The Quran — sealed English translation
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Sura 1 — Guide Us on the Straight Path (Al-Fatiha)

1:4	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Praise be to God, Guardian of all beings, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent, Sovereign of the Day of Retribution.
1:5	It is You alone that we obey, and it is from You alone that we seek help.
1:7	Guide us on the straight path, the path of those You have blessed, not of those who incur anger, nor of the astray.

Sura 2 — Guidance for Those Who Guard Themselves (Al-Baqara)

2:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Mim.
2:2	This is the Scripture: no doubt possible,
2:3	guidance for those who guard themselves, who believe in God even though He escapes their senses, maintain the Contact, and spend from what We have provided them as sustenance,
2:5	and those who believe in what has been revealed to you and in what was revealed before you, and who possess certainty of the last life — those are the ones who are upon guidance from their Guardian,
2:5	and those are the ones who succeed.
2:6	Those who disown, it is the same to them whether you warn them or not: they do not believe.
2:7	God has sealed their cores and their hearing,
2:7	and over their sights, a veil;
2:7	and they will have an immense punishment.
2:8	And among the people, there are some who say: "We believe in God and the Last Day", when they are not believers.
2:9	They seek to deceive God and those who have believed,
2:9	but they deceive none but themselves, without perceiving it.
2:10	There is, in their cores, a sickness,
2:10	and God has increased them in sickness;
2:10	and they will have a painful punishment, for having lied.
2:11	And when it is said to them: "Do not sow corruption on the earth", they say: "We are only setting things right."
2:12	Is it not rather they who are the sowers of corruption? But they do not perceive it.
2:13	And when it is said to them: "Believe as the people have believed", they say: "Should we believe as the fools have believed?"
2:13	Is it not rather they who are the fools? But they do not know.
2:14	And when they meet those who have believed, they say: "We have believed";
2:14	and when they are alone with their diverters, they say: "We are with you, we are only mocking."
2:15	God mocks them, and lets them prolong their blind wandering in their excess.
2:16	Those are the ones who bought error at the price of guidance; their trade did not, then, profit, and they did not let themselves be guided.
2:17	Their likeness is that of one who kindles a fire; when it has illuminated what is around him,
2:17	God takes away their light and leaves them in darknesses where they no longer see.
2:18	Deaf, mute, blind, they do not, then, turn back [on their way].
2:19	Or like a torrential rain from the sky, in which there are darknesses, thunder, and lightning:
2:19	they put their fingers in their ears, because of the thunderclaps, out of fear of death.
2:19	God encompasses perfectly those who disown.
2:20	The lightning almost snatches away their sight.
2:20	Every time it lights up for them, they walk on;
2:20	and when it darkens over them, they stand still.
2:20	And had God willed, He would certainly have taken away their hearing and their sight.
2:20	God is capable of all things.
2:21	O mankind! obey your Guardian, who created you and those before you, perhaps you will guard yourselves,
2:22	He who made for you the earth a bed, and the sky a structure, and who sent down from the sky water, by which He brought forth fruits as sustenance for you.
2:22	So do not attribute to God equals, while you know.
2:23	And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our obedient one, bring, then, a surah like it,
2:23	and call your witnesses, besides God, if you are truthful.
2:24	If you do not do it — and you will never do it — guard yourselves, then, against the Fire, whose fuel is people and stones,
2:24	prepared for those who disown.
2:25	And announce to those who have believed and done righteous deeds that they will have gardens beneath which rivers flow.
2:25	Every time they receive a fruit therein as sustenance, they say: "This is what we were given as sustenance before";
2:25	and it is given to them, resembling [what they knew].
2:25	They will have therein purified spouses,
2:25	and they will abide therein eternally.
2:26	God is not ashamed to multiply an image, be it that of a gnat or something greater.
2:26	Those who have believed then know that it is the truth from their Guardian;
2:26	and as for those who disown, they say: "What did God intend by this image?"
2:26	He leads astray by it many, and guides by it many;
2:27	and He leads astray by it only the oversteppers, those who break the engagement of God after the solemn engagement that binds it, sever what God ordered to be joined, and sow corruption on the earth.
2:27	Those are the losers.
2:28	How can you disown God, when you were dead and He gave you life; then He will cause you to die,
2:28	then He will bring you back to life, then it is to Him that you will be returned?
2:29	It is He who created for you all that is on the earth,
2:29	then He established Himself toward the sky, and made of it seven heavens harmoniously arranged;
2:29	and He is All-Knowing of all things.
2:30	And remember when your Guardian said to the Agents: "I am going to establish a successor on the earth."
2:30	They said: "Will You establish therein one who will sow corruption in it and shed blood, while we celebrate Your praise, glorifying You, and proclaim Your holiness?"
2:30	He said: "I know what you do not know."
2:31	And He taught Adam all the attributes, then He presented them to the Agents, and said: "Inform Me of the attributes of these, if you are truthful."
2:32	They said: "Glory be to You! we have no knowledge except what You have taught us; You are, You, the All-Knowing, the Wise."
2:33	He said: "O Adam! inform them of their attributes."
2:33	And when he had informed them of their attributes, He said: "Did I not tell you that I know what escapes the senses in the heavens and on the earth, and that I know what you show and what you were hiding?"
2:34	And remember when We said to the Agents: "Prostrate before Adam"; they prostrated,
2:34	except the Despairing One [Iblis]: he refused, was arrogant, and was among those who disown.
2:35	And We said: "O Adam! dwell, you and your spouse, in the Garden, and eat from it, at your ease, wherever you wish,
2:35	but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the unjust."
2:36	But the Diverter made them slip out of it, and drove them out of the state they were in;
2:36	and We said: "Descend,
2:36	you will be enemies to one another,
2:36	and you will have, on the earth, a dwelling and an enjoyment for a time."
2:37	Then Adam received from his Guardian words, and He turned toward him with clemency.
2:37	He is indeed the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.
2:38	We said: "Descend from it, all together;
2:38	then, if guidance comes to you from Me, whoever follows My guidance, no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.
2:39	And those who disown and deny Our signs — those are the companions of the Fire, they abide therein eternally."
2:40	O sons of Israel! remember My blessing, that with which I blessed you, and keep My engagement, I will keep yours; and it is Me alone that you should revere.
2:41	And believe in what I have sent down, confirming what is with you, and do not be the first to disown it;
2:41	and do not buy, with My signs, a paltry price; and it is Me alone toward whom you should guard yourselves.
2:42	And do not cover the truth with falsehood, and do not hide the truth, while you know.
2:43	And maintain the Contact, and give the purifying alms,
2:43	and bow with those who bow.
2:44	Will you order virtue upon people, while forgetting yourselves, when you recite the Scripture?
2:44	Will you not then reason?
2:45	And seek help in patience and the Contact:
2:46	that is indeed heavy, except for the humble, those who think that they will meet their Guardian, and that it is to Him that they return.
2:47	O sons of Israel! remember My blessing, that with which I blessed you, and that I favored you above all beings.
2:48	And guard yourselves against a day when no Self will avail another Self in anything, when no intercession will be accepted from it, when no compensation will be taken from it, and when they will not be helped.
2:49	And remember when We saved you from the clan of Fir'awn, who inflicted upon you the worst of punishments, slaughtering your sons and violating the modesty of your women —
2:49	and there was in that, for you, an immense testing from your Guardian.
2:50	And remember when We split the sea for you, and saved you, and drowned the clan of Fir'awn, while you looked on.
2:51	And remember when We appointed for Moussa forty nights; then you took the calf [as a deity], after him, and you were unjust.
2:52	Then We effaced [that] for you after that, perhaps you would be grateful.
2:53	And remember when We gave Moussa the Scripture
2:53	and the Discernment, perhaps you would be rightly guided.
2:54	And remember when Moussa said to his people: "O my people! you have wronged yourselves by taking the calf [as a deity]; turn back, then, to your Originator, and kill yourselves,
2:54	that is better for you with your Originator."
2:54	He turned toward you with clemency, then:
2:54	He is indeed the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.
2:55	And remember when you said: "O Moussa! we will not give you credit until we see God openly"; the thunderbolt seized you then, while you looked on.
2:56	Then We resurrected you after your death, perhaps you would be grateful.
2:57	And We spread over you the shade of the cloud, and sent down upon you manna and quails:
2:57	"Eat of the good things We have provided you as sustenance" —
2:57	they did not wrong Us, but it was themselves that they wronged.
2:58	And remember when We said: "Enter this city, eat from it wherever you wish, at your ease, enter by the gate bowing down, and say: Relieve us [of our faults] — We will forgive you your faults,
2:58	and We will increase [the reward] of those who do good."
2:59	But those who were unjust substituted a saying other than what had been said to them; We then sent down upon those who had been unjust a defilement from the sky, for having overstepped.
2:60	And remember when Moussa asked for water for his people; We said: "Strike the rock with your staff";
2:60	and behold, twelve springs gushed forth from it:
2:60	each group of people knew its drinking place.
2:60	Eat and drink of God's sustenance,
2:60	and do not spread disorder on the earth as corrupters.
2:61	And remember when you said: "O Moussa! we can never endure a single kind of food; invoke, then, your Guardian for us, that He bring forth for us of what the earth grows, of its herbs, its cucumbers, its garlic, its lentils, and its onions."
2:61	He said: "Would you exchange what is near [and immediate] for what is better?
2:61	Go down, then, to Egypt, you will find there what you have asked."
2:61	And humiliation and misery were imprinted upon them, and they incurred the anger of God.
2:61	That is because they used to disown the signs of God, and kill the prophets without right.
2:61	It is for having disobeyed and crossed the limits.
2:62	Those who have believed, the Reoriented, the Helpers, and the Aspirants — whoever has believed in God and the Last Day, and done righteous work, their reward is theirs with their Guardian, no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.
2:63	And remember when We took your solemn engagement, and raised above you the Mount:
2:63	"Take with strength what We have given you, and remember what is in it, perhaps you will guard yourselves."
2:64	Then you turned away after that;
2:64	and without God's favor upon you and His benevolence, you would have been among the losers.
2:65	You have indeed known those among you who crossed the limits concerning the sabt [the act of rest/inaction]; We then said to them: "Be apes, rejected."
2:66	We made of it an exemplary punishment for what surrounded it and what followed, and an admonition for those who guard themselves.
2:67	And remember when Moussa said to his people: "God orders you to slaughter a cow."
2:67	They said: "Do you take us in mockery?"
2:67	He said: "I take refuge in God against being among the ignorant."
2:68	They said: "Invoke your Guardian for us, that He make clear to us what it is."
2:68	He said: "He says she is a cow neither old nor virgin,
2:68	of middle age between the two;
2:68	do, then, what you are ordered."
2:69	They said: "Invoke your Guardian for us, that He make clear to us her color."
2:69	He said: "He says she is a yellow cow, of a vivid yellow,
2:69	which delights the eyes."
2:70	They said: "Invoke your Guardian for us, that He make clear to us what it is: the cows all resemble one another to us, and we will, if God wills, be among those who let themselves be guided."
2:71	He said: "He says she is a cow not broken to plow the earth or water the crops,
2:71	unblemished, without any spot."
2:71	They said: "Now you bring the truth."
2:71	They slaughtered her then, after having very nearly not done it.
2:72	And remember when you killed a Self, and cast [the blame] on one another concerning it —
2:72	but God was going to bring out what you were hiding.
2:73	We then said: "Strike him [the dead man] with a part [of the cow]";
2:73	thus does God give life to the dead, and show you His signs, perhaps you will reason.
2:74	Then your cores hardened after that, so that they are like stone, or harder still.
2:74	There are indeed, among stones, those from which rivers burst forth;
2:74	and there are indeed, among them, those which split, and water comes out of them;
2:74	and there are indeed, among them, those which fall, out of fear of God.
2:74	And God is not heedless of what you do.
2:75	Would you covet, then, that they give you credit, when a group among them used to hear the word of God, then displace it from its context, after having understood it, while knowing?
2:76	And when they meet those who have believed, they say: "We have believed";
2:76	and when they are alone with one another, they say: "Will you relate to them what God has opened to you, that they may dispute with you about it before your Guardian?"
2:76	Will you not then reason?
2:77	Do they not know, then, that God knows what they hide and what they disclose?
2:78	And among them, there are people without a prior Scripture, who know the Scripture only through vain wishes,
2:78	and who only conjecture.
2:79	Woe, then, to those who write the Scripture with their hands, then say: "This is from God", to sell it for a small price!
2:79	Woe to them for what their hands have written,
2:79	and woe to them for what they earn!
2:80	And they said: "The Fire will touch us only for a counted number of days."
2:80	Say: "Have you taken an engagement with God — God never fails His engagement —,
2:80	or do you say about God what you do not know?"
2:81	But yes: whoever acquires an evil deed, and whose fault envelops him entirely — those are the companions of the Fire, they abide therein eternally.
2:82	And those who have believed and done righteous deeds — those are the companions of the Garden, they abide therein eternally.
2:83	And remember when We took the solemn engagement of the Sons of Israel: "You shall obey none but God,
2:83	and beneficence toward the two parents, relatives, orphans, and the destitute;
2:83	and speak good words to people;
2:83	and maintain the Contact, and give the purifying alms";
2:83	then you turned away, except a few of you, evading.
2:84	And remember when We took your solemn engagement: "You shall not shed your blood, and shall not expel yourselves from your dwellings"; then you acknowledged it, and you are witnesses to it.
2:85	Then here you are, nonetheless, killing one another, and expelling a group of your own from their dwellings, banding together against them in transgression and hostility;
2:85	and if they come to you as captives, you ransom them, even though their expulsion was forbidden to you.
2:85	Would you believe, then, in part of the Scripture, and disown another part?
2:85	What, then, is the recompense of whoever among you acts thus, but disgrace in the present life?
2:85	And on the Day of Appearance, they will be cast back to the most severe of punishments.
2:85	And God is not heedless of what you do.
2:86	Those are the ones who bought the present life at the price of the last life; the punishment will, then, not be lightened for them, and they will not be helped.
2:87	We indeed gave Moussa the Scripture, and We made other messengers follow after him.
2:87	And We gave Issa, son of Maryam, the clear proofs, and We reinforced him with the sacred Influx.
2:87	Every time a messenger came to you with what your own Selves did not desire, did you not become arrogant?
2:87	You denied a group of them, and you kill another.
2:88	And they said: "Our cores are wrapped up";
2:88	no, God cursed them for their disowning, and they believe only a little.
2:89	And when a scripture came to them from God, confirming what is with them — though before they used to ask for the decisive judgment against those who disowned —,
2:89	when, then, there came to them what they recognized, they disowned it.
2:89	The curse of God is, then, upon those who disown.
2:90	How evil is what they sold their own Selves for: to disown what God sent down, out of aggression, [resenting] that God should send down of His favor upon whom He wills among His obedient ones!
2:90	They incurred, then, anger upon anger.
2:90	And for those who disown, a humiliating punishment.
2:91	And when it is said to them: "Believe in what God has sent down", they say: "We believe in what was sent down upon us"; and they disown what came after.
2:91	and it is the truth, confirming what is with them.
2:91	Say: "Why, then, did you kill the prophets of God, before, if you were believers?"
2:92	Moussa indeed came to you with the clear proofs; then you took the calf [as a deity], after him, and you were unjust.
2:93	And remember when We took your solemn engagement, and raised above you the Mount:
2:93	"Take with strength what We have given you, and listen."
2:93	They said: "We have heard and disobeyed".
2:93	and their cores were made to drink in the calf, because of their disowning.
2:93	Say: "How evil is what your faith orders you, if you are believers!"
2:94	Say: "If the last abode, with God, is reserved exclusively for you, to the exclusion of mankind, wish, then, for death, if you are truthful."
2:95	But they will never wish for it, for what their hands have prepared.
2:95	God is All-Knowing of the unjust.
2:96	You will certainly find them the most attached of people to life,
2:96	even more than those who have associated; one of them would like to live a thousand years,
2:96	but that would not remove him at all from the punishment, even if he lived that long.
2:96	God sees perfectly what they do.
2:97	Say: "Whoever is an enemy of Jibril should know that it is he who brought it down upon your core, with God's permission, confirming what precedes it, and as a guidance and good tidings for the believers."
2:98	Whoever is an enemy of God, His Agents, His messengers, Jibril, and Mikal should know that God is the enemy of those who disown.
2:99	We have indeed sent down to you clear signs,
2:99	and only the oversteppers disown them.
2:100	Is it that, every time they conclude an engagement, a group among them casts it aside?
2:100	Most of them, rather, do not believe.
2:101	And when a messenger came to them from God, confirming what is with them, a group of those to whom the Scripture was given cast the Scripture of God behind their backs, as if they did not know.
2:102	And they followed what the diverters recited concerning the kingdom of Sulayman.
2:102	But Sulayman never disowned,
2:102	but it is the diverters who disowned, teaching people illusion, and what was sent down upon the two kings at Babel, Harut and Marut;
2:102	and those two did not teach anyone without first saying: "We are only a trial, do not disown, then."
2:102	They learned from them, then, that by which they sow discord between a man and his spouse;
2:102	but they harm no one by that, except with God's permission.
2:102	And they learn what harms them and does not benefit them.
2:102	They indeed knew that whoever acquired it would have, in the last life, no share.
2:102	How evil is what they sold their own Selves for, had they known!
2:103	And had they believed and guarded themselves, a reward from God would indeed have been better, had they known.
2:104	O you who have believed! do not say "Disdain us", but say "Look at us", and listen.
2:104	And for those who disown, a painful punishment.
2:105	Neither those who disown, among the people of the Scripture, nor the associators wish that any good be sent down upon you from your Guardian;
2:105	but God reserves His benevolence for whom He wills.
2:105	God holds the immense favor.
2:106	Whatever sign We copy, or leave to be forgotten, We bring one better than it, or similar to it.
2:106	Do you not know that God is capable of all things?
2:107	Do you not know that to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and that you have, besides God, neither protector nor helper?
2:108	Would you question your messenger as Moussa was questioned before?
2:108	And whoever exchanges disowning for faith has indeed strayed from the straight path.
2:109	Many, among the people of the Scripture, would like to bring you back, after your faith, to a disowning,
2:109	out of envy, from themselves, after the truth has become clear to them.
2:109	Efface, then, and overlook, until God brings His command.
2:109	God is capable of all things.
2:110	And maintain the Contact, and give the purifying alms.
2:110	And whatever good you advance for yourselves, you will find it with God.
2:110	God sees perfectly what you do.
2:111	And they said: "None will enter the Garden, except one who belongs to the Reoriented or the Helpers."
2:111	Those are their vain wishes.
2:111	Say: "Bring your proof, if you are truthful."
2:112	But rather: whoever renders his direction true to God alone, while doing good, has his reward with his Guardian; no fear upon them, and they will not be grieved.
2:113	And the Reoriented said: "The Helpers rest on nothing"; and the Helpers said: "The Reoriented rest on nothing"; while they recite the Scripture.
2:113	Thus spoke those who do not know, holding a saying similar to theirs.
2:113	God will judge between them, on the Day of Appearance, concerning what they used to differ over.
2:114	And who is then more unjust than one who prevents God's name from being mentioned in God's places of prostration, and strives for their ruin?
2:114	Those should not enter them except fearful.
2:114	They have, in the present life, a disgrace,
2:114	and they will have, in the last life, an immense punishment.
2:115	And to God belong the east and the west:
2:115	wherever you turn, there is the direction of God.
2:115	God is Vast, All-Knowing.
2:116	And they said: "God has taken a child."
2:116	Glory be to Him!
2:116	To Him, rather, belongs what is in the heavens and on the earth;
2:116	everything is devoted to Him.
2:117	Unprecedented Creator of the heavens and the earth.
2:117	When He decrees a thing, He only says to it: "Be",
2:117	and it is.
2:118	And those who do not know said: "Why does God not speak to us, or why does a sign not come to us!"
2:118	Thus spoke those before them, holding a saying similar to theirs;
2:118	their cores resemble one another.
2:118	We have indeed made the signs clear for a people who possess certainty.
2:119	We have sent you, in truth, as a bearer of good tidings and a warner,
2:119	and you will not be questioned about the companions of the Blaze.
2:120	And neither the Reoriented nor the Helpers will ever be satisfied with you, until you follow their doctrine.
2:120	Say: "The guidance of God, that is the [true] guidance."
2:120	And were you to follow their emotions, after what has come to you of knowledge, you would have, against God, neither protector nor helper.
2:121	Those to whom We have given the Scripture, and who recite it as it should be recited, those are the ones who believe in it.
2:121	And whoever disowns it — those are the losers.
2:122	O sons of Israel! remember My blessing, that with which I blessed you, and that I favored you above all beings.
2:123	And guard yourselves against a day when no Self will avail another Self in anything, when no compensation will be accepted from it, when no intercession will benefit it, and when they will not be helped.
2:124	And remember when the Guardian of Ibrahim tested him with words, which he fulfilled completely.
2:124	He said: "I am going to make you a guide for mankind."
2:124	He said: "And among my descendants?"
2:124	He said: "My engagement does not reach the unjust."
2:125	And remember when We made the House a place of return for mankind, and a security; and take, from the station of Ibrahim, a place of Contact.
2:125	And We engaged Ibrahim and Isma'il: "Purify My House for those who frequent it, those who dwell there permanently, and those who bow in service and submit in allegiance."
2:126	And remember when Ibrahim said: "My Guardian, make of this a secure land, and provide of its fruits as sustenance to its inhabitants, to those among them who believe in God and the Last Day."
2:126	He said: "And whoever disowns, I grant him a brief enjoyment, then I compel him toward the punishment of the Fire."
2:126	And what an evil destination!
2:127	And remember when Ibrahim was raising the foundations of the House, with Isma'il:
2:127	"Our Guardian, accept this from us; You are, You, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
2:128	Our Guardian, make us both true to You alone, and, of our descendants, a community true to You alone.
2:128	And show us our beneficent practices.
2:128	And turn toward us with clemency.
2:128	You are, You, the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.
2:129	Our Guardian, and raise up among them a messenger, from among themselves, who recites Your signs to them, teaches them the Scripture and the wisdom, and purifies them.
2:129	You, indeed, are the All-Powerful, the Wise."
2:130	And who, then, turns away from the doctrine of Ibrahim, but one who despises his own Self?
2:130	We indeed chose him in the present life,
2:130	and in the last life, he will indeed be among the righteous.
2:131	remember when his Guardian said to him: "Be true to Me alone";
2:131	he said: "I am true to the Guardian of all beings alone."
2:132	And Ibrahim made this a recommendation to his sons,
2:132	and so did Yaacoub: "O my sons! God has chosen this Law for you; do not die, then, except being true to Him alone."
2:133	Were you witnesses, when death presented itself to Yaacoub, when he said to his sons: "What will you obey after me?"
2:133	They said: "We will obey your deity, the deity of your ancestors, Ibrahim, Isma'il, and Ishaq, one deity, and to Him we are true."
2:134	That is a community that has already passed:
2:134	to it what it earned,
2:134	and to you what you earned;
2:134	and you will not be questioned about what they used to do.
2:135	And they said: "Be Reoriented or Helpers, you will be rightly guided."
2:135	Say: "No, rather the doctrine of Ibrahim, wholly turned toward God,"
2:135	and he was not among those who associate.
