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29. But if you desire Allah and His messenger and the abode
of the Hereafter, then lo! Allah has prepared for the good
among you an immense reward.
30. O you wives of the Prophet! Whosoever of you commits
manifest lewdness, the punishment for her will be
doubled, and that is easy for Allah.
? . 31 And whosoever of you is submissive to Allah and His
messenger and does right, We shall give her reward twice
over, and We have prepared for her a noble provision.
32. O you wives of the Prophet! You are not like any other
women. If you fear Allah, then be not soft of speech, lest
he in whose heart is a disease aspire [to you], but utter
customary speech.
33. And stay in your houses. Bedizen not yourselves with
the bedizenment of the Time of Ignorance. Be regular
in prayer, and pay the poor-due, and obey Allah and His
messenger. Allah intends only to remove uncleanness far
from you, O Folk of the Household, and purify you with
a thorough purification.
34. And bear in mind that which is recited in your houses
of the verses of Allah and wisdom. Lo! Allah is Subtile,
Acquainted.
35. Lo! the Muslim men, and Muslim women, and men who
believe and women who believe, and men who obey and
women who obey, and men who speak the truth and
women who speak the truth, and men who persevere [in
righteousness] and women who persevere, and men who
are humble and women who are humble, and men who
give alms and women who give alms, and men who fast
and women who fast, and men who guard their modesty
and women who guard [their modesty], and men who
remember Allah much and women who remember– Allah
has prepared for them forgiveness and a vast reward.
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36. And it is not for a believing man or a believing woman,
when Allah and His messenger have decided an affair
[for them], that they should [after that] claim any say in
their affair; and whoso is disobedient to Allah and His
messenger, he verily goes astray in manifest error.
37. And when you said to him on whom Allah has conferred
favour and you have conferred favour: Keep your wife
to yourself, and fear Allah. And you concealed within
yourself that which Allah was to bring to light, and
you did fear the people whereas Allah had a better
right that you should fear Him. So when Zeyd had no
longer need for her, We gave her to you in marriage, so
that [henceforth] there may be no discomfort for the
believers in respect of wives of their adopted sons, when
they have no longer need for them. The commandment
of Allah must be fulfilled.
38. There is not to be upon the Prophet any discomfort in
that which Allah makes his due. That was Allah’s way with
those who passed away of old - and the commandment
of Allah is a destiny decreed-–
39. Those who convey the messages of Allah and feared Him,
and feared none save Allah. And Allah is sufficient as a
Reckoner.
40. Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but
he is the messenger of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets;
and Allah is Aware of all things.
41. O you who believe! Remember Allah with much remembrance.
42. And glorify Him morning and afternoon.
43. He it is Who confers blessing upon you, and His angels
[bless you], that He may bring you forth from darkness to
light; and He is Merciful to the believers.
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44. Their salutation on the day when they shall meet Him
will be: Peace. And He has prepared for them a goodly
recompense.
45. O Prophet! Lo! We have sent you as a witness and a bringer
of good tidings and a warner.
46. And one who invites to Allah by His permission, and as a
lamp that gives light.
47. And announce to the believers the good tidings that they
will have great bounty from Allah.
48. And obey not the disbelievers and the hypocrites. And
do not harm them, and put your trust in Allah. Allah is
sufficient as Trustee.
49. O you who believe! If you marry believing women and
divorce them before you have touched them, then there is
no period that you should reckon. But content them and
release them graciously.
50. O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful to you your wives
to whom you have paid their dowries, and those whom
your right hand possesses of those whom Allah has given
you as spoils of war, and the daughters of your uncle
on the father’s side and the daughters of your aunts on
the father’s side, and the daughters of your uncles on the
mother’s side emigrated with you, and a believing woman
if she gives herself to the Prophet and the Prophet desire
to ask her in marriage-– a privilege for you only, not for
the [rest of] believers-– We are aware of that which We
enjoined upon them concerning their wives and those
whom their right hands possess-– that you may be free
from blame, for Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
51. You can defer whom you will of them and receive to you
whom you will, and whomsoever you desires of those
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whom you have set aside [temporarily], it is no blame for
you [to receive her again]; that is better; that they may be
comforted and not grieve, and may all be pleased with
what you give them. Allah knows what is in your hearts
[O men] and Allah is Knowing, Forbearing.
52. It is not lawful for you to take [other] women henceforth
nor that you should change them for other wives even
though their beauty pleased you, save those whom your
right hand possesses. And Allah is Watcher over all
things.
