but it will only increase them in aversion

⁴²Say, 'Were there with Him other gods, as ye say, then would they seek a way against the Lord of the throne

⁴³Celebrated be His praises, and exalted be He above what they say with a great exaltation

⁴⁴The seven heavens and the earth celebrate His praises, and all who therein are; nor is there aught, but what celebrates His praise: but ye cannot understand their celebration;- verily, He is clement and forgiving

⁴⁵And when thou readest the Qur'an we place between thee and those who believe not in the hereafter a covering veil

⁴⁶And we place covers upon their hearts, lest they should understand, and dulness in their ears. And when thou dost mention in the Qur'an thy Lord by Himself they turn their backs in aversion

⁴⁷We know best for what they listen when they listen to thee; and when they whisper apart - when the wrongdoers say, 'Ye only follow a man enchanted

⁴⁸Behold, how they strike out for you parables, and err, and cannot find the way

⁴⁹They say, 'What! when we have become bones and rubbish are we to be raised up a new creature

⁵⁰Say, 'Be ye stones, or iron

⁵¹or a creature, the greatest your breasts can conceive -!' Then they shall say, 'Who is to restore us?' Say, 'He who originated you at first;' and they will wag their heads and say, 'When will that be?' Say, 'It may, perhaps, be nigh

⁵²The day when He shall call on you and ye shall answer with praise to Him, and they will think that they have tarried but a little

⁵³And say to my servants that they speak in a kind way; verily, Satan makes ill-will between them; verily, Satan was ever unto man an open foe

⁵⁴Your Lord knows you best; if He please He will have mercy upon you, or if He please He will torment you: but we, have not sent thee to take charge of them

⁵⁵And thy Lord best knows who is in the heavens and the earth; we did prefer some of the prophets over the others, and to David did we give the Psalms

⁵⁶Say, 'Call on those whom ye pretend other than God;' but they shall not have the power to remove distress from you, nor to turn it off

⁵⁷Those on whom they call, seek themselves for a means of approaching their Lord, (to see) which of them is nearest: and they hope for His mercy and they fear His torment; verily, the torment of thy Lord is a thing to beware of

⁵⁸There is no city but we will destroy it before the day of judgment, or torment it with keen torment;- that is in the Book inscribed

⁵⁹Naught hindered us from sending thee with signs, save that those of yore said they were lies; so we gave Thamud the visible she-camel, but they treated her unjustly! for we do not send (any one) with signs save to make men fear

⁶⁰And when we said to thee, 'Verily, thy Lord encompasses men!' and we made the vision which we showed thee only a cause of sedition unto men, and the cursed tree as well; for we will frighten them, but it will only increase them in great rebellion

⁶¹And when we said to the angels, ' Adore Adam;' and they adored, save Iblis, who said, ' Am I to adore one whom Thou hast created out of clay

⁶²Said he, 'Dost thou see now? this one whom Thou hast honoured above me, verily, if Thou shouldst respite me until the resurrection day, I will of a surety utterly destroy his seed except a few

⁶³Said He, 'Begone! and whoso of them follows thee - verily, hell is your recompense, an ample recompense

⁶⁴Entice away whomsoever of them thou canst with thy voice; and bear down upon them with thy horse and with thy foot; and share with them in their wealth and their children; and promise them,- but Satan promises them naught but deceit

⁶⁵Verily, my servants, thou hast no authority over them; thy Lord is guardian enough over them

⁶⁶It is your Lord who drives the ships for you in the sea that ye may seek after plenty from Him; verily, He is ever merciful to you

⁶⁷And when distress touches you in the sea, those whom ye call on, except Him, stray away from you; but when He has brought you safe to shore, ye turn away; for man is ever ungrateful

⁶⁸Are ye sure that He will not cleave with you the side of the shore, or send against you a heavy sand-storm? then ye will find no guardian for yourselves

⁶⁹Or are ye sure that He will not send you back therein another time, and send against you a violent wind, and drown you for your misbelief? then ye will find for yourselves no protector against us

⁷⁰But, we have been gracious to the children of Adam, and we have borne them by land and sea, and have provided them with good things, and have preferred them over many that we have created

⁷¹The day when we will call all men by their high priest; and he whose book is given in his right hand - these shall read their book, nor shall they be wronged a straw

⁷²But he who in this life is blind shall be blind in the next too, and err farther from the way

⁷³They had well-nigh beguiled thee from what we inspired thee with, that thou shouldst forge against us something else, and then they would have taken thee for a friend

⁷⁴and had it not been that we established thee, thou wouldst have well-nigh leant towards them a little

⁷⁵then would we have made thee taste of torment both of life and death, then thou wouldst not have found against us any helper

⁷⁶And they well-nigh enticed thee away from the land, to turn thee out therefrom; but then - they should not have tarried after thee except a little

⁷⁷[This is] the course of those of our prophets whom we have sent before thee; and thou shalt find no change in our course

⁷⁸Be thou steadfast in prayer from the declining of the sun until the dusk of the night, and the reading of the dawn; verily, the reading of the dawn is ever testified to

⁷⁹And for the night, watch thou therein as an extra service. It may be that thy Lord will raise thee to a laudable station

⁸⁰And say, 'O my Lord! make me enter with a just entry; and make me come forth with a just coming forth; and grant me from, Thee authority to aid

⁸¹And say, 'Truth has come, and falsehood has vanished! verily, falsehood is transient

⁸²And we will send down of the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy to the believers, but it will only increase the wrong-doers in loss

⁸³And when we favour man he turns away and retires aside, but when evil touches him he is ever in despair

⁸⁴Say, 'Every one acts after his own manner, but your Lord knows, best who is most guided in the way

⁸⁵They will ask thee of the spirit. Say, 'The spirit comes at the bidding of my Lord, and ye are given but a little knowledge thereof

⁸⁶If we had wished we would have taken away that with which we have inspired thee; then thou wouldst have found no guardian against us

⁸⁷unless by a mercy from thy Lord; verily, His grace towards thee is great

⁸⁸Say, 'If mankind and ginns united together to bring the like of this Qur'an, they could not bring the like, though they should back each other up

⁸⁹We have turned about for men in this Qur'an every parable; but most men refuse to accept it, save ungratefully

⁹⁰And they say, 'We will by no means believe in thee, until there gush forth for thee a fountain from the earth

⁹¹or there be made for thee a garden of palms and grapes, and rivers come gushing out amidst them

⁹²or thou make the sky to fall down upon us in pieces; or thou bring us God and the angels before us

⁹³or there be made for thee a house of gold; or thou climb up into the heaven; and even then we will not believe in thy climbing there, until thou send down on us a book that we may read!' Say, 'Celebrated be the praises of my Lord! was I aught but a mortal apostle

⁹⁴Naught prohibited men from believing when the guidance came to them, save their saying, 'God has sent a mortal for an apostle

⁹⁵Say, 'Were there angels on the earth walking in quiet, we had surely sent them an angel as an apostle

⁹⁶Say, 'God is witness enough between me and you; verily, He is ever of His servants well aware, and sees

⁹⁷He whom God guides, he is guided indeed; and he whom God leads astray, thou shalt never find patrons for them beside Him; and we will gather them upon the resurrection day upon their faces, blind, and dumb, and deaf; their resort is hell; whenever it grows dull we will give them another blaze

⁹⁸That is their reward for that they disbelieved in our signs, and said, 'What! when we are bones and rubbish, shall we then be raised up a new creation

⁹⁹Could they not see that God who created the heavens and the earth is able to create the like of them, and to set for them an appointed time; there is no doubt therein, yet the wrong-doers refuse to accept it, save ungratefully

¹⁰⁰Say, 'Did ye control the treasuries of the mercy of my Lord, then ye would hold them through fear of expending; for man is ever niggardly

¹⁰¹And we did bring Moses nine manifest signs; then ask the children of Israel (about) when he came to them, and Pharaoh said to him, 'Verily, I think thee, O Moses! enchanted

¹⁰²He said, 'Well didst thou know that none sent down these save the Lord of the heavens and the earth as visible signs; and, verily, I think thee, O Pharaoh! ruined

¹⁰³And he desired to drive them out of the land; but we drowned him and those with him, one and all

¹⁰⁴And after him we said to the children of Israel, 'Dwell ye in the land; and when the promise of the hereafter comes to pass, we will bring you in a mixed crowd (to judgment)

¹⁰⁵In truth have we sent it down, and in truth has it come down; and we have not sent thee as aught but a herald of glad tidings and a warner

¹⁰⁶And a Qur'an which we have divided, that thou mayst read it to mankind leisurely, and we sent it down, sending it down

¹⁰⁷Say, 'Believe ye therein, or believe not; verily, those who were given the knowledge before it, when it is read to them fall down upon their beards adoring

¹⁰⁸and they say, "Celebrated be the praises of our Lord! verily, the promise of our Lord is ever fulfilled

¹⁰⁹they fall down upon their beards weeping, and it increases their humility

¹¹⁰Say, 'Call on God, or call on the Merciful One, whichever ye may call on Him by; for His are the best of names.' And do not say thy prayers openly, nor yet murmur them, but seek a way between these

¹¹¹And say, 'Praise belongs to God, who has not taken to Himself a son, and has not had a partner in His kingdom, nor had a patron against (such) abasement.' And magnify Him greatly

¹Praise belongs to God, who sent down to His servant the Book and put no crookedness therein

²straight, to give warning of keen violence from Him; and to give the glad tidings to the believers, who do what is right, that for them is a goodly reward

³wherein they shall abide for ever and for aye

⁴and to give warning to those who say, 'God hath taken to Himself a son

⁵They have no knowledge thereof, nor their fathers; a serious word it is that comes forth from their mouths! verily, they only speak a lie

⁶Haply thou wilt grieve thyself to death for sorrow after them, if they believe not in this new revelation

⁷Verily, we have made what is on the earth an ornament thereof, to try them, which of them is best in works

⁸but, verily, we are going to make what is thereon bare soil

⁹Hast thou reckoned that the Fellows of the Cave and Er-raqim were a wonder amongst our signs

¹⁰When the youths resorted to the cave and said, 'O our Lord! bring us mercy from Thee, and dispose for us our affair aright

¹¹And we struck their ears (with deafness) in the cave for a number of years

¹²Then we raised them up again, that we might know which of the two crews could best calculate the time of their tarrying

¹³We will narrate to thee their story in truth. Verily, they were youths who believed in their Lord, and we added to their guidance

¹⁴and we braced up their hearts, when they stood up and said, 'Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, we will not call upon any god beside Him, for then we should have said an extravagant thing

¹⁵These people of ours have taken to other gods beside Him. Though they do not bring any manifest authority for them. And who is more unjust than he who forges against God a lie

¹⁶So when ye have gone apart from them and what they serve other than God, then resort ye to the cave. Our Lord will unfold His mercy to you, and will dispose for you your affair advantageously

¹⁷And thou mightst have seen the sun when it rose decline from their cave towards the right hand, and when it set leave them on the left hand, while they were in the spacious part thereof. That is one of the signs of God. Whom God guides he is guided indeed, and whom He leads astray thou shalt surely find for him no patron to guide aright

¹⁸Thou mightst have reckoned them waking though they were sleeping, as we turned them towards the right and towards the left; and their dog spreading out his fore-paws on the threshold. Hadst thou come suddenly upon them thou wouldst surely have turned and fled away from them, and wouldst surely have been filled by them with dread

¹⁹Thus did we raise them up that they might question each other. Spake a speaker amongst them, 'How long have ye tarried?' They said, 'We have tarried a day or part of a day.' They said, 'Your Lord knows best your tarrying; so send one of you with this coin of yours to the city, and let him look which of them has purest food, and let him bring you provision thereof; and let him be subtle and not let any one perceive you

²⁰Verily, they - should they perceive you - would stone you, or would force you back again unto their faith, and ye would never prosper then

²¹Thus did we make their people acquainted with their story, that they might know that God's promise is true; and that the Hour, there is no doubt concerning it. When they disputed amongst themselves concerning their affair, and said, 'Build a building over them, their Lord knows best about them;' and those who prevailed in their affair said, 'We will surely make a mosque over them

²²They will say, 'Three, and the fourth of them was their dog:' and they will say, 'Five, and the sixth of them was their dog:' guessing at the unseen: and they will say, 'Seven, and the eighth of them was their dog.' Say, 'My Lord knows best the number of them; none knows them but few.' Dispute not therefore concerning them save with a plain disputation, and ask not any one of them concerning them

²³And never say of anything, 'Verily, I am going to do that to-morrow

²⁴except 'if God please;' and remember thy Lord when thou hast forgotten, and say,' It may be that my Lord will guide me to what is nearer to the right than this

²⁵They tarried in their cave three hundred years and nine more

²⁶Say, 'God knows best of their tarrying. His are the unseen things of the heavens and the earth - He can see! and hear!' They have no patron beside Him, nor does He let any one share in His judgment

²⁷So, recite what thou art inspired with of the Book of thy Lord; there is no changing His words; nor shalt thou ever find a refuge beside Him

²⁸and keep thyself patient, with those who call upon their Lord morning and evening, desiring His face; nor let thine eyes be turned from them, desiring the adornment of the life of this world; and obey not him whose heart we have made heedless of remembrance of us, and who follows his lusts, for his affair is ever in advance (of the truth)

²⁹But say, 'The truth is from your Lord, so let him who will, believe; and let him who will, disbelieve.' Verily, we have prepared for the evildoers a fire, sheets of which shall encompass them; and if they cry for help, they shall be helped with water like molten brass, which shall roast their faces: - an ill drink and an evil couch

³⁰Verily, those who believe and act aright,- verily, we will not waste the hire of him who does good works

³¹These, for them are gardens of Eden; beneath them rivers flow; they shall be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and shall wear green robes of silk, and of brocade; reclining therein on thrones;- pleasant is the reward, and goodly the couch

³²Strike out for them a parable: Two men, for one of whom we made two gardens of grapes, and surrounded them with palms, and put corn between the two

³³Each of the two gardens brought forth its food and did not fail in aught. And we caused a river to gush forth amidst them

³⁴and he had fruit, and said unto his fellow, who was his next-door neighbour, 'I am more wealthy than thee, and mightier of household

³⁵And he went in unto his garden, having wronged himself: said he, 'I do not think that this will ever disappear

³⁶and I do not think that the hour is imminent; and if even I be sent back unto my Lord, I shall find a better one than it in exchange

³⁷Said unto him his fellow, who was his next-door neighbour, 'Thou hast disbelieved in Him who created thee from earth, and then from a clot, then fashioned thee a man

³⁸but, God, He is my Lord; nor will I associate any one with my Lord

³⁹Why couldst thou not have said, when thou didst go into thy garden, "What God pleases! there is no power save in God," - to look at, I am less than thee in wealth and children

⁴⁰but haply my Lord will give me something better than thy garden, and will send upon it thunder-claps from the sky, and it shall be on the morrow bare slippery soil

⁴¹or on the morrow its water may be deeply sunk, so that thou canst not get thereat

⁴²And his fruits were encompassed, and on the morrow he turned down the palms of his hands for what he had spent thereon, for it was fallen down upon its trellises. And he said, 'Would that I had never associated any one with my Lord

⁴³And he had not any party to help him beside God, nor was he helped

⁴⁴In such a case the patronage is God's, the true; He is best at rewarding and best at bringing to an issue

⁴⁵Strike out for them, too, a parable of the life of this world; like water which we send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth is mingled therewith; - and on the morrow it is dried up, and the winds scatter it; for God is powerful over all

⁴⁶Wealth and children are an adornment of the life of this world; but enduring good works are better with thy Lord, as a recompense, and better as a hope

⁴⁷And the day when we will move the mountains, and thou shalt see the (whole) earth stalking forth; and we will gather them, and will not leave one of them behind

⁴⁸Then shall they be presented to thy Lord in ranks. - Now have ye come to us as we created you at first! nay, but ye thought that we would never make our promise good

⁴⁹And the Book shall be placed, and thou shalt see the sinners in fear of what is in it; and they will say, ' Alas, for us! what ails this Book, it leaves neither small nor great things alone, without numbering them?' and they shall find present what they have done; and thy Lord will not wrong any one

⁵⁰And when we said to the angels, ' Adore Adam,' they adored him, save only Iblis, who was of the ginn, who revolted from the bidding of his Lord. 'What! will ye then take him and his seed as patrons, rather than me, when they are foes of yours? bad for the wrong-doers is the exchange

⁵¹I did not make them witnesses of the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor of the creation of themselves, nor did I take those who lead astray for my supporters

⁵²On the day when He shall say, 'Call ye my partners whom ye pretend:' and they shall call on them, but they shall not answer them; and we will set the vale of perdition between them

⁵³and the sinners shall see the fire, and shall think that they are going to fall therein, and shall find no escape therefrom

⁵⁴We have turned about in this Qur'an for men every parable; but man is ever at most things a caviller

⁵⁵Naught prevented men from believing when the guidance came to them, or from asking pardon of their Lord, except the coming on them of the course of those of yore, or the coming of the torment before their eyes

⁵⁶We sent not prophets save as heralds of glad tidings and as warners; but those who misbelieve wrangle with vain speech to make void the truth therewith; and they take my signs and the warnings given them as a jest

⁵⁷Who is more unjust than he who, being reminded of the signs of his Lord, turns away therefrom, and forgets what his hands have done before? verily, we will place veils upon their hearts lest they should understand, and dullness in their ears! And if thou shouldst call them to the guidance, they will not be guided then for ever

⁵⁸But thy Lord is forgiving, endowed with mercy; were He to punish them for what they have earned He would have hastened for them the torment. Nay rather, they have their appointed time, and shall never find a refuge beside Him

⁵⁹These cities, we destroyed them when they were unjust; and for their destruction we set an appointed time

⁶⁰And when Moses said to his servant, 'I will not cease until I reach the confluence of the two seas, or else I will go on for years

⁶¹But when they reached the confluence of the two they forgot their fish, and it took its way in the sea with a free course

⁶²And when they had passed by, he said to his servant, 'Bring us our dinners, for we have met with toil from this journey of ours

⁶³Said he, 'What thinkest thou? when we resorted to the rock, then, verily, I forgot the fish, but it was only Satan who made me forget it, lest I should remember it; and it took its way in the set wondrously

⁶⁴Said he, 'This is what we were searching for.' So they turned back upon their footsteps, following them up

⁶⁵Then they found a servant of our servants, to whom we had given mercy from ourselves, and had taught him knowledge from before us

⁶⁶Said Moses to him, 'Shall I follow thee, so that thou mayest teach me, from what thou hast been taught, the right way

⁶⁷said he, 'Verily, thou canst never have patience with me

⁶⁸How canst thou be patient in what thou comprehendest no knowledge of

⁶⁹He said, 'Thou wilt find me, if God will, patient; nor will I rebel against thy bidding

⁷⁰He said, 'Then, if thou followest me, ask me not about anything until I begin for them the mention of it

⁷¹So they set out until when they rode in the bark, he scuttled it. Said he, 'Hast thou scuttled it to drown its crew? Thou hast produced a strange thing

⁷²Said he, 'Did I not tell thee, verily, thou canst never have patience with me

⁷³Said he, 'Rebuke me not for forgetting, and impose not on me a difficult command

⁷⁴So they set out until they met a boy, and he killed him. And he (Moses) said, 'Hast thou killed a pure person without (his killing) a person? thou hast produced an unheard-of thing

⁷⁵Said he, 'Did I not tell thee, verily, thou canst not have patience with me

⁷⁶Said he, 'If I ask thee about anything after it, then do not accompany me. Now hast thou arrived at my excuse

⁷⁷So they set out until when they came to the people of a city; and they asked the people thereof for food; but they refused to entertain them. And they found therein a wall which wanted to fall to pieces, and he set it upright. Said (Moses), 'Hadst thou pleased thou mightst certainly have had a hire for this

⁷⁸Said he, 'This is the parting between me and thee. I will give thee the interpretation of that with which thou couldst not have patience

⁷⁹As for the bark it belonged to poor people, who toiled on the sea, and I wished to damage it, for behind it was a king who seized on every bark by force

⁸⁰And as for the youth, his parents were believers, and we feared lest he should impose upon them rebellion and misbelief

⁸¹So we desired that their Lord would give them in exchange a better one than him in purity, and nearer in filial affection

⁸²And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan youths in the city, and beneath it was a treasure belonging to them both, and their father was a righteous man, and their Lord desired that they should reach puberty, and then take out their treasure as a mercy from thy Lord; and I did it not on my own bidding. That is the interpretation of what thou couldst not have patience with

⁸³And they will ask thee about Dhu 'l Qarnain, say, 'I will recite to you a mention of him

⁸⁴verily, we established for him in the earth, and we gave him a way to everything

⁸⁵and he followed a way

⁸⁶until when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it setting in a black muddy spring, and he found thereat a people.' We said, 'O Dhu 'l Qarnain! thou mayest either torment these people, or treat them well

⁸⁷Said he, 'As for him who does wrong, I will torment him, then shall be be sent back to his Lord, and He will torment him with An unheard-of torment

⁸⁸but as for him who believes and acts aright, for him is an excellent reward, and we will tell him our easy bidding

⁸⁹Then he followed a way

⁹⁰until when he reached the rising of the sun, he found it rise upon a people to whom we had given no shelter therefrom

⁹¹So! And we comprehended the knowledge of what (forces) he had with him

⁹²Then he followed a way

⁹³until when he reached the point between the two mountains, he found below them both a people who could scarcely understand speech

⁹⁴They said, 'O Dhu 'l Qarnain! verily, Yagug and Magug are doing evil in the land. Shall we then pay thee tribute, on condition that thou set between us and them a rampart

⁹⁵He said, 'What my Lord hath established me in is better; so help me with strength, and I will set between you and them a barrier

⁹⁶Bring me pigs of iron until they fill up the space between the two mountain sides.' Said he, 'Blow until it makes it a fire.' Said he, 'Bring me, that I may pour over it, molten brass

⁹⁷So they could not scale it, and they could not tunnel it

⁹⁸Said he, 'This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my Lord comes to pass, He will make it as dust, for the promise of my Lord is true

⁹⁹And we left some of them to surge on that day over others, and the trumpet will be blown, and we will gather them together

¹⁰⁰And we will set forth hell on that day before the misbelievers

¹⁰¹whose eyes were veiled from my Reminder, and who were unable to hear

¹⁰²What! did those who misbelieve reckon that they could take my servants for patrons beside me? Verily, we have prepared hell for the misbelievers to alight in

¹⁰³Say, 'Shall we inform you of those who lose most by their works

¹⁰⁴those who erred in their endeavours after the life of this world, and who think they are doing good deeds

¹⁰⁵Those who misbelieve in the signs of their Lord and in meeting Him, vain are their works; and we will not give them right weight on the resurrection day

¹⁰⁶That is their reward, - hell! for that they misbelieved and took my signs and my apostles as a mockery

¹⁰⁷Verily, those who believe and act aright, for them are gardens of Paradise to alight in

¹⁰⁸to dwell therein for aye, and they shall crave no change therefrom

¹⁰⁹Say, 'Were the sea ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would surely fail before the words of my Lord fail; aye, though we brought as much ink again

¹¹⁰Say, 'I am only a mortal like yourselves; I am inspired that your God is only one God. Then let him who hopes to meet his Lord act righteous acts, and join none in the service of his Lord

¹H. Z

²The mention of thy Lord's mercy to His servant Zachariah

³when he called on his Lord with a secret calling

⁴Said he, 'My Lord! verily, my bones are weak, and my head flares with hoariness; - and I never was unfortunate in my prayers to Thee, my Lord

⁵But I fear my heirs after me, and my wife is barren; then grant me from Thee a successor