2:136	Say: "We believe in God, in what has been revealed to us, in what was revealed to Ibrahim, Isma'il, Ishaq, Yaacoub, and the tribes, and in what was given to Moussa and Issa, and in what was given to the prophets, from their Guardian; we make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we are true."
2:137	If they believe in what you have believed, they are then rightly guided;
2:137	and if they turn away, they are then only in a rupture;
2:137	God will soon suffice you against them:
2:137	He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
2:138	The dye of God —
2:138	and who dyes better than God? —
2:138	and it is Him that we obey.
2:139	Say: "Do you dispute with us about God, when He is our Guardian and your Guardian? To us our deeds, and to you your deeds,
2:139	and to Him we devote ourselves exclusively."
2:140	Or do you say that Ibrahim, Isma'il, Ishaq, Yaacoub, and the tribes were Reoriented or Helpers?
2:140	Say: "Is it you who know best, or God?"
2:140	And who, then, is more unjust than one who hides a testimony he holds from God?
2:140	And God is not heedless of what you do.
2:141	That is a community that has already passed:
2:141	to it what it earned,
2:141	and to you what you earned;
2:141	and you will not be questioned about what they used to do.
2:142	The fools, among the people, will say: "What has turned them away from their anchor point, the one they used to be upon?"
2:142	Say: "To God belong the east and the west;
2:142	He guides whom He wills to a straight path."
2:143	And thus have We made you an exemplary community,
2:143	so that you may be witnesses against mankind, and the messenger a witness against you.
2:143	And We had established the anchor point, the one you were upon, only to distinguish who follows the messenger from who turns back on his heels.
2:143	That was indeed heavy, except for those God has guided.
2:143	And it is not for God to let your faith be lost.
2:143	God is indeed, toward mankind, full of kindness, Benevolent.
2:144	We indeed see, from the sky, this [coming] turning about of your face [a refugee in search of guidance, no longer knowing where to turn]; We will direct you, then, toward an anchor point that will suit you [as a final destination].
2:144	Set your course, then, for the inviolable place of prostration,
2:144	and wherever you are, set your course for this anchor point.
2:144	Those to whom the Scripture was given indeed know that it is the truth from their Guardian.
2:144	And God is not heedless of what they do.
2:145	And even if you brought to those to whom the Scripture was given every sign, they would not follow your anchor point.
2:145	And you will not follow their anchor point;
2:145	nor do they follow, some of them, the anchor point of others.
2:145	And were you to follow their emotions, after what has come to you of knowledge, you would then indeed be among the unjust.
2:146	Those to whom We gave the Scripture recognize him as they recognize their own children,
2:146	and a group among them indeed hides the truth, while knowing.
2:147	The truth comes from your Guardian;
2:147	so never be among those who doubt.
2:148	And to each a direction that he adopts; race, then, in good deeds.
2:148	Wherever you are, God will bring you all back.
2:148	God is capable of all things.
2:149	And from wherever you come out, set your course for the inviolable place of prostration:
2:149	it is indeed the truth from your Guardian.
2:149	And God is not heedless of what you do.
2:150	And from wherever you come out, set your course for the inviolable place of prostration,
2:150	and wherever you are, set your course for this anchor point, so that people may have no argument against you — except those among them who are unjust; do not fear them, then, but fear Me —
2:150	and so that I may complete My blessing upon you, and perhaps you will be rightly guided,
2:152	as We have sent, among you, a messenger from among yourselves, who recites Our signs to you, purifies you, teaches you the Scripture and the wisdom, and teaches you what you did not know. Remember Me, then, I will remember you; be grateful to Me, and do not disown Me.
2:153	O you who have believed! seek help in patience and the Contact:
2:153	God is with the patient.
2:154	And do not say of those who are killed in the way of God that they are dead.
2:154	No, they are alive, but you do not perceive it.
2:155	We will certainly test you with some fear, hunger, loss of goods, persons, and fruits;
2:156	and give good news to the patient, those who, when misfortune strikes them, say: "We are God's, and it is to Him that we return."
2:157	Those are the ones upon whom rest blessings from their Guardian, and a benevolence,
2:157	and those are the ones who let themselves be guided.
2:158	Safa and Marwa are indeed among the perceptible markers of God.
2:158	Whoever performs the Hajj of the House — a debt owed to God — or performs the Umra, no blame upon him for visiting them.
2:158	And whoever does good willingly — God is Grateful, All-Knowing.
2:159	Those who hide what We have sent down of clear proofs and guidance, after We have made it clear to mankind in the Scripture — those are the ones God curses, and whom those who curse, curse,
2:160	except those who turn back [to God], reform, and make [the truth] clear: those are the ones toward whom I turn with clemency; I am the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.
2:162	Those who disown and die while disowning — those are the ones upon whom weighs the curse of God, the Agents, and mankind, all together, wherein they will abide eternally;
2:162	the punishment will not be lightened for them, and they will not be granted a delay.
2:163	And your deity is one deity;
2:163	there is no deity but Him,
2:163	the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
2:164	There are indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, in the alternation of night and day, in the ship that sails at sea laden with what benefits mankind, in the water that God sends down from the sky and by which He gives life to the earth after its death, spreading in it every kind of living being, in the diversity of the winds, and in the cloud subjected between the sky and the earth — signs for a people who reason.
2:165	And among the people, there are some who take, besides God, equals, whom they love as one loves God;
2:165	but those who have believed are even more intense in the love of God.
2:165	If the unjust could see, when they see the punishment, that power belongs to God in its entirety, and that God is severe in punishment —
2:166	[they would see it] when those who were followed will disavow those who followed them, and they will see the punishment, and the bonds between them will be severed.
2:167	And those who followed will say: "If only we had a return, we would disavow them as they have disavowed us."
2:167	Thus does God show them their works, as bitter regrets for them,
2:167	and they will never leave the Fire.
2:168	O mankind! eat of what is on the earth, lawful and good,
2:168	and do not follow the footsteps of the Diverter:
2:168	he is for you a manifest enemy.
2:169	He orders you only evil and indecency, and to say about God what you do not know.
2:170	And when it is said to them: "Follow what God has sent down", they say: "No, we follow what we found our ancestors upon."
2:170	What! even if their ancestors reasoned nothing and were not rightly guided?
2:171	And the likeness of those who disown is that of one who cries out to what hears nothing but a call and a shout.
2:171	Deaf, mute, blind, they do not, then, reason.
2:172	O you who have believed! eat of the good things We have provided you as sustenance, and be grateful toward God, if it is Him alone that you obey.
2:173	He has forbidden you only the dead animal, blood, the flesh of swine, and what has been consecrated to other than God.
2:173	But whoever is compelled to it, without being rebellious or crossing the limits, no transgression upon him.
2:173	God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
2:174	Those who hide what God has sent down of the Scripture, and sell it for a small price — those are the ones who swallow nothing into their bellies but the Fire; God will not speak to them on the Day of Appearance, and will not purify them,
2:174	and they will have a painful punishment.
2:175	Those are the ones who bought error at the price of guidance, and punishment at the price of forgiveness. What, then, makes them so enduring in the face of the Fire!
2:176	That is because God sent down the Scripture in truth,
2:176	and those who differ about the Scripture are indeed in a deep rupture.
2:177	Virtue does not consist in turning your faces toward the east or the west,
2:177	but virtue is one who believes in God, the Last Day, the Agents, the Scripture, and the prophets, and who gives of his goods, despite his love for it, to relatives, orphans, the destitute, the stranded traveler, those who ask, and for freeing those under the burden of a debt, who maintains the Contact and gives the purifying alms,
2:177	those who keep their engagement when they have engaged themselves,
2:177	and the patient in hardship, distress, and the hour of violence:
2:177	those are the ones who have been truthful,
2:177	and those are the ones who guard themselves.
2:178	O you who have believed! the investigation is prescribed for you concerning those killed:
2:178	the free man [independent] with the free man [independent], the obedient one [salaried] with the obedient one [salaried], and the woman with the woman.
2:178	But if a remission is granted [to the offender] by his brother [in humanity, not a brother in the familial sense], then a pursuit [of the compensation] according to what is recognized, and a settlement in good grace.
2:178	That is a lightening from your Guardian, and a benevolence.
2:178	And whoever commits aggression after that will have a painful punishment.
2:179	And you have, in the investigation, a life, O possessors of intelligence, perhaps you will guard yourselves.
2:180	It is prescribed for you, when death presents itself to one of you, if he leaves goods,
2:180	the testament in favor of the two parents and relatives, according to what is recognized:
2:180	a duty upon those who guard themselves.
2:181	And whoever modifies it after having heard it, the transgression thereof falls only upon those who modify it.
2:181	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
2:182	But whoever fears, on the part of a testator, a partiality or a transgression, and reconciles them, no transgression upon him.
2:182	God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
2:184	O you who have believed! abstention is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, perhaps you will guard yourselves, for a number of counted days.
2:184	And whoever among you is sick, or on a journey, then a number of other days;
2:184	and for those who have the capacity for it, a compensation, the feeding of a destitute person.
2:184	And whoever does good willingly, it is better for him;
2:184	and that you abstain is better for you, if you knew.
2:185	The month of refreshment, that in which this Recitation was revealed, a guidance for mankind, and clear proofs of guidance and the Discernment.
2:185	Whoever among you attests the beginning of that month, let him abstain in it;
2:185	and whoever is sick, or on a journey, then a number of other days.
2:185	God wants for you ease, He does not want for you hardship,
2:185	and [He wants] that you bring the count of days to its completion, and that you proclaim the greatness of God for having guided you, perhaps you will be grateful.
2:186	And when My obedient ones ask you about Me, I am near:
2:186	I answer the call of the one who calls upon Me, when he calls upon Me.
2:186	Let them, then, respond to My call, and believe in Me, perhaps they will attain rectitude.
2:187	Made lawful for you, on the night of abstention, is intimacy with your women:
2:187	they are a garment for you, and you are a garment for them.
2:187	God knew that you were betraying yourselves; He turned toward you with clemency, then, and effaced [the fault] for you.
2:187	Unite with them, then, now,
2:187	and seek what God has prescribed for you.
2:187	And eat and drink until the white thread becomes distinguishable to you from the black thread of dawn,
2:187	then complete the abstention fully until night.
2:187	And do not unite with them, while you are in residence in the places of prostration.
2:187	Those are the limits of God,
2:187	so do not approach them.
2:187	Thus does God make His signs clear for mankind, perhaps they will guard themselves.
2:188	And do not devour your goods among yourselves through falsehood, and do not offer it to judges to devour, through transgression, a part of the goods of the people, knowingly.
2:189	They ask you about public announcements.
2:189	Say: "They are fixed appointments for mankind, and for the Hajj."
2:189	And virtue does not consist in entering houses from their backs,
2:189	but virtue is [that of] one who guards himself.
2:189	Enter, then, houses by their doors,
2:189	and guard yourselves toward God, perhaps you will succeed.
2:190	And fight, in the way of God, those who fight you, but do not commit aggression:
2:190	God does not love the aggressors.
2:191	And kill them wherever you encounter them, and expel them from where they expelled you:
2:191	the trial is graver than killing.
2:191	And do not fight them near the inviolable place of prostration, until they fight you there;
2:191	but if they fight you, kill them then:
2:191	such is the recompense of those who disown.
2:192	But if they cease, God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
2:193	And fight them until there is no more trial, and the Law is entirely for God;
2:193	and if they cease, then no hostility, except toward the unjust.
2:194	The inviolable month for the inviolable month: inviolable things call for a just reciprocity.
2:194	Whoever has committed aggression against you, commit aggression against him to the extent of his aggression against you,
2:194	and guard yourselves toward God, and know that God is with those who guard themselves.
2:195	And spend in the way of God, but do not cast your means of livelihood into ruin; and do good:
2:195	God loves those who do good.
2:196	And complete fully the Hajj and the Umra for God.
2:196	And if you are prevented, then whatever offering is easily available.
2:196	And do not shave your heads until the offering has reached its place of delivery;
2:196	And whoever among you is sick, or suffers an ailment of the head, then a compensation by abstention, alms, or any other good deed.
2:196	And once secure, whoever enjoys the Umra until the Hajj, then whatever offering is easily available.
2:196	And whoever does not find the means, then an abstention of three days during the Hajj, and seven once you have returned: that is ten complete days.
2:196	That, for one whose family is not present near the inviolable place of prostration.
2:196	And guard yourselves toward God, and know that God is severe in sanction.
2:197	The Hajj takes place in known months.
2:197	Whoever commits himself thereby to the Hajj, then no obscenity, no overstepping, and no argument during the Hajj.
2:197	And whatever good you do, God knows it.
2:197	And take your provisions;
2:197	but the best of provisions is guardedness.
2:197	And guard yourselves toward Me, O possessors of intelligence.
2:198	No blame upon you for seeking a favor from your Guardian.
2:198	And when you surge forth from Arafat, remember God near the Inviolable Place of remembrance,
2:198	and remember Him, as He has guided you, though you were before among the astray.
2:199	Then surge forth from where the people surge forth,
2:199	and ask God's forgiveness.
2:199	God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
2:200	And when you have completed your beneficent practices, remember God as you remember your ancestors, or with an even more intense remembrance.
2:200	And among the people, there is one who says: "Our Guardian, give us in the present life" — and he will have, in the last life, no share.
2:201	And among them, there is one who says: "Our Guardian, give us a good share in the present life, and a good share in the last life, and preserve us from the punishment of the Fire."
2:202	Those are the ones who have a share of what they have earned.
2:202	God is swift in reckoning.
2:203	And remember God during counted days.
2:203	And whoever hastens in two days, no transgression upon him;
2:203	and whoever delays, no transgression upon him, for one who guards himself.
2:203	And guard yourselves toward God, and know that it is to Him that you will be gathered.
2:204	And among the people, there is one whose discourse, on the present life, amazes you, and who calls God to witness what is in his core, while he is the fiercest of quarrelers.
2:205	And when he turns away, he strives on the earth to sow corruption in it, and to annihilate crops and offspring.
2:205	God does not love corruption.
2:206	And when it is said to him: "Guard yourself toward God", [claimed] might seizes him in transgression; Jahannam suffices him, then.
2:206	And what an evil bed!
2:207	And among the people, there is one who sells his own Self, seeking the good pleasure of God.
2:207	God is full of kindness toward His obedient ones.
2:208	O you who have believed! enter into peace, wholly,
2:208	and do not follow the footsteps of the Diverter:
2:208	he is for you a manifest enemy.
2:209	And if you falter after the clear proofs have come to you, know then that God is All-Powerful, Wise.
2:210	Do they await only that God come to them in shadows of clouds,
2:210	with the Agents, and that the matter be settled?
2:210	And it is to God that all matters return.
2:211	Ask the Sons of Israel how many clear signs We gave them.
2:211	And whoever changes the blessing of God after it has come to him — God is indeed severe in sanction.
2:212	The present life has been embellished for those who disown, and they mock those who have believed;
2:212	but those who guard themselves will be above them, on the Day of Appearance.
2:212	And God provides sustenance to whom He wills, without measure.
2:213	Mankind formed a single community; God then raised up the prophets, bearers of good tidings and warners, and sent down with them the Scripture, in truth, so that it might judge between people what they differed over.
2:213	And only those to whom it was given diverged over it,
2:213	after the clear proofs had come to them, out of aggression among themselves.
2:213	God then guided those who believed to the truth over which they diverged, with His permission.
2:213	And God guides whom He wills to a straight path.
2:214	Or did you think you would enter the Garden, when there has not yet come to you the equivalent of what those before you experienced? Hardship and misfortune touched them, and they were shaken to the point that the messenger and those who had believed with him said: "When, then, is the help of God?"
2:214	Is it not so: the help of God is near!
2:215	They ask you: what should they spend?
2:215	Say: "Whatever good you spend belongs to the two parents, relatives, orphans, the destitute, and the stranded traveler."
2:215	And whatever good you do, God knows it perfectly.
2:216	Combat is prescribed for you, though it is distasteful to you.
2:216	It may be that you dislike a thing, while it is a good for you;
2:216	and it may be that you like a thing, while it is an evil for you.
2:216	God knows,
2:216	and you do not know.
2:217	They ask you about the inviolable month, [and] combat taking place in it.
2:217	Say: "To fight in it is grave;
2:217	but to turn away from the path of God, disown it, [turn away] from the inviolable place of prostration, and expel its inhabitants from it, is graver still with God;
2:217	and the trial is graver than killing."
2:217	And they will not cease to fight you until they make you renounce your Law, if they can.
2:217	And whoever among you renounces his Law, and dies while disowning — those are the ones whose works have collapsed, in the present life and in the last life,
2:217	and those are the companions of the Fire, they abide therein eternally.
2:218	Those who have believed, those who have emigrated and have striven in the way of God — those are the ones who hope for the benevolence of God.
2:218	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
2:219	They ask you about wine and games of chance.
2:219	Say: "There is, in both, a great transgression, and profits for people;
2:219	but their transgression is greater than their profit."
2:219	And they ask you: what should they spend? Say: "The surplus."
2:220	Thus does God make the signs clear to you, perhaps you will reflect on the present life and on the last life.
2:220	And they ask you about orphans. Say: "Setting their situation right is a good;
2:220	and if you mix your affairs with theirs, they are your brothers."
2:220	God distinguishes the sower of corruption from him who sets things right.
2:220	And had God willed, He would have overwhelmed you.
2:220	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
2:221	And do not marry women who associate, until they believe;
2:221	and a believing obedient woman is indeed better than a woman who associates, even if she pleases you.
2:221	And do not give yourselves in marriage to those who associate, until they believe;
2:221	and a believing obedient man is indeed better than a man who associates, even if he pleases you.
2:221	Those are the ones who call toward the Fire,
2:221	while God calls toward the Garden and forgiveness, with His permission,
2:221	and He makes His signs clear for mankind, perhaps they will take heed.
2:222	And they ask you about menstruation. Say: "It is an inconvenience;
2:222	so keep away from women during menstruation,
2:222	and do not approach them until they are no longer inconvenienced.
2:222	And once they are no longer so, unite with them from where God has ordered you."
2:222	God loves those who turn back [to Him], and He loves those who keep themselves clean.
2:223	Your women are a field for you; unite, then, with your field as you wish,
2:223	and prepare a good for yourselves;
2:223	and guard yourselves toward God,
2:223	and know that you will meet Him.
2:223	And give good news to the believers.
2:224	And do not make God, in your oaths, a pretext you use at will,
2:224	to being virtuous, guarding yourselves, and reconciling people.
2:224	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
2:225	God will not hold you to account for idle talk in your oaths,
2:225	but He will hold you to account for what your cores have earned.
2:225	God is Most-Forgiving, full of patience.
2:226	For those who swear to abstain from their wives, a waiting period of four months;
2:226	and if they return, God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
2:227	And if they are resolved on repudiation, God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
2:228	And repudiated women observe a waiting period of three cycles;
2:228	and it is not lawful for them to hide what God has created in their wombs, if they believe in God and the Last Day.
2:228	And their husbands have greater right to take them back during this period, if they want a reconciliation.
2:228	And they have rights equivalent to their obligations, according to what is recognized;
2:228	and men have, over them, a degree [of responsibility].
2:228	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
2:229	Repudiation is [revocable] twice.
2:229	Then, either a resumption according to what is recognized, or a release in good grace.
2:229	And it is not lawful for you to take back anything of what you gave them, unless both fear that they will not maintain the limits of God.
2:229	And if you fear that they will not maintain the limits of God, no blame upon them both for what she ransoms herself with.
2:229	Those are the limits of God,
2:229	so do not cross them.
2:229	And whoever crosses the limits of God — those are the unjust.
2:230	If he repudiates her [a third time], she is no longer lawful for him thereafter, until she marries a husband other than him.
2:230	And if this one repudiates her, no blame upon them both for reuniting, if they think they will maintain the limits of God.
2:230	Those are the limits of God, which He makes clear for a people who know.
2:231	And when you repudiate women, and they reach their term, keep them according to what is recognized, or release them according to what is recognized;
2:231	and do not keep them out of harm, to commit aggression.
2:231	And whoever does that has wronged himself.
2:231	And do not take the signs of God in mockery.
2:231	And remember God's blessing upon you, and what He has sent down upon you of the Scripture and the wisdom, by which He exhorts you.
2:231	And guard yourselves toward God,
2:231	and know that God is All-Knowing of all things.
2:232	And when you repudiate women, and they reach their term, do not prevent them from marrying their [new] spouses, once they mutually consent according to what is recognized.
2:232	That is what whoever among you believes in God and the Last Day is exhorted to.
2:232	That is more pure for you, and cleaner.
2:232	God knows, and you do not know.
2:233	And mothers take their children into care for two complete years,
2:233	for whoever wants to bring this care to completion.
2:233	And it is incumbent upon the father to provide for their food and their clothing, according to what is recognized.
2:233	No Self is burdened beyond its capacity.
2:233	Let no mother be wronged because of her child, nor any father because of his child.
2:233	And upon the heir falls the same thing.
2:233	And if they want a weaning, by their mutual consent and after consultation, no blame upon them both.
2:233	And if you want to have your children taken into care [by another woman], no blame upon you, once you settle what you owe according to what is recognized.
2:233	And guard yourselves toward God,
2:233	and know that God sees perfectly what you do.
2:234	And those among you who die leaving wives, they observe a waiting period of four months and ten;
2:234	and once they reach their term, no blame upon you for what they do with themselves according to what is recognized.
2:234	God is Informed of what you do.
2:235	And no blame upon you, in what you hint at as a proposal of marriage to women, or what you keep within yourselves.
2:235	God knows that you will think of them; but do not promise them anything in secret,
2:235	except to say a recognized word.
2:235	And do not conclude the marriage contract before the document [of the waiting period] reaches its term.
2:235	And know that God knows what is in your Selves; beware of Him, then.
2:235	And know that God is Most-Forgiving, full of patience.
2:236	No blame upon you, if you repudiate women while you have not touched them, or have not fixed an obligation for them.
2:236	And grant them an enjoyment — the affluent according to his means, and the modest according to his means — an enjoyment according to what is recognized:
2:236	a duty upon those who do good.
2:237	And if you repudiate them before having touched them, while you have fixed an obligation for them, half of what you fixed [belongs to them], unless they forgo it, or unless he in whose hands is the marriage contract forgoes it.
2:237	And that you forgo is closer to guardedness.
2:237	And do not forget the favor between you.
2:237	God sees perfectly what you do.
2:238	Keep the Contacts, and the most perfect [possible] Contact, and stand before God, devoted.
2:239	And if you fear [danger], then on foot or mounted [by any means of transport];
2:239	and once secure, remember God as He has taught you what you did not know.
2:240	And those among you who die leaving wives — a prescription [from God] in favor of their wives: an enjoyment until the anniversary [of death], without expulsion;
2:240	but if they leave, no blame upon you for what they do with themselves that is recognized.
2:240	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
2:241	And for repudiated women, an enjoyment according to what is recognized:
2:241	a duty upon those who guard themselves.
2:242	Thus does God make His signs clear to you, perhaps you will reason.
2:243	Have you not seen those who went out of their dwellings, by thousands, out of fear of death? God then said to them: "Die"; then He brought them back to life.
2:243	God indeed holds a favor toward mankind,
2:243	but most people are not grateful.
2:244	And fight in the way of God, and know that God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
2:245	Who, then, will make God a beautiful loan, which He will multiply for him many times over?