53. O you who believe! Enter not the dwellings of the Prophet
for a meal without waiting for its readiness, unless
permission be granted you. But if you are invited, then
enter, and when, you have eaten, then disperse. Linger
not for conversation. Lo! that would cause annoyance to
the Prophet, and he would be shy of [asking] you [to go];
but Allah is not shy of the truth. And when you ask of
them [the wives of the Prophet] anything, ask it of them
from behind a partition. That is purer for your hearts and
for their hearts. And it is not [lawful] for you to harm the
messenger of Allah, nor that you should ever marry his
wives after him at any time. Lo! that in Allah’s sight would
be an enormity.
54. Whether you reveal a thing or keep it hidden, lo! Allah is
ever Knower of all things.
55. There is no blame upon them [your wives] [to appear
unveiled] before their fathers, or their sons: or their
brothers, or their brothers sons, or the sons of their
sisters or of their own women, or their slaves. O women!
Fear Allah. Lo! Allah is ever Witness over all things.
56. Lo! Allah confers blessings on the Prophet and His angels
[ask Him to do so]. O you who believe! Ask [Allah to
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confer] blessings on him and salute him with a worthy
salutation.
57. Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah
has cursed them in the world and the Hereafter, and has
prepared for them humiliating doom.
58. And those who malign believing men and believing
women for [something] other than what they have
earned have certainly born the guilt of slander and
manifest sin.
59. O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the
women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round
them [when they go abroad]. That will be better, that so
they may be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever
Forgiving, Merciful.
60. If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease,
and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily
shall urge you on against them, then they will be your
neighbours in it but a little while.
61. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and killed
with a [fierce] slaughter.
62. That was the way of Allah in the case of those who passed
away of old; you will not find for the way of Allah any
change.
63. People ask you of the Hour. Say: The knowledge of it is
with Allah only. What can convey [the knowledge] to you?
It may be that the Hour is near.
64. Lo! Allah has cursed the disbelievers, and has prepared for
them a flaming fire,
65. Wherein they will abide for ever. They will not find [then]
a protector or a helper.
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66. On the day when their faces are turned over in the Fire,
they say: Oh, would that we had obeyed Allah and had
obeyed His messenger!
67. And they say: Our Lord! Lo! we obeyed our masters and
dignitaries, and they misled us from the [Right] Way.
68. Our Lord! Oh, give them double torment and curse them
with a mighty curse.
69. O you who believe! Be not as those who slandered Moses,
but Allah proved his innocence of that which they alleged,
and he was well esteemed in Allah’s sight.
70. O you who believe! Fear Allah, and speak [always] the
truth;
71. He will adjust your deeds for you and will forgive you your
sins. Whosoever obeys Allah and His messenger, he verily
has gained a great attainment.
72. Lo! We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and
the mountains, but they declined from bearing it and were
afraid of it. And man bore it. Lo! he has proved unjust
and ignorant.
73. So that Allah punishes hypocritical men and hypocritical
women, and idolatrous men and idolatrous women. But
Allah pardons believing men and believing women, and
Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
34- SABA [SABA]
Revealed at Mecca, [54 verses]
Saba, “Sheba,” takes its name from v. 15 ff., where Sheba
(Saba), a region in Yemen, is mentioned as having been
devastated by a flood. It warns of the effects of luxury. An
early Meccan Sûrah.
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Praise be to Allah, to Whom belongs whatsoever is in the
heavens and whatsoever is in the earth. His is the praise in
the Hereafter, and He is the Wise, the Aware.
2. He knows that which goes down into the earth and that
which comes forth from it, and that which descends
from the heaven and that which ascends into it. He is the
Merciful, the Forgiving.
3. Those who disbelieve say: The Hour will never come to us.
Say: Nay, by my Lord, but it is coming to you surely. [He is]
the Knower of the Unseen. Not an atom’s weight, or less
than that or greater, escapes Him in the heavens or in the
earth, but it is in a clear Record,
4. That He may reward those who believe and do good deeds.
For them is forgiveness and generous provision.
5. But those who strive against Our verses, challenging [Us],
theirs will be a painful doom of wrath.
6. Those who have been given knowledge see that what is
revealed to you from your Lord is the truth and leads to
the path of the Mighty, the Praiseworthy.
7. Those who disbelieve say: Shall we direct you to a man who
will tell you [that] when you have become dispersed in dust
with most complete dispersal, still, even then, you will be
created anew?
8. Has he invented a lie concerning Allah, or is there in him a
madness? Nay, but those who disbelieve in the Hereafter
are in torment and far error.