⁶to be my heir and the heir of the family of Jacob, and make him, my Lord! acceptable

⁷O Zachariah! verily, we, give thee glad tidings of a son, whose name shall be John. We never made a namesake of his before

⁸Said he, 'My Lord! how can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I have reached through old age to decrepitude

⁹He said, 'Thus says thy Lord, It is easy for Me, for I created thee at first when yet thou wast nothing

¹⁰Said he, 'O my Lord! make for me a sign.' He said, 'Thy sign is that thou shalt not speak to men for three nights (though) sound

¹¹Then he went forth unto his people from the chamber, and he made signs to them: 'Celebrate (God's) praises morning and evening

¹²O John! take the Book with strength;' and we gave him judgment when a boy

¹³and grace from us, and purity; and he was pious

¹⁴and righteous to his parents, and was not a rebellious tyrant

¹⁵So peace upon him the day he was born, and the day he died, and the day he shall be raised up alive

¹⁶And mention, in the Book, Mary; when she retired from her family into an eastern place

¹⁷and she took a veil (to screen herself) from them; and we sent unto her our spirit; and he took for her the semblance of a well-made man

¹⁸Said she, 'Verily, I take refuge in the Merciful One from thee, if thou art pious

¹⁹Said he, 'I am only a messenger of thy Lord to bestow on thee a pure boy

²⁰Said she, 'How can I have a boy when no man has touched me, and when I am no harlot

²¹He said, 'Thus says thy Lord, It is easy for Me! and we will make him a sign unto man, and a mercy from us; for it is a decided matter

²²So she conceived him, and she retired with him into a remote place

²³And the labour pains came upon her at the trunk of a palm tree, and she said, 'O that I had died before this, and been forgotten out of mind

²⁴and he called to her from beneath her, 'Grieve not, for thy Lord has placed a stream beneath thy feet

²⁵and shake towards thee the trunk of the palm tree, it will drop upon thee fresh dates fit to gather

²⁶so eat, and drink, and cheer thine eye; and if thou shouldst see any mortal say, "Verily, I have vowed to the Merciful One a fast, and I will not speak today with a human being

²⁷Then she brought it to her people, carrying it; said they, 'O Mary! thou hast done an extraordinary thing

²⁸O sister of Aaron! thy father was not a bad man, nor was thy mother a harlot

²⁹And she pointed to him, and they said, 'How are we to speak with one who is in the cradle a child

³⁰He said, 'Verily, I am a servant of God; He has brought me the Book, and He has made me a prophet

³¹and He has made me blessed wherever I be; and He has required of me prayer and almsgiving so long as I live

³²and piety towards my mother, and has not made me a miserable tyrant

³³and peace upon me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised up alive

³⁴That is, Jesus the son of Mary, - by the word of truth whereon ye do dispute

³⁵God could not take to himself any son! celebrated be His praise! when He decrees a matter He only says to it, 'BE,' and it is

³⁶and, verily, God is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him; this is the right way

³⁷And the parties have disagreed amongst themselves, but woe to those who disbelieve, from the witnessing of the mighty day

³⁸they can hear and they can see, on the day when they shall come to us; but the evildoers are today in obvious error

³⁹And warn them of the day of sighing, when the matter is decreed while they are heedless, and while they do not believe

⁴⁰Verily, we will inherit the earth and all who are upon it, and unto us shall they return

⁴¹And mention, in the Book, Abraham; verily, he was a confessors,- a prophet

⁴²When he said to his father, 'O my sire! why dost thou worship what can neither hear nor see nor avail thee aught

⁴³O my sire! verily, to me has come knowledge which has not come to thee; then follow me, and I will guide thee to a level way

⁴⁴O my sire! serve not Satan; verily, Satan is ever a rebel against the Merciful

⁴⁵O my sire! verily,. I fear that there may touch thee torment from the Merciful, and that thou mayest be a client of Satan

⁴⁶Said he, 'What! art thou averse from my gods, O Abraham? verily, if thou dost not desist I will certainly stone thee; but get thee gone from me for a time

⁴⁷Said he, 'Peace be upon thee! I will ask forgiveness for thee from my Lord; verily, He is very gracious to me

⁴⁸but I will part from you and what ye call on beside God, and will pray my Lord that I be not unfortunate in my prayer to my Lord

⁴⁹And when he had parted from them and what they served beside God, we granted him Isaac and Jacob, and each of them we made a prophet

⁵⁰and we granted them of our mercy, and we made the tongue of truth lofty for them

⁵¹And mention, in the Book, Moses; verily, he was sincere, and was an apostle,- a prophet

⁵²We called him from the right side of the mountain; and we made him draw nigh unto us to commune with him

⁵³and we granted him, of our mercy, his brother Aaron as a prophet

⁵⁴And mention, in the Book, Ishmael; verily, he was true to his promise, and was an apostle,- a prophet

⁵⁵and he used to bid his people prayers and almsgiving, and was acceptable in the sight of his Lord

⁵⁶And mention, in the Book, Idris; verily, he was a confessors prophet,- a prophet

⁵⁷and we raised him to a lofty place

⁵⁸These are those to whom God has been gracious, of the prophets of the seed of Adam, and of those whom we bore with Noah, and of the seed of Abraham and Israel, and of those we guided and elected; when the signs of the Merciful are read to them, they fall down adoring and weeping

⁵⁹And successors succeeded them, who lost sight of prayer and followed lusts, but they shall at length find themselves going wrong

⁶⁰except such as repent and believe and act aright; for these shall enter Paradise, and shall not be wronged at all

⁶¹gardens of Eden, which the Merciful has promised to His servants in the unseen; verily, His promise ever comes to pass

⁶²They shall hear no empty talk therein, but only 'peace;' and they shall have their provision therein, morning and evening

⁶³that is Paradise which we will give for an inheritance to those of our servants who are pious

⁶⁴We do not descend save at the bidding of thy Lord; His is what is before us, and what is behind us, and what is between those; for thy Lord is never forgetful

⁶⁵the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and of what is between the two; then serve Him and persevere in His service. Dost thou know a namesake of His

⁶⁶Man will say, 'What! when I have died shall I then come forth alive

⁶⁷Does not man then remember that we created him before when he was naught

⁶⁸And by thy Lord! we will surely gather them together, and the devils too; then we will surely bring them forward around hell, on their knees

⁶⁹Then we will drag off from every sect whichever of them has been most bold against the Merciful

⁷⁰Then we know best which of them deserves most to be broiled therein

⁷¹There is not one of you who will not go down to it,- that is settled and decided by thy Lord

⁷²Then we will save those who fear us; but we will leave the evildoers therein on their knees

⁷³And when our signs are recited to them manifest, those who misbelieve say to those who believe, 'Which of the two parties is best placed and in the best company

⁷⁴And how many generations before them have we destroyed who were better off in property and appearance

⁷⁵Say, 'Whosoever is in error, let the Merciful extend to him length of days!- until they see what they are threatened with, whether it be the torment or whether it be the Hour, then they shall know who is worse placed and weakest in forces

⁷⁶And those who are guided God will increase in guidance. And enduring good works are best with thy Lord for a reward, and best for restoration

⁷⁷Hast thou seen him who disbelieves in our signs, and says, 'I shall surely be given wealth and children

⁷⁸Has he become acquainted with the unseen, or has he taken a compact with the Merciful

⁷⁹Not so! We will write down what he says, and we will extend to him a length of torment

⁸⁰and we will make him inherit what he says, and he shall come to us alone

⁸¹They take other gods besides God to be their glory

⁸²Not so! They shall deny their worship and shall be opponents of theirs

⁸³Dost thou not see that we have sent the devils against the misbelievers, to drive them on to sin

⁸⁴but, be not thou hasty with them. Verily, we will number them a number (of days)

⁸⁵the day when we will gather the pious to the Merciful as ambassadors

⁸⁶and we will drive the sinners to hell like (herds) to water

⁸⁷They shall not possess intercession, save he who has taken a compact with the Merciful

⁸⁸They say, 'The Merciful has taken to Himself a son

⁸⁹ye have brought a monstrous thing

⁹⁰The heavens well-nigh burst asunder thereat, and the earth is riven, and the mountains fall down broken

⁹¹that they attribute to the Merciful a son

⁹²but it, becomes not the Merciful to take to Himself a son

⁹³there is none in the heavens or the earth but comes to the Merciful as a servant

⁹⁴He counts them and numbers them by number

⁹⁵and they are all coming to Him on the resurrection day singly

⁹⁶Verily, those who believe and act aright, to them the Merciful will give love

⁹⁷We have only made it easy for thy tongue that thou mayest thereby give glad tidings to the pious, and warn thereby a contentious people

⁹⁸How many a Generation before them have we destroyed? Canst thou find any one of them, or hear a whisper of them

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²We have not sent down this Qur'an to thee that thou shouldst be wretched

³only as a reminder to him who fears

⁴descending from Him who created the earth and the high heavens

⁵the Merciful settled on the throne

⁶His are what is in the heavens, and what is in the earth, and what is between the two, and what is beneath the ground

⁷And if thou art public in thy speech - yet, verily, he knows the secret, and more hidden still

⁸God, there is no god but He! His are the excellent names

⁹Has the story of Moses come to thee

¹⁰When he saw the fire and said to his family, 'Tarry ye; verily, I perceive a fire! Haply I may bring you therefrom a brand, or may find guidance by the fire

¹¹And when he came to it he was called to, 'O Moses

¹²verily, I am thy Lord, so take off thy sandals; verily, thou art in the holy valley Tuva

¹³and I have chosen thee. So listen to what is inspired thee

¹⁴verily, I am God, there is no god but Me! then serve Me, and be steadfast in prayer to remember Me

¹⁵Verily, the hour is coming, I almost make it appear, that every soul may be recompensed for its efforts

¹⁶Let not then him who believes not therein and follows his lusts ever turn thee away therefrom, and thou be ruined

¹⁷What is that in thy right hand, O Moses

¹⁸Said he, 'It is my staff on which I lean, and wherewith I beat down leaves for my flocks, and for which I have other uses

¹⁹Said He, 'Throw it down, O Moses

²⁰and he threw it down, and behold! it was a snake that moved about

²¹Said He, 'Take hold of it and fear not; we will restore it to its first state

²²But press thy hand to thy side, it shall come forth white without harm, - another sign

²³to show thee of our great signs

²⁴Go unto Pharaoh, verily, he is outrageous

²⁵Said he, 'My Lord! expand for me my breast

²⁶and make what I am bidden easy to me

²⁷and loose the knot from my tongue

²⁸that they may understand my speech

²⁹and make for me a minister from my people

³⁰Aaron my brother

³¹gird up my loins through him

³²and join him with me in the affair

³³that we may celebrate Thy praises much

³⁴and remember Thee much

³⁵Verily, Thou dost ever behold us

³⁶He said, 'Thou art granted thy request, O Moses

³⁷and we have already shown favours unto thee at another time

³⁸When we inspired thy mother with what we inspired her

³⁹Hurl him into the ark, and hurl him into the sea; and the sea shall cast him on the shore, and an enemy of mine and of his shall take him;" - for on thee have I cast my love, that thou mayest be formed under my eye

⁴⁰When thy sister walked on and said, "Shall I guide you to one who will take charge of him?" And we restored thee to thy mother, that her eye might be cheered and that she should not grieve. And thou didst slay a person and we saved thee from the trouble, and we tried thee with various trials. And thou didst tarry for years amongst the people of Midian; then thou didst come (hither) at (our) decree, O Moses

⁴¹And I have chosen thee for myself

⁴²Go, thou and thy brother, with my signs, and be not remiss in remembering me

⁴³Go ye both to Pharaoh; verily, he is outrageous

⁴⁴and speak to him a gentle speech, haply he may be mindful or may fear

⁴⁵They two said, 'Our Lord! verily, we fear that he may trespass against us, or that he may be outrageous

⁴⁶He said, 'Fear not; verily, I am with you twain. I hear and see

⁴⁷So come ye to him and say, "Verily, we are the apostles of thy Lord; send then the children of Israel with us; and do not torment them. We have brought thee a sign from thy Lord, and peace be upon him who follows the guidance

⁴⁸Verily, we are inspired that the torment will surely come upon him who calls us liars and turns his back

⁴⁹Said he, 'And who is your Lord, O Moses

⁵⁰He said, 'Our Lord is He who gave everything its creation, then guided it

⁵¹Said he, 'And what of the former generations

⁵²He said 'The knowledge of them is with my Lord in a Book; my Lord misleads not, nor forgets

⁵³Who made for you the earth a bed; and has traced for you paths therein; and has sent down from the sky water, - and we have brought forth thereby divers sorts of different vegetables

⁵⁴Eat and pasture your cattle therefrom; verily, in that are signs to those endued with intelligence

⁵⁵From it have we created you and into it will we send you back, and from it will we bring you forth another time

⁵⁶We did show him our signs, all of them, but he called them lies and did refuse

⁵⁷Said he, 'Hast thou come to us, to turn us out of our land with thy magic, O Moses

⁵⁸Then we will bring you magic like it; and we will make between us and thee an appointment; we will not break it, nor do thou either;-a fair place

⁵⁹Said he, 'Let your appointment be for the day of adornment, and let the people assemble in the forenoon

⁶⁰But Pharaoh turned his back, and collected his tricks, and then he came

⁶¹Said Moses to them, 'Woe to you! do not forge against God a lie; lest He destroy you by torment; for disappointed has ever been he who has forged

⁶²And they argued their matter among themselves; and secretly talked it over

⁶³Said they, 'These twain are certainly two magicians, who wish to turn you out of your land by their magic, and to remove your most exemplary doctrine

⁶⁴Collect therefore your tricks, and then form a row; for he is prosperous today who has the upper hand

⁶⁵Said they, 'O Moses! either thou must throw, or we must be the first to throw

⁶⁶He said, 'Nay, throw ye!' and lo! their ropes and their staves appeared to move along

⁶⁷And Moses felt a secret fear within his soul

⁶⁸Said we, 'Fear not! thou shalt have the upper hand

⁶⁹Throw down what is in thy right hand; and it shall devour what they have made. Verily, what they have made is but a magician's trick; and no magician shall prosper wherever he comes

⁷⁰And the magicians were cast down in adoration; said they, 'We believe in the Lord of Aaron and of Moses

⁷¹Said he, 'Do ye believe in Him before I give you leave? Verily, he is your master who taught you magic! Therefore will I surely cut off your hands and feet on alternate sides, and I will surely crucify you on the trunks of palm trees; and ye shall surely know which of us is keenest at torment and more lasting

⁷²Said they, 'We will never prefer thee to what has come to us of manifest signs, and to Him who originated us. Decide then what thou canst decide; thou canst only decide in the life of this world

⁷³Verily, we believe in our Lord, that He may pardon us our sins, and the magic thou hast forced us to use; and God is better and more lasting

⁷⁴Verily, he who comes to his Lord a sinner,- verily, for him is hell; he shall not die therein, and shall not live

⁷⁵But he who comes to Him a believer who has done aright - these, for them are the highest ranks

⁷⁶gardens of Eden beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye; for that is the reward of him who keeps pure

⁷⁷And we inspired Moses, 'Journey by night with my servants, and strike out for them a dry road in the sea. Fear not pursuit, nor be afraid

⁷⁸Then Pharaoh followed them with his armies, and there overwhelmed them of the sea that which overwhelmed them

⁷⁹And Pharaoh and his people went astray and were not guided

⁸⁰O children of Israel! We have saved you from your enemy; and we made an appointment with you on the right side of the mount; and we sent down upon you the manna and the quails

⁸¹Eat of the good things we have provided you with, and do not exceed therein, lest my wrath light upon you; for whomsoever my wrath lights upon he falls

⁸²Yet am I forgiving unto him who repents and believes and does right, and then is guided

⁸³But what has hastened thee on away from thy people, O Moses

⁸⁴He said, 'They were here upon my track and I hastened on to Thee, my Lord! that thou mightest be pleased

⁸⁵Said He, 'Verily, we have tried thy people, since thou didst leave, and es Samariy has led them astray

⁸⁶And Moses returned to his people, wrathful, grieving! Said he, 'O my, people! did not your Lord promise you a good promise? Has the time seemed too long for you, or do you desire that wrath should light on you from your Lord, that ye have broken your promise to me

⁸⁷They said, 'We have not broken our promise to thee of our own accord. But we were made to carry loads of the ornaments of the people, and we hurled them down, and so did es Samariy cast

⁸⁸and he brought forth for the people a corporeal calf which lowed.' And they said, 'This is your god and the god of Moses, but he has forgotten

⁸⁹What! do they not see that it does not return them any speech, and cannot control for them harm or profit

⁹⁰Aaron too told them before, 'O my people! ye are only being tried thereby; and, verily, your Lord is the Merciful, so follow me and obey my bidding

⁹¹They said, 'We will not cease to pay devotion to it until Moses come back to us

⁹²Said he, 'O Aaron! what prevented thee, when thou didst see them go astray

⁹³from following me? Hast thou then rebelled against my bidding

⁹⁴Said he, 'O son of my mother! seize me not by my beard, or my head! Verily, I feared lest thou shouldst say, "Thou hast made a division amongst the children of Israel, and hast not observed my word

⁹⁵Said he, 'What was thy design, O Samariy

⁹⁶Said he, 'I beheld what they beheld not, and I grasped a handful from the footprint of the messenger and cast it; for thus my soul induced me

⁹⁷Said he, 'Then get thee gone; verily, it shall be thine in life to say, "Touch me not!" and, verily, for thee there is a threat which thou shalt surely never alter. But look at thy god to which thou wert just now devout; we will surely burn it, and then we will scatter it in scattered pieces in the sea

⁹⁸Your God is only God who,- there is no god but He,- He embraceth everything in His knowledge

⁹⁹Thus do we narrate to thee the history of what has gone before, and we have brought thee a reminder from us

¹⁰⁰Whoso turns therefrom, verily, he shall bear on the resurrection day a burden

¹⁰¹for them to bear for aye, and evil for them on the resurrection day will it be to bear

¹⁰²On the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and we will gather the sinners in that day blue-eyed

¹⁰³They shall whisper to each other, 'Ye have only tarried ten days

¹⁰⁴We know best what they say, when the most exemplary of them in his way shall say, 'Ye have only tarried a day

¹⁰⁵They will ask thee about the mountains; say, 'My Lord will scatter them in scattered pieces

¹⁰⁶and He will leave them a level plain

¹⁰⁷thou wilt see therein no crookedness or inequality

¹⁰⁸On that day they shall follow the caller in whom is no crookedness; and the voices shall be hushed before the Merciful, and thou shalt hear naught but a shuffling

¹⁰⁹On that day shall no intercession be of any avail, save from such as the Merciful permits, and who is acceptable to Him in speech

¹¹⁰He knows what is before them and what is behind them, but they do not comprehend knowledge of Him

¹¹¹Faces shall be humbled before the Living, the Self-subsistent; and he who bears injustice is ever lost

¹¹²But he who does righteous acts and is a believer, he shall fear neither wrong nor diminution

¹¹³Thus have we sent it down an Arabic Qur'an; and we have turned about in it the threat,- haply they may fear, or it may cause them to remember

¹¹⁴Exalted then be God, the king, the truth! Hasten not the Qur'an before its inspiration is decided for thee; but say, 'O Lord! increase me in knowledge

¹¹⁵We did make a covenant with Adam of yore, but he forgot it, and we found no firm purpose in him

¹¹⁶And when we said to the angels, ' Adore Adam,' they adored, save Iblis, who refused

¹¹⁷And we said, 'O Adam! verily, this is a foe to thee and to thy wife; never then let him drive you twain forth from the garden or thou wilt be wretched

¹¹⁸Verily, thou hast not to be hungry there, nor naked

¹¹⁹and, verily, thou shalt not thirst therein, nor feel the noonday heat

¹²⁰But the devil whispered to him. Said he, 'O Adam! shall I guide thee to the tree of immortality, and a kingdom that shall not wane

¹²¹And they eat therefrom, and their shame became apparent to them; and they began to stitch upon themselves some leaves of the garden; and Adam rebelled against his Lord, and went astray

¹²²Then his Lord chose him, and relented towards him, and guided him

¹²³Said he, 'Go down, ye twain, therefrom altogether, some of you foes to the other. And if there should come to you, from me a guidance; then whoso follows my guidance shall neither err nor be wretched

¹²⁴But he who turns away from my reminder, verily, for him shall be a straitened livelihood; and we will gather him on the resurrection day blind

¹²⁵He shall say, 'My Lord! wherefore hast Thou gathered me blind when I used to see

¹²⁶He shall say, 'Our signs came to thee, and thou didst forget them; thus today art thou forgotten

¹²⁷Thus do we recompense him who is extravagant and believes not in the signs of his Lord; and the torment of the hereafter is keener and more lasting

¹²⁸Does it not occur to them how many generations we have destroyed before them?- they walk in their very dwelling-places; verily, in that are signs to those endued with intelligence

¹²⁹And had it not been for thy Lord's word already passed (the punishment) would have been inevitable and (at) an appointed time

¹³⁰Bear patiently then what they say, and celebrate the praises of thy Lord before the rising of the sun, and before its setting, and at times in the night celebrate them; and at the ends of the day; haply thou mayest please (Him)

¹³¹And do not strain after what we have provided a few of them with - the flourish of the life of this world, to try them by; but the provision of thy Lord is better and more lasting

¹³²Bid thy people prayer, and persevere in it; we do not ask thee to provide. We will provide, and the issue shall be to piety

¹³³They say, 'Unless he bring us a sign from his Lord - What! has there not come to them the manifest sign of what was in the pages of yore

¹³⁴But had we destroyed them with torment before it, they would have said, 'Unless Thou hadst sent to us an apostle, that we might follow Thy signs before we were abased and put to shame

¹³⁵Say, ' Each one has to wait, so wait ye but in the end ye shall know who are the fellows of the level way, and who are guided

¹Their reckoning draws nigh to men, yet in heedlessness they turn aside

²No reminder comes to them from their Lord of late, but they listen while they mock

³and their hearts make sport thereof! And those who do wrong discourse secretly (saying), 'Is this man aught but a mortal like yourselves? will ye accede to magic, while ye can see

⁴Say, 'My Lord knows what is said in the heavens and the earth, He hears and knows

⁵Nay!' they say, 'a jumble of dreams; nay! he has forged it; nay! he is a poet; but let him bring us a sign as those of yore were sent

⁶No city before them which we destroyed believed - how will they believe

⁷Nor did we send before them any but men whom we inspired? Ask ye the people of the Scriptures if ye do not know

⁸Nor did we make them bodies not to eat food, nor were they immortal

⁹Yet we made our promise to them good, and we saved them and whom we pleased; but we destroyed those who committed excesses

¹⁰We have sent down to you a book in which is a reminder for you; have ye then no sense

¹¹How many a city which had done wrong have we broken up, and raised up after it another people

¹²And when they perceived our violence they ran away from it

¹³Run not away, but return to what ye delighted in, and to your dwellings! haply ye will be questioned

¹⁴Said they, 'O woe is us! verily, we were wrong-doers

¹⁵And that ceased not to be their cry until we made them mown down,- smouldering out

¹⁶We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between the two in play

¹⁷Had we wished to take to a sport, we would have taken to one from before ourselves; had we been bent on doing so

¹⁸Nay, we hurl the truth against falsehood and it crashes into it, and lo! it vanishes, but woe to you for what ye attribute (to God)

¹⁹His are whosoever are in the heavens and the earth, and those who are with Him are not too big with pride for His service, nor do they weary

²⁰They celebrate His praises by night and day without intermission

²¹Or have they taken gods from the earth who can raise up (the dead)