2:245	God tightens and extends [sustenance],
2:245	and it is to Him that you will be returned.
2:246	Have you not seen the court, among the Sons of Israel, after Moussa, when they said to a prophet of theirs: "Raise up for us a king, that we may fight in the way of God"?
2:246	He said: "Might it be that, if combat were prescribed for you, you would not fight?"
2:246	They said: "And what reason would we have not to fight in the way of God, when we have been expelled from our dwellings and [separated] from our children?"
2:246	But when combat was prescribed for them, they turned away, except a small number of them.
2:246	God is All-Knowing of the unjust.
2:247	And their prophet said to them: "God has indeed raised up for you Talut as king."
2:247	They said: "How would he have the kingship over us, when we have more right to it than he, and he has not been given abundance of goods?"
2:247	He said: "God has chosen him over you, and increased him in breadth of knowledge and constitution."
2:247	God gives His kingship to whom He wills.
2:247	God is Vast, All-Knowing.
2:248	And their prophet said to them: "The sign of his kingship will be that the ark comes to you, wherein is a tranquility from your Guardian, and a remnant of what the family of Moussa and the family of Harun left, carried by the Agents."
2:248	There is indeed a sign in that for you, if you are believers.
2:249	When Talut set out with the troops, he said: "God is going to try you with a river: whoever drinks from it is not of me, and whoever does not taste it is of me — except one who draws a scoop with his hand."
2:249	They drank from it, except a small number of them.
2:249	Then, when they had crossed it, he and those who had believed with him, they said: "We have no strength today against Jalut and his troops."
2:249	Those who thought that they would meet God said: "How many a small group has overcome a large group, with God's permission!"
2:249	God is with the patient.
2:251	And when they came out to face Jalut and his troops, they said: "Our Guardian, pour patience upon us, make firm our steps, and help us against the people who disown"; they routed them then, with God's permission,
2:251	and Dawud killed Jalut; God gave him kingship and wisdom, and taught him what He willed.
2:251	And without God repelling people, some by others, the earth would indeed have been given over to corruption;
2:251	but God holds a favor toward all beings.
2:252	Those are the signs of God, which We recite to you in truth,
2:252	and you are indeed among the envoys.
2:253	Those are the messengers:
2:253	We favored some of them above others.
2:253	Among them, there is one to whom God spoke,
2:253	and He raised others in degrees.
2:253	And We gave Issa, son of Maryam, the clear proofs, and We reinforced him with the sacred Influx.
2:253	And had God willed, those who came after them would not have fought one another, after the clear proofs had come to them;
2:253	but they diverged:
2:253	among them, there are some who believed, and some who disowned.
2:253	And had God willed, they would not have fought one another;
2:253	but God does what He wills.
2:254	O you who have believed! spend from what We have provided you as sustenance, before a day comes wherein there will be neither trade, nor friendship, nor intercession.
2:254	And those who disown — those are the unjust.
2:255	God, there is no deity but Him,
2:255	the Living, the Self-Subsisting.
2:255	Neither drowsiness nor sleep seizes Him.
2:255	To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
2:255	Who, then, intercedes with Him, except with His permission?
2:255	He knows what is before them and what is behind them,
2:255	and they encompass nothing of His knowledge, except what He wills.
2:255	His Seat extends over the heavens and the earth,
2:255	and their guarding costs Him no effort.
2:255	He is the Most High, the Immense.
2:256	No compulsion in the Law:
2:256	rectitude of judgment has become distinct from misguidance.
2:256	Whoever disowns the Tyrant and believes in God has held firmly to the surest handhold, which never breaks.
2:256	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
2:257	God is the protector of those who have believed, He brings them out of the darknesses toward the light.
2:257	And those who disown, their protectors are the Tyrant, who brings them out of the light toward the darknesses.
2:257	Those are the companions of the Fire, they abide therein eternally.
2:258	Have you not seen him who disputed with Ibrahim about his Guardian, because God had given him kingship? When Ibrahim said: "My Guardian is He who gives life and causes death",
2:258	he said: "I too give life and cause death."
2:258	Ibrahim said: "God brings the sun from the east; bring it, then, from the west"; the one who disowned was left with his words unraveled, then.
2:258	And God does not guide the unjust people.
2:259	Or like him who passed by a city, empty despite its edifices.
2:259	He said: "How will God bring this back to life, after its death?" God then caused him to die a hundred years, then He resurrected him.
2:259	He said: "How long have you remained?"
2:259	He said: "I have remained a day, or part of a day."
2:259	He said: "No, you have remained a hundred years.
2:259	Look, then, at your food and your drink: they have not waited [to spoil];
2:259	and look at your donkey —
2:259	and so that We may make of you a sign for mankind.
2:259	And look at the bones, how We raise them up, then clothe them with flesh.
2:259	When this had become clear to him, he said: "I know that God is capable of all things."
2:260	And remember when Ibrahim said: "My Guardian, show me how You give life to the dead."
2:260	He said: "Do you not believe, then?"
2:260	He said: "Yes, indeed; it is only so that my core may find ease."
2:260	He said: "Take, then, four birds, tame them to yourself, then place, on each hill, a part of them, then call them: they will come to you swiftly.
2:260	And know that God is All-Powerful, Wise."
2:261	The likeness of those who spend their goods in the way of God is that of a grain which grows seven ears,
2:261	each ear bearing a hundred grains.
2:261	God multiplies for whom He wills.
2:261	God is Vast, All-Knowing.
2:262	Those who spend their goods in the way of God, then do not follow what they spent with either reminder or harm, have their reward with their Guardian; no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.
2:263	A recognized word and forgiveness are better than alms followed by harm.
2:263	God is self-sufficient, full of patience.
2:264	O you who have believed! do not render your alms vain by reminder [of your benefactions] and harm, like one who spends his goods for show before people, and believes neither in God nor in the Last Day.
2:264	His likeness is that of a smooth rock covered with soil: a torrential rain strikes it, and leaves it bare.
2:264	They hold nothing of what they have earned.
2:264	And God does not guide the people who disown.
2:265	And the likeness of those who spend their goods, seeking the good pleasure of God and the strengthening of their own Selves, is that of a garden on a height: a torrential rain strikes it, and it gives its yield twofold; and if no torrential rain strikes it, a drizzle [suffices].
2:265	God sees perfectly what you do.
2:266	Would one of you like to have a garden of palm trees and vines, beneath which rivers flow, wherein he would have all kinds of fruits, then old age strikes him, while he has a weak offspring, and a whirlwind of fire strikes it, and it burns?
2:266	Thus does God make the signs clear to you, perhaps you will reflect.
2:267	O you who have believed! spend of the good things you have earned, and of what We have brought forth for you from the earth,
2:267	and do not aim at what is vile of it to spend, when you would not accept it yourselves except by closing your eyes to it.
2:267	And know that God is self-sufficient, worthy of praise.
2:268	The Diverter promises you poverty, and orders you to indecency,
2:268	while God promises you, from Himself, a forgiveness and a favor.
2:268	God is Vast, All-Knowing.
2:269	He gives wisdom to whom He wills,
2:269	and whoever receives wisdom has received an abundant good.
2:269	And only the possessors of intelligence take heed.
2:270	And whatever expenditure you spend, or vow you make, God knows it.
2:270	And the unjust have no helpers.
2:271	If you disclose your alms, that is excellent;
2:271	and if you hide them and give them to the poor, that is better for you, and it covers a part of your evil deeds.
2:271	God is Informed of what you do.
2:272	It is not incumbent upon you to guide them,
2:272	but God guides whom He wills.
2:272	And whatever good you spend, it is for yourselves.
2:272	And you spend only seeking the direction of God.
2:272	And whatever good you spend, it will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.
2:273	This belongs to the poor who are held back in the way of God, unable to travel through the land: the ignorant thinks them rich, because of their restraint;
2:273	you recognize them by their marks: they do not ask people insistently.
2:273	And whatever good you spend, God knows it perfectly.
2:274	Those who spend their goods by night and by day, in secret and openly, have their reward with their Guardian; no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.
2:275	Those who devour usury rise only as one rises whom the Diverter has overturned by his touch.
2:275	That is because they said: "Trade is only ever like usury";
2:275	but God has made trade lawful, and forbidden usury.
2:275	Whoever, an admonition from his Guardian having reached him, ceases, will keep what is past,
2:275	and his matter rests with God;
2:275	but whoever relapses — those are the companions of the Fire, they abide therein eternally.
2:276	God destroys usury, and makes alms grow.
2:276	God does not love any great disowner, transgressor.
2:277	Those who have believed, done righteous deeds, maintained the Contact, and given the purifying alms, have their reward with their Guardian; no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.
2:278	O you who have believed! guard yourselves toward God, and forsake what remains of usury, if you are believers.
2:279	If you do not do it, know then that it is a war from God and His messenger;
2:279	and if you turn back [to God], the principal of your goods belongs to you, without your doing wrong or being wronged.
2:280	And if [the debtor] is in hardship, then a delay until ease;
2:280	and that you remit it as charity is better for you, if you knew.
2:281	And guard yourselves against a day when you will be brought back to God,
2:281	when every Self will be fully repaid for what it has earned, without being wronged.
2:282	O you who have believed! when you contract a debt between yourselves for a fixed term, put it in writing.
2:282	And let a scribe write it between you with justice,
2:282	and let no scribe refuse to write,
2:282	according to what God has taught him; let him write, then,
2:282	and let him dictate who owes the debt, and let him guard himself toward God, his Guardian, and not diminish anything of it.
2:282	And if he who owes the debt is foolish, or weak, or unable to dictate himself, let the one responsible for him dictate, then, with justice.
2:282	And call two witnesses from among your men to witness it;
2:282	and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, from among those whose testimony you approve, so that if one of the two errs, the other may remind her.
2:282	And let not the witnesses refuse, when they are called.
2:282	And do not be weary of writing it down, small or large, until its term.
2:282	That is more equitable with God, more upright for testimony, and closer to not doubting — except if it is an immediate trade that you conduct among yourselves: no blame then upon you for not writing it down.
2:282	And take witnesses when you conduct a transaction among yourselves.
2:282	And let no harm be done to either the scribe or the witness.
2:282	And if you do, it is an overstepping on your part.
2:282	And guard yourselves toward God,
2:282	and God teaches you.
2:282	God is All-Knowing of all things.
2:283	And if you are on a journey, and you find no scribe, a pledge taken [suffices].
2:283	And if one of you trusts another, let him to whom the trust was given discharge his trust,
2:283	and let him guard himself toward God, his Guardian.
2:283	And do not hide testimony.
2:283	And whoever hides it has indeed a transgressive core.
2:283	God is, of what you do, All-Knowing.
2:284	To God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
2:284	Whether you disclose what is within you, or hide it, God will call you to account for it; He forgives, then, whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills.
2:284	God is capable of all things.
2:285	The messenger has believed in what has been revealed to him from his Guardian, and [likewise] the believers.
2:285	All have believed in God, His Agents, His scriptures, and His messengers:
2:285	"We make no distinction between any of His messengers";
2:285	and they said: "We have heard and we have obeyed.
2:285	Your forgiveness, our Guardian; to You is the destination."
2:286	God imposes upon no Self except its capacity.
2:286	To it what it has earned,
2:286	and against it what it has committed.
2:286	"Our Guardian, do not hold us to account if we forget or if we err.
2:286	Our Guardian, and do not lay upon us a burden as You laid it upon those before us.
2:286	Our Guardian, and do not make us bear what we do not have the strength to bear.
2:286	And efface [our faults] for us,
2:286	and forgive us,
2:286	and have benevolence on us.
2:286	You are our nearest Guarantor; help us, then, against the people who disown."

Sura 3 — The Rope of God (Al-Imran)

3:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Mim.
3:2	God, there is no deity but Him,
3:3	the Living, the Self-Subsisting. He sent down upon you the Scripture, in truth, confirming what precedes it,
3:4	and He sent down, before, the Tawrah and the Injil, a guidance for mankind, and He sent down the Discernment.
3:4	Those who have disowned the signs of God will have a severe punishment.
3:4	God is All-Powerful, possessor of vengeance.
3:5	Nothing, on earth or in the sky, escapes God.
3:6	It is He who shapes you in the wombs as He wills.
3:6	There is no deity but Him,
3:6	the All-Powerful, the Wise.
3:7	It is He who sent down upon you the Scripture;
3:7	in it are signs of firm terms, which are the foundation of the Scripture, and others, subject to resemblance.
3:7	As for those in whose cores is a deviation, they follow what, in the Scripture, lends itself to resemblance, in pursuit of the trial and in pursuit of its interpretation;
3:7	but none knows its interpretation, except God.
3:7	And those who are firmly rooted in knowledge say: "We believe in it; all of it comes from our Guardian";
3:7	and only the possessors of intelligence take heed.
3:8	"Our Guardian, do not let our cores deviate after You have guided us, and grant us, from Yourself, a benevolence;
3:8	You are, You, the Great Bestower.
3:9	Our Guardian, You are the One who gathers mankind for a day without doubt possible.
3:9	God never fails His promise."
3:10	Those who disown, neither their goods nor their children will avail them at all against God.
3:11	Those are the ones who will fuel the Fire, like the conduct of the clan of Fir'awn,
3:11	and of those before them, who denied Our signs; God then seized them for their offenses.
3:11	God is severe in sanction.
3:12	Say to those who disown: "You will be defeated, and gathered toward Jahannam."
3:12	And what an evil bed!
3:13	You had a sign in those two forces that met:
3:13	one fought in the way of God, and the other disowned, seeing it, with the naked eye, twice as numerous as itself.
3:13	God reinforces, by His help, whom He wills.
3:13	There is indeed a lesson in that for the possessors of sight.
3:14	The love of passions has been embellished for people: women, children, heaped treasures of gold and silver, thoroughbred horses, cattle, and crops.
3:14	That is the enjoyment of the present life;
3:14	but it is with God that the best destination is found.
3:15	Say: "Shall I inform you of something better than that?
3:15	For those who guard themselves, with their Guardian, gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, purified spouses, and a good pleasure from God."
3:15	God sees perfectly His obedient ones,
3:16	those who say: "Our Guardian, we have believed; forgive us, then, our offenses, and preserve us from the punishment of the Fire",
3:17	the patient, the truthful, the devoted, those who spend, and those who ask forgiveness before dawn.
3:18	God bears witness, and so do the Agents and the possessors of knowledge, that there is no deity but Him, standing firm in equity.
3:18	There is no deity but Him,
3:18	the All-Powerful, the Wise.
3:19	The Law, with God, is being true to Him alone.
3:19	And those to whom the Scripture was given diverged only after knowledge had come to them,
3:19	out of aggression among themselves.
3:19	And whoever disowns the signs of God — God is swift in reckoning.
3:20	If they dispute with you, say then: "I render my direction true to God alone, as do those who have followed me."
3:20	And say to those to whom the Scripture was given, and to the people without a prior Scripture: "Have you become true to God alone?"
3:20	If they become so, they are then rightly guided;
3:20	and if they turn away, only the transmission is incumbent upon you.
3:20	God sees perfectly His obedient ones.
3:21	Those who disown the signs of God, kill the prophets without right, and kill those who, among people, order equity — announce to them a painful punishment.
3:22	Those are the ones whose works have collapsed, in the present life and in the last life,
3:22	and they will have no helpers.
3:23	Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the Scripture was given, called to the Scripture of God so that it may judge between them, then a group of them turns away, resolutely?
3:24	That is because they said: "The Fire will touch us only for a counted number of days"; and what they used to invent deceived them in their Law.
3:25	How then, when We will have gathered them for a day without doubt possible, and every Self will have been fully repaid for what it has earned, without being wronged?
3:26	Say: "O God, Sovereign of dominion! You give dominion to whom You will, and You strip dominion from whom You will; You honor whom You will, and You abase whom You will; good is in Your hand.
3:26	You are capable of all things.
3:27	You make the night penetrate into the day, and You make the day penetrate into the night; You bring forth the living from the dead, and You bring forth the dead from the living; and You provide sustenance to whom You will, without measure."
3:28	Let not the believers take those who disown as allies, besides the believers;
3:28	and whoever does that has nothing more to do with God — except if you guard yourselves from them as a precaution.
3:28	God warns you against Himself,
3:28	and to God is the destination.
3:29	Say: "Whether you hide what is in your chests, or show it, God knows it.
3:29	And He knows what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
3:29	God is capable of all things.
3:30	The day when every Self will find present what it has done of good,
3:30	and what it has done of evil, it would wish there were between that and itself an immense distance.
3:30	God warns you against Himself.
3:30	God is full of kindness toward His obedient ones.
3:31	Say: "If you love God, follow me: God will love you and forgive you your offenses.
3:31	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."
3:32	Say: "Obey God and the messenger";
3:32	and if they turn away, God does not love those who disown.
3:34	God has certainly chosen Adam, Nuh, the family of Ibrahim, and the family of Imran, above all beings, descendants one from another.
3:34	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
3:35	remember when the wife of Imran said: "My Guardian, I devote to You what is in my belly, wholly consecrated; accept it, then, from me.
3:35	You are, You, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing."
3:36	Then, when she gave birth to her, she said: "My Guardian, I have given birth to her, a girl" — God knew better, though, what she had given birth to —
3:36	"and the male is not like the female;
3:36	I have given her the attribute Maryam,
3:36	and I place her, and her descendants, under Your protection, against the banished Diverter."
3:37	Her Guardian received her with a beautiful reception, and made her grow with a beautiful growth,
3:37	and entrusted her care to Zakariya.
3:37	Every time Zakariya entered upon her in the oratory, he found near her a provision.
3:37	He said: "O Maryam! from where does this come to you?"
3:37	She said: "It comes from God.
3:37	God provides sustenance to whom He wills, without measure."
3:38	Right there, Zakariya invoked his Guardian.
3:38	He said: "My Guardian, grant me, from Yourself, an excellent offspring; You are the Hearer of invocation."
3:39	The Agents called him while he was making contact in the oratory: "God announces to you Yahya, confirming a word from God, a chief, a man of total continence, and a prophet, among the righteous."
3:40	He said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a boy, when old age has already reached me, and my wife is barren?"
3:40	He said: "Thus it is:
3:40	God does what He wills."
3:41	He said: "My Guardian, give me a sign."
3:41	He said: "Your sign will be that you will not speak to people except by gestures, for three days.
3:41	And remember your Guardian abundantly, and glorify Him in the evening and at dawn."
3:42	And remember when the Agents said: "O Maryam! God has chosen you, purified you, and chosen you above the women of all beings.
3:43	O Maryam! be devoted toward your Guardian, prostrate, and bow with those who bow."
3:44	That is part of the information about what escapes the senses, which We reveal to you.
3:44	You were not with them when they cast their reeds [to draw lots] as to which of them would take charge of Maryam,
3:45	and you were not with them when they quarreled. remember when the Agents said: "O Maryam! God announces to you a word from Himself,
3:45	whose attribute will be Al-Massih, Issa, son of Maryam, of high standing in the present life and in the last life, and among those brought near.
3:46	He will speak to people in the cradle and in maturity,
3:46	and will be among the righteous."
3:47	She said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a child, when no human has touched me?"
3:47	He said: "Thus it is:
3:47	God creates what He wills.
3:47	When He decrees a thing, He only says to it: Be",
3:47	and it is.
3:49	"And He will teach him the Code, wisdom, the Tawrah and the Injil, and [will send him as] a messenger to the sons of Israel: I bring you a sign from your Guardian:
3:49	I fashion for you, from clay, the form of a bird, then I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird, with God's permission.
3:49	And I heal the born-blind and the leper, and I bring the dead back to life, with God's permission.
3:49	And I inform you of what you eat and what you store up in your houses.
3:49	There is indeed a sign in that for you, if you are believers.
3:50	And [I come] confirming what, of the Tawrah, precedes me, and to make lawful for you a part of what was forbidden to you.
3:50	I bring you a sign from your Guardian;
3:50	guard yourselves, then, toward God, and obey me.
3:51	God is my Guardian and your Guardian; obey Him, then.
3:51	That is a straight path."
3:52	When Issa perceived disowning from them, he said: "Who will be my helpers toward God?"
3:52	The disciples said: "We are the helpers of God.
3:52	We believe in God, and bear witness that we are true to Him alone.
3:53	Our Guardian, we have believed in what You have sent down, and we have followed the messenger; inscribe us, then, among the witnesses."
3:54	They plotted, and God plotted [in return],
3:54	and God is the best of those who plot.
3:55	remember when God said: "O Issa! I am going to take you back to Me, raise you to Me, and purify you from those who disowned,
3:55	and place those who followed you above those who disowned, until the Day of Appearance.
3:55	Then to Me will be your return, and I will judge between you concerning what you used to differ over.
3:56	As for those who disowned, I will punish them with a severe punishment, in the present life and in the last life,
3:56	and they will have no helpers.
3:57	And as for those who have believed and done righteous deeds, He will pay them their rewards in full.
3:57	God does not love the unjust."
3:58	That is what We recite to you of the signs and the wise Reminder.
3:59	The likeness of Issa, with God, is like that of Adam:
3:59	He created him from earth, then said to him: "Be",
3:59	and he was.
3:60	That is the truth from your Guardian;
3:60	so do not be among those who doubt.
3:61	To whoever would dispute with you about this, after knowledge has come to you, say: "Come, let us call our sons and your sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves, then let us pray fervently, and call the curse of God upon the liars."
3:62	This is indeed the true account,
3:62	and there is no deity but God.
3:62	And God is indeed the All-Powerful, the Wise.
3:63	If they turn away, God is All-Knowing of the sowers of corruption.
3:64	Say: "O people of the Scripture! come to an equitable word between us and you: that we obey none but God, that we associate nothing with Him, and that none of us take others as masters besides God."
3:64	If they turn away, say then: "Bear witness that we are true to God alone."
3:65	O people of the Scripture! why do you dispute concerning Ibrahim,
3:65	when the Tawrah and the Injil were sent down only after him?
3:65	Will you not then reason?
3:66	Here you are disputing about that of which you have some knowledge; but why do you dispute about that of which you have no knowledge?
3:66	God knows,
3:66	and you do not know.
3:67	Ibrahim was neither Reoriented nor a Helper, but he was wholly turned toward God, true to Him alone,
3:67	and he was not among those who associate.
3:68	The people closest to Ibrahim are indeed those who followed him, as well as this prophet and those who have believed.
3:68	God is the protector of the believers.
3:69	A group among the people of the Scripture would have liked to lead you astray;
3:69	but they lead astray none but themselves, without realizing it.
3:70	O people of the Scripture! why do you disown the signs of God, when you bear witness to them?
3:71	O people of the Scripture! why do you cover the truth with falsehood, and hide the truth, when you know?
3:72	And a group among the people of the Scripture said: "Believe in what has been revealed to those who have believed, at the start of the day, and disown it at its end, perhaps they will turn back [from their faith]."
3:73	"And give credit only to him who follows your Law."
3:73	Say: "The [true] guidance is the guidance of God" — [they say this] lest anyone be given the like of what you were given, or lest they dispute with you before your Guardian.
3:73	Say: "Favor is in the hand of God,
3:73	He gives it to whom He wills.
3:73	God is Vast, All-Knowing."
3:74	He reserves His benevolence for whom He wills.
3:74	God holds the immense favor.
3:75	And among the people of the Scripture, there are some who, if you entrust them with a treasure, will return it to you;
3:75	and there is one who, if you entrust him with a dinar, does not restore it to you unless you keep pressing him.