9. Have they not observed what is before them and what is
behind them of the heaven and the earth? If We will, We
can make the earth swallow them, or cause obliteration
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from the heaven to fall on them. Lo! herein surely is a sign
for every slave who turns [to Allah ] repentant.
10. And assuredly We gave David grace from Us, [saying]: O
you mountains and birds, glorify [Allah] with him! And
We made the iron supple to him,
11. Saying: Make you long coats of mail and measure the links
[thereof]. And do you right. Lo! I am Seer of what you do.
12. And to Solomon [We gave] the wind, whereof the
morning course was a month’s journey and the evening
course a month’s journey, and We caused the fount of
copper to gush forth for him, and [We gave him] certain
of the jinn who worked before him by permission of
his Lord. And such of them as deviated from Our
command, them We caused to taste the punishment of
flaming Fire.
13. They made for him what he willed: sanctuaries and statues,
basins like reservoirs and boilers built into the ground.
Give thanks, O House of David! Few of My bondmen
are thankful.
14. And when We decreed death for him, nothing showed his
death to them save a creeping creature of the earth which
gnawed away his staff. And when he fell the jinn saw
clearly how, if they had known the unseen, they would
not have continued in despised toil.
15. There was indeed a sign for Sheba in their dwelling-place:
Two gardens on the right hand and the left [as who should
say]: Eat of the provision of your Lord and render thanks
to Him. A fair land and a forgiving Lord!
16. But they turned away, so We sent on them the flood of
Iram, and in exchange for their two gardens gave them
two gardens bearing bitter fruit, the tamarisk and a few
lote-tree.
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17. This We awarded them because of their ingratitude.
Punish We ever any save the ingrates?
18. And We set, between them and the towns which We had
blessed, towns easy to be seen, and We made the stage
between them easy, [saying]: Travel in them safely both by
night and day.
19. But they said: Our Lord! Make the stage between our
journeys longer. And they wronged themselves, therefore
We made them bywords [in the land] and scattered them
abroad, a total scattering. Lo! herein verily are signs for
each patient, grateful [heart].
20. And Satan indeed found his assumption true concerning
them, for they follow him, all save a group of true
believers.
21. And he had no authority whatsoever against them, save
that We would know him who believes in the Hereafter
from him who is in doubt thereof; and your Lord [O
Muhammad] over all things, is Guardian.
22. Say [O Muhammad]: Invoke those whom you set up
besides Allah! They possess not an atom’s weight either
in the heavens or the earth, nor have they any share either,
nor has He a supporter among them.
23. No intercession avails with Him save for him whom He
permits. Yet, when fear is banished from their hearts, they
say: What was it that your Lord said? They say: The Truth.
And He is the Most High, the Grand.
24. Say: Who gives you provision from the heaven and the
earth? Say: Allah. Lo! we or you assuredly are rightly
guided or in manifest error.
25. Say: You will not be asked of what we committed, nor
shall we be asked of what you do.
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26. Say: Our Lord will bring us all together, then He will judge
between us with truth. He is the All-knowing Judge.
27. Say: Show me those whom you have joined to Him as
partners. Nay [you dare not]! For He is Allah, the Mighty,
the Wise.
28. And We have not sent you [O Muhammad] save as a
bringer of good tidings and a warner to all mankind; but
most of people know not.
29. And they say: When is this promise [to be fulfilled] if you
are truthful?
30. Say [O Muhammad]: Yours is the appointment of a Day
which you cannot postpone nor hasten by an hour.
31. And those who disbelieve say: We believe not in this
Qur’ân nor in that which was before it; but oh, if you
could see, when the wrong-doers are brought up before
their Lord, how they cast the blame one to another;
how those who were deemed weak [in the earth] say
to those who were proud: But for you, we should have
been believers.
32. And those who were proud say to those who were deemed
weak: Did we drive you away from the guidance after it
had come to you? Nay, but you were criminals.
33. And those who were deemed weak say to those who
were proud: Nay but [it was your] scheming night and
day, when you commanded us to disbelieve in Allah and
attribute equals to Him. And they are filled with remorse
when they behold the doom; and We place shackles on
the necks of those who disbelieved. Are they requited
anything save what they used to do?
34. And We sent not to any township a warner, but its affluent
said: Lo! we are disbelievers in that wherewith you have
been sent.
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35. And they say: We are more [than you] in wealth and children.
We are not to be punished!