²²Were there in both (heaven and earth) gods beside God, both would surely have been corrupted. Celebrated then be the praise of God, the Lord of the throne, above what they ascribe

²³He shall not be questioned concerning what He does, but they shall be questioned

²⁴Have they taken gods beside Him? Say, 'Bring your proofs. This is the reminder of those who are with me, and of those who were before me.' Nay, most of them know not the truth, and they do turn aside

²⁵We have not sent any prophet before thee, but we inspired him that, 'There is no god but Me, so serve ye Me

²⁶And they say, 'The Merciful has taken a son; celebrated be His praise!' - Nay, honoured servants

²⁷they do not speak until He speaks; but at His bidding do they act

²⁸He knows what is before them, and what is behind them, and they shall not intercede except for him whom He is pleased with; and they shrink through fear

²⁹And whoso of them should say, 'Verily, I am god instead of Him,' such a one we recompense with hell; thus do we recompense the wrongdoers

³⁰Do not those who misbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were both solid, and we burst them asunder; and we made from water every living thing - will they then not believe

³¹And we placed on the earth firm mountains lest it should move with them, and He made therein open roads for paths, haply they may be guided

³²and we made the heaven a guarded roof; yet from our signs they turn aside

³³He it is who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each floating in a sky

³⁴We never made for any mortal before thee immortality; what, if thou shouldst die, will they live on for aye

³⁵Every soul shall taste of death! we will test them with evil and with good, as a trial; and unto us shall they return

³⁶And when those who misbelieve see thee, they only take thee for a jest, 'Is this he who mentions your gods?' Yet they at the mention of the Merciful do disbelieve

³⁷Man is created out of haste. I will show, you my signs; but do not hurry Me

³⁸And they say, 'When will this threat (come to pass), if ye tell the truth

³⁹Did those who misbelieve but know when the fire shall not be warded off from their faces nor from their backs, and they shall not be helped

⁴⁰Nay, it shall come on them suddenly, and shall dumbfounder them, and they shall not be able to repel it, nor shall they be respited

⁴¹Prophets before thee have been mocked at, but that whereat they jested encompassed those who mocked

⁴²Say, 'Who shall guard you by night and by day from the Merciful?' Nay, but they from the mention of their Lord do turn aside

⁴³Have they gods to defend them against us? These cannot help themselves, nor shall they be abetted against us

⁴⁴Nay, but we have granted enjoyment to these men and to their fathers whilst life was prolonged. Do they not see that we come to the land and shorten its borders? Shall they then prevail

⁴⁵Say, 'I only warn you by inspiration;' but the deaf hear not the call when they are warned

⁴⁶But if a blast of the torment of thy Lord touches them, they will surely say, 'O, woe is us! verily, we were wrong-doers

⁴⁷We will place just balances upon the resurrection day, and no soul shall be wronged at all, even though it be the weight of a grain of mustard seed, we will bring it; for we are good enough at reckoning up

⁴⁸We did give to Moses and Aaron the Discrimination, and a light and a reminder to those who fear

⁴⁹who are afraid of their Lord in secret; and who at the Hour do shrink

⁵⁰This is a blessed reminder which we have sent down, will ye then deny it

⁵¹And we gave Abraham a right direction before; for about him we knew

⁵²When he said to his father and to his people, 'What are these images to which ye pay devotion

⁵³Said they, 'We found our fathers serving them

⁵⁴Said he, 'Both you and your fathers have been in obvious error

⁵⁵They said, 'Dost thou come to us with the truth, or art thou but of those who play

⁵⁶He said, 'Nay, but your Lord is Lord of the heavens and the earth, which He originated; and I am of those who testify to this

⁵⁷and, by God! I will plot against your idols after ye have turned and shown me your backs

⁵⁸So he brake them all in pieces, except a large one they had; that haply they might refer it to that

⁵⁹Said they, 'Who has done this with our gods? verily, he is of the wrong-doers

⁶⁰They said, 'We heard a youth mention them who is called Abraham

⁶¹Said they, 'Then bring him before the eyes of men; haply they will bear witness

⁶²Said they, 'Was it thou who did this to our gods, O Abraham

⁶³Said he, 'Nay, it was this largest of them; but ask them, if they can speak

⁶⁴Then they came to themselves and said, 'Verily, ye are the wrong-doers

⁶⁵Then they turned upside down again: 'Thou knewest that these cannot speak

⁶⁶Said he, 'Will ye then serve, beside God, what cannot profit you at all, nor harm you

⁶⁷fie upon you, and what ye serve beside God! have ye then no sense

⁶⁸Said they, 'Burn him, and help your gods, if ye are going to do so

⁶⁹We said, 'O fire! be thou cool and a safety for Abraham

⁷⁰They desired to plot against him, but we made them the losers

⁷¹And we brought him and Lot safely to the land which we have blessed for the world

⁷²and we bestowed upon him Isaac and Jacob as a fresh gift, and each of them we made righteous persons

⁷³and we made them high priests to guide (men) by our bidding, and we inspired them to do good works, and to be steadfast in prayer, and to give alms; and they did serve us

⁷⁴And Lot, to him we gave judgment and knowledge, and we brought him safely out of the city which had done vile acts; verily, they were a people who wrought abominations

⁷⁵And we made him enter into our mercy; verily, he was of the righteous

⁷⁶And Noah, when he cried aforetime, and we answered him and saved him and his people from the mighty trouble

⁷⁷and we helped him against the people who said our signs were lies; verily, they were a bad people, so we drowned them all together

⁷⁸And David and Solomon, when they gave judgment concerning the field, when some people's sheep had strayed therein at night; and we testified to their judgment

⁷⁹and this we gave Solomon to understand. To each of them we gave judgment and knowledge; and to David we subjected the mountains to celebrate our praises, and the birds too,- it was we who did it

⁸⁰And we taught him the art of making coats of mail for you, to shield you from each other's violence; are ye then grateful

⁸¹And to Solomon (we subjected) the wind blowing stormily, to run on at his bidding to the land which Ave have blessed, - for all things did we know

⁸²and some devils to dive for him, and to do other works beside that; and we kept guard over them

⁸³And Job, when he cried to his Lord, 'As for me, harm has touched me, but Thou art the most merciful of the merciful ones

⁸⁴And we answered him, and removed from him the distress that was upon him; and we gave his family, and the like of them with them, as a mercy from us, and a remembrance to those who serve us

⁸⁵And Ishmael, and Idris, and Dhu 'l Kifl, all of these were of the patient

⁸⁶and we made them enter into our mercy; verily, they were among the righteous

⁸⁷And Dhu 'nnun, when he went away in wrath and thought that we had no power over him; and he cried out in the darkness, ' There is no god but Thou, celebrated be Thy praise! Verily, I was of the evildoers

⁸⁸And we answered him, and saved him from the trouble. Thus do we save believers

⁸⁹And Zachariah, when he cried unto his Lord, 'O Lord! leave me not alone; for thou art the best of heirs

⁹⁰And we answered him, and bestowed upon him John; and we made his wife right for him; verily, these vied in good works, and called on us with longing and dread, and were humble before us

⁹¹And she who guarded her private parts, and we breathed into her of our Spirit, and we made her and her son a sign unto the worlds

⁹²Verily, this your nation is one nation; and I am your Lord, so serve me

⁹³But they cut up their affair amongst themselves; they all shall return to us

⁹⁴and he who acts aright, and he who is a believer, there is no denial of his efforts, for, verily, we will write them down for him

⁹⁵There is a ban upon a city which we have destroyed that they shall not return

⁹⁶until Yagug and Magug are let out, and they from every hummock shall glide forth

⁹⁷And the true promise draws nigh, and lo! they are staring - the eyes of those who misbelieve! O, woe is us! we were heedless of this, nay, we were wrong-doers

⁹⁸Verily, ye, and what ye serve beside God, shall be the pebbles of hell, to it shall ye go down

⁹⁹Had these been God's they would not have gone down thereto: but all shall dwell therein for aye

¹⁰⁰for them therein is groaning, but they therein shall not be heard

¹⁰¹Verily, those for whom the good (reward) from us was fore-ordained, they from it shall be kept far away

¹⁰²they shall not hear the slightest sound thereof, and they in what their souls desire shall dwell for aye

¹⁰³The greatest terror shall not grieve them; and the angels shall meet them, (saying), 'This is your day which ye were promised

¹⁰⁴The day when we will roll up the heavens as es-Sigill rolls up the books; as we produced it at its first creation will we bring it back again - a promise binding upon us; verily, we are going to do it

¹⁰⁵And already have we written in the Psalms after the reminder that the earth shall my righteous servants inherit

¹⁰⁶Verily, in this is preaching for a people who serve me

¹⁰⁷We have only sent thee as a mercy to the worlds

¹⁰⁸Say, 'I am only inspired that your God is one God; are ye then resigned

¹⁰⁹But if they turn their backs say, 'I have proclaimed (war) against all alike, but I know not if what ye are threatened with be near or far

¹¹⁰Verily, He knows what is spoken openly, and He knows what ye hide

¹¹¹I know not, haply, it is a trial for you and a provision for a season

¹¹²Say, 'My Lord! judge thou with truth! and our Lord is the Merciful whom we ask for aid against what they ascribe

¹O ye folk! fear your Lord. Verily, the earthquake of the Hour is a mighty thing

²On the day ye shall see it, every suckling woman shall be seared away from that to which she gave suck; and every pregnant woman shall lay down her load; and thou shalt see men drunken, though they be not drunken: but the torment of God is severe

³And amongst men is one who wrangles about God without knowledge, and follows every rebellious devil

⁴against whom it is written down that whoso takes him for a patron, verily, he will lead him astray, and will guide him towards the torment of the blaze

⁵O ye folk! if ye are in doubt about the raising (of the dead),- verily, we created you from earth, then from a clot, then from congealed blood, then from a morsel, shaped or shapeless, that we may explain to you. And we make what we please rest in the womb until an appointed time; then we bring you forth babes; then let you reach your full age; and of you are some who die; and of you are some who are kept back till the most decrepit age, till he knows no longer aught of knowledge. And ye see the earth parched, and when we send down water on it, it stirs and swells, and brings forth herbs of every beauteous kind

⁶That is because God, He is the truth, and because He quickens the dead, and because He is mighty over all

⁷and because the Hour is coming, there is no doubt therein, and because God raises up those who are in the tombs

⁸And amongst men is one who wrangles about God without knowledge or guidance or an illuminating book

⁹twisting his neck from the way of God; for him is disgrace in this world, and we will make him taste, upon the resurrection day, the torment of burning

¹⁰That is for what thy hands have done before, and for that God is not unjust unto His servants

¹¹And amongst men is one who serves God (wavering) on a brink; and if there befall him good, he is comforted; but if there befall him a trial, he turns round again, and loses this world and the next - that is an obvious loss

¹²He calls, besides God, on what can neither harm him nor profit him;- that is a wide error

¹³He calls on him whose harm is nigher than his profit,- a bad lord and a bad comrade

¹⁴Verily, God makes those who believe and do aright enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow; verily, God does what He will

¹⁵He who thinks that God will never help him in this world or the next - let him stretch a cord to the roof and put an end to himself; and let him cut it and see if his stratagem will remove what he is enraged at

¹⁶Thus have we sent down manifest signs; for, verily, God guides whom He will

¹⁷Verily, those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Sabaeans, and the Christians, and the Magians, and those who join other gods with God, verily, God will decide between them on the resurrection day; verily, God is witness over all

¹⁸Do they not see that God, whosoever is in the heavens adores Him, and whosoever is in the earth, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the mountains, and the beasts, and many among men, though many a one deserves the torments? Whomsoever God abases there is none to honour him; verily, God does what He pleases

¹⁹These are two disputants who dispute about their Lord, but those who misbelieve, for them are cut out garments of fire, there shall be poured over their heads boiling water

²⁰wherewith what is in their bellies shall be dissolved and their skins too

²¹and for them are maces of iron

²²Whenever they desire to come forth therefrom through pain, they are sent back into it:. 'And taste ye the torment of the burning

²³Verily, God will make those who believe and do right enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow; they shall be bedecked therein with bracelets of gold and with pearls, and their garments therein shall be of silk

²⁴and they shall be guided to the goodly speech, and they shall be guided to the laudable way

²⁵Verily, those who misbelieve and who turn men away from God's path and the Sacred Mosque, which we have made for all men alike, the dweller therein, and the stranger, and he who desires therein profanation with injustice, we will make him taste grievous woe

²⁶And when we established for Abraham the place of the House, (saying), 'Associate naught with me, but cleanse my House for those who make the circuits, for those who stand to pray, for those who bow, and for those too who adore

²⁷And proclaim amongst men the Pilgrimage; let them come to you on foot and on every slim camel, from every deep pass

²⁸that they may witness advantages for them, and may mention the name of God for the stated days over what God has provided them with of brute beasts, then eat thereof and feed the badly off, the poor

²⁹Then let them finish the neglect of their persons, and let them pay their vows and make the circuit round the old House

³⁰That do. And whoso magnifies the sacred things of God it is better for him with his Lord. 'Cattle are lawful for you, except what is recited to you; and avoid the abomination of idols, and avoid speaking falsely

³¹being 'Hanifs to God, not associating aught with Him; for he who associates aught with God, it is as though he had fallen from heaven, and the birds snatch him up, or the wind blows him away into a far distant place

³²That - and he who makes grand the symbols of God, they come from piety of heart

³³Therein have ye advantages for an appointed time, then the place for sacrificing them is at the old House

³⁴To every nation have we appointed rites, to mention the name of God over what He has provided them with of brute beasts; and your God is one God, to Him then be resigned, and give glad tidings to the lowly

³⁵whose hearts when God is mentioned are afraid, and to those who are patient of what befalls them, and to those who are steadfast in prayer and of what we have given them expend in alms

³⁶The bulky (camels) we have made for you one of the symbols of God, therein have ye good; so mention the name of God over them as they stand in a row, and when they fall down (dead) eat of them, and feed the easily contented and him who begs

³⁷Thus have we subjected them to you; haply, ye may give thanks! Their meat will never reach to God, nor yet their blood, but the piety from you will reach to Him. Thus hath He subjected them to you that ye may magnify God for guiding you: and give thou glad tidiness to those who do good

³⁸Verily, God will defend those who believe; verily, God loves not any misbelieving traitor

³⁹Permission is given to those who fight because they have been wronged, - and, verily, God to help them has the might

⁴⁰who have been driven forth from their homes undeservedly, only for that they said, 'Our Lord is God;' and were it not for God's repelling some men with others, cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques, wherein God's name is mentioned much, would be destroyed. But God will surely help him who helps Him; verily, God is powerful, mighty

⁴¹Who, if we establish them in the earth, are steadfast in prayer, and give alms, and bid what is right, and forbid what is wrong; and God's is the future of affairs

⁴²But if they call thee liar, the people of Noah called him liar before them, as did 'Ad and Thamud

⁴³and the people of Abraham, and the people of Lot

⁴⁴and the fellows of Midian; and Moses was called a liar too: but I let the misbelievers range at large, and then I seized on them, and how great was the change

⁴⁵And how many a city have we destroyed while it yet did wrong, and it was turned over on its roofs, and (how many) a deserted well and lofty palace

⁴⁶Have they not travelled on through the land? and have they not hearts to understand with, or ears to hear with? for it is not their eyes which are blind, but blind are the hearts which are within their breasts

⁴⁷They will bid thee hasten on the torment, but God will never fail in his promise; for, verily, a day with thy Lord is as a thousand years of what ye number

⁴⁸And to how many a city have I given full range while it yet did wrong! then I seized on it, and unto me was the return

⁴⁹Say, 'O ye folk! I am naught but a plain warner to you

⁵⁰but those who believe and do right, for them is forgiveness and a generous provision

⁵¹but those who strive to discredit our signs, they are the fellows of hell

⁵²We have not sent before thee any apostle or prophet, but that when he wished, Satan threw not something into his wish; but God annuls what Satan throws; then does God confirm his signs, and God is knowing, wise

⁵³to make what Satan throws a trial unto those in whose hearts is sickness, and those whose hearts are hard; and, verily, the wrong - doers are in a wide schism

⁵⁴and that those who have been given 'the knowledge' may know that it is the truth from thy Lord, and may believe therein, and that their hearts may be lowly; for, verily, God surely will guide those who believe into a right way

⁵⁵But those who misbelieve will not cease to be in doubt thereof until the Hour comes on them suddenly, or there comes on them the torment of the barren day

⁵⁶The kingdom on that day shall be God's, He shall judge between them; and those who believe and do aright shall be in gardens of pleasure

⁵⁷but those who misbelieve and say our signs are lies, these - for them is shameful woe

⁵⁸And those who flee in God's way, and then are slain or die, God will provide them with a goodly provision; for, verily, God is the best of providers

⁵⁹He shall surely make them enter by an entrance that they like; for, verily, God is knowing, clement

⁶⁰That (is so). Whoever punishes with the like of what he has been injured with, and shall then be outraged again, God shall surely help him; verily, God pardons, forgives

⁶¹That for that God joins on the night to the day, and joins on the day to the night, and that God is hearing, seeing

⁶²that is for that God is the truth, and for that what ye call on beside Him is falsehood, and that God is the high, the great

⁶³Hast thou not seen that God sends down from the sky water, and on the morrow the earth is green? verily, God is kind and well aware

⁶⁴His is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and, verily, God is rich and to be praised

⁶⁵Hast thou not seen that God has subjected for you what is in the earth, and the ship that runs on in the sea at His bidding, and He holds back the sky from falling on the earth save at His bidding? verily, God to men is gracious, merciful

⁶⁶He it is who quickens you, then makes you die, then will He quicken you again - verily, man is indeed ungrateful

⁶⁷For every nation have we made rites which they observe; let them not then dispute about the matter, but call upon thy Lord; verily, thou art surely in a right guidance

⁶⁸But if they wrangle with thee, say, 'God best knows what ye do

⁶⁹God shall judge between them on the resurrection day concerning that whereon they disagreed

⁷⁰Didst thou not know that God knows what is in the heavens and the earth? verily, that is in a book; verily, that for God is easy

⁷¹And they serve beside God what He has sent down no power for, and what they have no knowledge of; but the wrong-doers shall have none to help them

⁷²When our signs are read to them manifest, thou mayest recognise in the faces of those who misbelieve disdain; they well-nigh rush at those who recite to them our signs. Say, 'Shall I inform you of something worse than that for you, the Fire which God has promised to those who misbelieve? an evil journey shall it be

⁷³O ye folk! a parable is struck out for you, so listen to it. Verily, those on whom ye call beside God could never create a fly if they all united together to do it, and if the fly should despoil them of aught they could not snatch it away from it - weak is both the seeker and the sought

⁷⁴They do not value God at His true value; verily, God is powerful, mighty

⁷⁵God chooses apostles of the angels and of men; verily, God hears and sees

⁷⁶He knows what is before them and what is behind them; and unto God affairs return

⁷⁷O ye who believe! bow down and adore, and serve your Lord, and do well, haply ye may prosper

⁷⁸and fight strenuously for God, as is His due. He has elected you, and has not put upon you any hindrance by your religion,- the faith of your father Abraham. He has named you Muslims before and in this (book), that the Apostle may be a witness against you, and that ye may be witnesses against men. Be ye then steadfast in prayer, and give alms, and hold fast by God; He is your sovereign, and an excellent sovereign, and an excellent help

¹Prosperous are the believers

²who in their prayers are humble

³and who from vain talk turn aside

⁴and who in almsgiving are active

⁵And who guard their private parts

⁶except for their wives or what their right hands possess for then, verily, they are not to be blamed

⁷but whoso craves aught beyond that, they are the transgressors

⁸and who observe their trusts and covenants

⁹and who guard well their prayers

¹⁰these are the heirs

¹¹who shall inherit Paradise; they shall dwell therein for aye

¹²We have created man from an extract of clay

¹³then we made him a clot in a sure depository

¹⁴then we created the clot congealed blood, and we created the congealed blood a morsel; then we created the morsel bone, and we clothed the bone with flesh then we produced it another creation; and blessed be God, the best of creators

¹⁵Then shall ye after that surely die

¹⁶then shall ye on the day of resurrection be raised

¹⁷And we have created above you seven roads; nor are we heedless of the creation

¹⁸And we send down from the heaven water by measure, and we make it rest in the earth; but, verily, we are able to take it away

¹⁹and we produce for you thereby gardens of palms and grapes wherein ye have many fruits, and whence ye eat

²⁰And a tree growing out of Mount Sinai which produces oil, and a condiment for those who eat

²¹And, verily, ye have a lesson in the cattle; we give you to drink of what is in their bellies; and ye have therein many advantages, and of them ye eat

²²and on them and on ships ye are borne

²³We sent Noah unto his people, and he said, 'O my people! worship God, ye have no god but Him; do ye then not fear

²⁴Said the chiefs of those who misbelieved among his people, 'This is nothing but a mortal like yourselves who wishes to have preference over you, and had God pleased He would have sent angels; we have not heard of this amongst our fathers of yore

²⁵he is nothing but a man possessed; let him bide then for a season

²⁶Said he, 'Help me, for they call me liar

²⁷And we inspired him, 'Make the ark under our eyes and inspiration; and when the oven boils over, conduct into it of every kind two, with thy family, except him of them against whom the word has passed; and do not address me for those who do wrong, verily, they are to be drowned

²⁸But when thou art settled, thou and those with thee in the ark, say, "Praise belongs to God, who saved us from the unjust people

²⁹And say, "My Lord! make me to alight in a blessed alighting-place, for Thou art the best of those who cause men to alight

³⁰Verily, in that is a sign, and, verily, we were trying them

³¹Then we raised up after them another generation

³²and we sent amongst them a prophet of themselves (saying), 'Serve God, ye have no god but He; will ye then not fear

³³Said the chiefs of his people who misbelieved, and called the meeting of the last day a lie, and to whom we gave enjoyment in the life of this world, 'This is only a mortal like yourselves, who eats of what ye eat

³⁴and drinks of what ye drink; and if ye obey a mortal like yourselves, verily, ye will then be surely losers

³⁵Does he promise you that when ye are dead, and have become dust and bones, that then ye will be brought forth

³⁶Away, away with what ye are threatened

³⁷there is only our life in the world! We die and we live, and we shall not be raised

³⁸He is only a man who forges against God a lie. And we believe not in him

³⁹Said he, 'My Lord! help me, for they call me liar

⁴⁰He said, 'Within a little they will surely awake repenting

⁴¹And the noise seized them deservedly; and we made them as rubbish borne by a torrent; so, away with the unjust people

⁴²Then we raised up after them other generations

⁴³No nation can anticipate its appointed time, nor keep it back

⁴⁴Then we sent our apostles one after another. Whenever its apostle came to any nation they called him a liar; and we made some to follow others; and we made them legends; away then with a people who do not believe

⁴⁵Then we sent Moses and his brother Aaron with our signs

⁴⁶and with plain authority to Pharaoh and his chiefs, but they were too big with pride, and were a haughty people

⁴⁷And they said, 'Shall we believe two mortals like ourselves, when their people are servants of ours

⁴⁸So they called them liars, and were of those who perished

⁴⁹And we gave Moses the Book, that haply they might be guided

⁵⁰And we made the son of Mary and his mother a sign; and we lodged them both on a high place, furnished with security and a spring

⁵¹O ye apostles! eat of the good things and do right; verily, what ye do I know

⁵²And, verily, this nation of yours is one nation, and I am your Lord; so fear me

⁵³And they have become divided as to their affair amongst themselves into sects, each party rejoicing in what they have themselves

⁵⁴So leave them in their flood (of error) for a time

⁵⁵Do they reckon that that of which we grant them such an extent

⁵⁶of wealth and children, we hasten to them as good things - nay, but they do not perceive