3:75	That is because they say: "We have, toward the people without a prior Scripture, no obligation",
3:75	and they say falsehood against God, while knowing.
3:76	But yes, whoever keeps his engagement and guards himself — God loves those who guard themselves.
3:77	Those who sell the engagement of God and their oaths for a small price — those are the ones who will have no share in the last life; God will not speak to them, will not look at them on the Day of Appearance, and will not purify them.
3:77	They will have a painful punishment.
3:78	And among them, there is indeed a group who twist their tongues [reciting] the Scripture, so that you might take it for an extract of the Scripture, when it is not part of it,
3:78	and they say: "This is from God",
3:78	when it is not from God,
3:78	and they say falsehood against God, while knowing.
3:79	It is not for any human to whom God has given the Scripture, the judgment, and the prophecy, to then say to people: "Be obedient to me, besides God"; but rather: "Be spiritual masters, by reason of what you teach of the Scripture and what you study."
3:80	And he would not order you to take the Agents and the prophets as masters.
3:80	Would he order you to disown, after you have become true to God alone?
3:81	And remember when God took the solemn engagement of the prophets: "What I have given you of Scripture and wisdom, then a messenger comes to you, confirming what is with you, you must certainly believe in him, and certainly support him."
3:81	He said: "Have you consented, and taken upon yourselves My burden on this condition?"
3:81	They said: "We have consented."
3:81	He said: "Bear witness to it, then, and I am, with you, among the witnesses."
3:82	Whoever turns away after that, those are the oversteppers.
3:83	Would they seek then a Law other than God's, while whoever is in the heavens and the earth is true to Him alone, willingly or unwillingly,
3:83	and to Him they will be returned?
3:84	Say: "We believe in God, in what has been revealed to us, in what was revealed to Ibrahim, Isma'il, Ishaq, Yaacoub, and the tribes, and in what was given to Moussa, to Issa, and to the prophets, from their Guardian; we make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we are true."
3:85	And whoever seeks a Law other than being true to God alone, it will never be accepted from him,
3:85	and he will be, in the last life, among the losers.
3:86	How would God guide a people who disowned after having believed, and after having testified that the messenger is true, and the clear proofs had come to them?
3:86	God does not guide the unjust people.
3:89	Those are the ones whose recompense is that upon them will weigh the curse of God, the Agents, and mankind, all together, wherein they will abide eternally; the punishment will not be lightened for them, and they will not be granted a delay — except those who turn back [to God] after that, and reform: God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
3:90	Those who disown after having believed, then increase in disowning, their repentance will never be accepted,
3:90	and those are the astray.
3:91	Those who disown and die while disowning, there will never be accepted from any of them the whole earth filled with gold, even were he to offer it as ransom.
3:91	Those are the ones who will have a painful punishment,
3:91	and they will have no helpers.
3:92	You will not attain virtue unless you spend of what you love.
3:92	And whatever you spend, God knows it perfectly.
3:93	All food was lawful for the Sons of Israel, except what Israel had forbidden itself, before the Tawrah was sent down.
3:93	Say: "Bring, then, the Tawrah, and recite it, if you are truthful."
3:94	Whoever, after that, invents the lie against God — those are the unjust.
3:95	Say: "God has spoken the truth.
3:95	Follow, then, the doctrine of Ibrahim, wholly turned toward God,
3:95	and he was not among those who associate."
3:97	The first House established for mankind is indeed that at the place of the throng, blessed and a guidance for all beings; in it are clear signs.
3:97	The station of Ibrahim,
3:97	and whoever enters it is secure.
3:97	And the Hajj of the House is a duty toward God for mankind, for whoever has the capacity for it by a [practicable] way;
3:97	and whoever disowns — God is self-sufficient, independent of all beings.
3:98	Say: "O people of the Scripture! why do you disown the signs of God, when God is witness to what you do?"
3:99	Say: "O people of the Scripture! why do you turn away from the path of God him who has believed, seeking to make it crooked, while you are witnesses to it?"
3:99	God is not heedless of what you do.
3:100	O you who have believed! if you obey a group among those to whom the Scripture was given, they will turn you back, after your faith, to disowning.
3:101	And how would you disown, when the signs of God are recited to you, and His messenger is among you?
3:101	And whoever holds firmly to God is already guided to a straight path.
3:102	O you who have believed! guard yourselves toward God as one should guard oneself toward Him,
3:102	and do not die except being true to Him alone.
3:103	And hold, all of you, firmly, to the rope of God,
3:103	and do not divide yourselves.
3:103	And remember God's blessing upon you, when you were enemies, and He reconciled your cores, so that you became, by His blessing, brothers;
3:103	and you were at the edge of a pit of fire, and He saved you from it.
3:103	Thus does God make His signs clear to you, perhaps you will be rightly guided.
3:104	And let there be from among you a community that calls to good, orders what is recognized, and forbids what is disavowed.
3:104	Those are the ones who succeed.
3:105	And do not be like those who divided themselves and fell into disagreement after the clear proofs had come to them.
3:106	Those are the ones who will have an immense punishment, on the day when faces will brighten and faces will darken.
3:106	As for those whose faces will have darkened: "Did you disown after your faith? Taste, then, the punishment, for having disowned."
3:107	And as for those whose faces will have brightened, they will be in the benevolence of God,
3:107	wherein they will abide eternally.
3:108	Those are the signs of God, which We recite to you in truth.
3:108	And God wants no injustice for all beings.
3:109	And to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth,
3:109	and it is to God that all matters return.
3:110	You are the best community raised up for mankind: you order what is recognized, you forbid what is disavowed, and you believe in God.
3:110	And had the people of the Scripture believed, it would have been better for them.
3:110	Among them, there are believers,
3:110	but most of them are oversteppers.
3:111	They can never harm you,
3:111	except by an annoyance.
3:111	And if they fight you, they will turn their backs to you;
3:111	then, they will not be helped.
3:112	Humiliation has been imprinted upon them, wherever they are found,
3:112	except by a bond with God and a bond with mankind; they incur the anger of God,
3:112	and misery has been imprinted upon them.
3:112	That is because they used to disown the signs of God, and kill the prophets without right.
3:112	It is for having disobeyed and crossed the limits.
3:113	They are not all equal:
3:113	among the people of the Scripture, there is an upright community, which recites the signs of God in the hours of the night, prostrating.
3:114	They believe in God and the Last Day, order what is recognized, forbid what is disavowed, and race ahead of others in good deeds.
3:114	Those are the ones among the righteous.
3:115	And whatever good they do, it will never be disowned them.
3:115	God is All-Knowing of those who guard themselves.
3:116	Those who disown, neither their goods nor their children will avail them at all against God,
3:116	and those are the companions of the Fire, they abide therein eternally.
3:117	The likeness of what they spend in the present life is that of an icy wind, which strikes the crop of a people who have wronged themselves, and annihilates it.
3:117	And God did not wrong them,
3:117	but it was themselves that they wronged.
3:118	O you who have believed! do not take close confidants apart from your own: they never cease to cause you trouble, and would like you to be afflicted.
3:118	Hatred has already become manifest in their mouths, and what their chests conceal is far graver still.
3:118	We have already made the signs clear to you, if you reason.
3:119	Here you are, you who love them, while they do not love you, and you believe in the whole of the Scripture.
3:119	And when they meet you, they say: "We have believed";
3:119	but when they are alone, they bite their fingertips, out of rage against you.
3:119	Say: "Die in your rage."
3:119	God is certainly All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
3:120	If good touches you, it grieves them,
3:120	and if evil befalls you, they rejoice at it.
3:120	But if you are patient and guard yourselves, their scheming will not harm you at all.
3:120	God encompasses perfectly what they do.
3:121	And remember when you left your household early, to assign the believers positions for battle.
3:121	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
3:122	When two of your groups almost weakened, God being the protector of both —
3:122	and it is upon God that the believers should rely.
3:123	God indeed helped you at Badr, when you were humble.
3:123	Guard yourselves, then, toward God, perhaps you will be grateful.
3:124	remember when you said to the believers: "Is it not enough for you that your Guardian reinforces you with three thousand Agents sent down [from the sky]?"
3:125	But yes: if you are patient and guard yourselves, and they swoop down upon you, right then, your Guardian will reinforce you with five thousand distinctly marked Agents.
3:126	And God made it only a good tiding for you, and so that your cores might find ease in it.
3:128	But victory comes only from God, the All-Powerful, the Wise, so that He may cut off a part of those who disown, or lay them low, and they depart disappointed. You have, in this matter, no power: either He turns toward them with clemency, or He punishes them, for they are unjust.
3:129	And to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
3:129	He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills.
3:129	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
3:130	O you who have believed! do not devour usury, doubled and redoubled.
3:130	And guard yourselves toward God, perhaps you will succeed.
3:131	And guard yourselves against the Fire, prepared for those who disown.
3:132	And obey God and the messenger, perhaps benevolence will be shown to you.
3:134	And race toward a forgiveness from your Guardian, and a Garden whose extent is that of the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who guard themselves, who spend in ease and hardship, restrain their rage, and efface [the faults] of people.
3:134	God loves those who do good.
3:135	And those who, when they commit an indecency or wrong themselves, remember God and ask forgiveness for their offenses —
3:135	and who forgives offenses, but God? —
3:135	and who do not persist in what they did, while knowing.
3:136	Those are the ones whose recompense is a forgiveness from their Guardian, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally.
3:136	How excellent is the reward of those who act [thus]!
3:137	Ways [similar] have indeed passed before you;
3:137	so travel through the land, and look how the end of those who denied was.
3:138	This is a clear exposition for mankind, a guidance and an admonition for those who guard themselves.
3:139	And do not weaken, and do not grieve: you are the most exalted, if you are believers.
3:140	If a wound touches you, a similar wound has already touched that [other] people.
3:140	Thus do the days go: We make them alternate among mankind,
3:140	so that God may know those who have believed, and take from among you witnesses —
3:140	God does not love the unjust —
3:141	and so that God may purify those who have believed, and destroy those who disown.
3:142	Or did you think you would enter the Garden without God yet knowing those among you who have striven, and knowing the patient?
3:143	You indeed desired death before meeting it; you have now seen it, and you were looking on.
3:144	Muhammad is only a messenger; messengers have indeed passed before him.
3:144	If he then died, or was killed, would you turn back on your heels?
3:144	And whoever turns back on his heels does not harm God at all,
3:144	and God will recompense the grateful.
3:145	And it is not for any Self to die, except with the permission of God,
3:145	according to a register with an appointed term.
3:145	And whoever wants the requital of the present life, We give it to him;
3:145	and whoever wants the requital of the last life, We give it to him.
3:145	We will recompense the grateful.
3:146	How many a prophet has fought, accompanied by many attached to the Guardian!
3:146	They did not weaken for what befell them in the way of God, did not grow feeble, and did not submit [to the enemy].
3:146	God loves the patient.
3:147	And their only word was to say: "Our Guardian, forgive us our offenses and our excesses in our conduct, make firm our steps, and help us against the people who disown."
3:148	God then gave them the requital of the present life, and the beautiful requital of the last life.
3:148	God loves those who do good.
3:149	O you who have believed! if you obey those who disown, they will make you turn back on your heels, and you will find yourselves losers.
3:150	God, rather, is your nearest Guarantor,
3:150	and He is the best of helpers.
3:151	We will cast terror into the cores of those who disown, for having associated with God that for which He has sent down no authority.
3:151	Their refuge will be the Fire,
3:151	and what an evil abode for the unjust!
3:152	God indeed kept His promise to you, when you were routing them with His permission,
3:152	until, having weakened, you disagreed about the matter, and disobeyed, after He had shown you what you loved.
3:152	Among you, there were some who wanted the present life, and among you, there were some who wanted the last life;
3:152	then He turned you away from them, so as to test you.
3:152	He has indeed already effaced [the fault] for you.
3:152	God holds a favor toward the believers.
3:153	remember when you were climbing [the hill], without turning back to anyone, while the messenger was calling you, at the rear of your ranks; He then rewarded you with anguish upon [another] anguish, so that you would not grieve either for what had escaped you, or for what had befallen you.
3:153	God is Informed of what you do.
3:154	Then He sent down upon you, after the anguish, a tranquility, a drowsiness that enveloped a group among you,
3:154	while [another] group, preoccupied with its own Self, formed about God, contrary to the truth, a conjecture of the age of ignorance,
3:154	saying: "Do we have, in this matter, any power?"
3:154	Say: "The matter, entirely, belongs to God."
3:154	They hide, within themselves, what they do not show you,
3:154	saying: "Had we had, in this matter, any power, we would not have been killed here."
3:154	Say: "Had you stayed in your houses, those for whom killing was decreed would certainly have gone forth to their places of falling" — and so that God might test what is in your chests, and purify what is in your cores.
3:154	And God is All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
3:155	Those among you who turned their backs, on the day the two forces met, it was only the Diverter who made them stumble, for a part of what they had earned.
3:155	God has indeed already effaced [the fault] for them.
3:155	God is Most-Forgiving, full of patience.
3:156	O you who have believed! do not be like those who disowned, and who say of their brothers, when they travel through the land or go off on an expedition: "Had they stayed with us, they would not have died, and would not have been killed" — so that God may make of it a bitter regret in their cores.
3:156	God gives life and causes death.
3:156	God sees perfectly what you do.
3:157	And if you are killed in the way of God, or if you die, a forgiveness from God and a benevolence are indeed better than what they amass.
3:158	And whether you die, or are killed, it is to God that you will be gathered.
3:159	It is by a benevolence from God that you have been gentle toward them;
3:159	and had you been harsh, hard of core, they would certainly have scattered away from you.
3:159	So efface [their fault], ask forgiveness for them, and consult them on the matter;
3:159	and once your decision is made, rely upon God.
3:159	God loves those who rely [upon Him].
3:160	If God helps you, none can overcome you;
3:160	and if He abandons you, who then could help you after Him?
3:160	And it is upon God that the believers should rely.
3:161	It is not for a prophet to commit an embezzlement;
3:161	and whoever commits an embezzlement will come, on the Day of Appearance, with what he embezzled,
3:161	then every Self will be fully repaid for what it has earned, without being wronged.
3:162	Is he who follows the good pleasure of God, then, like him who incurs the anger of God, and whose refuge will be Jahannam?
3:162	And what an evil destination!
3:163	They have degrees with God.
3:163	God sees perfectly what they do.
3:164	God has indeed blessed the believers, by raising up among them a messenger, from among themselves, who recites His signs to them, purifies them, and teaches them the Scripture and the wisdom, though before they were in manifest error.
3:165	How then, when misfortune strikes you, after you had inflicted double that, do you say: "From where, then, does this come?"
3:165	Say: "This comes from yourselves."
3:165	God is capable of all things.
3:167	And what befell you, on the day the two forces met, was with God's permission, and so that He might know the believers, and know those who practiced hypocrisy,
3:167	and so that it might be said to them: "Come, fight in the way of God, or repel [the enemy]";
3:167	they said: "If we knew how to fight, we would certainly have followed you."
3:167	That day, they were closer to disowning than to faith,
3:167	saying with their mouths what was not in their cores.
3:167	God knows best what they hide.
3:168	Those who, having stayed seated, said of their brothers: "Had they obeyed us, they would not have been killed."
3:168	Say: "Ward off death from yourselves, then, if you are truthful."
3:169	And never think that those who have been killed in the way of God are dead.
3:170	No, they are alive, with their Guardian, provided [with blessings], rejoicing in what God has given them of His favor, and rejoicing for those who, remaining behind them, have not yet joined them: no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.
3:172	They rejoice in a blessing from God and a favor, and [in the fact] that God does not let the reward of the believers be lost, those who responded to God and to the messenger after the wound had struck them.
3:172	To those among them who did good and guarded themselves belongs an immense reward.
3:173	Those to whom the people said: "The people have gathered against you, so fear them" — that increased their faith.
3:173	And they said: "God suffices us; what an excellent trustee!"
3:174	They returned then with a blessing from God and a favor, without any evil having touched them, and they followed the good pleasure of God.
3:174	God holds an immense favor.
3:175	It is only that Diverter who frightens his allies; do not fear them, then,
3:175	but fear Me, if you are believers.
3:176	And let not those grieve you who hasten into disowning:
3:176	they will not harm God at all.
3:176	God wants to give them no share in the last life,
3:176	and they will have an immense punishment.
3:177	Those who buy disowning at the price of faith will not harm God at all, and they will have a painful punishment.
3:178	And let not those who disown by any means think that the delay We grant them is a good for themselves:
3:178	We grant it to them only so that they may increase in transgression,
3:178	and they will have a humiliating punishment.
3:179	It is not for God to leave the believers in the state you are in, without distinguishing the vile from the good,
3:179	and it is not in God's nature to unveil to you what escapes the senses,
3:179	but God chooses, among His messengers, whom He wills.
3:179	So believe in God and in His messengers;
3:179	and if you believe and guard yourselves, you will have an immense reward.
3:180	And let not those who are stingy with what God has given them of His favor by any means think that it is a good for them;
3:180	it is rather an evil for them.
3:180	They will be encircled by what they were stingy with, on the Day of Appearance.
3:180	And to God belongs the inheritance of the heavens and the earth.
3:180	God is Informed of what you do.
3:181	God has indeed heard the saying of those who said: "God is poor, and we are rich."
3:181	We will record what they said, and their killing of the prophets without right, and We will say: "Taste the punishment of the burning blaze.
3:182	That is for what your hands have prepared"; and God is not at all unjust toward the constrained [under compulsion].
3:183	Those who said: "God has bound us not to give credit to any messenger, until he brings us an offering that the fire consumes",
3:183	say: "Messengers before me indeed came to you with clear proofs, and with what you said; why then did you kill them, if you are truthful?"
3:184	If they deny you, messengers have already been denied before you, who had come with clear proofs, the Formularies, and the luminous Scripture.
3:185	Every Self will taste death,
3:185	and it is only on the Day of Appearance that you will be fully repaid your rewards.
3:185	Whoever is drawn away from the Fire and admitted into the Garden has thus triumphed.
3:185	And the present life is nothing but a deceptive enjoyment.
3:186	You will certainly be tested in your goods and in your Selves, and you will certainly hear, from those to whom the Scripture was given before you, and from those who have associated, much harm.
3:186	But if you are patient and guard yourselves, that is part of the firmness of resolutions.
3:187	And remember when God took the solemn engagement of those to whom the Scripture was given: "You will certainly make it clear to mankind, and you will not hide it"; but they cast it behind their backs, and sold it for a small price.
3:187	How evil is what they buy!
3:188	Do not by any means think that those who rejoice in what they have done, and love to be praised for what they did not do — do not by any means think that they will escape the punishment.
3:188	They will have a painful punishment.
3:189	And to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.
3:189	God is capable of all things.
3:191	There are indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, signs for the possessors of intelligence, those who remember God, standing, sitting, or lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth:
3:191	"Our Guardian, You did not create this in vain. Glory be to You!
3:191	Preserve us, then, from the punishment of the Fire.
3:192	Our Guardian, whoever You admit into the Fire, You have indeed covered him with disgrace,
3:192	and the unjust have no helpers.
3:193	Our Guardian, we have heard a herald calling to faith: Believe in your Guardian — and we have believed.
3:193	Our Guardian, forgive us, then, our offenses, cover for us our evil deeds, and take us back to You with the virtuous.
3:194	Our Guardian, and grant us what You promised us through Your messengers, and do not cover us with disgrace on the Day of Appearance:
3:194	You never fail Your promise."
3:195	Their Guardian answered them, then: "I never let the deed of one of you who acts be lost, male or female —
3:195	you are of one another.
3:195	Those who have emigrated, been expelled from their dwellings, been persecuted on My way, fought, and been killed, I will certainly cover their evil deeds, and I will certainly admit them into gardens beneath which rivers flow" — a requital from God.
3:195	And it is with God that the best requital is found.
3:196	Let not the free movement of those who disown through the land deceive you.
3:197	It is an enjoyment of little worth,
3:197	then their refuge will be Jahannam,
3:197	and what an evil bed!
3:198	But those who have guarded themselves toward their Guardian will have gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, as a welcome from God.
3:198	And what is with God is better for the virtuous.
3:199	And among the people of the Scripture, there are indeed some who believe in God, in what has been revealed to you, and in what was revealed to them, humble toward God,
3:199	not selling the signs of God for a small price.
3:199	Those are the ones whose reward is found with their Guardian.
3:199	God is swift in reckoning.
3:200	O you who have believed! be patient, surpass [others] in patience, stand ready with firmness, and guard yourselves toward God, perhaps you will succeed.

Sura 4 — Reduced to Weakness (An-Nisa)

4:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O mankind! guard yourselves toward your Guardian, who created you from a single Self, and created from it its spouse, and spread, from the two of them, many men and women.
4:1	And guard yourselves toward God, in whose name you appeal to one another, and [respect] the ties of kinship.
4:1	God is indeed, over you, an Observer.
4:2	And give the orphans their goods,
4:2	and do not substitute the vile for the good,
4:2	and do not devour their goods with yours:
4:2	that is indeed a grave offense.
4:3	And if you fear not being equitable toward the orphans, marry then those women who are agreeable to you, two, three, or four;
4:3	and if you fear not being just, then only one, or those to whom you are bound by oath.
4:3	That is closest to sparing you from being overburdened by the weight of a family (too large to bear).
4:4	And give women their dowries, as an attribution of full right.
4:4	Then, if they willingly release any of it to you, consume it
4:4	pleasantly and wholesomely.
4:5	And do not entrust to the foolish your goods, which God has made a support for you;
4:5	but feed them from it, clothe them, and speak to them a recognized word.
4:6	And test the orphans until they reach the age of marriage; if you then discern in them a rectitude of judgment, hand over to them their goods, and do not devour them wastefully and hastily, before they grow up.
4:6	And whoever is rich, let him abstain;
4:6	and whoever is poor, let him eat from it reasonably.
4:6	And when you hand over their goods to them, take witnesses regarding them.
4:6	God suffices as an accountant.
4:7	To men belongs a share of what the two parents and relatives leave, and to women belongs a share of what the two parents and relatives leave, whether little or much —
4:7	a mandatory share.
4:8	And when the possessors of kinship ties, the orphans, and the destitute are present at the division, assign them a share from it,
4:8	and speak to them a recognized word.
4:9	And let those fear [doing wrong] who, if they left behind them a vulnerable offspring, would fear for it:
4:9	let them, then, guard themselves toward God, and speak a straightforward word.
4:10	Those who devour the goods of orphans unjustly are only swallowing fire into their bellies,
4:10	and they will burn in an inferno.
4:11	God instructs you, concerning your children:
4:11	to the male, the equivalent of the share of two females.
4:11	But if there are more than two women, two-thirds of what is left belongs to them;
4:11	and if she is alone, half belongs to her.
4:11	And to his two parents, to each of them, a sixth of what he leaves, if he has a child;
4:11	but if he has no child, and his parents inherit from him, to his mother belongs a third.
4:11	If he has siblings, to his mother belongs a sixth,
4:11	after [the execution of] a testament he may have made, or a debt.
4:11	Your parents and your children — you do not know which of them are closer to you in benefit:
4:11	it is an obligation from God.
4:11	God is indeed All-Knowing, Wise.