36. Say [O Muhammad]: Lo! my Lord enlarges the provision
for whom He wills and narrows it [for whom He wills].
But most of the people know not.
37. And it is not your wealth nor your children that will bring
you near to Us, but he who believes and does good [he
draws near]. As for such, theirs will be twofold reward
for what they did, and they will dwell secure in lofty
chambers.
38. And as for those who strive against Our verses, challenging,
they will be brought to the doom.
39. Say: Lo! my Lord enlarges the provision for whom He
wills of His bondmen, and narrows [it] for him. And
whatsoever you spend [for good] He replaces it. And He
is the Best of Providers.
40. And on the day when He will gather them all together, He
will say to the angels: Did these worship you?
41. They will say: Be You Glorified. You [alone] are our Guardian
not them! Nay, but they worshipped the jinn; most of them
were believers in them.
42. So Today [i.e. the Day of Resurrection] you will possess
no profit nor harm one for another. And We shall say to
those who did wrong: Taste the doom of the Fire which
you used to deny.
43. And if Our verses are recited to them in plain terms, they
say: This is nothing else than a man who would turn you
away from what your fathers used to worship; and they
say: This is nothing else than an invented lie. Those who
disbelieve say of the truth when it reaches them: This is
nothing else than obvious magic.
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44. And We have given them no scriptures which they study,
nor We sent to them, before you, any warner.
45. Those before them denied, and these [people of Mecca]
have not attained a tenth of that which We bestowed
on them [of old]; yet they denied My messengers. How
intense then was My abhorrence [of them]!
46. Say [to them, O Muhammad]: I exhort you to one thing
only: that you stand, for Allah’s sake, by twos and singly,
and then reflect: There is no madness in your companion.
He is nothing else than a warner to you in face of a terrific
doom.
47. Say: Whatever reward I might have asked of you is yours.
My reward is the affair of Allah only. He is Witness over
all things.
48. Say: Lo! my Lord hurls the truth. [He is] the Knower of
the Unseen.
49. Say: The Truth has come, and falsehood can neither begin
[anything] nor repeat [it].
50. Say: If I err, I err only to my own loss, and if I am rightly
guided it is because of that which my Lord has revealed
to me. Lo! He is Hearer, Near.
51. Could you but see when they are terrified with no escape,
and are seized from a place nearby.
52. And say: We [now] believe therein. But how can they reach
[faith] from afar off,
53. And they disbelieved in it before. They aim at the unseen
from afar off.
54. And prevention is set between them and that which they
desire, as was done for people of their kind of old. Lo!
they were in suspicious doubt.
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35- THE CREATOR [FATIR]
Revealed at Mecca, [45 verses]
Fâtir, “The Creator,” takes its name in either case from a
word in v. 1. An early Meccan Sûrah.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Praise be to Allah, the Creator of the heavens and the earth,
who appoints the angels messengers having wings two,
three and four. He multiplies in creation what He wills. Lo!
Allah is Able to do all things.
2. That which Allah opens to mankind of mercy none can
withhold it; and that which He withholds none can release
thereafter. He is the Mighty, the Wise.
3. O mankind! Remember Allah’s grace toward you! Is there
any creator other than Allah who provides for you from
the heaven and the earth? There is no deity save Him. To
where then are you turned?
4. And if they deny you, [O Muhammad], messengers [of
Allah] were denied before you. To Allah all matters are
brought back.
5. O mankind! Lo! the promise of Allah is true. So let not
the life of the world beguile you, and let not the [avowed]
beguiler [Satan] beguile you with regard to Allah.
6. Lo! the Satan is an enemy for you, so take him as an enemy.
He only invites his party to be owners of the flaming Fire.
7. Those who disbelieve, theirs will be an awful doom; and
those who believe and do righteous deeds, theirs will be
forgiveness and a great reward.
8. Is he, the evil of whose deeds is made fair-seeming to him
so that he deems it good, [other than Satan’s dupe]? Allah
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verily sends whom He wills astray, and guides whom He
wills, so let not your soul expire in sighings for them. Lo!
Allah is Aware of what they do!
9. And Allah it is Who sends the winds and they raise a cloud;
then We lead it to a dead land and revive therewith the
earth after its death. Such is the Resurrection.
10. Whoso desires honour [should know that] all honour
belongs to Allah. To Him good words ascend, and the
pious deed does He exalt; but those who plot iniquities,
theirs will be an awful doom; and the plotting of such
[folk] will come to perish.