⁵⁷Verily, those who shrink with terror at their Lord

⁵⁸and those who in the signs of their Lord believe

⁵⁹and those who with their Lord join none

⁶⁰and those who give what they do give while their hearts are afraid that they unto their Lord will return

⁶¹these hasten to good things and are first to gain the same

⁶²But we will not oblige a soul beyond its capacity; for with us is a book that utters the truth, and they shall not be wronged

⁶³Nay, their hearts are in a flood (of error) at this, and they have works beside this which they do

⁶⁴Until we catch the affluent ones amongst them with the torment; then lo! they cry for aid

⁶⁵Cry not for aid today! verily, against us ye will not be helped

⁶⁶My signs were recited to you, but upon your heels did ye turn back

⁶⁷big with pride at it, in vain discourse by night

⁶⁸Is it that they did not ponder over the words, whether that has come to them which came not to their fathers of yore

⁶⁹Or did they not know their apostle, that they thus deny him

⁷⁰Or do they say, 'He is possessed by a ginn?' Nay, he came to them with the truth, and most of them are averse from the truth

⁷¹But if the truth were to follow their lusts, the heavens and the earth would be corrupted with all who in them are! - Nay, we brought them their reminder, but they from their reminder turn aside

⁷²Or dost thou ask them for a tribute? but the tribute of thy Lord is better, for He is the best of those who provide

⁷³And, verily, thou dost call them to a right way

⁷⁴but, verily, those who believe not in the hereafter from the way do veer

⁷⁵But if we had mercy on them, and removed the distress they have, they would persist in their rebellion, blindly wandering on

⁷⁶And we caught them with the torment, but they did not abase themselves before their Lord, nor did they humble themselves

⁷⁷until we opened for them a door with grievous torment, then lo! they are in despair

⁷⁸He it is who produced for you hearing, and sight, and minds, - little is it that ye thank

⁷⁹And He it is who created you in the earth, and unto Him shall ye be gathered

⁸⁰And He it is who gives you life and death; and His is the alternation of the night and the day; have ye then no sense

⁸¹Nay, but they said like that which those of yore did say

⁸²They said, 'What! when we have become earth and bones, are we then going to be raised

⁸³We have been promised this, and our fathers too, before;- this is naught but old folks' tales

⁸⁴Say, 'Whose is the earth and those who are therein, if ye but know

⁸⁵They will say, 'God's.' Say, 'Do ye not then mind

⁸⁶Say, 'Who is Lord of the seven heavens, and Lord of the mighty throne

⁸⁷They will say, 'God.' Say, 'Do ye not then fear

⁸⁸Say, 'In whose hand is the dominion of everything; He succours but is not succoured, - if ye did but know

⁸⁹They will say, 'God's.' Say, 'Then how can ye be so infatuated

⁹⁰Nay, we have brought them the truth, but, verily, they are liars

⁹¹God never took a son, nor was there ever any god with Him;- then each god would have gone off with what he had created, and some would have exalted themselves over others,- celebrated be His praises above what they attribute (to Him)

⁹²He who knows the unseen and the visible, exalted be He above what they join with Him

⁹³Say, 'My Lord! if Thou shouldst show me what they are threatened

⁹⁴my Lord! then place me not amongst the unjust people

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⁹⁶Repel evil by what is better. We know best what they attribute (to thee)

⁹⁷And say, 'My Lord! I seek refuge in Thee from the incitings of the devils

⁹⁸and I seek refuge in Thee from their presence

⁹⁹Until when death comes to any one of them he says, 'My Lord! send ye me back

¹⁰⁰haply I may do right in that which I have left!' Not so! - a mere word he speaks! - but behind them is a bar until the day they shall be raised

¹⁰¹And when, the trumpet shall be blown, and there shall be no relation between them on that day, nor shall they beg of each other then

¹⁰²And he whose scales are heavy,- they are the prosperous

¹⁰³But he whose scales are light,- these are they who lose themselves, in hell to dwell for aye

¹⁰⁴The fire shall scorch their faces, and they shall curl their lips therein

¹⁰⁵Were not my signs recited to you? and ye said that they were lies

¹⁰⁶They say, 'Our Lord! our misery overcame us, and we were a people who did err

¹⁰⁷Our Lord! take us out therefrom, and if we return, then shall we be unjust

¹⁰⁸He will say, 'Go ye away into it and speak not to me

¹⁰⁹Verily, there was a sect of my servants who said, Our Lord! we believe, so pardon us, and have mercy upon us, for Thou art the best of the merciful ones

¹¹⁰And ye took them for a jest until ye forgat my reminder and did laugh thereat

¹¹¹Verily, I have recompensed them this day for their patience; verily, they are happy now

¹¹²He will say, 'How long a number of years did ye tarry on earth

¹¹³They will say, 'We tarried a day or part of a day, but ask the Numberers

¹¹⁴He will say, 'Ye have only tarried a little, were ye but to know it

¹¹⁵Did ye then reckon that we created you for sport, and that to us ye would not return

¹¹⁶But exalted be God, the true; there is no god but He, the Lord of the noble throne

¹¹⁷and whoso calls upon another god with God has no proof of it, but, verily, his account is with his Lord; verily, the misbelievers shall not prosper

¹¹⁸And say, 'Lord, pardon and be merciful, for Thou art the best of the merciful ones

¹A chapter which we have sent down and determined, and have sent down therein manifest signs; haply ye may be mindful

²The whore and the whoremonger. Scourge each of them with a hundred stripes, and do not let pity for them take hold of you in God's religion, if ye believe in God and the last day; and let a party of the believers witness their torment

³And the whoremonger shall marry none but a whore or an idolatress; and the whore shall none marry but an adulterer or an idolater; God has prohibited this to the believers

⁴but those who cast (imputations) on chaste women and then do not bring four witnesses, scourge them with eighty stripes, and do not receive any testimony of theirs ever, for these are the workers of abomination

⁵Except such as repent after that and act aright, for, verily, God is forgiving and compassionate

⁶And those who cast (imputation) on their wives and have no witnesses except themselves, then the testimony of one of them shall be to testify four times that, by God, he is of those who speak the truth

⁷and the fifth testimony shall be that the curse of God shall be on him if he be of those who lie

⁸And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bears testimony four times that, by God, he is of those who lie

⁹and the fifth that the wrath of God shall be on her if he be of those who speak the truth

¹⁰And were it not for God's grace upon you and His mercy, and that God is relenting, wise

¹¹Verily, those who bring forward the lie, a band of you,- reckon it not as an evil for you, nay, it is good for you; every man of them shall have what he has earned of sin; and he of them who managed to aggravate it, for him is mighty woe

¹²Why did not, when ye heard it, the believing men and believing women think good in themselves, and say, 'This is an obvious lie

¹³Why did they not bring four witnesses to it? but since they did not bring the witnesses, then they in God's eyes are the liars

¹⁴And but for God's grace upon you, and His mercy in this world and the next, there would have touched you, for that which ye spread abroad, mighty woe

¹⁵When ye reported it with your tongues, and spake with your mouths what ye had no knowledge of, and reckoned it a light thing, while in God's eyes it was grave

¹⁶And why did ye not say when ye heard it, 'It is not for us to speak of this? Celebrated be His praises, this is a mighty calumny

¹⁷God admonishes you that ye return not to the like of it ever, if ye be believers

¹⁸and God manifests to you the signs, for God is knowing, wise

¹⁹Verily, those who love that scandal should go abroad amongst those who believe, for them is grievous woe in this world and the next; for God knows, but ye do not know

²⁰And but for God's grace upon you, and His mercy, and that God is kind and compassionate

²¹O ye who believe! follow not the footsteps of Satan, for he who follows the footsteps of Satan, verily, he bids you sin and do wrong; and but for God's grace upon you and His mercy, not one of you would be ever pure; but God purifies whom He will, for God both hears and knows

²²And let not those amongst you who have plenty and ample means swear that they will not give aught to their kinsman and the poor and those who have fled their homes in God's way, but let them pardon and pass it over. Do ye not like God to forgive you? and God is forgiving, compassionate

²³Verily, those who cast imputations on chaste women who are negligent but believing shall be cursed in this world and the next; and for them is mighty woe

²⁴The day when their tongues and hands and feet shall bear witness against them of what they did

²⁵on that day God will pay them their just due; and they shall know that God, He is the plain truth

²⁶The vile women to the vile men, and the vile men to the vile women; and the good women to the good men, and the good men to the good women: these are clear of what they say to them - forgiveness and a noble provision

²⁷O ye who believe! enter not into houses which are not your own houses, until ye have asked leave and saluted the people thereof, that is better for you; haply ye may be mindful

²⁸And if ye find no one therein, then do not enter them until permission is given you, and if it be said to you, 'Go back!' then go back, it is purer for you; for God of what ye do doth know

²⁹It is no crime against you that ye enter uninhabited houses,- a convenience for you;- and God knows what ye show and what ye hide

³⁰Say to the believers that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts; that is purer for them; verily, God is well aware of what they do

³¹And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts, and display not their ornaments, except those which are outside; and let them pull their kerchiefs over their bosoms and not display their ornaments save to their husbands and fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or what their right hands possess, or their male attendants who are incapable, or to children who do not note women's nakedness; and that they beat not with their feet that their hidden ornaments may be known;- but turn ye all repentant to God, O ye believers haply ye may prosper

³²And marry the single amongst you, and the righteous among your servants and your handmaidens. If they be poor, God will enrich them of His grace, for God both comprehends and knows

³³And let those who cannot find a match, until God enriches them of His grace, keep chaste. And such of those whom your right hands possess as crave a writing, write it for them, if ye know any good in them, and give them of the wealth of God which He has given you. And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, if they desire to keep continent, in order to crave the goods of the life of this world; but he who does compel them, then, verily, God after they are compelled is forgiving, compassionate

³⁴Now have we sent down to you manifest signs, and the like of those who have passed away before you, and as an admonition to those who fear

³⁵God is the light of the heavens and the earth; His light is as a niche in which is a lamp, and the lamp is in a glass, the glass is as though it were a glittering star; it is lit from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the east nor of the west, the oil of which would well-nigh give light though no fire touched it,- light upon light!- God guides to His light whom He pleases; and God strikes out parables for men, and God all things doth know

³⁶In the houses God has permitted to be reared and His name to be mentioned therein - His praises are celebrated therein mornings and evenings

³⁷Men whom neither merchandize nor selling divert from the remembrance of God and steadfastness in prayer and giving alms, who fear a day when hearts and eyes shall be upset

³⁸that God may recompense them for the best that they have done, and give them increase of His grace; for God provides whom He pleases without count

³⁹But those who misbelieve, their works are like the mirage in a plain, the thirsty counts it water till when he comes to it he finds nothing, but he finds that God is with him; and He will pay him his account, for God is quick to take account

⁴⁰Or like darkness on a deep sea, there covers it a wave above which is a wave, above which is a cloud,- darknesses one above the other,- when one puts out his hand he can scarcely see it; for he to whom God has given no light, he has no light

⁴¹Hast thou not seen that God,- all who are in the heavens and the earth celebrate His praises, and the birds too spreading out their wings; each one knows its prayer and its praise, and God knows what they do

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⁴³Hast thou not seen that God drives the clouds, and then re-unites them, and then accumulates them, and thou mayest see the rain coming forth from their midst; and He sends down from the sky mountains with hail therein, and He makes it fall on whom He pleases, and He turns it from whom He pleases; the flashing of His lightning well-nigh goes off with their sight

⁴⁴God interchanges the night and the day; verily, in that is a lesson to those endowed with sight

⁴⁵And God created every beast from water, and of them is one that walks upon its belly, and of them one that walks upon two feet, and of them one that walks upon four. God creates what He pleases; verily, God is mighty over all

⁴⁶Now have we sent down manifest signs, and God guides whom He pleases unto the right way

⁴⁷They will say, 'We believe in God and in the Apostle, and we obey.' Then a sect of them turned their backs after that, and they are not believers

⁴⁸And when they are called to God and His Apostle to judge between them, lo! a sect of them do turn aside

⁴⁹But had the right been on their side they would have come to him submissively enough

⁵⁰Is there a sickness in their hearts, or do they doubt, or do they fear lest God and His Apostle should deal unfairly by them?- Nay, it is they who are unjust

⁵¹The speech of the believers, when they are called to God and His Apostle to judge between them, is only to say, 'We hear and we obey;' and these it is who are the prosperous

⁵²for whoso obeys God and His Apostle and dreads God and fears Him, these it is who are the happy

⁵³They swear by God with their most strenuous oath that hadst Thou ordered them they would surely go forth. Say, 'Do not swear - reasonable obedience; verily, God knows what ye do

⁵⁴Say, 'Obey God and obey the Apostle; but if ye turn your backs he has only his burden to bear, and ye have only your burden to bear. But if ye obey him, ye are guided; but the Apostle has only his plain message to deliver

⁵⁵God promises those of you who believe and do right that He will give them the succession in the earth as He gave the succession to those before them, and He will establish for them their religion which He has chosen for them, and to give them, after their fear, safety in exchange.;- they shall worship me, they shall not associate aught with me: but whoso disbelieves after that, those it is who are the sinners

⁵⁶And be steadfast in prayer and give alms and obey the Apostle, haply ye may obtain mercy

⁵⁷Do not reckon that those who misbelieve can frustrate (God) in the earth, for their resort is the Fire, and an ill journey shall it be

⁵⁸O ye who believe! let those whom your right hands possess, and those amongst you who have not reached puberty, ask leave of you three times: before the prayer of dawn, and when ye put off your clothes at noon, and after the evening prayer;- three times of privacy for you: there is no crime on either you or them after these while ye are continually going one about the other. Thus does God explain to you His signs, for God is knowing, wise

⁵⁹And when your children reach puberty let them ask leave as those before them asked leave. Thus does God explain to you His signs, for God is knowing, wise

⁶⁰And those women who have stopped (child-bearing), who do not hope for a match, it is no crime on them that they put off their clothes so as not to display their ornaments; but that they abstain is better for them, for God both hears and knows

⁶¹There is no hindrance to the blind, and no hindrance to the lame, and no hindrance to the sick, and none upon yourselves that you eat from your houses, or the houses of your fathers, or the houses of your mothers, or the houses of your brothers, or the houses of your sisters, or the houses of your paternal uncles, or the houses of your paternal aunts, or the houses of your maternal uncles, or the houses of your maternal aunts, or what ye possess the keys of, or of your friend, there is no crime on you that ye eat all together or separately. And when ye enter houses then greet each other with a salutation from God, blessed and good. Thus does God explain to you His signs, haply ye may understand

⁶²Only those are believers who believe in God and His Apostle, and when they are with Him upon public business go not away until they have asked his leave; verily, those who ask thy leave they it is who believe in God and His Apostle. But when they ask thy leave for any of their own concerns, then give leave to whomsoever thou wilt of them, and ask pardon for them of God; verily, God is forgiving and merciful

⁶³Make not the calling of the Apostle amongst yourselves like your calling one to the other; God knows those of you who withdraw themselves covertly. And let those who disobey his order beware lest there befall them some trial or there befall them grievous woe

⁶⁴Ay, God's is what is in the heavens and the earth, He knows what ye are at; and the day ye shall be sent back to Him then He will inform you of what ye have done, for God all things doth know

¹Blessed be He who sent down the Discrimination to His servant that he might be unto the world a warner

²whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and who has not taken to Himself a son, and who has no partner in His kingdom, and created everything, and then decreed it determinately

³And they take beside Him gods who create not aught, but are themselves created, and cannot control for themselves harm or profit, and cannot control death, or life, or resurrection

⁴And those who misbelieve say, 'This is nothing but a lie which he has forged, and another people hath helped him at it;' but they have wrought an injustice and a falsehood

⁵And they say, 'Old folks' tales, which he has got written down while they are dictated to him morning and evening

⁶Say, 'He sent it down who knows the secret in the heavens and the earth; verily, He is ever forgiving, merciful

⁷And they say, 'What ails this prophet that he eats food and walks in the markets?- unless there be sent down to him an angel and be a warner with him

⁸Or there be thrown to him a treasury or he have a garden to eat therefrom .... !' and the unjust say, 'Ye only follow an infatuated man

⁹See how they strike out for thee parables, and err, and cannot find a way

¹⁰Blessed be He who, if He please, can make for thee better than that, gardens beneath which rivers flow, and can make for thee castles

¹¹Nay, but they call the Hour a lie; but we have prepared for those who call the Hour a lie a blaze

¹²when it seizes them from a far-off place they shall hear its raging and roaring

¹³and when they are thrown into a narrow place thereof, fastened together, they shall call there for destruction

¹⁴Call not today for one destruction, but call, for many destructions

¹⁵Say, 'Is that better or the garden of eternity which was promised to those who fear - which is ever for them a recompense and a retreat

¹⁶They shall have therein what they please, to dwell therein for aye: that is of thy Lord a promise to be demanded

¹⁷And the day He shall gather them and what they served beside God, and He shall say, 'Was it ye who led my servants here astray, or did they err from the way

¹⁸They shall say, 'Celebrated be Thy praise, it was not befitting for us to take any patrons but Thee; but Thou didst give them and their fathers enjoyment until they forgot the Reminder and were a lost people

¹⁹And now have they proved you liars for what ye say, and they cannot ward off or help. And he of you who does wrong we will make him taste great torment

²⁰We have not sent before thee any messengers but that they ate food and walked in the markets; but we have made some of you a trial to others: will ye be patient? thy Lord doth ever look

²¹And those who do not hope to meet us say, 'Unless the angels be sent down to us, or we see our Lord....!' They are too big with pride in their souls and they have exceeded with a great excess

²²The day they shall see the angels,- no glad tidings on that day for the sinners, and they shall say, 'It is rigorously forbidden

²³And we will go on to the works which they have done, and make them like motes in a sunbeam scattered

²⁴The fellows of Paradise on that day shall be in a better abiding-place and a better noonday rest

²⁵The day the heavens shall be cleft asunder with the clouds, and the angels shall be sent down descending

²⁶The true kingdom on that day shall belong to the Merciful, and it shall be a hard day for the misbelievers

²⁷And the day when the unjust shall bite his hands and say, 'O, would that I had taken a way with the Apostle

²⁸O, woe is me! would that I had not taken such a one for a friend now

²⁹for he did lead me astray from the Reminder after it had come to me, for Satan leaves man in the lurch

³⁰The Apostle said, 'O my Lord! verily, my people have taken this Qur'an to be obsolete

³¹Thus have we made for every prophet an enemy from among the sinners; but thy Lord is good guide and helper enough

³²Those who misbelieve said, 'Unless the Qur'an be sent down to him all at once...!' - thus - that we may stablish thy heart therewith, did we reveal it piecemeal

³³Nor shall they come to thee with a parable without our bringing thee the truth and the best interpretation

³⁴They who shall be gathered upon their faces to hell,- these are in the worst place, and err most from the path

³⁵And we did give to Moses the Book, and place with him his brother Aaron as a minister

³⁶and we said, 'Go ye to the people who say our signs are lies, for we will destroy them with utter destruction

³⁷And the people of Noah, when they said the apostles were liars, we drowned them, and we made them a sign for men; and we prepared for the unjust a grievous woe

³⁸And 'Ad and Thamud and the people of ar Rass, and many generations between them

³⁹For each one have we struck out parables, and each one have we ruined with utter ruin

⁴⁰Why, they have come past the cities which were rained on with an evil rain; have they not seen them?- nay, they do not hope to be raised up again

⁴¹And when they saw thee they only took thee for a jest, 'Is this he whom God has sent as an apostle

⁴²he well-nigh leads us astray from our gods, had we not been patient about them.' But they shall know, when they see the torment, who errs most from the path

⁴³Dost thou consider him who takes his lusts for his god? wilt thou then be in charge over him

⁴⁴or dost thou reckon that most of them will hear or understand? they are only like the cattle, nay, they err more from the way

⁴⁵Hast thou not looked to thy Lord how He prolongs the shadow? but had He willed He would have made it stationary; then we make the sun a guide thereto

⁴⁶then we contract it towards us with an easy contraction

⁴⁷And He it is who made the night for a garment; and sleep for repose, and made the day for men to rise up again

⁴⁸And He it is who sent the winds with glad tidings before His mercy; and we send down from the heavens pure water

⁴⁹to quicken therewith the dead country, and to give it for drink to what we have created,- the cattle and many folk

⁵⁰We have turned it in various ways amongst them that they may remember; though most men refuse aught but to misbelieve

⁵¹But, had we pleased, we would have sent in every city a warner

⁵²So obey not the unbelievers and fight strenuously with them in many a strenuous fight

⁵³He it is who has let loose the two seas, this one sweet and fresh, that one bitter and pungent, and has made between them a rigorous prohibition

⁵⁴And he it is who has created man from water, and has made for him blood relationship and marriage relationship; for thy Lord is mighty

⁵⁵Yet they worship beside God what can neither profit them nor harm them; but he who misbelieves in his Lord backs up (the devil)

⁵⁶We have only sent thee to give glad tidings and to warn

⁵⁷Say, 'I ask you not for it a hire unless one please to take unto his Lord a way

⁵⁸And rely thou upon the Living One who dies not; and celebrate His praise, for He knows well enough about the thoughts of His servants

⁵⁹He who created the heavens and the earth, and what is between them, in six days, and then made for the throne; the Merciful One, ask concerning Him of One who is aware

⁶⁰And when it is said, ' Adore ye the Merciful!' they say, 'What is the Merciful? shall we adore what thou dost order us?' and it only increases their aversion

⁶¹Blessed be He who placed in the heavens zodiacal signs, and placed therein the lamp and an illuminating moon

⁶²And He it is who made the night and the day alternating for him who desires to remember or who wishes to be thankful

⁶³And the servants of the Merciful are those who walk upon the earth lowly, and when the ignorant address them, say, 'Peace

⁶⁴And those who pass the night adoring their Lord and standing

⁶⁵and those who say, 'O our Lord! turn from us the torment of hell; verily, its torments are persistent

⁶⁶verily, they are evil as an abode and a station

⁶⁷And those who when they spend are neither extravagant nor miserly, but who ever take their stand between the two

⁶⁸and who call not upon another god with God; and kill not the soul which God has prohibited save deservedly; and do not commit fornication: for he who does that shall meet with a penalty

⁶⁹doubled for him shall be the torment on the resurrection day, and he shall be therein for aye despised

⁷⁰Save he who turns again and believes and does a righteous work; for, as to those, God will change their evil deeds to good, for God is ever forgiving, merciful

⁷¹And he who turns again and does right, verily, he turns again to God repentant

⁷²And those who do not testify falsely; and when they pass by frivolous discourse, pass by it honourably

⁷³and those who when they are reminded of the signs of their Lord do not fall down thereat deaf and blind

⁷⁴and those who say, 'Our Lord! grant us from our wives and seed that which may cheer our eyes, and make us models to the pious

⁷⁵These shall be rewarded with a high place for that they were patient: and they shall meet therein with salutation and peace

⁷⁶to dwell therein for aye; a good abode and station shall it be

⁷⁷Say, 'My Lord cares not for you though you should not call (on Him); and ye have called (the Apostle) a liar, but it shall be (a punishment) which ye cannot shake off

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²Those are the signs of the perspicuous Book

³haply thou art vexing thyself to death that they will not be believers

⁴If we please we will send down upon them from the heaven a sign, and their necks shall be humbled thereto

⁵But there comes not to them any recent Reminder from the Merciful One that they do not turn away from

⁶They have called (thee) liar! but there shall come to them a message of that at which they mocked

⁷Have they not looked to the earth, how we caused to grow therein of every noble kind