4:12	And to you belongs half of what your wives leave, if they have no child;
4:12	but if they have a child, to you belongs a quarter of what they leave, after [the execution of] a testament they may have made, or a debt.
4:12	And to them belongs a quarter of what you leave, if you have no child;
4:12	but if you have a child, to them belongs an eighth of what you leave, after [the execution of] a testament you may have made, or a debt.
4:12	And if a man whose inheritance passes in the absence of any ascendant or descendant, or a woman in the same case, has a brother or a sister, to each of them belongs a sixth;
4:12	but if they are more numerous than that, they share in the third, after [the execution of] a testament that may have been made, or a debt, without harm [to the heirs].
4:12	It is a recommendation from God.
4:12	God is All-Knowing, full of patience.
4:13	Those are the limits of God.
4:13	And whoever obeys God and His messenger, He admits him into gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein he will abide eternally.
4:13	That is the immense triumph.
4:14	And whoever disobeys God and His messenger, and crosses His limits, He admits him into a fire wherein he will abide eternally,
4:14	and he will have a humiliating punishment.
4:15	And those of your women who commit indecency, take against them the testimony of four among you;
4:15	and if they testify, then keep them within the household rather than casting them out, until death recalls them [to God], or God opens a way for them.
4:16	And the two among you who commit it, trouble them both with a reproach;
4:16	but if they turn back [to God] and reform, turn away from them:
4:16	God is indeed the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.
4:17	The repentance accepted by God concerns only those who do evil out of ignorance, then turn back [to Him] without delay:
4:17	those are the ones toward whom God turns with clemency.
4:17	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
4:18	And repentance is not accepted for those who commit evil deeds until, when death presents itself to one of them, he says: "I turn back [to God] now" — nor for those who die while disowning:
4:18	those are the ones for whom We have prepared a painful punishment.
4:19	O you who have believed! it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will,
4:19	and do not prevent them [from remarrying] so as to take back part of what you gave them, unless they commit a manifest indecency.
4:19	And live with them according to what is recognized.
4:19	If you dislike them, it may be that you dislike a thing in which God places much good.
4:20	And if you want to replace one wife with another, and you have given one of them a treasure, take nothing of it back.
4:20	Would you take it back through slander and manifest transgression?
4:21	And how would you take it back, when one of you has already been intimately united with the other, and they took from you a solemn and firm engagement?
4:22	And do not marry those women whom your ancestors married, except what has already passed.
4:22	It was an indecency and an abomination,
4:22	and what an evil path!
4:23	Forbidden to you are: your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your paternal aunts, your maternal aunts, your brother's daughters, your sister's daughters,
4:23	your mothers who took you into their care, as well as your sisters through shared care,
4:23	the mothers of your wives, your stepdaughters under your care, from wives with whom you have consummated marriage —
4:23	but if you have not consummated marriage with them, no blame upon you —
4:23	the wives of your sons from your own loins,
4:23	and to unite two sisters, except what has already passed.
4:23	God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
4:24	And the women protected by the marital bond, except those to whom you are bound by oath —
4:24	it is God's Code that binds you.
4:24	And made lawful to you are all beyond these categories, whom you seek with your goods, as men who commit to the marital bond, not in debauchery.
4:24	And for what you have enjoyed with them, give them their rewards, as a fixed obligation.
4:24	And no blame upon you for what you mutually agree upon, beyond the fixed obligation.
4:24	God is indeed All-Knowing, Wise.
4:25	And whoever among you lacks the means to marry believing protected women, [let him marry] then one of your believing young women bound by oath.
4:25	God knows best your faith;
4:25	You are of one another.
4:25	Marry them, then, with the permission of their family,
4:25	and give them their rewards according to what is recognized, as protected women, not as promiscuous ones nor as takers of secret lovers.
4:25	And once protected, if they commit an indecency, they incur half the punishment of women protected by the marital bond.
4:25	That, for whoever among you fears falling into [moral] hardship;
4:25	but to be patient is better for you.
4:25	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
4:26	God wants to make things clear to you, to guide you according to the ways of those who preceded you, and to turn toward you with clemency.
4:26	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
4:27	God wants to turn toward you with clemency,
4:27	while those who follow their desires want you to deviate greatly.
4:28	God wants to lighten [the burden] for you,
4:28	for the human being was created weak.
4:29	O you who have believed! do not devour your goods among yourselves through falsehood,
4:29	unless it is a trade concluded with your mutual consent.
4:29	And do not kill yourselves:
4:29	God is indeed, toward you, Benevolent.
4:30	And whoever does that out of hostility and injustice, We will burn him in a fire.
4:30	And that is, for God, an easy thing.
4:31	If you avoid the grave offenses which are forbidden to you, We will cover your evil deeds, and We will admit you into a noble entrance.
4:32	And do not covet that by which God has favored some of you above others.
4:32	To men a share of what they have earned,
4:32	and to women a share of what they have earned.
4:32	And ask God for His favor.
4:32	God is indeed All-Knowing of all things.
4:33	And to each, We have assigned heirs for what are left
4:33	by the two parents and the relatives.
4:33	And those with whom your oaths have bound you, give them their share.
4:33	God is indeed, over all things, a witness.
4:34	Men bear the executive, protective, and financial charge of the household toward women, by reason of the advantage God has granted some over others, and of what they spend from their goods.
4:34	Righteous women are devoted, guardians of what escapes the presence [of others], by reason of what God has preserved.
4:34	And those whose unilateral breach [of the marital pact] you fear, admonish them, withdraw from them in the beds, then multiply them [the marital structure, by taking another wife];
4:34	then, if they obey you, seek no further way against them.
4:34	God is indeed Most High, Great.
4:35	And if you fear a rupture between the two, send then an arbiter from his family, and an arbiter from her family; if they both want reconciliation, God will bring them into accord.
4:35	God is indeed All-Knowing, Informed.
4:36	And obey God,
4:36	and associate nothing with Him,
4:36	and beneficence toward the two parents, relatives, orphans, the destitute, the near neighbor, the distant neighbor, the companion at your side, the stranded traveler, and those to whom you are bound by oath.
4:36	God does not love him who is vain, full of boastfulness.
4:37	Those who are stingy, enjoin stinginess upon people, and hide what God has given them of His favor —
4:37	We have prepared, for those who disown, a humiliating punishment.
4:38	And those who spend their goods for show before people, and believe neither in God nor in the Last Day —
4:38	whoever has the Diverter as a companion, what an evil companion!
4:39	And what would they have to lose, if they believed in God and the Last Day, and spent from what God provided them as sustenance?
4:39	God knows them perfectly.
4:40	God does no injustice, even the weight of a grain.
4:40	And if it is a good deed, He doubles it, and grants, from Himself, an immense reward.
4:41	How then, when We bring, from every community, a witness, and We bring you as a witness against these?
4:42	On that day, those who disowned and disobeyed the messenger would wish that the earth were leveled over them, and they will not be able to hide anything from God.
4:43	O you who have believed! do not approach the Contact while intoxicated, until you know what you are saying, nor [after] having soiled yourselves [relieving a need] — except when passing along a way — until you have washed yourselves.
4:43	And if you are sick, or on a journey, or one of you has come from relieving himself, or you have known a woman in intimacy, and you find no water, then resort to clean earth, and wipe your faces and your hands with it.
4:43	God is indeed Ever-Effacing, Most-Forgiving.
4:44	Have you not seen those to whom a share of the Scripture was given, buying error and wanting you to stray from the path?
4:45	God knows best your enemies.
4:45	God suffices as a protector, and God suffices as a helper.
4:46	Among the Reoriented, there are some who displace words from their context, and say: "We have heard and disobeyed", and: "Listen, without being made to hear", and: "Ra'ina", twisting their tongues and casting aspersion on the Law.
4:46	And had they said: "We have heard and obeyed", and: "Listen", and: "Look at us", it would have been better for them, and more upright;
4:46	but God cursed them for their disowning, and they believe only a little.
4:47	O you to whom the Scripture was given! believe in what We have sent down, confirming what is with you, before We efface faces, turning them backward, or curse them as We cursed those of the sabt [the act of rest/inaction].
4:47	And the command of God is always fulfilled.
4:48	God does not forgive that anything be associated with Him,
4:48	but He forgives, besides that, whom He wills.
4:48	And whoever associates with God invents an immense transgression.
4:49	Have you not seen those who declare themselves pure?
4:49	God, rather, purifies whom He wills,
4:49	and they will not be wronged by a thread.
4:50	Look how they invent the lie against God: that suffices as a manifest transgression.
4:51	Have you not seen those to whom a share of the Scripture was given, believing in the Idol and the Tyrant, and saying of those who disown: "These are better guided, in path, than those who have believed"?
4:52	Those are the ones God has cursed;
4:52	and whoever God curses, you will find for him no helper.
4:53	Or do they have a share of the dominion? They would then not give people even the groove of a date-stone.
4:54	Or do they envy people for what God has given them of His favor?
4:54	We have indeed given the family of Ibrahim the Scripture and the wisdom, and We gave them an immense dominion.
4:55	Among them, there are some who believed in it, and some who turned away from it.
4:55	Jahannam suffices as an inferno.
4:56	Those who disowned Our signs, We will burn them in a fire.
4:56	Every time their skins are consumed, We will replace them with other skins, so that they may taste the punishment.
4:56	God is indeed All-Powerful, Wise.
4:57	And those who have believed and done righteous deeds, We will admit them into gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, forever.
4:57	They will have therein purified spouses,
4:57	and We will admit them into an extended shade.
4:58	God orders you to restore trusts to their rightful owners, and, when you judge between people, to judge with justice.
4:58	How excellent is that to which God exhorts you!
4:58	God is indeed the All-Hearing, the One who sees perfectly.
4:59	O you who have believed! obey God, obey the messenger, and those among you who hold authority.
4:59	And if you disagree about something, refer it to God and to the messenger, if you believe in God and the Last Day.
4:59	That is better, and of finer interpretation.
4:60	Have you not seen those who claim to have believed in what has been revealed to you and in what was revealed before you, and who want to bring their dispute before the Tyrant, though they have been ordered to disown it?
4:60	The Diverter wants to lead them far astray.
4:61	And when it is said to them: "Come to what God has sent down, and to the messenger", you see the hypocrites turn away from you, resolutely.
4:62	How then, when misfortune strikes them for what their hands have prepared, do they then come to you, swearing by God: "We wanted only good and reconciliation"?
4:63	Those are the ones whose cores God knows; turn away from them, then, admonish them, and speak to them, concerning themselves, a penetrating word.
4:64	And We sent no messenger except that he be obeyed, with God's permission.
4:64	And had they come to you, after having wronged themselves, to ask God's forgiveness, and had the messenger asked forgiveness for them, they would certainly have found God the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.
4:65	But no, by your Guardian! they will not believe until they have taken you as judge of their disputes, and no longer find, within themselves, any hardship over what you have decided, and accept it with complete integrity.
4:66	And had We prescribed for them: "Kill yourselves", or: "Leave your dwellings", they would not have done it, except a small number of them.
4:66	And had they done what they were exhorted to do, it would have been better for them, and more strengthening;
4:67	and We would then certainly have given them, from Ourselves, an immense reward,
4:68	and We would certainly have guided them along a straight path.
4:69	And whoever obeys God and the messenger, those will be with those God has blessed, among the prophets, the men of truth, the witnesses, and the righteous.
4:69	And what an excellent company that is!
4:70	That is the favor from God,
4:70	and God suffices as All-Knowing.
4:71	O you who have believed! take your precautions, and mobilize in detachments, or mobilize all together.
4:72	And there is indeed among you one who deliberately lags behind;
4:72	and if misfortune strikes you, he says: "God has blessed me, since I was not present with them."
4:73	But if a favor from God reaches you, he will certainly say, as if there had been no affection between you and him: "Would that I had been with them, I would then have attained an immense triumph!"
4:74	So let those fight in the way of God who sell the present life for the last life.
4:74	And whoever fights in the way of God, and is killed or prevails, We will give him an immense reward.
4:75	And what is with you that you should not fight in the way of God, and for the men, women, and children reduced to weakness, who say: "Our Guardian, bring us out of this city whose people are unjust, and give us, from Yourself, a protector, and give us, from Yourself, a helper"?
4:76	Those who have believed fight in the way of God,
4:76	and those who disown fight in the way of the Tyrant.
4:76	So fight the allies of the Diverter:
4:76	the scheming of the Diverter is indeed weak.
4:77	Have you not seen those to whom it was said: "Hold back your hands, maintain the Contact, and give the purifying alms"?
4:77	Then, when combat was prescribed for them, there a group among them dread people as one dreads God, or with an even keener dread,
4:77	and they say: "Our Guardian, why have You prescribed combat for us? Why did You not grant us a delay until a near term!"
4:77	Say: "The enjoyment of the present life is little,
4:77	and the last life is better for whoever guards himself,
4:77	and you will not be wronged by a thread."
4:78	Wherever you are, death will reach you, even were you in impregnable towers.
4:78	And if good befalls them, they say: "This is from God";
4:78	and if evil befalls them, they say: "This is from you."
4:78	Say: "All comes from God."
4:78	What is with these people that they scarcely understand a discourse?
4:79	What reaches you of good comes from God,
4:79	and what reaches you of evil comes from yourself.
4:79	And We sent you to mankind as a messenger.
4:79	God suffices as a witness.
4:80	Whoever obeys the messenger indeed obeys God,
4:80	and whoever turns away — We have not sent you as a guardian over them.
4:81	And they say: "Obedience",
4:81	but when they leave you, a group among them schemes by night something quite different from what they say.
4:81	God records what they scheme by night.
4:81	Turn away from them, then, and rely upon God.
4:81	God suffices as a trustee.
4:82	Do they not then reflect on this Recitation?
4:82	Had it come from other than God, they would have found in it much divergence.
4:83	And when news reaches them, reassuring or alarming, they spread it;
4:83	but had they referred it to the messenger and to those among them who hold authority, those among them who seek to draw out its substance would have known it.
4:83	And without God's favor upon you and His benevolence, you would certainly have followed the Diverter, except a few.
4:84	So fight in the way of God:
4:84	you are charged only with yourself.
4:84	And incite the believers [to combat].
4:84	It may be that God will restrain the violence of those who disown.
4:84	God is more formidable in rigor, and more formidable in exemplary punishment.
4:85	Whoever intercedes with a good intercession will have a share of it;
4:85	and whoever intercedes with an evil intercession will bear a share of responsibility for it.
4:85	God is, over all things, a guarantor.
4:86	And when you are greeted with a greeting, greet with a better greeting, or simply return it.
4:86	God is indeed, over all things, an accountant.
4:87	God, there is no deity but Him.
4:87	He will certainly gather you on the Day of Appearance, no doubt possible.
4:87	And who is more truthful than God in speech?
4:88	What is with you, then, concerning the hypocrites, that you form two groups, when God has cast them back for what they have earned?
4:88	Do you want to guide him whom God has led astray?
4:88	And whoever God leads astray, you will find for him no path.
4:89	They would like you to disown as they disowned, so that you might be equal;
4:89	so do not take, among them, allies, until they emigrate in the way of God.
4:90	If they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take, among them, neither ally nor helper — except those who join a people between whom and you there is a solemn engagement, or who come to you
4:90	with their hearts constrained at the thought of fighting you, or fighting their own people.
4:90	And had God willed, He would have given them power over you, and they would have fought you.
4:90	If they keep away from you, do not fight you, and offer you peace, then God grants you no way against them.
4:91	You will find others who want to be secure with you and secure with their own people; every time they are brought back to the trial, they plunge back into it.
4:91	If they do not keep away from you, do not offer you peace, and do not restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you encounter them.
4:91	Those are the ones against whom We give you manifest authority.
4:92	And it is not for a believer to kill a believer,
4:92	except by mistake.
4:92	And whoever kills a believer by mistake must free a believing person from the burden of a debt, as well as a compensation delivered to his family, unless they forgo it as charity.
4:92	And if the slain belonged to a people hostile to you, while being a believer, then the freeing of a believing person from the burden of a debt.
4:92	And if he belonged to a people between whom and you there is a solemn engagement, then a compensation delivered to his family, and the freeing of a believing person from the burden of a debt.
4:92	And whoever does not find the means, then an abstention of two consecutive months, as a [accepted] return toward God.
4:92	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
4:93	And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Jahannam, wherein he will abide eternally; God is angered against him, has cursed him, and has prepared for him an immense punishment.
4:94	O you who have believed! when you advance in the way of God, distinguish clearly,
4:94	and do not say to one who offers you peace: "You are not a believer", coveting the fleeting goods of the present life; but, with God, there are abundant spoils.
4:94	Thus were you before, and God blessed you.
4:94	So distinguish clearly.
4:94	God is indeed Informed of what you do.
4:95	Not equal are those of the believers who remain seated, apart from those with disabilities, and those who strive in the way of God with their goods and their Selves.
4:95	God has favored those who strive with their goods and their Selves, in degree, above those who remain seated.
4:95	And to all, God has promised the best;
4:96	and God has favored those who strive, above those who remain seated, with an immense reward — degrees from Him, and forgiveness, and benevolence;
4:96	and God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
4:97	Those whom the Agents take back [to God] while they are unjust toward themselves — [the Agents] say: "In what situation were you?"
4:97	They say: "We were reduced to weakness on the earth."
4:97	They say: "Was God's earth not vast enough for you to emigrate in it?"
4:98	Those are the ones whose refuge will be Jahannam; and what an evil destination! — except the men, women, and children reduced to weakness, who have neither the means to scheme, nor to find a way.
4:99	Those, it may be that God will efface them [of their fault].
4:99	God is Ever-Effacing, Most-Forgiving.
4:100	And whoever emigrates in the way of God will find, on the earth, an ample refuge and abundance.
4:100	And whoever leaves his dwelling, emigrating toward God and His messenger, and is then overtaken by death, his reward is henceforth incumbent upon God.
4:100	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
4:101	And when you travel through the land, no blame upon you for shortening the Contact, if you fear that those who disown may try you.
4:101	Those who disown are indeed, for you, a manifest enemy.
4:102	And when you are among them, and you lead the Contact for them, let a group of them stand with you, and let them take their arms.
4:102	Then, when they have prostrated, let them pass behind you,
4:102	and let another group, who has not yet made contact, come to make contact with you, taking their precautions and their arms.
4:102	Those who disown would like you to neglect your arms and your equipment, so as to swoop down upon you in a single rush.
4:102	And no blame upon you, if you are hindered by rain or are sick, for laying down your arms;
4:102	but take your precautions.
4:102	God has indeed prepared, for those who disown, a humiliating punishment.
4:103	And when you have completed the Contact, remember God, standing, sitting, or lying on your sides.
4:103	Then, once at ease, maintain the Contact.
4:103	The Contact is indeed, for the believers, a prescription at fixed times.
4:104	And do not weaken in the pursuit of that people.
4:104	If you suffer, they suffer as you suffer; but you hope from God what they do not hope.
4:104	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
4:105	We have sent down to you the Scripture in truth, so that you may judge between people according to what God has shown you.
4:105	And do not be, for the treacherous, a defender.
4:106	And ask God's forgiveness.
4:106	God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
4:107	And do not argue in favor of those who betray themselves.
4:107	God does not love him who is treacherous, transgressive.
4:108	They hide from people, but cannot hide from God: He is with them, when they scheme by night words He does not approve.
4:108	God encompasses perfectly what they do.
4:109	So here you are, who pleaded for them in the present life; but who will plead for them, before God, on the Day of Appearance? Or who will be, for them, a trustee?
4:110	And whoever commits an evil, or wrongs his own Self, then asks God's forgiveness, finds God Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
4:111	And whoever acquires a transgression acquires it only against his own Self.
4:111	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
4:112	And whoever acquires a fault or a transgression, then accuses an innocent person of it, burdens himself with a slander and a manifest transgression.
4:113	And without God's favor upon you and His benevolence, a group among them would have resolved to lead you astray;
4:113	but they lead astray none but themselves, and they cannot harm you at all.
4:113	God has sent down upon you the Scripture and the wisdom, and taught you what you did not know.
4:113	The favor of God upon you is immense.
4:114	There is no good in most of their private conferences, except for one who orders an alms, or a righteous deed, or a reconciliation between people.
4:114	And whoever does that seeking the good pleasure of God, We will give him an immense reward.
4:115	And whoever opposes the messenger, after guidance has become clear to him, and follows a path other than that of the believers, We will leave him to what he has turned to, and We will burn him in Jahannam.
4:115	And what an evil destination!
4:116	God does not forgive that anything be associated with Him,
4:116	but He forgives, besides that, whom He wills.
4:116	And whoever associates with God strays far astray.
4:118	They invoke, besides Him, only [feminine] deities, and they invoke only a rebellious Diverter, whom God has cursed,
4:119	who said: "I will certainly take, among Your obedient ones, a determined portion; I will certainly lead them astray, I will certainly give them vain hopes, I will certainly order them to slit the ears of cattle, and I will certainly order them to alter God's creation."
4:119	And whoever takes the Diverter as an ally, besides God, has indeed suffered a manifest loss.
4:120	He makes them promises and gives them vain hopes,
4:120	and the Diverter promises them only deception.
4:121	Those are the ones whose refuge will be Jahannam,
4:121	and they will find no escape from it.
4:122	And those who have believed and done righteous deeds, We will admit them into gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, forever.
4:122	A promise of God, in truth.
4:122	And who is more truthful than God in speech?
4:123	It does not depend on your wishes, nor on the wishes of the people of the Scripture.
4:123	Whoever commits an evil will be recompensed for it, and will find, besides God, neither protector nor helper.
4:124	And whoever does righteous deeds, male or female, while being a believer, those will enter the Garden, and will not be wronged in anything.
4:125	And who has a better Law than one who has made his direction true to God alone, while doing good, and followed the doctrine of Ibrahim, wholly turned toward God?
4:125	And God took Ibrahim as an intimate friend.
4:126	And to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
4:126	God encompasses, of all things, perfectly.
4:127	And they consult you concerning women.
4:127	Say: "God instructs you concerning them, as well as what is recited to you in the Scripture concerning the orphan girls to whom you do not give what is prescribed for them, while desiring to marry them, and the children reduced to weakness, and [He orders you] to conduct yourselves with the orphans in complete equity.
4:127	And whatever good you do, God knows it perfectly."
4:128	And if a woman fears from her husband persistent hostility or disinterest, no blame upon them to reconcile through an agreement;
4:128	and reconciliation is better.
4:128	The Selves are inclined to stinginess;
4:128	but if you act with kindness and guard yourselves, God is indeed Informed of what you do.
4:129	And you will never be able to be just between women, even if you are keen on it;
4:129	so do not incline entirely [to one side], to the point of leaving the other as if suspended.
4:129	And if you reconcile and guard yourselves, God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
4:130	And if they separate, God will enrich each of them from His abundance.
4:130	God is Vast, Wise.
4:131	And to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
4:131	And We have indeed recommended to those to whom the Scripture was given before you, and to yourselves, to guard yourselves toward God.
4:131	And if you disown, to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
4:131	God is self-sufficient, worthy of praise.
4:132	And to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
4:132	God suffices as a trustee.
4:133	If He wills, He makes you disappear, O mankind, and brings others in your place.
4:133	God is capable of that.
4:134	Whoever wants the requital of the present life — with God is the requital of the present life and of the last life.
4:134	God is the All-Hearing, the One who sees perfectly.