11. Allah created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop,
then He made you pairs [the male and female]. No female
bears or brings forth save with His knowledge. And no one
grows old who grows old, nor is anything lessened of his
life, but it is recorded in a Book. Lo! that is easy for Allah.
12. And the two seas are not alike: this, fresh, sweet, good to
drink, and this [other] bitter, salt. And from them both you
eat fresh meat and derive the ornament that you wear. And
you see the ships cleaving through [them] that you may
seek of His bounty, and that perhaps you may give thanks.
13. He makes the night to pass into the day and He makes the
day to pass into the night. He has subdued the sun and
moon to service. Each runs to an appointed term. Such
is Allah, your Lord; His is the Sovereignty; and those to
whom you call instead of Him own not so much as the
white spot on a date-stone.
14. If you invoke them they hear not your supplication, and if
they heard they could not grant it [your request] to you. On
the Day of Resurrection they will disown association with
you. None can inform you like Him Who is Acquainted
with all things.
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15. O mankind! You are the poor in your relation to Allah.
And Allah! He is the Independent, the Praiseworthy.
16. If He wills, He can be rid of you and bring [instead of
you] some new creation.
17. That is not a hard thing for Allah.
18. And no burdened soul can bear another’s burden, and if
one heavy laden cries for [help with] his load, nothing of
it will be lifted even though he [to whom he cries] be of
kin. You warn only those who fear their Lord unseen,
and have established prayer. And whoever purifies [in
goodness], purifies only for himself, [he cannot by his
merit redeem others]. To Allah is the [final] return.
19. The blind man is not equal with the seer;
20. Nor is darkness [equal to] light;
21. Nor is the shadow equal with the sun’s full heat;
22. Nor are the living equal with the dead. Lo! Allah makes
whom He wills to hear. But you cannot make hear those
who are in the graves.
23. You are but a warner.
24. Lo! We have sent you with the Truth, a bearer of glad
tidings and a warner; and there is not a nation but a warner
has passed among them.
25. And if they deny you: those before them also denied.
Their messengers came to them with clear proofs [of
Allah’s Sovereignty], and with the Scripture and the Book
giving light.
26. Then I seized those who disbelieved, and how [terrible]
was My reproach!
27. Have you not seen that Allah causes water to fall from the
sky, and We produce therewith fruit of different hues;
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and among the mountains are streaks white and red, of
different hues, and [others] raven-black;
28. And of men and beasts and cattle, in like manner, different
hues? The erudite among His bondsmen fear Allah alone.
Lo! Allah is Mighty, Forgiving.
29. Lo! those who recite the Book of Allah, and establish
prayer, and spend of that which We have bestowed
on them secretly and openly, they look forward to
imperishable gain,
30. That He will pay them their wages and increase them of
His grace. Lo! He is Forgiving, Appreciative.
31. As for that which We reveal to you of the Book, it is the
Truth confirming that which was [revealed] before it. Lo!
Allah is indeed Acquainted, Seer of his slaves.
32. Then We gave the Book as inheritance to those whom We
chose of our bondmen. But of them are some who wrong
themselves and of them are some who are lukewarm and
of them are some who outstrip [others] through good
deeds, by Allah’s leave. That is the great favour!
33. Gardens of Eden [everlasting Gardens] they will enter
them, they will be adorned with bracelets of gold and
pearls and their garments therein will be silk.
34. And they say: Praise be to Allah who has put grief away
from us. Lo! Our Lord is Forgiving, Appreciative,
35. Who, of His grace, has installed us in the mansion of
eternity, where toil touches us not nor can weariness
affect us.
36. But as for those who disbelieve, for them is fire of Hell;
it takes not complete effect upon them so that they can
die, nor is its doom lightened for them. Thus We punish
every ingrate.
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37. And they cry for help there, [saying]: Our Lord! Release us;
we will do right, not [the wrong] that we used to do. Did
not We grant you a life long enough for who reflected to
reflect therein? And the warner came to you. Now taste [the
flavour of your deeds], for wrong-doers have no helper.
38. Lo! Allah is the Knower of the Unseen of the heavens
and the earth. Lo! He is Aware of the secret of [men’s]
breasts.
39. He it is who has made you regents in the earth; so he
who disbelieves, his disbelief be on his own head. Their
disbelief increases for the disbelievers, in their Lord’s
sight, nothing save abhorrence. Their disbelief increases
for the disbelievers nothing save loss.
40. Say: Have you seen your partner-gods to whom you
invoke besides Allah? Show me what they created of the
earth! Or have they any portion in the heavens? Or have
We given them a Book so that they act on clear proof
therefrom? Nay, the wrong-doers promise one another
only delusion.