⁸verily, in that is a sign; but most of them will never be believers

⁹but, verily, thy Lord He is mighty and merciful

¹⁰And when thy Lord called Moses (saying), 'Come to the unjust people

¹¹to the people of Pharaoh, will they not fear

¹²Said he, 'My Lord! verily, I fear that they will call me liar

¹³and my breast is straitened, and my tongue is not fluent; send then unto Aaron

¹⁴for they have a crime against me, and I fear that they may kill me

¹⁵Said He, 'Not so; but go with our signs, verily, we are with you listening

¹⁶And go to Pharaoh and say, "Verily, we are the apostles of the Lord of the worlds

¹⁷(to tell thee to) send with us the children of Israel

¹⁸And he said, 'Did we not bring thee up amongst us as a child? and thou didst dwell amongst us for years of thy life

¹⁹and thou didst do thy deed which thou hast done, and thou art of the ungrateful

²⁰Said he, 'I did commit this, and I was of those who erred

²¹And I fled from you when I feared you, and my Lord granted me judgment, and made me one of His messengers

²²and this is the favour thou hast obliged me with, that thou hast enslaved the children of Israel

²³Said Pharaoh, 'Who is the Lord of the worlds

²⁴Said he, 'The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between the two, if ye are but sure

²⁵Said he to those about him, 'Do ye not listen

²⁶Said he, 'Your Lord and the Lord of your fathers of yore

²⁷Said he, 'Verily, your apostle who is sent to you is surely mad

²⁸Said he, 'The Lord of the east and of the west, and of what is between the two, if ye had but sense

²⁹Said he, 'If thou dost take a god besides Me I will surely make thee one of the imprisoned

³⁰Said he, 'What, if I come to thee with something obvious

³¹Said he, 'Bring it, if thou art of those who tell the truth

³²And he threw down his rod, and, behold, it was an obvious serpent

³³and he plucked out his hand, and, behold, it was white to the spectators

³⁴He said to the chiefs around him, 'Verily, this is a knowing sorcerer

³⁵he desires to turn you out of your land! what is it then ye bid

³⁶They said, 'Give him and his brother some hope, and send into the cities to collect

³⁷and bring to thee every knowing sorcerer

³⁸And the sorcerers assembled at the appointed time on a stated day

³⁹and it was said to the people, 'Are ye assembled

⁴⁰haply we may follow the sorcerers if we gain the upper hand

⁴¹And when the sorcerers came they said to Pharaoh, 'Shall we, verily, have a hire if we gain the upper hand

⁴²Said he, 'Yes; and, verily, ye shall then be of those who are nigh (my throne)

⁴³And Moses said to them, 'Throw down what ye have to throw down

⁴⁴So they threw down their ropes and their rods and said, 'By Pharaoh's might, verily, we it is who shall gain the upper hand

⁴⁵And Moses threw down his rod, and, lo, it swallowed up what they falsely devised

⁴⁶And the sorcerers threw themselves down, adoring

⁴⁷Said they, 'We believe in the Lord of the worlds

⁴⁸the Lord of Moses and Aaron

⁴⁹Said he, 'Do ye believe in Him ere I give you leave? Verily, he is your chief who has taught you sorcery, but soon ye shall know. I will surely cut off your hands and your feet from opposite sides, and I will crucify you all together

⁵⁰They said, 'No harm; verily, unto our Lord do we return

⁵¹verily, we hope that our Lord will forgive us our sins, for we are the first of believers

⁵²And we inspired Moses, 'Journey by night with my servants; verily, ye are pursued

⁵³And Pharaoh sent into the cities to collect

⁵⁴Verily, these are a small company

⁵⁵And, verily, they are enraged with us

⁵⁶but we are a multitude, wary

⁵⁷Turn them out of gardens and springs

⁵⁸and treasuries, and a noble station

⁵⁹thus, - and we made the children of Israel to inherit them

⁶⁰And they followed them at dawn

⁶¹and when the two hosts saw each other, Moses' companions said, 'Verily, we are overtaken

⁶²Said he, 'Not so; verily, with me is my Lord, He will guide me

⁶³And we inspired Moses, 'Strike with thy rod the sea;' and it was cleft asunder, and each part was like a mighty mountain

⁶⁴And then we brought the others

⁶⁵And we saved Moses and those with him all together

⁶⁶then we drowned the others

⁶⁷and that is a sign: but most of them will never be believers

⁶⁸And, verily, thy Lord He is mighty, merciful

⁶⁹And recite to them the story of Abraham

⁷⁰when he said to his father and his people, 'What do ye serve

⁷¹They said, 'We serve idols, and we are still devoted to them

⁷²He said, 'Can they hear you when ye call

⁷³or profit you, or harm

⁷⁴They said, 'No; but we found our fathers doing thus

⁷⁵He said, 'Have ye considered what ye have been serving

⁷⁶ye and your fathers before you

⁷⁷Verily, they are foes to me, save only the Lord of the worlds

⁷⁸who created me and guides me

⁷⁹and who gives me food and drink

⁸⁰And when I am sick He heals me

⁸¹He who will kill me, and then bring me to life

⁸²and who I hope will forgive me my sins on the day of judgment

⁸³Lord, grant me judgment, and let me reach the righteous

⁸⁴and give me a tongue of good report amongst posterity

⁸⁵and make me of the heirs of the paradise of pleasure

⁸⁶and pardon my father, verily, he is of those who err

⁸⁷and disgrace me not on the day when they are raised up again

⁸⁸the day when wealth shall profit not, nor sons

⁸⁹but only he who comes to God with a sound heart

⁹⁰And paradise shall be brought near to the pious

⁹¹and hell shall be brought forth to those who go astray

⁹²and it shall be said to them, "Where is what ye used to worship

⁹³beside God? can they help you, or get help themselves

⁹⁴And they shall fall headlong into it, they and those who have gone astray

⁹⁵and the hosts of Iblis all together

⁹⁶They shall say, while they quarrel therein

⁹⁷By God! we were surely in an obvious error

⁹⁸when we made you equal to the Lord of the worlds

⁹⁹but it was only sinners who led us astray

¹⁰⁰But we have no intercessors

¹⁰¹and no warm friend

¹⁰²but had we a turn we would be of the believers

¹⁰³Verily, in that is a sign, but most of them will never be believers

¹⁰⁴and, verily, thy Lord He is mighty and merciful

¹⁰⁵The people of Noah said the apostles were liars

¹⁰⁶when their brother Noah said to them, 'Will ye not fear

¹⁰⁷verily, I am a faithful apostle to you

¹⁰⁸then fear God and obey me

¹⁰⁹I do not ask you for it any hire; my hire is only with the Lord of the worlds

¹¹⁰So fear God and obey me

¹¹¹They said, 'Shall we believe in thee, when the reprobates follow thee

¹¹²He said, 'I did not know what they were doing

¹¹³their account is only with my Lord, if ye but perceive

¹¹⁴And I am not one to drive away the believers

¹¹⁵I am only a plain warner

¹¹⁶They said, 'Verily, if thou desist not, O Noah! thou shalt surely be of those who are stoned

¹¹⁷Said he, 'My Lord! verily, my people call me liar

¹¹⁸open between me and between them an opening, and save me and those of the believers who are with me

¹¹⁹So we saved him and those with him in the laden ark

¹²⁰then we drowned the rest

¹²¹verily, in that is a sign, but most of them will never be believers

¹²²and, verily, thy Lord He is mighty and merciful

¹²³And 'Ad called the apostles liars

¹²⁴when their brother Hud said to them, 'Will ye not fear

¹²⁵Verily, I am to you a faithful apostle

¹²⁶then fear God and obey me

¹²⁷I do not ask you for it any hire; my hire is only with the Lord of the worlds

¹²⁸Do ye build on every height a landmark in sport

¹²⁹and take to works that haply ye may be immortal

¹³⁰And when ye assault ye assault like tyrants

¹³¹but fear God and obey me

¹³²and fear Him who hath

¹³³given you an extent of cattle and sons

¹³⁴and gardens and springs

¹³⁵Verily, fear for you the torment of a mighty day

¹³⁶They said, 'It is the same to us if thou admonish or art not of those who do admonish

¹³⁷this is nothing but old folks' fictions, for we shall not be tormented

¹³⁸And they called him liar

¹³⁹but we destroyed them. Verily, in that is a sign, but most of them will never be believers

¹⁴⁰And, verily, thy Lord is mighty, merciful

¹⁴¹Thamud called the apostles liars

¹⁴²when their brother Zalih said to them, 'Do ye not fear

¹⁴³verily, I am to you a faithful apostle

¹⁴⁴so fear God and obey me

¹⁴⁵I do not ask you for it any hire; my hire is only with the Lord of the worlds

¹⁴⁶Shall ye be left here in safety

¹⁴⁷with gardens and springs

¹⁴⁸and corn-fields and palms

¹⁴⁹the spathes whereof are fine? and ye hew out of the mountains houses skillfully

¹⁵⁰But fear God and obey me

¹⁵¹and obey not the bidding of the extravagant

¹⁵²who do evil in the earth and do not act aright

¹⁵³They said, 'Thou art only of the infatuated

¹⁵⁴thou art but mortal like ourselves; so bring us a sign, if thou be of those who speak the truth

¹⁵⁵He said, 'This she-camel shall have her drink and you your drink on a certain day

¹⁵⁶but touch her not with evil, or there will seize you the torment of a mighty day

¹⁵⁷But they hamstrung her, and on the morrow they repented

¹⁵⁸and the torment seized them; verily, in that is a sign; but most of them will never be believers

¹⁵⁹but verily, thy Lord He is mighty, merciful

¹⁶⁰The people of Lot called the apostles liars

¹⁶¹when their brother Lot said to them, 'Do ye not fear

¹⁶²verily, I am to you a faithful apostle

¹⁶³then fear God and obey me

¹⁶⁴I do not ask you for it any hire; my hire is only with the Lord of the worlds

¹⁶⁵Do ye approach males of all the world

¹⁶⁶and leave what God your Lord has created for you of your wives? nay, but ye are people who transgress

¹⁶⁷They said, 'Surely, if thou dost not desist, O Lot! thou shalt be of those who are expelled

¹⁶⁸Said he, 'Verily, I am of those who hate your deed

¹⁶⁹my Lord! save me and my people from what they do

¹⁷⁰And we saved him and his people all together

¹⁷¹except an old woman amongst those who lingered

¹⁷²Then we destroyed the others

¹⁷³and we rained down upon them a rain; and evil was the rain of those who were warned

¹⁷⁴Verily, in that is a sign; but most, of them will never be believers

¹⁷⁵And, verily, thy Lord He is mighty, merciful, compassionate

¹⁷⁶The fellows of the Grove called the apostles liars

¹⁷⁷Sho'haib said to them, 'Will ye not fear

¹⁷⁸verily, I am to you a faithful apostle

¹⁷⁹then fear God and obey me

¹⁸⁰I do not ask you for it any hire; my hire is only with the Lord of the worlds

¹⁸¹Give good measure, and be not of those who diminish

¹⁸²and weigh with a fair balance

¹⁸³and do not cheat men of their goods; and waste not the land, despoiling it

¹⁸⁴and fear Him who created you and the races of yore

¹⁸⁵Said they, 'Thou art only of the infatuated

¹⁸⁶and thou art only a mortal like ourselves; and, verily, we think that thou art surely of the liars

¹⁸⁷so make a portion of the heaven to fall down upon us, if thou art of those who tell the truth

¹⁸⁸Said he, 'My Lord knows best what ye do

¹⁸⁹but they called him liar, and the torment of the day of the shadow seized them; for it was the torment of a mighty day

¹⁹⁰verily, in that is a sign; but most of them will never be believers

¹⁹¹but, verily, thy Lord He is mighty, merciful

¹⁹²And, verily, it is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds

¹⁹³the Faithful Spirit came down with it

¹⁹⁴upon thy heart, that thou shouldst be of those who warn

¹⁹⁵in plain Arabic language

¹⁹⁶and, verily, it is (foretold) in the scriptures of yore

¹⁹⁷Have they not a sign, that the learned men of the children of Israel recognise it

¹⁹⁸Had we sent it down to any barbarian

¹⁹⁹and he had read it to them, they would not have believed therein

²⁰⁰Thus have we made for it a way into the hearts of the sinners

²⁰¹they will not believe therein until they see the grievous woe

²⁰²and it shall come to them suddenly while they do not perceive

²⁰³They will say, 'Shall we be respited

²⁰⁴What! do they wish to hasten on our torment

²⁰⁵What thinkest thou? if we let them enjoy themselves for years

²⁰⁶and then there come to them what they are threatened

²⁰⁷that will not avail them which they had to enjoy

²⁰⁸But we do not destroy any city without its having warners

²⁰⁹as a reminder, for we are never unjust

²¹⁰The devils did not descend therewith

²¹¹it is not fit work for them; nor are they able to do it

²¹²Verily, they are deposed from listening

²¹³call not then with God upon other gods, or thou wilt be of the tormented

²¹⁴but warn thy clansmen who are near of kin

²¹⁵And lower thy wing to those of the believers who follow thee

²¹⁶but if they rebel against thee, say, 'Verily, I am clear of what ye do

²¹⁷and rely thou upon the mighty, merciful One

²¹⁸who sees thee when thou dost stand up

²¹⁹and thy posturing amongst those who adore

²²⁰Verily, He both bears and knows

²²¹Shall I inform you upon whom the devils descend

²²²they descend upon every sinful liar

²²³and impart what they have heard; but most of them are liars

²²⁴And the poets do those follow who go astray

²²⁵Dost thou not see that they wander distraught in every vale

²²⁶and that they say that which they do not do

²²⁷save those who believe, and do right, and remember God much, and defend themselves after they are wronged; but those who do wrong shall know with what a turn they shall be turned

¹Those are the signs of the Qur'an and the perspicuous Book

²a guidance and glad tidings to the believers

³who are steadfast at prayer, and give alms, and of the hereafter are sure

⁴verily, those who believe not in the hereafter we have made seemly for them their works, and they shall wander blindly on

⁵These are they who shall have an evil torment, and they in the hereafter shall be those who most lose

⁶Verily, thou dost meet with this Qur'an from the wise, the knowing One

⁷When Moses said to his people, 'Verily, I perceive a fire, I will bring you therefrom news; or I will bring you a burning brand; haply ye may be warned

⁸But when he came to it he was called to, 'Blessed be He who is in the fire, and he who is about it! and celebrated be the praises of God, the Lord of the Worlds

⁹O Moses! verily, I am God, the mighty, wise

¹⁰throw down thy staff!' and when he saw it quivering, as though it were a snake, he turned back fleeing, and did not return. 'O Moses! fear not; verily, as for me - apostles fear not with me

¹¹save only those who have done wrong and then substitute good for evil; for, verily, I am forgiving, merciful

¹²but put thy hand in thy bosom, it shall come forth white without hurt;- one of nine signs to Pharaoh and his people; verily, they are a people who act abominably

¹³And when our signs came to them visibly, they said, 'This is obvious sorcery

¹⁴and they gainsaid them - though their souls made sure of them - unjustly, haughtily; but, behold what was the end of the evildoers

¹⁵And we gave David and Solomon knowledge; and they both said, 'Praise belongs to God, who hath preferred us over many of His servants who believe

¹⁶And Solomon was David's heir; and said, 'O ye folk! we have been taught the speech of birds, and we have been given everything; verily, this is an obvious grace

¹⁷And assembled for Solomon were his hosts of the ginns, and men, and birds, and they were marshalled

¹⁸until they came upon the valley of the ants. Said an ant, 'O ye ants! go into your dwellings, that Solomon and his hosts crush you not while they do not perceive

¹⁹And he smiled, laughing at her speech, and said, 'O Lord! excite me to be thankful for Thy favour, wherewith Thou hast favoured me and my parents, and to do righteousness which may please Thee; and make me enter into Thy mercy amongst Thy righteous servants

²⁰And he reviewed the birds, and said, 'How is it I see not the hoopoe? is he then amongst the absent

²¹I will surely torment him with a severe torment; or I will surely slaughter him; or he shall bring me obvious authority

²²And he tarried not long, and said, 'I have compassed what ye compassed not; for I bring you from Seba a sure information

²³verily, I found a woman ruling over them, and she was given all things, and she had a mighty throne

²⁴and I found her and her people adoring the sun instead of God, for Satan had made seemly to them their works, and turned them from the path, so that they are not guided

²⁵Will they not adore God who brings forth the secrets in the heavens, and knows what they hide and what they manifest

²⁶God, there is no god but He, the Lord of the mighty throne

²⁷Said he, 'We will see whether thou hast told the truth, or whether thou art of those who lie

²⁸Go with this my letter and throw it before them, then turn back away from them, and see what they return

²⁹Said she, 'O ye chiefs! verily, a noble letter has been thrown before me

³⁰It is from Solomon, and, verily, it is, "In the name of the merciful and compassionate God

³¹Do not rise up against me, but come to me resigned

³²She said, 'O ye chiefs! pronounce sentence for me in my affair. I never decide an affair until ye testify for me

³³They said, 'We are endowed with strength, and endowed with keen violence; but the bidding is thine, see then what it is that thou wilt bid

³⁴She said, 'Verily, kings when they enter a city despoil it, and make the mighty ones of its people the meanest; thus it is they do

³⁵So, verily, I am going to send to them a gift, and will wait to see with what the messengers return

³⁶And when he came to Solomon, he said, 'Do ye proffer me wealth, when what God has given me is better than what He has given you? nay, ye in your gifts rejoice

³⁷return to them, for we will surely come to them with hosts which they cannot confront; and we will surely drive them out therefrom mean and made small

³⁸Said he, 'O ye chiefs! which of you will bring me her throne before they come to me resigned

³⁹Said a demon of the ginns, 'I will bring thee it before thou canst rise up from thy place, for I therein am strong and faithful

⁴⁰He who had the knowledge of the Book said, 'I will bring it to thee before thy glance can turn.' And when he saw it settled down beside him, he said, 'This is of my Lords grace, that He may try me whether I am grateful or ungrateful, and he who is grateful is only grateful for his own soul, and he who is ungrateful,- verily, my Lord is rich and generous

⁴¹Said he, 'Disguise for her her throne; let us see whether she is guided, or whether she is of those who are not guided

⁴²And when she came it was said, 'Was thy throne like this?' She said, 'It might be it;' and we were given knowledge before her, but we were resigned

⁴³But that which she served beside God turned her away; verily, she was of the unbelieving people

⁴⁴And it was said to her, 'Enter the court;' and when she saw it, she reckoned it to be an abyss of water, and she uncovered her legs. Said he, 'Verily, it is a court paved with glass!' Said she, 'My Lord! verily, I have wronged myself, but I am resigned with Solomon to God the Lord of the worlds

⁴⁵And we sent unto Thamud their brother Zali'h, 'Serve God;' but behold, they were two parties who contended

⁴⁶Said he, 'O my people! why do ye hasten on evil acts before good deeds? why do ye not ask forgiveness of God? haply ye may obtain mercy

⁴⁷They said, 'We have taken an augury concerning thee and those who are with thee.' Said he, 'Your augury is in God's hands; nay, but ye are a people who are tried

⁴⁸And there were in the city nine persons who despoiled the land and did not right

⁴⁹Said they, 'Swear to each other by God, we will surely fall on him by night and on his people; then we will surely say unto his next of kin, " We witnessed not the destruction of his people, and we do surely tell the truth

⁵⁰And they plotted a plot, and we plotted a plot, but they did not perceive

⁵¹Behold, how was the end of their plot, that we destroyed them and their people all together

⁵²Thus are their houses overturned, for that they were unjust; verily, in that is a sign to people who do know

⁵³But we saved those who believed and who did fear

⁵⁴And Lot when he said to his people, 'Do ye approach an abominable sin while ye can see

⁵⁵do ye indeed approach men lustfully rather than women? nay! ye are a people who are ignorant

⁵⁶But the answer of his people was only to say, 'Drive out Lot's family from your city! verily, they are a folk who would keep pure

⁵⁷But we saved him and his family except his wife, her we destined to be of those who lingered

⁵⁸and we rained down upon them rain, and evil was the rain of those who were warned

⁵⁹Say, 'Praise belongs to God; and peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen! Is God best, or what they associate with Him

⁶⁰He who created the heavens and the earth; and sends down upon you from the heaven water; and we cause to grow therewith gardens fraught with beauty; ye could not cause the trees thereof to grow! Is there a god with God? nay, but they are a people who make peers with Him

⁶¹He who made the earth, settled, and placed amongst it rivers; and placed upon it firm mountains; and placed between the two seas a barrier; is there a god with God? nay, but most of them know not

⁶²He who answers the distressed when he calls upon Him and removes the evil; and makes you successors in the earth; is there a god with God? little is it that ye are mindful

⁶³He who guides you in the darkness, of the land and of the sea; and who sends winds as glad tidings before His mercy; is there a god with God? exalted be God above what they associate with Him

⁶⁴He who began the creation and then will make it return again; and who provides you from the heaven and the earth; is there a god with God? so bring your proofs if ye do speak the truth

⁶⁵Say, 'None in the heavens or the earth know the unseen save only God; but they perceive not when they shall be raised

⁶⁶nay, but their knowledge attains to somewhat of the hereafter; nay, but they are in doubt concerning it! nay, but they are blind

⁶⁷And those who disbelieved said, 'What! when we have become dust and our fathers too, shall we indeed be brought forth

⁶⁸We were promised this, we and our fathers before us, this is nothing but old folks' tales

⁶⁹Say, 'Journey on through the land and see how was the end of the sinners

⁷⁰and grieve not for them, and be not straitened at what they plot

⁷¹They say, 'When shall this threat be if ye do tell the truth

⁷²Say, 'It may be that there is pressing close behind you a part of what ye would hasten on

⁷³But, verily, thy Lord is full of grace to men, but most of them will not be thankful

⁷⁴and, verily, thy Lord knows what their breasts conceal and what they manifest

⁷⁵and there is no secret thing in the heaven or the earth, save that it is in the perspicuous Book

⁷⁶Verily, this Qur'an relates to the people of Israel most of that whereon they do dispute

⁷⁷and, verily, it is a guidance and a mercy to the believers

⁷⁸Verily, thy Lord decides between them by His judgment, for He is mighty, knowing

⁷⁹Rely thou then upon God, verily, thou art standing on obvious truth

⁸⁰Verily, thou canst not make the dead to hear, and thou canst not make the deaf to hear the call when they turn their backs on thee

⁸¹nor art thou a guide to the blind, out of their error: thou canst only make to hear such as believe in our signs, and such as are resigned

⁸²And when the sentence falls upon them we will bring forth a beast out of the earth that shall speak to them, (and say) that, 'Men of our signs would not be sure

⁸³And the day when we will gather from every nation a troop of those who said our signs were lies; and they shall be marshalled

⁸⁴until they come, and He will say, 'Did ye say my signs were lies, when ye had compassed no knowledge thereof? or what is it that ye were doing

⁸⁵and the sentence shall fall upon them for that they did wrong, and they shall not have speech

⁸⁶Did they not see that we have made the night for them to rest in and the day to see by? verily, in that are signs to people who believe

⁸⁷And the day when the trumpet shall be blown and all who are in the heavens and the earth shall be startled, save whom God pleases! and all shall come abjectly to Him

⁸⁸And thou shalt see the mountains, which thou dost deem solid, pass away like the passing of the clouds;- the work of God who orders all things; verily, He is well aware of what ye do

⁸⁹He who brings a good deed shall have better than it; and from the alarm of that day they shall be safe

⁹⁰but those who bring an evil deed shall be thrown down upon their faces in the fire. Shall ye be rewarded save for what ye have done