4:135	O you who have believed! be firm supporters in equity, witnesses for God, even against yourselves, or your parents, or your relatives.
4:135	Whether he be rich or poor, God is closer to them both than you; so do not follow emotion, to the point of no longer being just.
4:135	And if you distort or turn away, God is indeed Informed of what you do.
4:136	O you who have believed! believe in God, in His messenger, in the Scripture He sent down upon His messenger, and in the Scripture He sent down before.
4:136	And whoever disowns God, His Agents, His scriptures, His messengers, and the Last Day strays far astray.
4:137	Those who have believed, then disowned, then believed, then disowned, then increased in disowning — it is not for God to forgive them, nor to guide them to a path.
4:139	Announce to the hypocrites that they will have a painful punishment — those who take those who disown as allies, besides the believers.
4:139	Do they seek power with them? Power belongs to God in its entirety.
4:140	And He has already sent down to you, in the Scripture, [this]: when you hear the signs of God being disowned and mocked, do not remain seated with them, until they move on to another subject;
4:140	you would then be like them.
4:141	God will certainly gather the hypocrites and those who disown, all together, in Jahannam — those who watch [what happens to you]: if a victory comes to you from God, they say: "Were we not with you?" and if a share falls to those who disown, they say: "Did we not overpower you, and did we not protect you against the believers?"
4:141	God will judge between you, on the Day of Appearance;
4:141	and God will never grant those who disown a way over the believers.
4:142	The hypocrites seek to deceive God, and it is He who deceives them [in return].
4:143	And when they rise for the Contact, they rise lazily, making a show of themselves to people, and remember God only a little, wavering between the two, neither on one side nor the other.
4:143	And whoever God leads astray, you will find for him no path.
4:144	O you who have believed! do not take those who disown as allies, besides the believers.
4:144	Would you give God manifest authority against you?
4:145	The hypocrites are indeed in the lowest stratum of the Fire, and you will never find for them a helper —
4:146	except those who turn back [to God], reform, hold firmly to God, and devote their Law sincerely to God: those are the ones who are with the believers,
4:146	and God will soon give the believers an immense reward.
4:147	What would God do with your punishment, if you are grateful and believing?
4:147	God is Grateful, All-Knowing.
4:148	God does not love the public disclosure of evil in speech, except from one who has been wronged.
4:148	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
4:149	Whether you disclose a good, or hide it, or efface an evil, God is indeed Ever-Effacing, All-Powerful.
4:151	Those who disown God and His messengers, and want to separate God from His messengers, saying: "We believe in part, and we disown part", wanting to carve out a path between the two — those are the true disowners.
4:151	We have prepared, for those who disown, a humiliating punishment.
4:152	And those who have believed in God and His messengers, and have made no distinction between any of them, to those He will soon give their rewards.
4:152	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
4:153	The people of the Scripture ask you to send down upon them a scripture from the sky.
4:153	They indeed asked Moussa something greater than that, saying: "Show us God openly"; the thunderbolt then seized them for their injustice.
4:153	Then they took the calf [as a deity], after the clear proofs had come to them; but We effaced that,
4:153	and We gave Moussa manifest authority.
4:154	And We raised above them the Mount, by virtue of their solemn engagement,
4:154	and We said to them: "Enter by the gate, prostrate",
4:154	and We said to them: "Do not cross the limits of the sabt [the act of rest/inaction]",
4:154	and We took from them a solemn and firm engagement.
4:157	It is for having violated their solemn engagement, disowned the signs of God, killed the prophets without right, and said: "Our cores are wrapped up" — no, it is God who sealed their cores for their disowning, so that they believe only a little — and for their disowning, and their imputation against Maryam of an immense slander, and for having said: "We killed Al-Massih, Issa, son of Maryam, the messenger of God",
4:157	when they did not kill him and did not crucify him, but a likeness was given to them.
4:157	And those who differ about it are indeed in doubt concerning it.
4:157	They have no knowledge of it,
4:157	except following a conjecture.
4:157	And they certainly did not kill him.
4:158	God, rather, raised him to Himself.
4:158	God is indeed All-Powerful, Wise.
4:159	And there is none among the people of the Scripture who will not certainly believe in him before his death; and on the Day of Appearance, he will be a witness against them.
4:161	It is for the injustice of the Reoriented that We forbade them good things that had been made lawful for them, and for having greatly turned away from the path of God, and for having practiced usury, though they had been forbidden it, and devoured the goods of people through falsehood.
4:161	We have prepared, for those among them who disown, a painful punishment.
4:162	But those among them who are firmly rooted in knowledge, and the believers, believe in what has been revealed to you and in what was revealed before you, as well as those who maintain the Contact,
4:162	those who give the purifying alms, and those who believe in God and the Last Day — those are the ones to whom We will soon give an immense reward.
4:163	We have indeed revealed to you, as We revealed to Nuh and the prophets after him,
4:163	and We revealed to Ibrahim, Isma'il, Ishaq, Yaacoub, the tribes, Issa, Ayyub, Younes, Harun, and Sulayman;
4:163	and We gave Dawud a Formulary.
4:164	And [We sent] messengers of whom We have already related to you [the story], and messengers of whom We have not related [the story] to you;
4:164	and God spoke to Moussa with a [direct] word.
4:165	Messengers, bearers of good tidings and warners, so that people might have no argument against God after the messengers.
4:165	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
4:166	But God testifies to what He has sent down to you;
4:166	He sent it down with full knowledge, and the Agents bear witness to it.
4:166	And God suffices as a witness.
4:167	Those who disowned and turned away from the path of God have indeed strayed far astray.
4:169	Those who disowned and committed injustice — it is not in God's nature to forgive them, nor to guide them to a path, except the path of Jahannam, wherein they will abide eternally, forever.
4:169	And that is, for God, an easy thing.
4:170	O mankind! the messenger has indeed come to you with the truth, from your Guardian; believe, then, it is better for you.
4:170	And if you disown, to God belongs what is in the heavens and on the earth.
4:170	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
4:171	O people of the Scripture! do not exaggerate in your Law, and say about God nothing but the truth.
4:171	Al-Massih, Issa, son of Maryam, is only the messenger of God, and His word,
4:171	which He cast toward Maryam, and an Influx from Him.
4:171	So believe in God and His messengers,
4:171	and do not say: "Three".
4:171	Cease: that is better for you.
4:171	God is only one deity.
4:171	Glory be to Him! He is above having a child.
4:171	To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
4:171	God suffices as a trustee.
4:172	Al-Massih will never disdain to be obedient to God, nor will the Agents brought near.
4:172	And whoever disdains to obey Him, and is arrogant, He will soon gather them to Himself, all together.
4:173	As for those who have believed and done righteous deeds, He will pay them their rewards in full, and He will give them more of His favor;
4:173	and as for those who disdained and were arrogant, He will punish them with a painful punishment, and they will find, besides God, neither protector nor helper.
4:174	O mankind! a proof has indeed come to you from your Guardian, and We have sent down to you a manifest light.
4:175	As for those who have believed in God and held firmly to Him, He will soon admit them into a benevolence from Himself, and a favor, and He will guide them to Himself by a straight path.
4:176	They consult you.
4:176	Say: "God instructs you concerning the kalala [a person who dies without direct ascendant or descendant].
4:176	If a man dies without a child, but has a sister, to her belongs half of what he leaves;
4:176	and he inherits from her, if she has no child.
4:176	But if there are two [sisters], then to them belong two-thirds of what he leaves;
4:176	and if there are several, brothers and sisters, then to the male belongs a share equal to that of two females.
4:176	God explains this to you, so that you do not go astray.
4:176	and God is All-Knowing of all things.

Sura 5 — Keep Your Contracts (Al-Ma'ida)

5:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O you who have believed! keep your contracts.
5:1	Lawful for you are the beasts of cattle, except what is recited to you — without permitting yourselves the [land] hunt, during the inviolable months.
5:1	God decides what He wills.
5:2	O you who have believed! do not make licit the perceptible markers of God, nor the inviolable month, nor the voluntary offerings, nor the vow-bound offerings, nor those heading toward the Inviolable House, seeking a favor from their Guardian and a good pleasure.
5:2	And once these months have passed, hunt.
5:2	And let not the hatred of a people, for having turned you away from the inviolable place of prostration, drive you to aggression.
5:2	Help one another in virtue and guardedness,
5:2	and do not help one another in transgression and hostility.
5:2	Guard yourselves toward God:
5:2	God is severe in sanction.
5:3	Forbidden to you are: the dead animal, blood, the flesh of swine, that which has been consecrated to other than God, the strangled animal, the animal on the brink of death, the animal in a declining state from illness, the animal dead from a blow of the horn, and what a wild beast has devoured — except what you have purified by fire — as well as the animal slaughtered in common whose shares are then drawn by lot with arrows.
5:3	That is an overstepping.
5:3	Today, those who disown have lost hope of your Law;
5:3	so do not fear them, but fear Me.
5:3	Today, I have perfected for you your Law, I have completed My blessing upon you, and I have approved for you being true to God alone as your Law.
5:3	But whoever is compelled by hunger, without inclination to transgression — God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
5:4	They ask you: what is made lawful for them?
5:4	Say: "Lawful for you are the good things, as well as what you have taught your trained hunting animals, instructing them from what God has taught you.
5:4	So eat of what they catch for you, and mention the name of God over it.
5:4	And guard yourselves toward God:
5:4	God is swift in reckoning."
5:5	Today, the good things are made lawful for you. The food of those to whom the Scripture was given is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them. And the women protected by the marital bond among the believers, and the women protected by the marital bond among those to whom the Scripture was given before you, [are lawful for you] when you give them their rewards, as men who commit to the marital bond, not in debauchery nor as takers of secret lovers.
5:5	And whoever disowns the faith, his deed collapses, and he will be, in the last life, among the losers.
5:6	O you who have believed! when you rise for the Contact, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, and wipe your heads with wet hands,
5:6	and your feet up to the knees.
5:6	And if you have soiled yourselves [relieving a need], wash yourselves.
5:6	And if you are sick, or on a journey, or one of you has come from relieving himself, or you have known a woman in intimacy, and you find no water, then resort to clean earth, and wipe your faces and your hands with it.
5:6	God does not want to impose any hardship on you,
5:6	but He wants to purify you, and to complete His blessing upon you, perhaps you will be grateful.
5:7	And remember God's blessing upon you, and His solemn engagement, by which He bound you, when you said: "We have heard and we have obeyed."
5:7	And guard yourselves toward God:
5:7	God is certainly All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
5:8	O you who have believed! be firm supporters for God, bearing witness with equity,
5:8	and let not the hatred of a people drive you to not be just.
5:8	Be just: it is closer to guardedness.
5:8	And guard yourselves toward God:
5:8	God is Informed of what you do.
5:9	God has promised those who have believed and done righteous deeds: they will have a forgiveness and an immense reward.
5:10	And those who have disowned and denied Our signs — those are the companions of the Blaze.
5:11	O you who have believed! remember God's blessing upon you, when a people had resolved to lay hands on you, and He held their hands back from you.
5:11	And guard yourselves toward God:
5:11	it is upon God that the believers should rely.
5:12	God has indeed taken the solemn engagement of the Sons of Israel, and We raised up, among them, twelve leaders.
5:12	And God said: "I am with you.
5:12	If you maintain the Contact, give the purifying alms, believe in My messengers, support them, and make God a beautiful loan, I will certainly cover your evil deeds, and I will certainly admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow.
5:12	But whoever among you disowns after that has strayed from the straight path."
5:13	For having violated their solemn engagement, We cursed them and made their cores hard: they displace words from their context, and have forgotten a part of what they had been reminded of.
5:13	And you will not cease to discover among them a betrayal, except a small number of them.
5:13	So efface [their fault] and overlook:
5:13	God loves those who do good.
5:14	And among those who said: "We are the Helpers", We took their solemn engagement, but they forgot a part of what they had been reminded of; We then stirred up among them enmity and hatred, until the Day of Appearance;
5:14	and God will soon inform them of what they used to do.
5:15	O people of the Scripture! Our messenger has indeed come to you, making clear to you much of what you were hiding of the Scripture, and effacing much [else].
5:16	A light has indeed come to you from God, as well as a clear Scripture, by which God guides whoever follows His good pleasure toward the paths of peace,
5:16	and brings them out of the darknesses toward the light, with His permission,
5:16	and guides them to a straight path.
5:17	They have indeed disowned, those who said: "God, that is Al-Massih, son of Maryam."
5:17	Say: "Who then would hold any power against God, if He willed to annihilate Al-Massih, son of Maryam, and his mother, and all those on the earth?"
5:17	To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and of what is between them.
5:17	He creates what He wills.
5:17	God is capable of all things.
5:18	And the Reoriented and the Helpers said: "We are the sons of God and His beloved."
5:18	Say: "Why then does He punish you for your offenses?
5:18	You are rather humans, among those He created.
5:18	He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills."
5:18	To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and of what is between them,
5:18	and to Him is the destination.
5:19	O people of the Scripture! Our messenger has indeed come to you, making [the truth] clear after a break in messengers, lest you say: "No bearer of good tidings nor warner has come to us" — a bearer of good tidings and a warner has thus indeed come to you.
5:19	God is capable of all things.
5:20	And remember when Moussa said to his people: "O my people! remember God's blessing upon you, when He placed among you prophets, and made you kings,
5:20	and gave you what He gave to none other among all beings.
5:21	O my people! enter the sanctified land that God has destined for you,
5:21	and do not turn back, lest you be returned as losers."
5:22	They said: "O Moussa! there is there a people of tyrants,
5:22	and we will not enter it until they have left it;
5:22	if they leave it, then we will enter it."
5:23	Two men, among those who feared [God], to whom God had granted His blessing, said: "Enter upon them by the gate;
5:23	once you have entered it, you will certainly be the victors.
5:23	And it is upon God that you should rely, if you are believers."
5:24	They said: "O Moussa! we will never enter it, as long as they remain there; go, then, you and your Guardian, and fight, both of you; we, we will stay here, sitting."
5:25	He said: "My Guardian, I hold power only over my own Self
5:25	and my brother;
5:25	so separate us from the people of the oversteppers."
5:26	He said: "It is, then, forbidden to them, forever,
5:26	forty years, wandering on the earth.
5:26	So do not lament for the people of the oversteppers."
5:27	And recite to them, in truth, the information of the two sons of Adam, when each offered an offering: it was accepted from one, and was not accepted from the other.
5:27	The latter said: "I will certainly kill you."
5:27	The former said: "God accepts only from those who guard themselves.
5:28	If you stretch out your hand toward me to kill me, I will not stretch out my hand toward you to kill you;
5:28	I fear God, Guardian of all beings.
5:29	I want you to return burdened with my transgression and yours, and to be among the companions of the Fire:
5:29	that is the recompense of the unjust."
5:30	But his own Self disposed him to the murder of his brother; he killed him, and thus became among the losers.
5:31	God then sent a raven, which scratched the earth, to show him how to conceal his brother's nakedness.
5:32	He said: "Woe to me! am I unable to be like this raven, and to conceal my brother's nakedness?" And he then became among those who regret.
5:32	That is why We prescribed for the Sons of Israel that whoever kills a Self, without it being for [another] Self, or for corruption on the earth, it is as if he had killed all mankind together,
5:32	and whoever gives life to one [Self], it is as if he had given life to all mankind together.
5:32	Our messengers indeed came to them with clear proofs; then many of them, after that, are indeed excessive on the earth.
5:33	The only recompense of those who wage war against God and His messenger, and strive to sow corruption on the earth, is that they be massacred, or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or be banished from the earth.
5:33	That is for them a disgrace in the present life,
5:34	and they will have, in the last life, an immense punishment — except those who turn back [to God] before you have power over them; know then that God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
5:35	O you who have believed! guard yourselves toward God, seek toward Him the means [of nearness], and strive in His way, perhaps you will succeed.
5:36	Those who disown, were they to possess all that is on earth, and its equivalent with it, to ransom themselves from the punishment of the Day of Appearance, it would not be accepted from them,
5:36	and they will have a painful punishment.
5:37	They will want to leave the Fire, but they will not leave it,
5:37	and they will have a lasting punishment.
5:38	And as for the thief, male and female, stop their supports, as a recompense for what they have earned, as an exemplary punishment from God.
5:38	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
5:39	But whoever turns back [to God] after his injustice, and reforms, God turns toward him with clemency.
5:39	God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
5:40	Do you not know that to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth?
5:40	He punishes whom He wills, and He forgives whom He wills.
5:40	God is capable of all things.
5:41	O messenger! let not those grieve you who hasten into disowning, among those who say: "We have believed" with their mouths, without their cores having believed,
5:41	nor among the Reoriented, listeners to falsehood, listeners on behalf of another people who has not come to you.
5:41	They displace words from their context, saying: "If you are given this, take it; and if you are not given it, beware."
5:41	And whoever God wants to put to the trial, you hold nothing for him against God.
5:41	Those are the ones whose cores God has not wanted to purify.
5:41	They have, in the present life, a disgrace,
5:41	and they will have, in the last life, an immense punishment.
5:42	Listeners to falsehood, devourers of illicit gain —
5:42	if they come to you, judge between them, then, or turn away from them;
5:42	and if you turn away from them, they cannot harm you at all.
5:42	And if you judge, judge then between them with equity:
5:42	God loves the equitable.
5:43	And how would they take you as judge, when they have the Tawrah, wherein is the judgment of God, and then they turn away from it?
5:43	These are not believers.
5:44	We indeed sent down the Tawrah, wherein is guidance and light; the prophets, who were true to God alone, judged by it the Reoriented, as did the spiritual masters and the rabbis, according to what they were entrusted to guard of God's Scripture, and they were witnesses to it.
5:44	So do not fear people, but fear Me,
5:44	and do not buy, with My signs, a paltry price.
5:44	And those who do not judge according to what God has sent down — those are the disowners.
5:45	And We prescribed for them, in it: the Self in exchange for the Self, the eye in exchange for the eye, the nose in exchange for the nose, the ear in exchange for the ear, the tooth in exchange for the tooth, and for wounds, an investigation.
5:45	But whoever forgoes it as charity, it serves as an expiation for him.
5:45	And those who do not judge according to what God has sent down — those are the unjust.
5:46	And We made Issa, son of Maryam, follow in their footsteps, confirming what, of the Tawrah, preceded him,
5:46	and We gave him the Injil, wherein is guidance and light, confirming what, of the Tawrah, preceded him, and a guidance and an admonition for those who guard themselves.
5:47	And let the people of the Injil judge according to what God sent down in it.
5:47	And those who do not judge according to what God has sent down — those are the oversteppers.
5:48	And We have sent down to you the Scripture, in truth, confirming what, of the Scripture, preceded it, and prevailing over it.
5:48	Judge, then, between them according to what God has sent down,
5:48	and do not follow their emotions, forsaking what has come to you of the truth.
5:48	To each of you, We have assigned a law and a way.
5:48	And had God willed, He would have made you one community;
5:48	but [He did not], so as to test you in what He has given you.
5:48	Race, then, to good deeds.
5:48	To God will be your return, all together, and He will inform you of what you used to differ over.
5:49	And: judge between them according to what God has sent down,
5:49	and do not follow their emotions,
5:49	and be wary lest they turn you away from part of what God has sent down to you.
5:49	And if they turn away, know then that God wants only to strike them for a part of their offenses.
5:49	And many people are indeed oversteppers.
5:50	Would they then seek the judgment of the age of ignorance?
5:50	And who judges better than God, for a people who possess certainty?
5:51	O you who have believed! do not take the Reoriented and the Helpers as allies:
5:51	they are allies of one another.
5:51	And whoever among you takes them as allies is then of them.
5:51	God does not guide the unjust people.
5:52	You see those in whose cores is a sickness rushing among them, saying: "We fear that a setback may strike us";
5:52	it may then be that God brings the decisive judgment, or a command from Himself, and they find themselves, for what they hid within themselves, full of regret.
5:53	And those who have believed will say: "Are these the ones who swore by God, with the utmost strength of their oaths, to be indeed with you?" Their works have collapsed, and they have found themselves losers.
5:54	O you who have believed! whoever among you abandons his Law — God will bring a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble toward the believers, firm toward those who disown, striving in the way of God, and fearing not the blame of any blamer.
5:54	That is the favor of God, which He grants to whom He wills.
5:54	God is Vast, All-Knowing.
5:55	Your protector is only God, and His messenger, and those who have believed, those who maintain the Contact and give the purifying alms, while bowing [in service].
5:56	And whoever takes as ally God, His messenger, and those who have believed — the party of God, those are the victors.
5:57	O you who have believed! do not take as allies those who have made a mockery and a game of your Law, among those to whom the Scripture was given before you, and those who disown.
5:57	And guard yourselves toward God, if you are believers.
5:58	And when you call to the Contact, they take it for mockery and play:
5:58	that is because they are a people who do not reason.
5:59	Say: "O people of the Scripture! do you reproach us for anything other than that we believed in God, in what has been revealed to us, and in what was revealed before, and that most of you are oversteppers?"
5:60	Say: "Shall I inform you of a reward worse than that, with God? He whom God has cursed, with whom He was angered, and of whom He made apes and swine, and he who obeyed the Tyrant —
5:60	those are the worst in position, and the most astray from the straight path."
5:61	And when they come to you, they say: "We have believed" — while they entered with disowning, and left with it [still].
5:61	God knows best what they were hiding.
5:62	And you see many of them rushing into transgression, hostility, and the consumption of illicit gain.
5:62	How evil is what they used to do!
5:63	Why do the spiritual masters and the rabbis not forbid them from uttering transgressive speech and consuming illicit gain!
5:63	How evil is what they used to fabricate!
5:64	And the Reoriented said: "God's hand is chained."
5:64	May their hands be chained, and may they be cursed for what they have said!
5:64	No, His two hands are wide open: He spends as He wills.
5:64	And what has been sent down to you from your Guardian will certainly increase, among many of them, excess and disowning.
5:64	And We have cast among them enmity and hatred, until the Day of Appearance.
5:64	Every time they kindle a fire for war, God extinguishes it,
5:64	and they strive to sow corruption on the earth.
5:64	God does not love those who sow corruption.
5:65	And had the people of the Scripture believed and guarded themselves, We would indeed have covered their evil deeds, and We would indeed have admitted them into the Gardens of bliss.
5:66	And had they maintained the Tawrah, the Injil, and what was revealed to them from their Guardian, they would indeed have eaten of what is above them and of what is beneath their feet.
5:66	Among them, there is a moderate community,
5:66	but many of them, how evil is what they do!
5:67	O messenger! convey what has been sent down to you from your Guardian,
5:67	and if you do not do so, you will not have conveyed His message.
5:67	God protects you from people.
5:67	God does not guide the people who disown.
5:68	Say: "O people of the Scripture! you stand on nothing, until you maintain the Tawrah, the Injil, and what has been revealed to you from your Guardian."
5:68	And what has been sent down to you from your Guardian will certainly increase, among many of them, excess and disowning.
5:68	So do not lament for the people who disown.
5:69	Those who have believed, the Reoriented, the Aspirants, and the Helpers — whoever has believed in God and the Last Day, and done righteous work, no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.
5:70	We indeed took the solemn engagement of the Sons of Israel, and We sent them messengers.
5:70	Every time a messenger brought them what their Self did not desire, they denied a group, and another group, they killed.