41. Lo! Allah holds the heavens and the earth that they
cease not, and if they were to cease there is not one that
could hold them after Him. Lo! He is ever Forbearing,
Forgiving.
42. And they swore by Allah, their most binding oath, that if
a warner came to them they would be more guided than
any of the nations; yet, when a warner came to them it
aroused in them nothing save repugnance,
43. [Shown in their] behaving arrogantly in the land and
plotting evil; and the evil plot does not enclose except
its own people. Then, can they expect anything save the
treatment of the folk of old? You will not find for Allah’s
way of treatment any substitute, nor will you find for
Allah’s way of treatment anything of power to change.
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44. Have they not travelled in the land and seen the nature of
the consequence for those who were before them, and
they were mightier than these in power? Allah is not such
that anything in the heavens or in the earth escapes Him.
Lo! He is ever Knowing and Competent.
45. If Allah took mankind to task by that which they earn,
He would not leave a living creature on the surface of the
earth; but He reprieves them to an appointed term, and
when their term comes-– then verily [they will know that]
Allah is ever Seer of His slaves.
36- YA-SIN [YA SIN]
Revealed at Mecca, [83 verses]
Yâ Sîn takes its name from the two letters of the Arabic
alphabet which stand as the first verse and are generally held
to signify Yâ Insân (“O Man”). This Sûrah is regarded as one
of the great Sûrah. It talks about the unification of Divinity
and Lordship and the consequence of those who deny them.
The topic of the Sûrah focuses heavily on people gathering and
resurrection. It belongs to the middle group of Meccan Sûrahs.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1. Yâ Sîn.
2. By the wise Qur’ân,
3. Lo! You, [O Muhammad], are of those sent.
4. On a straight path,
5. A revelation of the Mighty, the Merciful,
6. That you may warn a folk whose fathers were not warned,
so they are heedless.
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7. Already has the judgment, [for their infidelity] proved true
of most of them, for they believe not.
8. Lo! we have put on their necks shackles reaching to the
chins, so that they are made stiff-necked.
9. And We have set a barrier before them and a barrier behind
them, and [thus] have covered them so that they see not.
10. Whether you warn them or you warn them not, it is alike
for them, for they believe not.
11. You warn only him who follows the Reminder and fears
the Beneficent unseen. To him bear tidings of forgiveness
and a generous reward.
12. Lo! We it is Who bring the dead to life. We record that
which they send before [them], and their footprints. And
all things We have kept in a clear register.
13. And coin for them a similitude: The people of the town
when the messengers [from Allah] came to them;
14. When We sent to them two, and they denied them both,
so We reinforced them with a third, and they said; Lo! we
are messengers to you.
15. They said: You are but mortals like us. The Beneficent has
not revealed a thing. You do but lie!
16. They answered: Our Lord knows that we are messengers
to you,
17. And our duty is but plain conveyance [of the message].
18. [The people of the town] said: We augur ill of you. If you
desist not, we shall surely stone you, and grievous torture
will befall you at our hands.
19. They said: Your augury be with you! Is it because you are
reminded [of the truth]? Nay, but you are a transgressing
folk?
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20. And there came from the uttermost part of the city a man
running. He cried: O my people! Follow the messengers!
21. Follow those who ask of you no fee, and who are rightly
guided.
22. For what cause should I not worship Him Who has created
me, and to Whom you will be brought back?
23. Shall I take [other] gods in place of Him when, if the
Beneficent should intends for me any harm, their
intercession will avail me nothing, nor can they save?
24. Then truly I should be in manifest error.
25. Lo! I have believed in your Lord, so hear me!
26. It was said [to him]: Enter Paradise. He said: Would that
my people knew
27. With what [munificence] my Lord has forgiven me and
made me of the honoured ones!
? . 28 And We sent not down against his people after him
hosts from heaven, nor do We ever send.
29. It was but one Shout, and lo! they were extinguished.
30. Ah, the anguish for the bondmen! Never came there to
them a messenger but they did mock him!
31. Have they not seen how many generations We destroyed
before them, which indeed return not to them;
32. But all, without exception, will be brought before Us.
33. And a sign to them is the dead earth. We revive it, and We
bring forth from it grain so that they eat thereof;
34. And We have placed therein gardens of the date-palm
and grapes, and We have caused springs of water to gush
forth therein.
35. That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hand
made it not. Will they not, then, give thanks?