⁹¹I am bidden to serve the Lord of this country who has made it sacred, and whose are all things; and I am bidden to be of those who are resigned

⁹²and to recite the Qur'an; and he who is guided he is only guided for himself; and he who errs,- say, 'I am only of those who warn

⁹³And say, ' Praise be to God, He will show you His signs, and ye shall recognise them; for thy Lord is not heedless of what ye do

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²Those are the signs of the perspicuous Book

³we recite to thee from the history of Moses and Pharaoh in truth unto a people who believe

⁴Verily, Pharaoh was lofty in the land and made the people thereof sects; one party of them he weakened, slaughtering their sons and letting their women live. Verily, he was of the despoilers

⁵And we wished to be gracious to those who were weakened in the earth, and to make them models, and to make them the heirs

⁶and to establish for them in the earth; and to show Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts what they had to beware of from them

⁷And we inspired the mother of Moses, 'Suckle him; and when thou art afraid for him then throw him into the river, and fear not and grieve not; verily, we are going to restore him to thee, and to make him of the apostles

⁸And Pharaoh's family picked him up that he might be for them a foe and a grief; verily, Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts were sinners

⁹And Pharaoh's wife said, 'He is a cheering of the eye to me, and to thee. Kill him not; it may be that he will profit us, or that we may take him for a son;' for they did not perceive

¹⁰And the heart of Moses' mother was void on the morrow; she well-nigh disclosed him, had it not been that we bound up her heart that she might be of the believers

¹¹And she said to his sister, 'Follow him up.' And she looked after him from afar, and they did not perceive

¹²And we made unlawful for him the wet-nurses. And she said, 'Shall I guide you to the people of a house who will take care of him for you, and who will be sincere respecting him

¹³So we restored him to his mother that her eye might be cheered, and that she might not grieve, and that she might know that the promise of God is true, though most of them know not

¹⁴And when he reached puberty, and was settled, we gave him judgment and knowledge; for thus do we reward those who do well

¹⁵And he entered into the city at the time the people thereof were heedless, and he found therein two men fighting; the one of his sect and the other of his foes. And he who was of his sect asked his aid against him who was of his foes; and Moses smote him with his fist and finished him. Said he, 'This is of the work of Satan, verily, he is a misleading obvious foe

¹⁶Said he, 'My Lord! verily, I have wronged my soul, but forgive me.' So He forgave him; for He is forgiving and merciful

¹⁷Said he, 'My Lord! for that Thou hast been gracious to me, I will surely not back up the sinners

¹⁸And on the morrow he was afraid in the city, expectant. And behold, he whom he had helped the day before cried (again) to him for aid. Said Moses to Him, 'Verily, thou art obviously quarrelsome

¹⁹And when he wished to assault him who was the enemy to them both, he said, 'O Moses! dost thou desire to kill me as thou didst kill a person yesterday? thou dost only desire to be a tyrant in the earth; and thou dost not desire to be of those who do right

²⁰And a man came from the remote parts of the city running, said he, 'O Moses! verily, the chiefs are deliberating concerning thee to kill thee; go then forth; verily, I am to you a sincere adviser

²¹So he went forth therefrom, afraid and expectant. Said he, 'Lord, save me from the unjust people

²²And when he turned his face in the direction of Midian, he said, 'It may be that my Lord will guide me to a level path

²³And when he went down to the water of Midian he found thereat a nation of people watering their flocks. And he found beside them two women keeping back their flocks. Said he, 'What is your design?' They said, 'We cannot water our flocks until the herdsmen have finished; for our father is a very old man

²⁴So he watered for them; then he turned back towards the shade and said, 'My Lord! verily, I stand in need of what Thou sendest down to me of good

²⁵And one of the two came to him walking modestly; said she, 'Verily; my father calls thee, to reward thee with hire for having watered our flocks for us.' And when he came to him and related to him the story, said he, ' Fear not, thou art safe from the unjust people

²⁶Said one of them, 'O my sire! hire him; verily, the best of those whom thou canst hire is the strong and faithful

²⁷Said he, 'Verily, I desire to marry thee to one of these daughters of mine, on condition that thou dost serve me for hire eight years; and if thou shalt fulfil ten it is of thyself; for I do not wish to make it wretched for thee; thou wilt find me, if it please God, of the righteous

²⁸Said he, 'That is between you and me; whichever of the two terms I fulfil, let there be no enmity against me, for God over what we say keeps guard

²⁹And when Moses had fulfilled the appointed time, and was journeying with his people, he perceived from the side of the mountain a fire; said he to his people, 'Tarry ye here; verily, I have perceived a fire, haply I may bring you good news therefrom, or a brand of fire that haply ye may be warmed

³⁰And when he came to it he was called to, from the right side of the wady, in the blessed valley, out of the tree, 'O Moses! verily, I am God the Lord of the worlds

³¹so throw down thy rod;' and when he saw it quivering as though it were a snake, he turned away and fled and did not return. 'O Moses! approach and fear not, verily, thou art amongst the safe

³²Thrust thy hand into thy bosom, it shall come out white, without hurt; and then fold again thy wing, that thou dost now stretch out through dread; for those are two signs from thy Lord to Pharaoh and his chiefs; verily, they are a people who work abomination

³³Said he, 'My Lord! verily, I have killed a person amongst them, and I fear that they will kill me

³⁴and my brother Aaron, he is more eloquent of tongue than I; send him then with me as a support, to verify me; verily, I fear that they will call me liar

³⁵Said He, 'We will strengthen thine arm with thy brother; and we will make for you both authority, and they shall not reach you in our signs; ye two and those who follow you shall gain the upper hand

³⁶And when Moses came to them with our manifest signs, they said, 'This is only sorcery devised; and we have not heard of this amongst our fathers of yore

³⁷Moses said, 'My Lord knows best who comes with guidance from Him, and whose shall be the issue of the abode. Verily, the unjust shall not prosper

³⁸And Pharaoh said, 'O ye chiefs! I do not know any god for you except me; then set fire, O Haman! to some clay and make for me a tower, haply I may mount up to the God of Moses; for, verity, I think he is of those who lie

³⁹And he grew big with pride, he and his armies in the land, without right; and they thought that they to us should not return

⁴⁰And we overtook him and his army, and we flung them into the sea; behold, then, how was the end of the unjust

⁴¹But we made them models calling to the fire; and on the resurrection day they shall not be helped

⁴²and we followed them up in this world with a curse; and on the resurrection day they shall be abhorred

⁴³And we gave Moses the Book, after that we had destroyed the former generations, as an insight to men and a guidance and a mercy; haply they may be mindful

⁴⁴Thou wast not upon the western side when we decided for Moses, but afar off; nor wast thou of the witnesses

⁴⁵But we raised up (other) generations, and life was prolonged for them; and thou wast not staying amidst the people of Midian, reciting to them our signs; but we were sending our apostles

⁴⁶Nor wast thou by the side of the mountain when we called; but it is a mercy from thy Lord, that thou mayest warn a people to whom no warner has come before thee; haply they may be mindful

⁴⁷And lest there should befall them a mishap for what their hands have sent before, and they should say, 'Our Lord! why didst thou not send to us an apostle? for we would have followed thy signs and been of the believers

⁴⁸And when the truth comes to them from us they say, 'We are given the like of what Moses was given.' Did they not disbelieve in what Moses was given before?- they say, 'Two works of sorcery back up each other;' and they say, 'Verily, we do disbelieve in all

⁴⁹Say, 'Bring, then, a book from God which shall be a better guide than both, and I will follow it, if ye do tell the truth

⁵⁰And if they cannot answer thee, then know that they follow their own lusts; and who is more in error than he who follows his own lust without guidance from God? verily, God guides not an unjust people

⁵¹And we caused the word to reach them, haply they may be mindful

⁵²Those to whom we gave the Book before it, they believe therein

⁵³and when it is recited to them they say, 'We believe in it as truth from our Lord; verily, we were resigned before it came

⁵⁴These shall be given their hire twice over, for that they were patient, and repelled evil with good, and of what we have bestowed upon them give alms

⁵⁵And when they hear vain talk, they turn away from it and say, 'We have our works, and ye have your works. Peace be upon you! we do not seek the ignorant

⁵⁶Verily, thou canst not guide whom thou dost like, but God guides whom He pleases; for He knows best who are to be guided

⁵⁷And they say, 'If we follow the guidance we shall be snatched away from the land.' Have we not established for them a safe sanctuary, to which are imported the fruits of everything as a provision from us? but most of them do not know

⁵⁸How many a city have we destroyed that exulted in its means of subsistence? These are their dwellings, never dwelt in after them, except a little; for we were the heirs

⁵⁹But thy Lord would never destroy cities until He sent to the metropolis thereof an apostle, to recite to them our signs; nor would we destroy cities unless their people were unjust

⁶⁰Whatever thing ye may be given, it is a provision for this world's life and the adornment thereof; but what is with God is better and more enduring; have ye then no sense

⁶¹Is He to whom we have promised a goodly promise, which he shall meet with, like him to whom we have given the enjoyment of the life of this world, and who upon the resurrection day shall be of the arraigned

⁶²And on the day when He will call them and will say, 'Where are those associates which ye did pretend

⁶³And those against whom the sentence is due shall say, 'Our Lord! these are those whom we have seduced; we seduced them as we were seduced ourselves: but we clear ourselves to thee;- they ,did not worship us

⁶⁴And it will be said, 'Call upon your partners;' and they will call upon them, but they will not answer them, and they shall see the torment; would that they had been guided

⁶⁵And the day when He shall call them and shall say, 'What was it ye answered the apostles

⁶⁶and the history shall be blindly confusing to them on that day, and they shall not ask each other

⁶⁷But, as for him who turns again and believes and does right, it may be that he will be among the prosperous

⁶⁸For thy Lord creates what He pleases and chooses; they have not the choice! Celebrated be the praise of God! and exalted be He above what they associate with Him

⁶⁹Thy Lord knows what they conceal in their breasts and what they manifest

⁷⁰He is God, there is no god but He; to Him belongs praise, in the first and the last; and His is the judgment; and unto Him shall ye return

⁷¹Have ye considered, if God were to make for you the night endless until the resurrection day, who is the god, but God, to bring you light? can ye not then hear

⁷²Say, 'Have ye considered, if God were to make for you the day endless until the day of judgment, who is the god, except God, to bring you the night to rest therein? can ye not then see

⁷³But of His mercy He has made for you the night and the day, that ye may rest therein, and crave of His grace, haply ye may give thanks

⁷⁴And the day when He shall call them and shall say, 'Where are my partners whom ye did pretend

⁷⁵And we will pluck from every nation a witness; and we will say, 'Bring your proof and know that the truth is God's;' and that which they had devised shall stray away from them

⁷⁶Verily, Korah was of the people of Moses, and he was outrageous against them; and we gave him treasuries of which the keys would bear down a band of men endowed with strength. When his people said to him, 'Exult not; verily, God loves not those who exult

⁷⁷but crave, through what God has given thee, the future abode; and forget not thy portion in this world, and do good, as God has done good to thee; and seek not evil doing in the earth; verily, God loves not the evildoers

⁷⁸Said he, 'I have only been given it for knowledge which I have!' did he not know that God had destroyed before him many generations of those who were stronger than he, and had amassed more? But the sinners need not to be asked concerning their crimes

⁷⁹And he went out amongst the people in his ornaments; those who desired the life of this world said, '0 would that we had the like of what Korah has been given! verily, he is endowed with mighty fortune

⁸⁰But those who had been given knowledge said, 'Woe to you! the reward of God is better for him who believes and does right; but none shall meet with it except the patient

⁸¹And we clave the earth with him and with his house; and he had no troop to help him against God, nor was he of those who were helped

⁸²And on the morrow those who had yearned for his place the day before said, 'Ah, ah! God extends provision to whom He pleases of His servants, or He doles it out; had not God been gracious to us, the earth would have cleft open with us! Ah, ah! the unbelievers shall not prosper

⁸³That is the future abode; we make it for those who do not wish to be haughty in the earth, nor to do evil, and the end is for the pious

⁸⁴He who brings a good deed shall have better than it; and he who brings an evil deed - those who do evil deeds shall only be rewarded for that which they have done

⁸⁵Verily, He who hath ordained the Qur'an for thee will restore thee to thy returning place. Say, 'My Lord knows best who brings guidance, and who is in obvious error

⁸⁶nor couldst thou hope that the Book would be thrown to thee, save as a mercy from thy Lord! be not then a backer up of those who misbelieve

⁸⁷and let them not turn thee from the signs of God, after they have been sent down to thee; but call unto thy Lord and be not of the idolaters

⁸⁸and call not with God upon any other god; there is no god but He! everything is perishable, except His face; His is the judgment, and unto Him shall ye return

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²Do men then reckon that they will be left alone to say, 'We believe,' and not be tried

³we did try those who were before them, and God will surely know those who are truthful, and He will surely know the liars

⁴Do those who do evil reckon that they can outstrip us? evil is it that they judge

⁵He who hopes for the meeting of God,- verily, God's appointed time will come; and He both hears and knows

⁶And he who fights strenuously, fights strenuously only for his own soul; verily, God is independent of the worlds

⁷Those who believe and do right, we will surely cover for them, their offences; and we will surely reward them with better than that which they have done

⁸And we have enjoined on man kindness to his parents; and if they strive with thee that thou mayest join with me, what thou hast no knowledge of, then obey them not; to me is your return, and I will inform you of that which ye have done

⁹But those who believe and do right, we will make them enter amongst the righteous

¹⁰And there are those among men who say, 'We believe in God!' but when they are hurt in God's cause, they deem the trials of men like the torment of God; but if help come from thy Lord they will say, 'Verily, we were with you!' does not God know best what is in the breasts of the worlds

¹¹God will surely know those who believe, and will surely know the hypocrites

¹²And those who misbelieved said to those who believed, 'Follow our path, we will bear your sins;' but they could not bear their sins at all; verily, they are liars

¹³But they shall surely bear their own burdens, and burdens with their burdens; and they shall surely be asked upon the resurrection day concerning what they did devise

¹⁴And we sent Noah to his people, and he dwelt among them for a thousand years save fifty years; and the deluge overtook them while they were unjust

¹⁵but we saved him and the fellows of the ark, and we made it a sign unto the worlds

¹⁶And Abraham when he said to his people, 'Serve God and fear Him, that is better for you if ye did but know

¹⁷Ye only serve beside God idols and do create a lie; verily, those whom ye serve beside God cannot control for themselves provision; then crave provision with God, and serve Him, and give thanks to Him; unto Him shall ye return

¹⁸And if ye say it is a lie, nations before you called (the apostles) liars too; but an apostle has only his plain message to preach

¹⁹Have they not seen how God produces the creation, and then turns it back? verily, that to God is easy

²⁰Say, 'Journey ye on in the land, and behold how the creation appeared; then God produces another production: verily, God is mighty over all

²¹He torments whom He will, and has mercy on whom He will; and unto Him shall ye be returned

²²Nor can ye make Him helpless in the earth, nor in the heavens; nor have ye beside God a patron or a helper

²³And those who disbelieve in God's signs and in meeting with Him, these shall despair of my mercy; and these, for them is grievous woe

²⁴But the answer of his people was only to say, 'Kill him or burn him!' But God saved him from the fire; verily, in that are signs unto a people who believe

²⁵He said, 'Verily, ye take beside God idols, through mutual friendship in the life of this world; then on the day of judgment ye shall deny each other, and shall curse each other, and your resort shall be the fire, and ye shall have none to help

²⁶And Lot believed him. And (Abraham) said, 'Verily, I flee unto my Lord! Verily, He is mighty, wise

²⁷and we granted him Isaac and Jacob; and we placed in his seed prophecy and the Book; and we gave him his hire in this world; and, verily, he in the next shall be among the righteous

²⁸And Lot when be said to his people, 'Verily, ye approach an abomination which no one in all the world ever anticipated you in

²⁹What! do ye approach men? and stop folks on the highway? and approach in your assembly sin?' but the answer of his people was only to say, 'Bring us God's torment, if thou art of those who speak the truth

³⁰Said he, ' My Lord! help me against a people who do evil

³¹And when our messengers came to Abraham with the glad tidings, they said, 'We are about to destroy the people of this city. Verily, the people thereof are wrong-doers

³²Said he, 'Verily, in it is Lot;' they said, 'We know best who is therein; we shall of a surety save him and his people, except his wife, who is of those who linger

³³And when our messengers came to Lot, he was vexed for them, and his arm was straitened for them; and they said, 'Fear not, neither grieve; we are about to save thee and thy people, except thy wife, who is of those who linger

³⁴Verily, we are about to send down upon the people of this city a horror from heaven, for that they have sinned

³⁵and we have left therefrom a manifest sign unto a people who have sense

³⁶And unto Midian we sent their brother Sho'haib, and he said, 'My people, serve God, and hope for the last day; and waste not the land, despoiling it

³⁷But they called him liar; and the convulsion seized them, and on the morrow they lay in their dwellings prone

³⁸And 'Ad and Thamud - but it is plain to you from their habitations; for Satan made seemly to them their works, and turned them from the way, sagacious though they were

³⁹And Korah and Pharaoh and Haman - Moses did come to them with manifest signs, but they were too big with pride in the earth, although they could not outstrip us

⁴⁰And each of them we seized in his sin; and of them were some against whom we sent a sandstorm; and of them were some whom the noise seized; and of them were some with whom we cleaved the earth open; and of them were some we drowned: God would not have wronged them, but it was themselves they wronged

⁴¹The likeness of those who take, beside God, patrons is as the likeness of a spider, that takes to himself a house; and, verily, the weakest of houses is a spider's house, if they did but know

⁴²Verily, God knows whatever thing they call upon beside Him; for He is the mighty, wise

⁴³These are parables which we have struck out for men; but none will understand them, save those who know

⁴⁴God created the heavens and the earth in truth; verily, in this is a sign unto believers

⁴⁵Recite what has been revealed to thee of the Book; and be steadfast in prayer; verily, prayer forbids sin and wrong; and surely the mention of God is greater; for God knows what ye do

⁴⁶And do not wrangle with the people of the Book, except for what is better; save with those who have been unjust amongst them and who say, 'We believe in what is sent down to us, And what has been sent down to you; our God and your God is one, and we are unto Him resigned

⁴⁷Thus did we send down to thee the Book; and every one to whom we have given the Book believes therein. But these will not believe therein; though none gainsay our signs except the misbelievers

⁴⁸Thou couldst not recite before this any book, nor write it with thy right hand, for in that case those who deem it vain would have doubted

⁴⁹Nay, but it is evident signs in the breasts of those who are endued with knowledge, and none but the unjust would gainsay our signs

⁵⁰They say, 'Unless there be sent down upon him signs from his Lord -;' say, 'Verily, signs are with God, and, verily, I am an obvious warner

⁵¹Is it not enough for them that we have sent down to thee the Book which thou dost recite to them? verily, in that is a mercy and a reminder to a people who believe

⁵²Say, 'God is witness enough between me and you; He knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and those who believe in falsehood and misbelieve in God, they shall be the losers

⁵³They will wish thee to hasten on the torment; but were it not for a stated and appointed time, the torment would have come upon them suddenly, while yet they did not perceive

⁵⁴They will wish thee to hurry on the torment, but, verily, hell encompasses the misbelievers

⁵⁵On the day when the torment shall cover them from above them and from beneath their feet, and He shall say, 'Taste that which ye have done

⁵⁶O my servants who believe! verily, my land is spacious enough; me therefore do ye worship

⁵⁷Every soul must taste of death, then unto us shall ye return

⁵⁸and those who believe and act aright, we will surely inform them of upper chambers in Paradise, beneath which rivers flow; to dwell therein for aye - pleasant is the hire of those who work

⁵⁹those who are patient and rely upon their Lord

⁶⁰How many a beast cannot carry its own provision! God provides for it and for you; He both hears and knows

⁶¹And if thou shouldst ask them, 'Who created the heavens and the earth, and subjected the sun and the moon?' they will surely say, 'God!' how then can they lie

⁶²God extends provision to whomsoever He will of His servants, or doles it out to him; verily, God all things doth know

⁶³And if thou shouldst ask them, 'Who sends down from the heavens water and quickens therewith the earth in its death?' they will surely say, 'God!' say, 'And praise be to God!' nay, most of them have no sense

⁶⁴This life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play; but, verily, the abode of the next world, that is life,- if they did but know

⁶⁵And when they ride in the ship they call upon God, making their religion seem sincere to Him; but when He saves them to the shore, behold, they associate others with Him

⁶⁶that they may disbelieve in our signs; and that they may have some enjoyment: but soon they shall know

⁶⁷Have they not seen that we have made a safe sanctuary whilst people are being snatched away around them? is it then in falsehood that they will believe, and for the favours of God be ungrateful

⁶⁸But who is more unjust than he who devises against God a lie, or calls the truth a lie when it comes to him? Is there not in hell a resort for the misbelievers

⁶⁹but those who fight strenuously for us we will surely guide them into our way, for, verily, God is with those who do well

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²The Greeks are overcome

³in the nighest parts of the land; but after being overcome they shall overcome

⁴in a few years; to God belongs the order before and after; and on that day the believers shall rejoice

⁵in the help of God;- God helps whom He will, and He is mighty, merciful

⁶God's promise!- God breaks not His promise, but most men do not know

⁷They know the outside of this world's life, but of the hereafter they are heedless

⁸Have they not reflected in themselves, that God created not the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two except in truth, and for a stated and appointed time? but, verily, many men in the meeting of their Lord do disbelieve

⁹Have they not journeyed on in the land and seen how was the end of those before them who were stronger than they, and who turned up the ground and cultivated it more than they do cultivate it? and there came to them their apostles with manifest signs; for God would never wrong them: it was themselves they wronged

¹⁰Then evil was the end of those who did evil, in that they said the signs of God were lies and mocked thereat

¹¹God produces a creation, then He makes it go back again, then unto Him shall ye return

¹²And on the day when the Hour shall rise, the sinners shall be confused

¹³and they shall not have amongst their partners intercessors; and their partners shall they deny

¹⁴And on the day when the Hour shall rise, on that day shall they be scattered apart

¹⁵and as for those who believe and do right, they in the garden shall be joyful

¹⁶and as for those who misbelieved and said our signs and the meeting of the hereafter were lies, they shall be in the torment arraigned

¹⁷Celebrated be the praises of God, when ye are in the evening and when ye are in the morning

¹⁸for to Him belongs praise in the heavens and the earth! and at the evening, and when ye are at noon

¹⁹He brings forth the living from the dead, and brings forth the dead from the living; and He quickens the earth after its death, and thus shall ye too be brought forth

²⁰And of His signs is this, that He hath created you from dust; then, behold, ye are mortals who are spread abroad

²¹And of His signs is this, that He hath created for you of yourselves wives with whom ye may cohabit; He has made between you affection and pity. Verily, in that are signs unto a people who reflect

²²And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your tongues and colours; verily, in that are signs unto the worlds

²³And of His signs is your sleep by night and by day; and your craving after His grace. Verily, in that are signs unto a people who do hear

²⁴And of His signs is this, that He shows you lightning for fear and hope; and sends down from the sky water, and quickens therewith the earth after its death; verily, in that are signs unto a people who have sense

²⁵And of His signs is this, that the heavens and the earth stand by His order; then when He calls you from the earth, lo! ye shall come forth

²⁶His are those who are in the heavens and the earth, and all to Him are devoted

²⁷And He it is who produces a creation and then makes it to go back again; for it is very easy to Him; and His are the loftiest similitudes in the heavens and the earth; and He is the mighty, wise