5:71	And they thought there would be no trial; they then became blind and deaf; then God turned toward them with clemency; then, again, they became blind and deaf,
5:71	many of them.
5:71	God sees perfectly what they do.
5:72	They have indeed disowned, those who said: "God, that is Al-Massih, son of Maryam."
5:72	And Al-Massih said: "O sons of Israel! obey God, my Guardian and your Guardian.
5:72	Whoever associates other deities with God, God indeed forbids him the Garden, and his refuge will be the Fire."
5:72	And the unjust have no helpers.
5:73	They have indeed disowned, those who said: "God is the third of three."
5:73	But there is no deity except one deity.
5:73	And if they do not cease what they say, a painful punishment will certainly touch those among them who have disowned.
5:74	Will they not then turn back to God, and ask His forgiveness?
5:74	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
5:75	Al-Massih, son of Maryam, is only a messenger; messengers indeed passed before him,
5:75	and his mother was a woman of truth;
5:75	both of them ate food.
5:75	Look how We detail the signs to them, then look how they are turned away!
5:76	Say: "Do you obey, besides God, what holds for you neither harm nor benefit?
5:76	But God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing."
5:77	Say: "O people of the Scripture! do not exaggerate in your Law, beyond the truth,
5:77	and do not follow the emotions of a people who have already gone astray, led many astray, and strayed from the straight path."
5:78	They have been cursed, those among the Sons of Israel who disowned, by the mouth of Dawud and Issa, son of Maryam.
5:78	That is because they disobeyed and crossed the limits.
5:79	They did not forbid one another a disavowed act which they committed:
5:79	how evil is what they used to do!
5:80	You see many of them allying themselves with those who disown:
5:80	how evil is what their Self has prepared for them! God was angered against them, and they abide eternally in the punishment.
5:81	And had they believed in God, in the prophet, and in what was revealed to him, they would not have taken them as allies;
5:81	but many of them are oversteppers.
5:82	You will certainly find that the most hostile of people toward those who have believed are the Reoriented and those who have associated,
5:82	and you will certainly find that the closest in affection toward those who have believed are those who say: "We are the Helpers."
5:82	That is because there are, among them, priests and monks, and they are not arrogant.
5:83	And when they hear what has been revealed to the messenger, you see their eyes overflow with tears, for having recognized the truth; they say: "Our Guardian, we have believed; inscribe us, then, among the witnesses.
5:84	And what reason would we have not to believe in God, and in what has come to us of the truth, when we long for our Guardian to admit us with the righteous people?"
5:85	God then rewarded them, for what they said, with gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally.
5:85	That is the recompense of those who do good.
5:86	And those who have disowned and denied Our signs — those are the companions of the Blaze.
5:87	O you who have believed! do not forbid the good things God has made lawful for you, and do not cross the limits:
5:87	God does not love those who cross the limits.
5:88	And eat of what God has provided you as sustenance, lawful and good,
5:88	and guard yourselves toward God, in whom you believe.
5:89	God will not hold you to account for idle talk in your oaths,
5:89	but He will hold you to account for the oaths you have firmly concluded.
5:89	The expiation for it will be to feed ten destitute persons, of the best food with which you feed your families, or to clothe them, or to free a person from the burden of a debt;
5:89	and whoever does not find the means, then an abstention of three days.
5:89	That is the expiation of your oaths, when you swear.
5:89	And keep your oaths.
5:89	Thus does God make His signs clear to you, perhaps you will be grateful.
5:90	O you who have believed! the combination of wine and games of chance, as well as the sharing by lot of common goods, are nothing but a defilement, the work of the Diverter; avoid them, then, perhaps you will succeed.
5:91	The Diverter wants only to cast, among you, by wine and games of chance, enmity and hatred, and to turn you away from the remembrance of God and from the Contact.
5:91	Will you then cease?
5:92	And obey God, and obey the messenger, and beware.
5:92	But if you turn away, know then that only the clear transmission is incumbent upon Our messenger.
5:93	No blame upon those who have believed and done righteous deeds, for what they have tasted, so long as they guarded themselves, believed, and did righteous deeds, then guarded themselves and believed, then guarded themselves and did good.
5:93	God loves those who do good.
5:94	O you who have believed! God will certainly test you with some game that your hands and your spears will reach, so that God may know who fears Him without perceiving Him.
5:94	Whoever crosses the limits after that will have a painful punishment.
5:95	O you who have believed! do not kill game during the inviolable months.
5:95	And whoever among you kills it intentionally, an equivalent compensation in cattle, as two just [persons] among you shall decide, as an offering reaching the Ka'ba, or an expiation consisting of feeding the destitute, or the equivalent of that in abstention, so that he may taste the ill consequences of his deed.
5:95	God has effaced what is past;
5:95	but whoever relapses, God will take vengeance upon him.
5:95	God is All-Powerful, possessor of vengeance.
5:96	Lawful for you is made the game of the sea and its food,
5:96	as an enjoyment for you and for travelers;
5:96	but forbidden to you is the game of the land for as long as the inviolable months last.
5:96	And guard yourselves toward God, to whom you will be gathered.
5:97	God has made the Ka'ba, the Inviolable House, a support [of stability] for mankind, as well as the inviolable month, the voluntary offerings, and the vow-bound offerings.
5:97	That, so that you may know that God knows what is in the heavens and what is on the earth, and that God is All-Knowing of all things.
5:98	Know that God is severe in sanction, and that God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
5:99	Upon the messenger is incumbent only the transmission.
5:99	God knows what you show and what you hide.
5:100	Say: "The vile and the good are not equal, even if the abundance of the vile amazes you."
5:100	So guard yourselves toward God, O possessors of intelligence, perhaps you will succeed.
5:101	O you who have believed! do not ask about things which, if disclosed to you, would grieve you.
5:101	And if you ask them while this Recitation is being revealed, they will be disclosed to you. God has effaced that.
5:101	God is Most-Forgiving, full of patience.
5:102	A people, before you, asked them, then became, because of them, a people who disown.
5:103	God did not institute any bahira, sa'iba, wasila, or ham,
5:103	but those who disown invent the lie against God, and most of them do not reason.
5:104	And when it is said to them: "Come to what God has sent down, and to the messenger", they say: "It suffices us what we found our ancestors upon."
5:104	Is that so, even if their ancestors knew nothing, and were not rightly guided?
5:105	O you who have believed! look to yourselves:
5:105	he who strays cannot harm you, so long as you are rightly guided.
5:105	To God will be your return, all together, and He will inform you of what you used to do.
5:106	O you who have believed! testimony between you, when death presents itself to one of you, at the time of the testament: two just [persons] among you, or two others, outside your circle, if you are traveling on the earth and the calamity of death strikes you.
5:106	You will detain them both after the Contact, and they will both swear by God, if you have doubts: "We will not trade it for any price, even toward a relative,
5:106	and we will not hide the testimony of God; we would then indeed be among the transgressors."
5:107	But if it is discovered that both have been guilty of a transgression, two others will take their place, from among those against whom the wrong was committed, the two nearest [heirs], and they will both swear
5:107	by God: "Our testimony is indeed more worthy than theirs, and we have not crossed the limits;
5:107	we would then indeed be among the unjust."
5:108	That is closer to their bringing testimony in its proper form, or their fearing that other oaths might be opposed to their oaths.
5:108	And guard yourselves toward God,
5:108	and listen:
5:108	God does not guide the people of the oversteppers.
5:109	The day God gathers the messengers, and says: "What answer were you given?"
5:109	They will say: "We have no knowledge of it; You are the great Knower of what escapes the senses."
5:110	remember when God will say: "O Issa, son of Maryam! remember My blessing upon you and upon your mother, when I reinforced you with the sacred Influx, you spoke to people in the cradle and in maturity,
5:110	and when I taught you the Code, the wisdom, the Tawrah, and the Injil;
5:110	and when you fashioned out of clay the form of a bird, with My permission, then breathed into it, and it became a bird, with My permission;
5:110	and you healed the born-blind and the leper, with My permission;
5:110	and when you brought forth the dead, with My permission;
5:110	and when I restrained from you the Sons of Israel, when you came to them with clear proofs, and those among them who disowned said: "This is nothing but a manifest illusion."
5:111	And when I revealed to the disciples: "Believe in Me and in My messenger";
5:111	they said: "We believe, and bear witness that we are true to God alone."
5:112	remember when the disciples said: "O Issa, son of Maryam! can your Guardian send down to us a table from the sky?"
5:112	He said: "Guard yourselves toward God, if you are believers."
5:113	They said: "We want to eat from it, that our cores may find ease, that we may know you have told us the truth, and be witnesses to it."
5:114	Issa, son of Maryam, said: "O God, our Guardian! send down to us a table from the sky, that it be for us a festival, for the first of us as for the last, and a sign from You;
5:114	and provide for us;
5:114	You are the best of providers."
5:115	God said: "I am sending it down to you; but whoever among you disowns thereafter, I will punish him with a punishment with which I will punish none other among all beings."
5:116	And remember when God will say: "O Issa, son of Maryam! was it you who said to the people: Take me, and my mother, as two deities besides God?"
5:116	He will say: "Glory be to You! it was not for me to say what is not my right.
5:116	If I had said it, You would have known it.
5:116	You know what is in my Self, and I do not know what is in Your Self.
5:116	You are, You, the great Knower of what escapes the senses.
5:117	I told them only what You ordered me: Obey God, my Guardian and your Guardian;
5:117	and I was a witness over them, as long as I remained among them;
5:117	then, when You took me back to You, it was You who were the Observer over them.
5:117	And You are, over all things, a witness.
5:118	If You punish them, they are Your obedient ones;
5:118	and if You forgive them, You, indeed, are the All-Powerful, the Wise."
5:119	God will say: "This is the day when truthfulness will benefit the truthful.
5:119	They have gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, forever."
5:119	God is satisfied with them, and they are satisfied with Him.
5:119	That is the immense triumph.
5:120	To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and of what is in them.
5:120	He is capable of all things.

Sura 6 — The Guardian of Every Thing (Al-An'am)

6:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Praise be to God, who created the heavens and the earth, and made the darknesses and the light; yet those who disown set up equals to their Guardian.
6:2	It is He who created you from clay, then decreed a term —
6:2	and a fixed term, with Him.
6:2	Yet still you doubt.
6:3	And He is God,
6:3	in the heavens and on the earth; He knows your secret and your public, and He knows what you earn.
6:4	No sign, among the signs of their Guardian, comes to them without their turning away from it.
6:5	So they have denied the truth, when it came to them;
6:5	the information of what they used to mock will soon reach them.
6:6	Do they not see how many generations We annihilated before them, whom We had established on the earth as We have not established you,
6:6	and to whom We sent the sky in abundant rains,
6:6	and We made the rivers flow beneath them; then We annihilated them for their offenses,
6:6	and We raised up, after them, another generation.
6:7	And had We sent down upon you a writing on parchment, and they had touched it with their hands, those who disown would certainly have said: "This is nothing but a manifest illusion."
6:8	And they say: "Why has an Agent not been sent down upon him!"
6:8	And had We sent down an Agent, the matter would already have been settled, and they would be granted no delay.
6:9	And had We made him an Agent, We would have made him a man, and We would have clothed him in what they themselves wear.
6:10	Messengers before you were indeed mocked; then what they used to mock enveloped those among them who scoffed.
6:11	Say: "Travel through the land, then look how the end of those who denied was."
6:12	Say: "To whom belongs what is in the heavens and on the earth?" Say: "To God.
6:12	He has prescribed benevolence upon Himself.
6:12	He will certainly gather you on the Day of Appearance, no doubt possible.
6:12	Those who will have caused the loss of their Selves, those are the ones who do not believe."
6:13	To Him belongs what rests in the night and the day;
6:13	He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
6:14	Say: "Should I take a protector other than God, the Originator of the heavens and the earth,
6:14	It is He who nourishes and is not nourished."
6:14	Say: "I have been commanded to be the first of those who are true to God alone",
6:14	and never be among those who associate.
6:15	Say: "I fear, if I disobey my Guardian, the punishment of a tremendous day."
6:16	Whoever is turned away from it, on that day, He will have shown him benevolence,
6:16	and that is the manifest triumph.
6:17	And if God touches you with harm, none can remove it but Him;
6:17	and if He touches you with good, He is capable of all things.
6:18	He prevails above His obedient ones,
6:18	and He is the Wise, the Informed.
6:19	Say: "What thing is greatest in testimony?" Say: "God,
6:19	witness between me and you.
6:19	And this Recitation was revealed to me so that I might warn you by it, and whoever it reaches.
6:19	Do you truly bear witness that there are, with God, other deities?" Say: "I do not bear witness [to that]."
6:19	Say: "He is only one deity,
6:19	and I am clear of what you associate [with Him]."
6:20	Those to whom We gave the Scripture recognize him as they recognize their own children;
6:20	those who will have caused the loss of their Selves, those are the ones who do not believe.
6:21	Who is then more unjust than one who invents a lie against God, or denies His signs?
6:21	The unjust do not succeed.
6:22	And the day when We gather them all together, then say to those who associated: "Where are your associates, whom you used to claim?"
6:23	Then their only trial will have been to say: "By God, our Guardian, we were not among those who associate."
6:24	Look how they lie against themselves! And what they used to invent will have strayed away from them.
6:25	And among them are some who listen to you,
6:25	but We have placed over their cores coverings, so that they do not understand it, and in their ears a deafness.
6:25	And even if they saw every sign, they would not believe in it,
6:25	to the point that, when they come to you to argue, those who disown say: "These are nothing but legends of the ancients."
6:26	And they forbid it [to others], and they distance themselves [from it];
6:26	and they ruin none but themselves, without perceiving it.
6:27	And if you could see, when they will be placed before the Fire, and say: "Ah, if only we were sent back,
6:27	and no longer denied the signs of our Guardian, and were among the believers!"
6:28	No! what they used to hide before has become apparent to them.
6:28	And were they sent back, they would certainly return to what they had been forbidden,
6:28	for they are indeed liars.
6:29	And they say: "There is nothing but our present life, and we will not be resurrected."
6:30	And if you could see, when they will be placed before their Guardian! He will say: "Is this not the truth?"
6:30	They will say: "Yes, by our Guardian!"
6:30	He will say: "Taste then the punishment, for having disowned."
6:31	They are indeed losers, those who have denied the meeting with God, to the point that, when the Hour comes upon them unexpectedly, they say: "What regret for us, for what we neglected in it!" They will bear their burdens on their backs.
6:31	How evil is what they weigh themselves down with!
6:32	The present life is nothing but play and distraction;
6:32	and the last abode is indeed better for those who guard themselves.
6:32	Will you not then reason?
6:33	We know well that what they say grieves you;
6:33	but it is not you they deny,
6:33	but it is the signs of God that the unjust stubbornly reject.
6:34	Messengers were indeed denied before you; they endured this denial and these persecutions, until Our help came to them.
6:34	No [force] can change the words of God.
6:34	Some of the information about the envoys has indeed already reached you.
6:35	And if their turning away weighs upon you, then, if you have the capacity, seek a tunnel into the earth, or a ladder into the sky, to bring them a sign.
6:35	Had God willed, He would have gathered them upon guidance;
6:35	so never be among the ignorant.
6:36	Only those who hear respond.
6:36	As for the dead, God will resurrect them,
6:36	then it is to Him that they will be returned.
6:37	And they say: "Why has a sign from his Guardian not been sent down upon him!"
6:37	Say: "God is capable of sending down a sign",
6:37	but most of them do not know.
6:38	There is no living being on the earth, nor bird flying with its two wings, but forms communities like you.
6:38	We have neglected nothing of the Code.
6:38	Then it is to their Guardian that they will be gathered.
6:39	And those who have denied Our signs are deaf and mute, in darknesses.
6:39	Whoever God wills to lead astray, He leads astray;
6:39	and whoever He wills [to guide], He places on a straight path.
6:40	Say: "What do you think? If the punishment of God came upon you, or the Hour came upon you, would you invoke other than God, if you are truthful?"
6:41	In reality, it is Him you would invoke; He would then remove, if He willed, that for which you invoked Him, and you would forget what you associate [with Him].
6:42	We have indeed sent [messengers] to communities before you, and We seized them with misfortune and hardship, that they might humble themselves.
6:43	Why did they not humble themselves, when Our rigor came upon them!
6:43	But their cores hardened, and the Diverter embellished for them what they were doing.
6:44	Then, when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We opened upon them the gates of everything,
6:44	to the point that, when they rejoiced in what had been given them, We seized them by surprise, and there they were, in despair.
6:45	Thus was the last remnant of the people who had been unjust cut off.
6:45	And praise be to God, Guardian of all beings.
6:46	Say: "What do you think? If God took your hearing and your sight, and sealed your cores, what deity, other than God, would bring them back to you?"
6:46	Look how We diversify the signs, and yet they turn away from them.
6:47	Say: "What do you think? If the punishment of God came upon you, unexpectedly or openly, who would be annihilated, but the unjust people?"
6:48	We send the envoys only as bearers of good tidings and warners.
6:48	Whoever believes and reforms, no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.
6:49	And those who have denied Our signs, the punishment will touch them, for having overstepped.
6:50	Say: "I do not tell you that I hold the treasures of God, nor that I know what escapes the senses, nor do I tell you that I am an Agent;
6:50	I only follow what is revealed to me."
6:50	Say: "Are the blind and the seeing equal?"
6:50	Will you not then reflect?
6:51	And warn by it those who fear to be gathered to their Guardian — they have, besides Him, neither protector nor intercessor — perhaps they will guard themselves.
6:52	And do not turn away those who invoke their Guardian, morning and evening, seeking His direction. Nothing of their account is upon you, and nothing of your account is upon them, that you should turn them away and then be among the unjust.
6:53	And thus have We tried some of them by others, that they might say: "Is it then these whom God has favored among us?"
6:53	Does God not know best those who are grateful?
6:54	And when those who believe in Our signs come to you, say: "Peace be upon you.
6:54	Your Guardian has prescribed benevolence upon Himself: whoever among you commits evil out of ignorance, then repents after that and reforms — He is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."
6:55	Thus do We detail the signs, so that the path of the severed may become clearly apparent.
6:56	Say: "I have been forbidden to obey those you invoke besides God."
6:56	Say: "I do not follow your emotions;
6:56	I would then be astray, and I would not be among those who let themselves be guided."
6:57	Say: "I rely on clear evidence from my Guardian, and you have denied it.
6:57	I do not hold what you seek to hasten.
6:57	Judgment belongs only to God.
6:57	He relates the truth,
6:57	and He is the best of those who separate."
6:58	Say: "If I held what you seek to hasten, the matter would already have been settled between me and you."
6:58	God knows best the unjust.
6:59	He holds the keys of what escapes the senses: none knows them, save Him.
6:59	And He knows what is on land and in the sea.
6:59	No leaf falls but He knows it; no grain, in the darknesses of the earth, nothing moist or dry, that is not in a clear register.
6:60	It is He who takes you back to Himself, by night, and knows what you accomplish by day, then He resurrects you in it, so that a fixed term may be fulfilled;
6:60	then to Him will be your return, and He will inform you of what you used to do.
6:61	He prevails above His obedient ones,
6:61	and He sends upon you guardians,
6:61	to the point that, when death comes to one of you, Our envoys take him back [to Him], never failing.
6:62	Then they are returned to God, their true nearest Guarantor.
6:62	Is it not to Him that judgment belongs?
6:62	He is the swiftest of those who take account.
6:63	Say: "Who saves you from the darknesses of land and sea?" — you invoke Him humbly and in secret: "If You save us from this, we will certainly be among the grateful."
6:64	Say: "God saves you from it, and from every distress; yet you associate [others with Him]."
6:65	Say: "He is capable of raising up against you a punishment, from above you or from beneath your feet, or of mixing you into rival factions, and making some of you taste the violence of others."
6:65	Look how We diversify the signs, perhaps they will understand.
6:66	But your people have denied it, though it is the truth.
6:66	Say: "I am not, for you, a trustee.
6:67	Every piece of information has a place of fulfillment,
6:67	and you will soon know."
6:68	And when you see those who wade into idle talk about Our signs, turn away from them, until they move on to another subject.
6:68	And if the Diverter makes you forget, do not remain, after this reminder, with the unjust people.
6:69	And nothing, of the account of those who guard themselves, is incumbent upon them,
6:69	except a reminder, perhaps they will guard themselves.
6:70	And leave those who have taken their Law for distraction and play, and whom the present life has deceived.
6:70	And remind by it, lest a Self be delivered [to ruin] for what it has earned, having, besides God, neither protector nor intercessor;
6:70	and even if it offered every compensation, it would not be accepted from it.
6:70	Those are the ones who will have been delivered [to ruin] for what they have earned; they will have a scalding drink and a painful punishment, for having disowned.
6:71	Say: "Should we invoke, besides God, what neither benefits nor harms us, and be turned back on our heels after God has guided us, like one whom the diverters have lured on earth, bewildered,
6:71	while he has companions who call him to guidance: Come to us?"
6:72	Say: "The guidance of God, that is the [true] guidance; and we have been commanded to be true to the Guardian of all beings alone, and to maintain the Contact, and to guard ourselves toward Him."
6:72	And it is to Him that you will be gathered.
6:73	It is He who created the heavens and the earth in truth,
6:73	and the day He says: "Be",
6:73	it is.
6:73	His word is the truth,
6:73	and to Him belongs the dominion,
6:73	the day the Horn is blown.
6:73	Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is manifest,
6:73	He is the Wise, the Informed.
6:74	And remember when Ibrahim said to his father Azar: "Do you take idols as deities?
6:74	I see you indeed, you and your people, in manifest error."
6:75	Thus did We show Ibrahim the sovereign dominion of the heavens and the earth, that he might be among those who possess certainty.
6:76	When the night enveloped him, he saw a star; he said: "This is my guardian";
6:76	but when it disappeared, he said: "I do not love those that disappear."
6:77	Then, when he saw the moon rising, he said: "This is my guardian";
6:77	but when it disappeared, he said: "If my Guardian does not guide me, I will certainly be among the astray people."
6:78	Then, when he saw the sun rising, he said: "This is my guardian, this one is greater";
6:78	but when it disappeared, he said: "O my people! I am clear of what you associate [with Him].
6:79	I have set my direction, without deviation, toward the One who originated the heavens and the earth,
6:79	and I am not among those who associate."
6:80	And his people disputed with him.
6:80	He said: "Do you dispute with me about God, when He has guided me?
6:80	And I do not fear what you associate with Him, unless my Guardian wills something.
6:80	My Guardian encompasses all things in His knowledge.
6:80	Will you not then be reminded?
6:81	And how should I fear what you associate [with Him],
6:81	while you do not fear having associated with God that for which He has sent down upon you no authority?
6:81	Which of the two groups, then, is more worthy of security, if you know?"
6:82	Those who have believed and have not mixed their faith with any injustice — those are the ones who have security, and they let themselves be guided.
6:83	And that is Our argument, which We gave to Ibrahim against his people.
6:83	We raise in degrees whom We will.
6:83	Your Guardian is indeed Wise, All-Knowing.
6:84	And We gave him Ishaq and Yaacoub;
6:84	We guided them both.
6:84	And Nuh, We had guided him before;
6:84	and among his descendants, Dawud, Sulayman, Ayyub, Youssof, Moussa, and Harun.
6:84	Thus do We recompense those who do good.