²⁸He has struck out for you a parable from yourselves; have ye of what your right hand possess partners in what we have bestowed upon you, so that ye share alike therein? do ye fear them as ye fear each other?- Thus do we detail the signs unto a people who have sense

²⁹Nay, when those who are unjust follow their lusts without knowledge,- and who shall guide him whom God has led astray? and they shall have none to help

³⁰Set thy face steadfast towards the religion as an 'Hanif, according to the constitution whereon God has constituted men; there is no altering the creation of God, that is the standard religion, though most men do not know

³¹Turn repentant towards Him; and fear Him, and be steadfast in prayer; and be not of the idolaters

³²Of those who have divided their religion and become sects, every party in what they have, rejoice

³³And when distress touches men they call upon their Lord, repentant towards Him; then when He has made them taste mercy from Himself, behold! a party of them associate others with their Lord

³⁴that they may disbelieve in what we have brought them;- but enjoy yourselves; for hereafter ye shall know

³⁵Or have we sent down to them authority which speaks of what they do associate with Him

³⁶And when we have made men taste of mercy, they rejoice therein; and if there befall them evil for what their hands have sent before, behold! they are in despair

³⁷Have they not seen that God extends provision to whom He pleases, or doles it out? verily, in that are signs unto a people who believe

³⁸Then give to the kinsman his due, and to the poor and to the wayfarer; that is better for those who desire the face of God, and these it is who are prosperous

³⁹And what ye put out to usury that it may increase with the wealth of men, it shall not increase with God; but what ye put out in alms, desiring the face of God - these it is who shall gain double

⁴⁰It is God who created you and then provided for you; and then will make you die, and then will quicken you again; is there any of your partners who can do aught of that? Celebrated be His praises, and exalted be He above what they associate with Him

⁴¹Trouble hath appeared in the land and the sea, for what men's hands have gained! to make them taste a part of that which they have done,- haply they may return

⁴²Say, 'Journey on in the land, and behold what was the end of those before you,- most of them were idolaters

⁴³Set thy face steadfast to the standard religion, before there come a day from God which there is no averting; on that day shall they be parted into two bands

⁴⁴He who misbelieves, upon him is his misbelief; but whoso does right, for themselves they are spreading couches

⁴⁵That He may reward those who believe and do right of His grace; verily, He loves not the misbelievers

⁴⁶And of His signs is this, that He sends forth the winds with glad tidings, to make you taste of His mercy, and to make the ships go on at His bidding, and that ye may crave of His grace, and haply ye may give thanks

⁴⁷We have sent before thee apostles unto their people, and they came to them with manifest signs: and we took vengeance upon those who sinned, but due from us it was to help the believers

⁴⁸God it is who sends forth the winds to stir up clouds; then He spreads them forth over the sky as he pleases; and He breaks them up and ye see the rain come forth from amongst them; and when He causes it to fall upon whom He pleases of His servants, behold they hail it with joy

⁴⁹although before it was sent down upon them they were before then confused

⁵⁰Look then to the vestiges of God's mercy, how He quickens the earth after its death; verily, that is the quickener of the dead, and He is mighty over all

⁵¹But if we should send a wind and they should see it yellow, they would after that become misbelievers

⁵²But, verily, thou canst not make the dead to hear, nor canst thou make the deaf to hear the call, when they turn their backs and flee

⁵³nor hast thou to guide the blind out of their error; thou canst only make those to hear who believe in our signs and who are resigned

⁵⁴God it is who created you of weakness, then made for you after weakness strength; then made for you after strength, weakness and grey hairs: He creates what He pleases, for He is the knowing, the powerful

⁵⁵And on the day when the Hour shall rise, the sinners shall swear that they have not tarried save an hour; thus were they wont to lie

⁵⁶But those who are given knowledge and faith will say, 'We have tarried according to the Book of God, until the day of resurrection;' and this is the day of resurrection, but ye - ye do not know

⁵⁷And on that day their excuse shall profit not those who did wrong; nor shall they be asked to please God again

⁵⁸We have struck out to men in this Qur'an every kind of parable; but if thou shouldst bring them a sign then those who misbelieve will surely say, 'Ye are but followers of vanity

⁵⁹thus does God set a stamp upon the hearts of those who do not know

⁶⁰Be thou patient then; verily, God's promise is true! and let them not flurry thee who are not sure

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²These are the signs of the wise Book

³a guidance and a mercy to those who do well

⁴who are steadfast in prayer and give alms and who of the hereafter are sure

⁵these are in Guidance from their Lord, and these are the prosperous

⁶And amongst men is one who buys sportive legends, to lead astray from God's path, without knowledge, and to make a jest of it; these, for them is shameful woe

⁷And when our signs are recited to him, he turns his back, too big with pride, as though he heard them not, - as if in his two ears were dullness. But give to him glad tidings of grievous woe

⁸Verily, those who believe and do right, for them are gardens of pleasure

⁹to dwell therein for aye;- God's promise in truth, and He is mighty, wise

¹⁰He created the heavens without pillars that ye can see, and He threw upon the earth firm mountains lest it should move with you; and He dispersed thereon every sort of beast; and we send down from the heavens water, and we caused to grow therein of every noble kind

¹¹This is God's creation; show me what others beside Him have created; - nay, the unjust are in obvious error

¹²We did give unto Loqman wisdom, saying, 'Thank God; for he who thanks God is only thankful for his own soul; and he who is ungrateful - verily, God is independent, worthy of praise

¹³And when Loqman said to his son while admonishing him, 'O my boy! associate none with God, for, verily, such association is a mighty wrong

¹⁴For we have commended his parents to man; his mother bore him with weakness upon weakness; and his weaning is in two years; - 'Be thankful to me and to thy parents; for unto me shall your journey be

¹⁵But if they strive with thee that thou shouldst associate with me that which thou hast no knowledge of, then obey them not. But associate with them in the world with kindness, and follow the way of him who repentant unto me; then unto me is your return, and I will inform you of that which ye have done

¹⁶O my son! verily, if there were the weight of a grain of mustard seed and it were (hidden) in the rock, or in the heaven, or in the earth, God would bring it (to light). Verily, God is subtle, well aware

¹⁷O my son! be steadfast in prayer, and bid what is reasonable and forbid what is wrong; be patient of what befalls thee, verily, that is one of the determined affairs

¹⁸And twist not thy cheek proudly, nor walk in the land haughtily; verily, God loves not every arrogant boaster

¹⁹but be moderate in thy walk, and lower thy voice; verily, the most disagreeable of voices is the voice of asses

²⁰Have ye not seen that God has subjected to you what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, and has poured down upon you His favours, outwardly and inwardly? but amongst men are those who wrangle about God, without knowledge, and without guidance, and without an illuminating book

²¹And when it is said to them, 'Follow what God has sent down;' they say, 'Nay! we will follow what we found our fathers agreed upon;' - what! though Satan calls them to the torment of the blaze

²²But he who resigns his face unto God, and does good, he has grasped the firm handle; unto God is the issue of affairs

²³But he who misbelieves, let not his misbelief grieve thee; to us is their return, and we will inform them of what they do; - for, verily, God knows the nature of men's breasts

²⁴We will let them enjoy themselves a little; then we will force them to rigorous woe

²⁵And if thou shouldst ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely say, 'God.' Say, 'Praise be to God!' but most of them do not know

²⁶God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; verily, God, He is the independent, worthy of praise

²⁷And were the trees that are in the earth pens, and the sea (ink) with seven more seas to swell its tide, the words of God would not be spent; verily, God is mighty, wise

²⁸Your creation and your rising again are but as that of one soul; verily, God both hears and sees

²⁹Dost thou not see that God joins on the night to the day, and joins on the day to the night, and has subjected the sun and the moon, - each of them runs on unto an appointed time? and that God of what ye do is well aware

³⁰That is because God, He is true, and because what ye call on beside Him is falsehood, and because God, He is the high, the great

³¹Dost thou not see that the ship rides on in the sea by the favour of God, that He may show you of His signs? verily, in that are signs to every grateful person

³²And when a wave like shadows covers them, they call on God, being sincere in their religion; and when He saves them to the shore, then amongst them are some who halt between two opinions. But none gainsays our signs save every perfidious misbeliever

³³O ye folk! fear your Lord and dread the day when the father shall not atone for his son, nor shall the child atone aught for its parent. Verily, the promise of God is true! Say, 'Let not the life of this world beguile you; and let not the beguiler beguile you concerning God

³⁴Verily, God, with Him is the knowledge of the Hour; and He sends down the rain; and He knows what is in the wombs; and no soul knows what it is that it shall earn to-morrow; and no soul knows in what land it shall die; verily, God is knowing, well aware

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²The revelation of the Book, there is no doubt therein, from the Lord of the worlds

³Do they say, 'He has forged it?' Nay! it is the truth from thy Lord, that thou mayest warn a people, to whom no warner has come before thee, haply they may be guided

⁴God it is who created the heavens and the earth and what is between the two in six days; then He made for the throne! ye have no patron beside Him and no intercessor; are ye not then mindful

⁵He governs the affair from the heaven unto the earth; then shall it ascend to him in a day, the measure of which is as a thousand years of what ye number

⁶That is He who knows the unseen and the visible; the mighty, the merciful

⁷who has made the best of the creation of everything, and produced the creation of man from clay

⁸then He made his stock from an extract of despicable water

⁹then He fashioned him and breathed into him of His spirit, and made for you hearing and eyesight and hearts;- little is it that ye give thanks

¹⁰And they say, 'When we are lost in the earth, shall we then become a new creation?' Nay! in the meeting of their Lord they disbelieve

¹¹Say, 'The angel of death shall take you away, he who is given charge of you; then unto your Lord shall ye be returned

¹²And couldst thou see when the sinners hang down their heads before their Lord, 'O Lord! we have seen and we have heard; send us back then and we will do right. Verily, we are sure

¹³Had we pleased we would have given to everything its guidance; but the sentence was due from me;-I will surely fill hell with the ginns and with men all together

¹⁴So taste ye, for that ye forgat the meeting of this day of yours,- verily, we have forgotten you! and taste ye the torment of eternity for that which ye have done

¹⁵They only believe in our signs who when they are reminded of them fall down adoring and celebrate the praises of their Lord, and are not too big with pride

¹⁶As their sides forsake their beds, they call upon their Lord with fear and hope; and of what we have bestowed upon them do they give alms

¹⁷No soul knows what is reserved for them of cheerfulness for eye, as a reward for that which they have done

¹⁸Is he who is a believer like him who is a sinner? they shall not be held equal

¹⁹As for those who believe and do right, for them are the gardens of resort, an entertainment for that which they have done

²⁰But as for those who commit abomination their resort is the Fire. Every time that they desire to go forth therefrom, we will send them back therein, and it will be said to them, 'Taste ye the torment of the fire which ye did call a lie

²¹and we will surely make them taste of the torment of the nearer torment beside the greater torment, - haply they may yet return

²²Who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the signs of his Lord, and then turns away from them? Verily, we will take vengeance on the sinners

²³And we did give Moses the Book; be not then in doubt concerning the meeting with him; and we made it a guidance to the children of Israel

²⁴And we made amongst them high priests who guided by our bidding, since they were patient and were sure of our signs

²⁵Verily, thy Lord, he shall decide between them on the resurrection day concerning that whereon they do dispute

²⁶Is it not conspicuous to them how many generations we have destroyed before them? they walk over their dwellings! verily, in that are signs: do they not then hear

²⁷Have they not seen that we drive the water to the sterile land, and bring forth thereby corn from which their cattle and themselves do eat? do they not then see

²⁸And they say, 'When shall this decision come if ye do tell the truth

²⁹Say, 'On the day of the decision their faith shall not profit those who misbelieved, nor shall they be respited

³⁰turn then from them and wait; verily, they are waiting too

¹O thou prophet! fear God and obey not the misbelievers and hypocrites; verily, God is ever knowing, wise

²But follow what thou art inspired with from thy Lord; verily, God of what you do is ever well aware

³And rely upon God, for God is guardian enough

⁴God has not made for any man two hearts in his inside; nor has He made your wives,- whom you back away from,- your real mothers; nor has He made your adopted sons your real sons. That is what ye speak with your mouths; but God speaks the truth and He guides to the path

⁵Call them by their fathers' names; that is more just in God's sight; but if ye know not their fathers, then they are your brothers in religion and your clients. There is no crime against you for what mistakes ye make therein; but what your hearts do purposely - but God is ever forgiving and merciful

⁶The prophet is nearer of kin to the believers than themselves, and his wives are their mothers. And blood relations are nearer in kin to each other by the Book of God than the believers and those who fled; only your doing kindness to your kindred, that is traced in the Book

⁷And when we took of the prophets their compact, from thee and from Noah, and Abraham, and Moses, and Jesus the son of Mary, and took of them a rigid compact

⁸that He might ask the truth-tellers of their truth. But He has prepared for those who misbelieve a grievous woe

⁹O ye who believe! remember God's favours towards you when hosts came to you and we sent against them a wind and hosts that ye could not see;- and God knew what ye were doing

¹⁰When they came upon you from above you and from below you, and when your eyesights were distracted and your hearts came up into your throats, and ye suspected God with certain suspicions

¹¹There were the believers tried and were made to quake with a severe quaking

¹²And when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was sickness said, 'God and His Apostle have only promised us deceitfully

¹³And when a party of them said, 'O people of Yathreb; there is no place for you (here), return then (to the city).' And a part of them asked leave of the prophet (to return), saying, 'Verily, our houses are defenceless;' but they were not defenceless, they only wished for flight

¹⁴But had they been entered upon from its environs and then been asked to show treason they would have done so; but they would only have tarried there a little while

¹⁵They had covenanted with God before, that they would not turn their backs; and God's covenant shall be enquired of

¹⁶Say, 'Flight shall avail you naught; if ye fly from death or slaughter, even then ye shall be granted enjoyment only for a little

¹⁷Say, 'Who is it that can save you from God, if He wish you evil, or wish you mercy?' but they will not find beside God a patron or a helper

¹⁸Say, 'God knows the hinderers amongst you, and those who say to their brethren, "Come along unto us," and show but little valour

¹⁹covetous towards you.' When fear comes thou wilt see them looking towards thee, their eyes rolling like one fainting with death; but when the fear has passed away they will assail you with sharp tongues, covetous of the best. These have never believed, and God will make vain their works, for that is easy with God

²⁰They reckoned that the confederates would never go away; and if the confederates should come they would fain be in the desert with the Arabs, asking for news of you! and if they were amongst you they would fight but little

²¹Ye had in the Apostle of God a good example for him who hopes for God and the last day, and who remembers God much

²²And when the believers saw the confederates they said, 'This is what God and His Apostle promised us; God and His Apostle are true!' and it only increased them in faith and resignation

²³Amongst the believers are men who have been true to their covenant with God, and there are some who have fulfilled their vow, and some who wait and have not changed with fickleness

²⁴That God might reward the truthful for their truth, and punish the hypocrites if He please, or turn again towards them;- verily, God is forgiving, merciful

²⁵And God drove back the misbelievers in their rage; they gat no advantage;- God was enough for the believers in the fight, for God is strong, mighty

²⁶And He drove down those of the people of the Book who had helped them from their fortresses and hurled dread into their hearts; a part ye slew and ye took captive a part

²⁷and He gave you their land, and their dwellings, and their property for an inheritance, and a land ye had not trodden, for God is ever mighty over all

²⁸O thou prophet! say to thy wives, 'If ye be desirous of the life of this world and its adornments, come, I will give you them to enjoy and I will let you range handsomely at large

²⁹But if ye be desirous of God and His Apostle and of the abode of the hereafter, verily, God has prepared for those of you who do good a mighty hire

³⁰O ye women of the prophet! whosoever of you commits manifest fornication, doubled shall be her torment twice; and that is easy unto God

³¹But that one of you who is devoted to God and His Apostle and does right we will give her her hire twice over, and we have prepared for her a noble provision

³²O ye women of the prophet! ye are not like any other women; if ye fear God then be not too complaisant in speech, or he in whose heart is sickness will lust after you; but speak a reasonable speech

³³And stay still in your houses and show not yourselves with the ostentation of the ignorance of yore; and be steadfast in prayer, and give alms, and obey God and His Apostle;- God only wishes to take away from you the horror as people of His House and to purify you thoroughly

³⁴And remember what is recited in your houses of the signs of God and of wisdom; verily, God is subtle and aware

³⁵Verily, men resigned and women resigned, and believing men and believing women, and devout men and devout women, and truthful men and truthful women, and patient men and patient women, and humble men and humble women, and almsgiving men and almsgiving women, and fasting men and fasting women, and men who guard their private parts and women who guard their private parts, and men who remember God much, and women who remember Him,- God has prepared for them forgiveness and a mighty hire

³⁶It is not for a believing man or for a believing woman, when God and His Apostle have decided an affair, to have the choice in that affair; and whoso rebels against God and His Apostle has erred with an obvious error

³⁷And when thou didst say to him God had shown favour to and thou hadst shown favour to, 'Keep thy wife to thyself and fear God;' and thou didst conceal in thy soul what God was about to display; and didst fear men, though God is more deserving that thou shouldst fear Him; and when Zaid had fulfilled his desire of her we did wed thee to her that there should be no hindrance to the believers in the matter of the wives of their adopted sons when they have fulfilled their desire of them: and so God's bidding to be done

³⁸There is no hindrance to the prophet about what God has ordained for him;-(such was) the course of God with those who have passed away before,- and God's bidding is a decreed decree

³⁹Those who preach God's messages and fear Him and fear not any one except God,- but God is good enough at reckoning up

⁴⁰Mohammed is not the father of any of your men, but the Apostle of God, and the Seal of the Prophets; for God all things doth know

⁴¹O ye who believe! remember God with frequent remembrance

⁴²and celebrate His praises morning and evening

⁴³He it is who prays for you and His angels too, to bring you forth out of the darkness into the light, for He is merciful to the believers

⁴⁴Their salutation on the day they meet Him shall be 'Peace!' and fie has prepared for them a noble hire

⁴⁵O thou prophet! verily, we have sent thee as a witness and a herald of glad tidings and a warner

⁴⁶and to call (men) unto God by His permission, and as an illuminating lamp

⁴⁷Give glad tidings then to the believers, that for them is great grace from God

⁴⁸And follow not the unbelievers and the hypocrites; but let alone their ill-treatment, and rely upon God, for God is guardian enough

⁴⁹O ye who believe! when ye wed believing women, and then divorce them before ye have touched them, ye have no term that ye need observe; so make them some provision, and let them go handsomely at large

⁵⁰O thou prophet! verily, we make lawful for thee thy wives to whom thou hast given their hire, and what thy right hand possesses out of the booty that God has granted thee, and the daughters of thy paternal uncle and the daughters of thy paternal aunts, and the daughters of thy maternal uncle and the daughters of thy maternal aunts, provided they have fled with thee, and any believing woman if she give herself to the prophet, if the prophet desire to marry her;- a special privilege this for thee, above the other believers. We knew what we ordained for them concerning their wives and what their right hands possess, that there should be no hindrance to thee, and God is forgiving, merciful

⁵¹Put off whomsoever thou wilt of them and take to thyself whomsoever thou wilt, or whomsoever thou cravest of those whom thou hast deposed, and it shall be no crime against thee. That is nigher to cheering their eyes and that they should not grieve, and should be satisfied with what thou dost bring them all; but God knows best what is in their hearts; and God is knowing, clement

⁵²It is not lawful to thee to take women after (this), nor to change them for (other) wives, even though their beauty please thee; except what thy right hand possesses, for God is ever watchful over all

⁵³O ye who believe! do not enter the houses of the prophet, unless leave be given you, for a meal,- not watching till it is cooked! But when ye are invited, then enter; and when ye have fed, disperse, not engaging in familiar discourse. Verily, that would annoy the prophet and he would be ashamed for your sake, but God is not ashamed of the truth. And when ye ask them for an article, ask them from behind a curtain; that is purer for your hearts and for theirs. It is not right for you to annoy the prophet of God, nor to wed his wives after him ever; verily, that is with God a serious thing

⁵⁴If ye display a thing or conceal it, verily, God all things doth know

⁵⁵There is no crime against them, (if they speak unveiled) to their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their brothers sons, or their sisters sons, or their women, or what their right hands possess; but let them fear God,- verily, God is witness over all

⁵⁶Verily, God and His angels pray for the prophet. O ye who believe! pray for him and salute him with a salutation

⁵⁷Verily, those who annoy God and His Apostle, God will curse them in this world and the next, and prepare for them shameful woe

⁵⁸And those who annoy the believers for what they have not earned, such have to bear (the guilt of) calumny and obvious sin

⁵⁹O thou prophet! tell thy wives and thy daughters, and the women of the believers, to let down over them their outer wrappers; that is nearer for them to be known and that they should not be annoyed; but God is forgiving, merciful

⁶⁰Surely if the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a sickness and the insurrectionists in Medinah do not desist, we will surely incite thee against them. Then they shall not dwell near thee therein save for a little while

⁶¹Cursed wherever they are found,- taken and slain with slaughter

⁶²God's course with those who have passed away before: and thou shalt never find in God's course any alteration

⁶³The folk will ask thee about the Hour; say, 'The knowledge thereof is only with God, and what is to make thee perceive that the Hour is haply nigh

⁶⁴Verily, God has cursed the misbelievers and has prepared for them a blaze

⁶⁵To dwell therein for ever and for aye; they shall not find a patron or a helper

⁶⁶On the day when their faces shall writhe in the fire they shall say, 'O, would that we had obeyed God and obeyed the Apostle

⁶⁷And they shall say, 'Our Lord! verily, we obeyed our chiefs and our great men and they led us astray from the path

⁶⁸Our Lord! give them double torment and curse them with a great curse

⁶⁹O ye who believe! be not like those who annoyed Moses; but God cleared him of what they said, and he was regarded in the sight of God

⁷⁰O ye who believe! fear God and speak a straightforward speech

⁷¹He will correct for you your works, and pardon you your sins; for he who obeys God and His Apostle has attained a mighty happiness

⁷²Verily, we offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to bear it, and shrank from it; but man bore it: verily, he is ever unjust and ignorant

⁷³That God may torment the hypocritical men and hypocritical women, and the idolaters and idolatresses; and that God may turn relenting towards the believing men and believing women; verily, God is ever forgiving, merciful

¹Praise belongs to God, whose is whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth; His is the praise in the next world, and He is the wise and well aware

²He knows what goes into the earth, and what comes forth therefrom, and what comes down from the sky, and what ascends thereto; for He is the merciful, forgiving

³Those who misbelieve say, 'The Hour shall not come to us;' say, 'Yea, by my Lord it shall surely come to you! by Him who knows the unseen! nor shall there escape from it the weight of an atom, in the heavens or in the earth, or even less than that, or greater, save in the perspicuous Book

⁴and that He may reward those who believe and do right; these,- for them is forgiveness and a noble provision

⁵But those who strive concerning our signs to frustrate them; these,- for them is the torment of a grievous plague

⁶And those to whom knowledge has been given see that what is sent down to thee from thy Lord is the truth, and guides unto the way of the mighty, the praiseworthy

⁷And those who misbelieve say, 'Shall we guide you to a man who will inform you that when ye are torn all to pieces, then ye shall be a new creation

⁸he has forged against God a lie, or there is a ginn in him;' - nay, those who believe not in the hereafter are in the torment and in the remote error

⁹Have they not looked at what is before them and what is behind them of the heaven and the earth? if we pleased we would cleave the earth open with them, or we would make to fall upon them a portion of the heaven; verily, in that is a sign to every repentant servant

¹⁰And we did give David grace from us, 'O ye mountains! echo (God's praises) with him, and ye birds!' and we softened for him iron

¹¹Make thou coats of mail and adapt the rings thereof, and do right; verily, I at what ye do do look

¹²And to Solomon the wind; its morning journey was a month, and its evening journey was a month; and we made to flow for him a fountain of molten brass; and of the ginns some to work before him by the permission of his Lord; and whoso swerves amongst them from our bidding we will give him to taste the torment and the blaze

¹³and they made for him what he pleased of chambers, and images, and dishes like troughs, and firm pots;- work, O ye family of David! thankfully; few is it of my servants who are thankful

¹⁴And when we decreed for him death, naught guided them to his death save a reptile of the earth that ate his staff; and when he fell down it was made manifest to the ginns that, had they but known the unseen, they need not have tarried in the shameful torment

¹⁵Seba had in their dwellings a sign; two gardens, on the right hand and on the left, 'Eat from the provision of your Lord; and give thanks to Him! a good country and a forgiving Lord

¹⁶but they turned away, and we sent against them the flood of the dyke; and we changed for them their two gardens into two gardens that grew bitter fruit and tamarisk, and some few lote trees

¹⁷This did we reward them with, for that they misbelieved; and do we so reward any but misbelievers

¹⁸And we made between them and the cities which we had blessed (other) cities which were evident; and we measured out the journey: 'Journey ye thereto nights and days in safety

¹⁹And they said, 'Our Lord! make a greater distance between our journeys;' and they wronged themselves, and we made them legends; and we tore them all to pieces; verily, in that are signs to every patient, grateful person

²⁰And Iblis verified his suspicion concerning them, and they followed him, save a party of the believers

²¹Yet had he no authority over them, save that we might know who it was that believed in the hereafter from him who amongst them was in doubt; for thy Lord guards everything

²²Say, 'Call on those whom ye pretend beside God;' they cannot control the weight of an atom in the heavens or in the earth; nor have they any partnership in either; nor has He amongst them any supporter

²³nor is intercession of any avail with Him, except for him whom He permits; so that when fright is removed from their hearts they say, 'What is it that your Lord says?' they say, 'The truth; for He is the high, the great

²⁴Say, 'Who provides from the heavens and the earth?' Say, 'God.' And, verily, we or ye are surely in guidance or in an obvious error

²⁵Say, 'Ye shall not be asked about what we have sent, nor shall we be asked about what ye do

²⁶Our Lord shall assemble us together; then He shall open between us in truth, for He is the opener who knows

²⁷Say, 'Show me those whom ye have added to Him as partners; not so! nay, but He is God, the mighty, the wise

²⁸We have only sent thee to men generally as a herald of glad tidings and a warner; but most men do not know

²⁹And they say, 'When shall this promise be, if ye do speak the truth

³⁰say, 'For you is the appointment of a day of which ye shall not keep back an hour nor shall ye bring it on

³¹And those who misbelieve say, 'We will never believe in this Qur'an or in what is before it;' but couldst thou see when the unjust are set before their Lord, they shall rebut each other in speech. Those who were thought weak shall say to those who were big with pride, 'Had it not been for you we should have been believers

³²Those who were big with pride shall say to those who were thought weak, 'Was it we who turned you away from the guidance after it came to you? nay, ye were sinners

³³And those who were thought weak shall say to those who were big with pride, 'Nay, but it was the plotting by night and day, when ye did bid us to disbelieve in God, and to make peers for Him!' and they shall display repentance when they see the torment; and we will put fetters on the necks of those who misbelieved. Shall they be rewarded except for that which they have done

³⁴We have not sent to any city a warner but the opulent thereof said, 'We, in what ye are sent with, disbelieve

³⁵And they say, 'We have more wealth and children, and we shall not be tormented

³⁶Say, 'Verily, my Lord extends provision to whom He pleases or doles it out, but most men do not know

³⁷but neither your wealth nor your children is that which will bring you to a near approach to us, save him who believes and does right; these, for them is a double reward for what they have done, and they in upper rooms shall be secure

³⁸And those who strive concerning our signs to frustrate them, these in the torment shall be arraigned

³⁹Verily, my Lord extends provision to whomsoever He will of His servants, or doles it out to him. And what ye expend in alms at all, He will repay it; for He is the best of providers

⁴⁰And on the day He will gather them all together, then He will say to the angels, 'Are these those who used to worship you

⁴¹They shall say, 'Celebrated be thy praises! thou art our patron instead of them. Nay, they used to worship the ginns, most of them believe in them

⁴²But today they cannot control for each other, either profit or harm;' and we will say to those who have done wrong, 'Taste ye the torment of the fire wherein ye did disbelieve

⁴³And when our signs are recited to them they say, 'This is only a man who wishes to turn you from what your fathers served;' and they say, 'This is only a lie forged,' and those who misbelive will say of the truth when it comes to them, 'It is only obvious sorcery

⁴⁴But we have not brought them any book which they may study, and we have not sent to them before thee a warner

⁴⁵Those before them said it was a lie, and these have not reached a tithe of what we had given them. And they said my apostles were liars, and how great a change was then

⁴⁶Say, 'I only admonish you of one thing, that ye should stand up before God in twos or singly, and then that ye reflect that there is no ginn in your companion. He is only a warner to you before the keen torment

⁴⁷Say, 'I do not ask you for it a hire; that is for yourselves; my hire is only from God, and He is witness over all

⁴⁸Say, 'Verily, my Lord hurls forth the truth; and He well knows the unseen

⁴⁹Say, 'The truth has come, and falsehood shall vanish and shall not come back

⁵⁰Say, 'If I err I only err against myself; and if I am guided it is all what my Lord inspires me; verily, He is the hearing, the nigh

⁵¹And couldst thou see when they are scared, and there shall be no escape, and they shall be taken from a place that is nigh

⁵²And they say, 'We believe in it.' But how can they partake of it from a distant place

⁵³They misbelieved before, and conjectured about the unseen from a distant place

⁵⁴And there shall be a barrier between them and that which they lust after; as we did with their fellow sectaries before; verily, they were in hesitating doubt

¹Praise belongs to God, the originator of the heavens and the earth; who makes the angels His messengers, endued with wings in pairs, or threes or fours; He adds to creation what He Pleases; verily, God is mighty over all

²What God opens to men of His mercy there is none to withhold; and what He withholds, there is none can send it forth after Him; for He is the mighty, the wise

³O ye folk! remember the favours of God towards you; is there a creator beside God, who provides you from the heavens and from the earth? There is no god but He; how then can ye lie

⁴And if they call thee liar, apostles were called liars before thee, and unto God affairs return

⁵O ye folk! verily, God's promise is true; then let not the life of this world beguile you, and let not the beguiler beguile you concerning God

⁶Verily, the devil is to you a foe, so take him as a foe; he only calls his crew to be the fellows of the blaze

⁷Those who misbelieve, for them is keen torment. But those who believe and do right, for them is forgiveness and a great hire

⁸What! is he whose evil act is made seemly for him, so that he looks upon it as good,-? Verily, God leads astray whom He pleases and guides whom He pleases; let not thy soul then be wasted in sighing for them; verily, God knows what they do

⁹It is God who sends the winds, and they stir up a cloud, and we irrigate therewith a dead country, and we quicken therewith the earth after its death; so shall the resurrection be

¹⁰Whosoever desires honour - honour belongs wholely to God; to Him good words ascend, and a righteous deed He takes up; and those who plot evil deeds, for them is keen torment, and their plotting is in vain

¹¹God created you from earth, then from a clot; then lie made you pairs; and no female bears or is delivered, except by His knowledge; nor does he, who is aged reach old age, or is aught diminished from his life, without it is in the Book; verily, that is easy unto God

¹²The two seas are not equal: one is sweet and fresh and pleasant to drink, and the other is salt and pungent; but from each do ye eat fresh flesh, and bring forth ornaments which ye wear; and thou mayest see the ships cleave through it, that ye may search after His grace, and haply ye may give thanks

¹³He turns the night into day, and He turns the day into night; and He subjects the sun and the moon, each of them runs on to an appointed goal; that is God, your Lord! His is the kingdom; but those ye call on beside Him possess not a straw

¹⁴If you call upon them they cannot hear your call, and if they hear they cannot answer you; and on the resurrection day they will deny your associating them with God; but none can inform thee like the One who is aware

¹⁵O ye folk! ye are in need of God; but God, He is independent, praiseworthy

¹⁶If He please He will take you off, and will bring a fresh creation

¹⁷for that is no hard matter unto God

¹⁸And no burdened soul shall bear the burden of another; and if a heavily laden one shall call for its load (to be carried) it shall not be carried for it at all, even though it be a kinsman!- thou canst only warn those who fear their Lord in the unseen and who are steadfast in prayer; and he who is pure is only pure for himself; and unto God the journey is

¹⁹The blind is not equal with him who sees

²⁰nor the darkness with the light

²¹nor the shade with the hot blast

²²nor are the living equal with the dead; verily, God causes whom He pleases to hear, and thou canst not make those who are in their graves hear

²³thou art but a warner

²⁴Verily, we have sent thee in truth a herald of glad tidings and a warner; and there is no nation but its warner has passed away with it

²⁵And if they called thee liar, those before thee called their apostles liars too, who came to them with manifest signs, and the Scriptures, and the illuminating Book

²⁶Then I seized those who misbelieved, and what a change it was

²⁷Dost thou not see that God has sent down from the heaven water, and has brought forth therewith fruits varied in hue, and on the mountains dykes, white and red, various in hue, and some intensely black

²⁸and men and beasts and cattle, various in hue? thus! none fear God but the wise among His servants; but, verily, God is mighty, forgiving

²⁹Verily, those who recite the Book of God, and are steadfast in prayer, and give alms of what we have bestowed in secret and in public, hope for the merchandise that shall not come to naught

³⁰that He may pay them their hire, and give them increase of His grace; verily, He is forgiving, grateful

³¹What we have inspired thee with of the Book is true, verifying what was before it; verily, God of His servants is well aware and sees

³²Then we gave the Book for an inheritance to those whom we chose of our servants, and of them are some who wrong themselves, and of them are some who take a middle course, and of them are some who vie in good works by the permission of their Lord; that is great grace

³³Gardens of Eden shall they enter, adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls; and their garments therein shall be silk

³⁴and they shall say, 'Praise belongs to God, who has removed from us our grief; verily, our Lord is forgiving, grateful

³⁵who has made us alight in an enduring abode of His grace, wherein no toil shall touch us, and there shall touch us no fatigue

³⁶But those who misbelieve, for them is the fire of hell; it shall not be decreed for them to die, nor shall aught of the torment be lightened from them; thus do we reward every misbeliever

³⁷and they shall shriek therein, 'O our Lord! bring us forth, and we will do right, not what we used to do!' - 'Did we not let you grow old enough for every one who would be mindful to be mindful? and there came to you a warner!- So taste it, for the unjust shall have none to help

³⁸verily, God knows the unseen things of the heavens and of the earth; verily, He knows the nature of men's breasts

³⁹He it is who made you vicegerents in the earth, and he who misbelieves, his misbelief is against himself; but their misbelief shall only increase the misbelievers in hatred with their Lord; and their misbelief shall only increase the misbelievers in loss

⁴⁰Say, 'Have ye considered your associates whom ye call on beside God?' show me what they created of the earth ; have they a share in the heavens, or have we given them a book that they rest on a manifest sign? nay the unjust promise each other naught but guile

⁴¹Verily, God holds back the heavens and the earth lest they should decline; and if they should decline there is none to hold them back after Him; verily, He is clement, forgiving

⁴²They swore by God with their most strenuous oath, verily, if there come to them a warner they would be more guided than any one of the nations; but when a warner comes to them, it only increases them in aversion

⁴³and in being big with pride in the earth, and in plotting evil; but the plotting of evil only entangles those who practise it; can they then expect aught but the course of those of yore? but thou shalt not find any alteration in the course of God; and they shall not find any change in the course of God

⁴⁴Have they not journeyed on in the land and seen what was the end of those before them who were stronger than they? but God, nothing can ever make Him helpless in the heavens or in the earth; verily, He is knowing, powerful

⁴⁵Were God to catch men up for what they earn, He would not leave upon the back of it a beast; but He respites them until an appointed time. When their appointed time comes, verily, God looks upon His servants

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²By the wise Qur'an

³verily, thou art of the apostles

⁴upon a right way

⁵The revelation of the mighty, the merciful

⁶That thou mayest warn a people whose fathers were not warned, and who themselves are heedless

⁷Now is the sentence due against most of them, for they will not believe

⁸Verity, we will place upon their necks fetters, and they shall reach up to their chins, and they shall have their heads forced back

⁹and we will place before them a barrier, and behind them a barrier; and we will cover them and they shall not see

¹⁰and it is all, the same to them if thou dost warn them or dost warn them not, they will not believe

¹¹Thou canst only warn him who follows the reminder, and fears the Merciful in the unseen; but give him glad tidings of forgiveness and a noble hire

¹²Verily, we quicken the dead, and write down what they have done before, and what vestiges they leave behind; and everything have we counted in a plain model

¹³Strike out for them a parable: the fellows of the city when there came to it the apostles

¹⁴when we sent those two and they called them both liars, and we strengthened them with a third; and they said, 'Verily, we are sent to you

¹⁵They said, 'Ye are only mortals like ourselves, nor has the Merciful sent down aught; ye are naught but liars

¹⁶They said, 'Our Lord knows that we are sent to you

¹⁷and we have only our plain message to preach

¹⁸They said, 'Verily, we have augured concerning you, and if ye do not desist we will surely stone you, and there shall touch you from us a grievous woe

¹⁹Said they, 'Your augury is with you; what! if ye are reminded -? Nay, ye are an extravagant people

²⁰And there came from the remote part of the city a man hastening up. Said he, 'O my people! follow the apostles

²¹follow those who do not ask you a hire, and who are guided

²²What ails me that I should not worship Him who originated me, and unto whom I must return

²³Shall I take gods beside Him? If the Merciful One desires harm for me, their intercession cannot avail me at all, nor can they rescue me

²⁴Verily, I should then be in obvious error

²⁵verily, I believe in your Lord, then listen ye to me

²⁶It was said, 'Enter thou into Paradise!' said he, 'O, would that my people did but know

²⁷for that my Lord has forgiven me, and has made me of the honoured

²⁸And we did send down upon his people no hosts from heaven, nor yet what we were wont to send down

²⁹it was but a single noise, and lo! they were extinct

³⁰Alas for the servants! there comes to them no apostle but they mock at him

³¹Have they not seen how many generations we have, destroyed before them

³²verily, they shall not return to them; but all of them shall surely altogether be arraigned

³³And a sign for them is the dead earth which we have quickened and brought forth therefrom seed, and from it do they eat

³⁴and we made therein gardens and palms and grapes, and we have caused fountains to gush forth therein

³⁵that they may eat from the fruit thereof, and of what their hands have made; will they not then give thanks

³⁶Celebrated be the praises of Him who created all kinds, of what the earth brings forth, and of themselves, and what they know not of

³⁷And a sign to them is the night, from which we strip off the day, and lo! they are in the dark

³⁸and the sun runs on to a place of rest for it; that is the ordinance of the mighty, the wise

³⁹And the moon, we have ordered for it stations, until it comes again to be like an old dry palm branch

⁴⁰Neither is it proper for it to catch up the moon, nor for the night to outstrip the day, but each one floats on in its sky

⁴¹And a sign for them is that we bear their seed in a laden ship

⁴²and we have created for them the like thereof whereon to ride

⁴³and if we please, we drown them, and there is none for them to appeal to; nor are they rescued

⁴⁴save by mercy from us, as a provision for a season

⁴⁵And when it is said to them, 'Fear what is before you and what is behind you, haply ye may obtain mercy

⁴⁶and thou bringest them not any one of the signs of their Lord, but they turn away therefrom

⁴⁷and when it is said to them, 'Expend in alms of what God has bestowed upon you,' those who misbelieve say to those who believe, 'Shall we feed him whom, if God pleased, He would feed? ye are only in an obvious error

⁴⁸They say, 'When shall this promise come to pass, if ye do tell the truth

⁴⁹They await but a single noise, that shall seize them as they are contending

⁵⁰And they shall not be able to make a bequest; nor to their people shall they return

⁵¹but the trumpet shall be blown, and, behold, from their graves unto their Lord shall they slip out

⁵²They shall say, 'O, woe is us! who has raised us up from our sleeping-place? this is what the Merciful promised, and the apostles told the truth

⁵³It shall be but a single noise, and lo! they are all arraigned before us

⁵⁴And on that day no soul shall be wronged at all, nor shall ye be rewarded for aught but that which ye have done

⁵⁵Verily, the fellows of Paradise upon that day shall be employed in enjoyment

⁵⁶they and their wives, in shade upon thrones, reclining

⁵⁷therein shall they have fruits, and they shall have what they may call for

⁵⁸Peace!' - a speech from the merciful Lord

⁵⁹Separate yourselves today, O ye sinners

⁶⁰Did I not covenant with you, O children of Adam! that ye should not serve Satan? verily, he is to you an open foe

⁶¹but serve ye me, this is the right way

⁶²But he led astray a numerous race of you; what! had ye then no sense

⁶³this is hell, which ye were threatened

⁶⁴broil therein today, for that ye misbelieved

⁶⁵On that day we will seat their mouths, and their hands shall speak to us, and their feet shall bear witness of what they earned

⁶⁶And if we please we could put out their eyes, and they would race along the road; and then how could they see

⁶⁷And if we pleased we would transform them in their places, and they should not be able to go on, nor yet to return

⁶⁸And him to whom we grant old age, we bow him down in his form; have they then no sense

⁶⁹We have not taught him poetry, nor was it proper for him; it is but a reminder and a plain Qur'an

⁷⁰to warn him who is living; but the sentence is due against the misbelievers

⁷¹Have they not seen that we have created for them of what our hands have made for them, cattle, and they are owners thereof

⁷²and we have tamed them for them, and of them are some to ride, and of them are what they eat

⁷³and therein have they advantages and beverages; will they not then give thanks

⁷⁴But they take, beside God, gods that haply they may be helped

⁷⁵They cannot help them; yet are they a host ready for them

⁷⁶But let not their speech grieve thee: verily, we know what they conceal and what they display

⁷⁷Has not man seen that we have created him from a clot? and lo! he is an open opponent

⁷⁸and he strikes out for us a likeness; and forgets his creation; and says, 'Who shall quicken bones when they are rotten

⁷⁹Say, 'He shall quicken them who produced them at first, for every creation does He know

⁸⁰who has made for you fire out of a green tree, and lo! ye kindle therewith

⁸¹Is not He who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like thereof? yea! He is the knowing Creator

⁸²His bidding is only, when He desires anything to say to it, 'BE,' and it is

⁸³Then celebrated be the praises of Him in whose hands is the kingdom of everything! and unto Him shall ye return

¹By the (angels) ranged in ranks

²and the drivers driving

³and the reciters of the reminder

⁴Verily, your God is one

⁵the Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between the two, and the Lord of the sunrises

⁶Verily, we have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the stars

⁷and to preserve it from every rebellious devil

⁸that they may not listen to the exalted chiefs; for they are hurled at from every side

⁹driven off, and for them is lasting woe

¹⁰save such as snatches off a word, and there follows him a darting flame

¹¹Ask them whether they are stronger by nature or (the angels) whom we have created? We have created them of sticky clay

¹²Nay, thou dost wonder and they jest

¹³and when they are reminded they will not remember

¹⁴and when they see a sign they make a jest thereof

¹⁵and say, 'This is naught but obvious sorcery

¹⁶What! when we are dead, and have become earth and bones, shall we then be raised

¹⁷what! and our fathers of yore

¹⁸Say, 'Yes, and ye shall shrink up

¹⁹and it shall only be one scare, and, behold, they shall look on

²⁰and they shall say, 'O, woe is us! this is the day of judgment

²¹this is the day of decision, which ye did call a lie

²²Gather ye together, ye who were unjust, with their mates and what they used to serve

²³beside God, and guide them to the way of hell

²⁴and stop them; verily, they shall be questioned

²⁵Why do ye not help each other

²⁶nay, on that day they shall resign themselves

²⁷and some shall draw near to others, to question each other

²⁸and they shall say, 'Verily, ye came to us from the right

²⁹They shall say, 'Nay, ye were not believers

³⁰nor had we any authority over you; nay, ye were an outrageous people

³¹And the sentence of our Lord shall be due for us; verily, we shall surely taste thereof

³²we did seduce you - verily, we were erring too

³³therefore, verily, on that day they shall share the torment

³⁴thus it is that we will do with the sinners

³⁵Verily, when it is said to them, 'There is no god but God,' they get too big with pride

³⁶and say, 'What! shall we leave our gods for an infatuated poet

³⁷Nay, he came with the truth, and verified the apostles

³⁸verily, ye are going to taste of grievous woe

³⁹nor shall ye be rewarded save for that which ye have done

⁴⁰Except God's sincere servants

⁴¹these shall have a stated provision

⁴²of fruits, and they shall be honoured

⁴³in the gardens of pleasure

⁴⁴upon couches facing each other

⁴⁵they shall be served all round with a cup from a spring

⁴⁶white and delicious to those who drink

⁴⁷wherein is no insidious spirit, nor shall they be drunk therewith

⁴⁸and with them damsels, restraining their looks, large eyed

⁴⁹as though they were a sheltered egg

⁵⁰and some shall come forward to ask others

⁵¹and a speaker amongst them shall say, 'Verily, I had a mate

⁵²who used to say, "Art thou verily of those who credit

⁵³What! when we are dead, and have become earth and bones, shall we be surely judged

⁵⁴He will say, 'Are ye looking down

⁵⁵and he shall look down and see him in the midst of hell

⁵⁶He shall say, 'By God, thou didst nearly ruin me

⁵⁷And had it not been for the favour of my Lord, I should have been among the arraigned

⁵⁸What! shall we not die save our first death

⁵⁹and shall we not be tormented

⁶⁰Verily, this is mighty bliss

⁶¹for the like of this then let the workers work

⁶²Is that better as an entertainment, or the tree of Ez Zaqqum

⁶³Verily, we have made it a trial to the unjust

⁶⁴Verily, it is a tree that comes forth from the bottom of hell

⁶⁵its spathe is as it were the heads of devils

⁶⁶verily, they shall eat therefrom, and fill their bellies therefrom

⁶⁷Then shall they have upon it a mixture of boiling water

⁶⁸then, verily, their return shall be to hell

⁶⁹Verily, they found their fathers erring

⁷⁰and they hurried on in their tracks

⁷¹but there had erred before them most of those of yore

⁷²and we had sent warners amongst them

⁷³Behold, then, what was the end of those who were warned

⁷⁴save God's sincere servants

⁷⁵Noah did call upon us, and a gracious answer did we give

⁷⁶and we saved him and his people from a mighty trouble

⁷⁷and we made his seed to be the survivors

⁷⁸and we left for him amongst posterity

⁷⁹peace upon Noah in the worlds

⁸⁰verily, thus do we reward those who do well

⁸¹verily, he was of our believing servants

⁸²Then we drowned the others

⁸³And, verily, of his sect was Abraham

⁸⁴when he came to his Lord with a sound heart

⁸⁵when he said to his father and his people, 'What is it that ye serve

⁸⁶with a lie do ye desire gods beside God

⁸⁷What then is your thought respecting the Lord of the worlds

⁸⁸And he looked a look at the stars

⁸⁹and said, 'Verily, I am sick

⁹⁰and they turned their backs upon him fleeing

⁹¹And he went aside unto their gods and said, 'Will ye not eat

⁹²What ails you that ye will not speak

⁹³And he went aside to them smiting with the right hand

⁹⁴And they rushed towards him

⁹⁵Said he, 'Do ye serve what ye hew out