6:85	And Zakariya, Yahya, Issa, and Ilyas —
6:85	all are among the righteous.
6:86	And Isma'il, Al-Yasa', Younes, and Lut —
6:86	and all of them, We favored above all beings.
6:87	And among their ancestors, their descendants, and their brothers —
6:87	We chose them, and We guided them to a straight path.
6:88	That is the guidance of God, by which He guides whom He wills among His obedient ones.
6:88	And had they associated, what they were doing would have collapsed for them.
6:89	Those are the ones to whom We gave the Scripture, the judgment, and the prophecy.
6:89	So if these [the disowners] disown it, We have already entrusted it to a people who are not disowners of it.
6:90	Those are the ones God has guided; follow, then, their guidance.
6:90	Say: "I do not ask you, for this, any reward.
6:90	It is only a reminder for all beings."
6:91	They did not measure God with His true measure, when they said: "God has sent nothing down upon a human."
6:91	Say: "Who sent down the Scripture that Moussa brought, a light and a guidance for mankind,
6:91	which you put on parchments, showing some and hiding much —
6:91	and you were taught what you did not know, neither you nor your ancestors?" Say: "God";
6:91	then leave them, in their vain talk, to amuse themselves.
6:92	And here is a Scripture We have sent down, blessed, confirming what precedes it, so that you may warn the metropolis of cities and those around it.
6:92	Those who believe in the last life believe in it, and they are watchful over their Contact.
6:93	Who is then more unjust than one who invents a lie against God, or says: "It has been revealed to me", when nothing has been revealed to him, and one who says: "I will send down the like of what God has sent down"?
6:93	And if you could see, when the unjust are in the throes of death, and the Agents stretch out their hands: "Bring forth your Self.
6:93	Today, you will be recompensed with the punishment of humiliation, for having said about God other than the truth, and for having been arrogant before His signs."
6:94	Here you have come to Us alone, as We created you the first time, and you have left behind what We had entrusted you with;
6:94	and We do not see with you your intercessors, whom you claimed to be associates among you.
6:94	The bonds between you are indeed severed, and what you claimed has strayed away from you.
6:95	God is He who splits open the seed and the kernel.
6:95	He brings forth the living from the dead, and He brings forth the dead from the living.
6:95	That is God.
6:95	How then can you be turned away?
6:96	He who splits open the dawn, and who made the night a rest,
6:96	and of the sun and the moon, a reckoning.
6:96	That is the measure set by the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing.
6:97	And it is He who made for you the stars, so that you might guide yourselves by them in the darknesses of land and sea.
6:97	We have indeed detailed the signs for a people who know.
6:98	And it is He who brought you forth from a single Self — then a dwelling and a repository.
6:98	We have indeed detailed the signs for a people who understand.
6:99	And it is He who sent down water from the sky, and We brought forth by it the vegetation of every kind, and We brought forth from it a greenery, from which We bring forth grain in clustered ears, and, from the palm tree, from its spathe, clusters within reach, and gardens of vines, the olive and the pomegranate, resembling and not resembling.
6:99	Look at its fruit, when it bears fruit, and its ripening.
6:99	There are indeed signs in that for a people who believe.
6:100	And they made, of the Occulted, associates to God, though He created them;
6:100	and they falsely attributed to Him, without any knowledge, sons and daughters.
6:100	Glory be to Him! He is far above what they describe.
6:101	Unprecedented Creator of the heavens and the earth.
6:101	How would He have a child, when He has no companion,
6:101	and He created every thing,
6:101	and He is All-Knowing of all things?
6:102	That is God, your Guardian.
6:102	There is no deity but Him,
6:102	Creator of every thing;
6:102	obey Him, then.
6:102	He is, over all things, a trustee.
6:103	Sights do not reach Him,
6:103	but He reaches sights.
6:103	He is the Subtle, the Informed.
6:104	Insights have indeed come to you from your Guardian.
6:104	Whoever sees clearly, it is for himself; and whoever remains blind, it is to his own detriment.
6:104	And I am not, for you, a guardian.
6:105	And thus do We diversify the signs; and so that they say: "You have studied [all this]", and so that We may make it clear for a people who know.
6:106	Follow what is revealed to you from your Guardian.
6:106	There is no deity but Him,
6:106	and turn away from those who associate.
6:107	Had God willed, they would not have associated.
6:107	And We have not made you their guardian,
6:107	and you are not for them a trustee.
6:108	And do not insult those they invoke besides God, lest they insult God out of hostility, without knowledge.
6:108	Thus have We embellished, for every community, its deeds;
6:108	then to their Guardian will be their return, and He will inform them of what they used to do.
6:109	And they swore by God, with the utmost strength of their oaths, that if a sign came to them, they would certainly believe in it.
6:109	Say: "The signs are only with God";
6:109	and what makes you perceive
6:109	that, even coming, they would not believe in it?
6:110	And We turn about their Consciences and their sights, as they did not believe in it the first time, and We leave them, in their excess, to wander blindly.
6:111	And even had We sent down to them the Agents, and the dead had spoken to them, and We had gathered before them everything, face to face, they would not have believed, unless God willed it;
6:111	but most of them are ignorant.
6:112	And thus have We assigned to every prophet an enemy: the diverters among humans and the Occulted, who inspire one another with embellished speech, by deception.
6:112	And had your Guardian willed, they would not have done it;
6:112	leave them, then, and what they invent.
6:113	And [this,] so that the Consciences of those who do not believe in the last life may incline toward it, and that they may be satisfied with it, and commit what they are to commit.
6:114	Should I then seek a judge other than God, when it is He who sent down to you the Scripture, detailed?
6:114	And those to whom We gave the Scripture know that it was sent down from your Guardian in truth;
6:114	so never be among those who doubt.
6:115	And the word of your Guardian has been fulfilled, in truth and in justice.
6:115	No [force] can change His words,
6:115	and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
6:116	And if you obey most of those on the earth, they will lead you astray from the path of God.
6:116	They follow nothing but conjecture,
6:116	and they do nothing but engage in baseless guesswork.
6:117	Your Guardian knows best who strays from His path,
6:117	and He knows best those who let themselves be guided.
6:118	Eat, then, of that over which the name of God has been mentioned, if you are believers in His signs.
6:119	And what is with you that you should not eat of that over which the name of God has been mentioned, when He has detailed for you what He has forbidden you, except what you are compelled to?
6:119	And many lead [others] astray by their emotions, without knowledge.
6:119	Your Guardian knows best those who cross the limits.
6:120	And forsake transgression, apparent and hidden.
6:120	Those who acquire transgression will be recompensed for what they used to commit.
6:121	And do not eat of that over which the name of God has not been mentioned: it is indeed an overstepping.
6:121	And the diverters indeed inspire their allies to argue with you;
6:121	and if you obeyed them, you would indeed be among those who associate.
6:122	Is he who was dead, and to whom We gave life, and for whom We made a light with which he walks among people, like him whose likeness is to be in darknesses, unable to emerge from them?
6:122	Thus were embellished, for those who disown, the deeds they used to do.
6:123	And thus have We placed, in every city, the greatest of its severed, so that they might plot there;
6:123	but they plot only against themselves, without perceiving it.
6:124	And when a sign comes to them, they say: "We will not believe, until we are given the like of what was given to the messengers of God."
6:124	God knows best where to place His message.
6:124	A diminishment before God, and a severe punishment, will befall those who cut themselves off, for having plotted.
6:125	Whomever God wants to guide, He opens his chest to being true to God alone;
6:125	and whomever He wants to lead astray, He makes his chest narrow and constricted, as if he were ascending into the sky.
6:125	Thus does God place defilement upon those who do not believe.
6:126	And that is the path of your Guardian, straight.
6:126	We have indeed detailed the signs for a people who take heed.
6:127	They have the Abode of Peace, with their Guardian,
6:127	and He is their protector, for what they used to do.
6:128	And the day He gathers them all: "O assembly of the Occulted! you have indeed made much use of humans";
6:128	and their allies among humans will say: "Our Guardian, we enjoyed one another, and we have reached our term, the one You had set for us."
6:128	He will say: "The Fire is your abode, you abide therein eternally" — except what God wills.
6:128	Your Guardian is indeed Wise, All-Knowing.
6:129	And thus do We make the unjust allies to one another, for what they used to earn.
6:130	"O assembly of the Occulted and humans! did messengers from among you not come to you, relating My signs to you and warning you of the meeting of this day of yours?"
6:130	They will say: "We bear witness against ourselves";
6:130	and the present life deceived them, and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disowning.
6:131	That is because it is not in the nature of your Guardian to annihilate cities unjustly, while their inhabitants were heedless.
6:132	And to each, degrees, according to what they did.
6:132	And your Guardian is not heedless of what they do.
6:133	And your Guardian is self-sufficient, possessor of benevolence.
6:133	If He wills, He makes you disappear, and He makes succeed after you what He wills, as He brought you forth from the descendants of another people.
6:134	What is promised to you will certainly come,
6:134	and you will not be able to render [Him] powerless.
6:135	Say: "O my people! act according to your position; I too am acting.
6:135	You will soon know to whom will belong the happy end of the abode.
6:135	The unjust do not succeed."
6:136	And they assigned to God, of what He scattered as crops and cattle, a share, saying: "This is for God" — according to their claim — "and this is for our associates";
6:136	and what is destined for their associates does not reach God,
6:136	while what is destined for God, that reaches their associates.
6:136	How evil is what they decide!
6:137	And thus have their associates embellished, for many of the associators, the killing of their children, so as to ruin them and confuse their Law for them.
6:137	And had God willed, they would not have done it;
6:137	leave them, then, and what they invent.
6:138	And they said: "This is cattle and crops forbidden: none shall eat of them, except whom we wish" — according to their claim — "and cattle whose backs are made forbidden", and cattle over which they do not mention the name of God, in invention against Him.
6:138	He will recompense them for what they used to invent.
6:139	And they said: "What is in the belly of this cattle is reserved exclusively for our males, and forbidden to our wives";
6:139	but if it is a stillborn, they all share in it.
6:139	He will recompense them for their attribution.
6:139	He is Wise, All-Knowing.
6:140	They are indeed losers, those who killed their children out of foolishness, without knowledge, and who forbade what God had provided them as sustenance, in invention against God.
6:140	They went astray, and they did not let themselves be guided.
6:141	And it is He who brought forth gardens, trellised and untrellised, as well as the palm tree and crops, of varied produce, and the olive and the pomegranate, resembling and not resembling.
6:141	Eat of its fruit, when it bears fruit, and pay its due, on the day of its harvest,
6:141	but do not waste:
6:141	He does not love the wasteful.
6:142	And among the cattle, there are the beasts of burden and those of the fleece.
6:142	Eat of what God has provided you as sustenance,
6:142	and do not follow the footsteps of the Diverter:
6:142	he is for you a manifest enemy.
6:143	Eight [head], in pairs:
6:143	of sheep, two, and of goats, two.
6:143	Say: "Is it the two males He has forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain?
6:143	Inform me with full knowledge, if you are truthful."
6:144	And of camelids, two, and of cattle, two.
6:144	Say: "Is it the two males He has forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain?
6:144	Or were you witnesses, when God prescribed this to you?"
6:144	Who is then more unjust than one who invents a lie against God, to lead people astray without knowledge?
6:144	God does not guide the unjust people.
6:145	Say: "I find, in what has been revealed to me, nothing forbidden to one who wants to eat it, except that it be a dead animal, or spilled blood, or the flesh of swine — for that is a defilement —
6:145	or an overstepping consecrated to other than God.
6:145	But whoever is compelled to it, without being rebellious or crossing the limits — your Guardian is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."
6:146	And to the Reoriented, We forbade every [animal] with an uncloven hoof: and of cattle and sheep,
6:146	We forbade them their fats, except what their backs carry, or the entrails, or what is mixed with a bone.
6:146	Thus did We recompense them for their aggression,
6:146	and We are indeed truthful.
6:147	If they deny you, say then: "Your Guardian is possessor of a vast benevolence,
6:147	and His rigor will not be turned away from the severed people."
6:148	Those who have associated will say: "Had God willed, we would not have associated, nor would our ancestors, and we would not have forbidden anything."
6:148	Thus did those before them deny, until they tasted Our rigor.
6:148	Say: "Do you have any knowledge, that you could bring forth for us?
6:148	You follow nothing but conjecture,
6:148	and you do nothing but engage in baseless guesswork."
6:149	Say: "To God belongs the conclusive argument.
6:149	Had He willed, He would have guided you all."
6:150	Say: "Bring your witnesses, those who testify that God has forbidden this."
6:150	If they testify, do not testify with them,
6:150	and do not follow the emotions of those who have denied Our signs, and of those who do not believe in the last life, and who set up equals to their Guardian.
6:151	Say: "Come, let me recite what your Guardian has forbidden you: do not associate anything with Him;
6:151	beneficence toward both parents;
6:151	and do not kill your children out of poverty —
6:151	it is We who provide for you, and for them;
6:151	and do not approach indecencies, apparent or hidden;
6:151	and do not kill the Self that God has made inviolable, except by right;
6:151	that is what He has recommended to you, perhaps you will reason.
6:152	And do not approach the goods of the orphan, except in the best way, until he reaches his full maturity;
6:152	and give full measure and full weight, with equity —
6:152	We impose upon no Self except its capacity —
6:152	and when you speak, be just, even toward a relative;
6:152	and keep the engagement of God:
6:152	that is what He has recommended to you, perhaps you will take heed.
6:153	And: this is My path, straight; follow it, then,
6:153	and do not follow the [other] paths, which would scatter you away from His path:
6:153	that is what He has recommended to you, perhaps you will guard yourselves.
6:154	Then We gave Moussa the Scripture, as a fulfillment toward him who does good, as a detail of every thing, as a guidance and a benevolence, that they might believe in the meeting with their Guardian.
6:157	And here is a Scripture We have sent down, blessed; follow it, then, and guard yourselves, perhaps benevolence will be shown to you — lest you say: "The Scripture was sent down only upon two groups before us, and we were indeed heedless of their study", or lest you say: "Had the Scripture been sent down upon us, we would have been better guided than they."
6:157	A clear proof has thus come to you from your Guardian, as well as a guidance and a benevolence.
6:157	Who is then more unjust than one who has denied the signs of God and turned away from them?
6:157	We will recompense those who turn away from Our signs with the worst punishment, for having turned away from them.
6:158	Do they await only that the Agents come to them, or that your Guardian come, or that some signs of your Guardian come?
6:158	On the day certain signs of your Guardian come, the faith of a Self will not benefit it, if it did not believe before, or acquired, in its faith, no good.
6:158	Say: "Wait:
6:158	we are waiting."
6:159	Those who have divided their Law and become sects, you are in no way linked to them.
6:159	Their matter rests only with God,
6:159	then He will inform them of what they used to do.
6:160	Whoever comes with the good deed has a right to ten times its equivalent,
6:160	and whoever comes with the evil deed is recompensed only with its equivalent, without being wronged.
6:161	Say: "My Guardian has guided me to a straight path,
6:161	an upright Law, the doctrine of Ibrahim, wholly turned toward God;
6:161	and he was not among those who associate."
6:163	Say: "My Contact, my beneficent commitment, my life, and my death belong to God, Guardian of all beings; no associate to Him.
6:163	And thus have I been commanded,
6:163	and I am the first of those true to God alone."
6:164	Say: "Should I seek a Guardian other than God, when He is the Guardian of every thing?"
6:164	And every Self acquires [evil] only to its own detriment,
6:164	and no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another.
6:164	Then to your Guardian will be your return, and He will inform you of what you used to differ over.
6:165	And it is He who made you successors on the earth, and raised some of you above others in degrees, so as to test you in what He has given you.
6:165	Your Guardian is indeed swift in sanction,
6:165	and He is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Sura 7 — Am I Not Your Guardian? (Al-A'raf)

7:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Mim. Ṣad.
7:2	A Scripture has been revealed to you — let there be no distress in your chest because of it — so that you may warn by it, and [that it be] a reminder for the believers.
7:3	Follow what has been revealed to you from your Guardian,
7:3	and do not follow, besides Him, other allies.
7:3	How little you take heed!
7:4	How many a city have We annihilated! Our rigor came upon it by night, or while it was taking its midday rest.
7:5	Their only cry, when Our rigor came to them, was to say: "We have indeed been wrongdoers."
7:6	We will certainly question those to whom [messengers] were sent, and We will certainly question the envoys,
7:7	and We will relate to them, with full knowledge,
7:7	for We were not absent.
7:8	The weighing, on that day, will be the truth.
7:8	Those whose weights are heavy — those are the ones who succeed.
7:9	And those whose weights are light — those are the ones who will have caused the loss of their Selves, for having been unjust toward Our signs.
7:10	We have indeed established you on the earth, and We have given you therein means of livelihood.
7:10	How little you are grateful!
7:11	We indeed created you, then We gave you form, then We said to the Agents: "Prostrate before Adam"; they prostrated,
7:11	except the Despairing One [Iblis]: he was not among those who prostrated.
7:12	He said: "What prevented you from prostrating, when I commanded you?"
7:12	He said: "I am better than him: You created me from fire, and You created him from clay."
7:13	He said: "Then descend from here: it is not for you to be arrogant here; go out, then, you are indeed among the diminished."
7:14	He said: "Grant me a delay, until the day they are resurrected."
7:15	He said: "You are indeed among those granted a delay."
7:17	He said: "Since You have let me be misled, I will certainly settle in wait for them on Your straight path, then I will certainly come at them, from before them and from behind them, from their right and from their left,
7:17	and You will not find most of them grateful."
7:18	He said: "Get out of here, despised, driven away.
7:18	Whoever among them follows you — I will certainly fill Jahannam with all of you."
7:19	"O Adam! dwell, you and your spouse, in the Garden, and eat from it wherever you wish,
7:19	but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the unjust."
7:20	But the Diverter whispered to them, so as to reveal to them what had been hidden from them of their nakedness,
7:20	and he said: "Your Guardian has forbidden you this tree only to prevent you from becoming Agents, or from being among those who abide eternally."
7:22	And he swore to them both: "I am indeed, for you two, among the sincere advisors" — thus he brought them down by deception.
7:22	When they had tasted the tree, their nakedness became apparent to them, and they both set about covering themselves with leaves from the Garden.
7:22	And their Guardian called out to them: "Did I not forbid you this tree, and did I not tell you that the Diverter is, for you two, a manifest enemy?"
7:23	They both said: "Our Guardian, we have been unjust to ourselves; if You do not forgive us and have benevolence on us, we will certainly be among the losers."
7:24	He said: "Descend.
7:24	You will be enemies to one another.
7:24	And you will have, on the earth, a dwelling and an enjoyment for a time."
7:25	He said: "There you will live, there you will die, and from there you will be brought forth."
7:26	O children of Adam! We have sent down for you a garment that covers your nakedness, as well as an adornment; and the garment of guardedness —
7:26	that is better.
7:26	That is one of the signs of God — perhaps they will take heed.
7:27	O children of Adam! let not the Diverter try you as he made your two ancestors go out of the Garden, stripping them of their garment to show them their nakedness.
7:27	He sees you, he and his tribe, from where you do not see them.
7:27	We have made the diverters allies for those who do not believe.
7:28	And when they commit an indecency, they say: "We found our ancestors doing this, and God ordered it to us."
7:28	Say: "God does not order indecency.
7:28	Will you say about God what you do not know?"
7:29	Say: "My Guardian has ordered equity.
7:29	Maintain your directions toward Him at every moment of prostration,
7:29	and invoke Him, devoting the Law exclusively to Him.
7:29	As He originated you, you will return."
7:30	One group, He has guided;
7:30	and [another] group, error has proven true upon them.
7:30	That is because they took the diverters as allies besides God, while deeming themselves among those who let themselves be guided.
7:31	O children of Adam! take your adornment at every moment of prostration, and eat and drink,
7:31	but do not waste:
7:31	He does not love the wasteful.
7:32	Say: "Who has forbidden God's adornment, which He brought forth for His obedient ones, and the good things of provision?"
7:32	Say: "It is for those who have believed in the present life, exclusive on the Day of Appearance."
7:32	Thus do We detail the signs for a people who know.
7:33	Say: "My Guardian has forbidden only indecencies, apparent or hidden, transgression, aggression without right, that you associate with God that for which He has sent down no authority, and that you say about God what you do not know."
7:34	And to every community a term.
7:34	When their term arrives, they cannot delay it by an hour,
7:34	nor advance it.
7:35	O children of Adam! if messengers from among yourselves come to you, relating My signs to you — whoever guards himself and reforms, no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.
7:36	But those who denied Our signs and were arrogant about them — those are the companions of the Fire, they will abide therein eternally.
7:37	Who is then more unjust than one who invents a lie against God, or denies His signs?
7:37	Those are the ones who will receive their share of the register,
7:37	until Our envoys come to take back [their Selves]: "Where are those you used to invoke besides God?" They will say: "They have strayed away from us",
7:37	and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disowning.
7:38	He will say: "Enter among communities that preceded you, of the Occulted and humans, into the Fire."
7:38	Every time a community enters, it curses its [preceding] sister,
7:38	until, having all joined therein, the last of them will say of the first: "Our Guardian, these are the ones who led us astray; give them, then, a double punishment from the Fire."
7:38	He will say: "To each the double,
7:38	but you do not know."
7:39	And the first of them will say to the last: "You then have no advantage over us; taste, then, the punishment, for what you used to earn."
7:40	Those who denied Our signs and were arrogant about them, the gates of heaven will not open for them, and they will not enter the Garden, until the camel passes through the eye of the needle.
7:40	Thus do We recompense the severed.
7:41	They will have, from Jahannam, a bed,
7:41	and, above them, coverings [of fire].
7:41	Thus do We recompense the unjust.
7:42	Those who have believed and done righteous deeds — We do not impose upon any Self except its capacity —
7:42	those are the companions of the Garden, they will abide therein eternally.
7:43	And We will have removed from their chests all rancor; rivers will flow beneath them,
7:43	and they will say: "Praise be to God, who guided us to this;
7:43	we would not have been guided, had God not guided us.
7:43	The messengers of our Guardian did indeed come with the truth."
7:43	And it will be called out to them: "This is the Garden which you have inherited, for what you used to do."
7:44	And the companions of the Garden will call out to the companions of the Fire: "We have found true what our Guardian promised us; have you found true what your Guardian promised you?"
7:44	They will say: "Yes."
7:45	Then a herald will proclaim among them: "The curse of God is upon the unjust, who turn [others] away from the path of God, seeking to make it crooked, and who disown the last life."
7:46	and between the two, a veil.
7:46	And on the Heights [an identification checkpoint], men who recognize each one by his marks,
7:46	and they will call out to the companions of the Garden: "Peace be upon you" —
7:46	they themselves have not entered it, though longing for it.
7:47	And when their gazes are turned toward the companions of the Fire, they will say: "Our Guardian, do not place us with the unjust people."
7:48	And the companions of the Heights will call out to men whom they recognize by their marks: "Your crowd has availed you nothing, nor your arrogance."
7:49	"Are these the ones about whom you swore that God would not touch them with any benevolence?"
7:49	"Enter the Garden; no fear upon you, and you will not grieve."
7:50	And the companions of the Fire will call out to the companions of the Garden: "Pour upon us some water, or of what God has provided you as sustenance."
7:51	They will say: "God has forbidden both to those who disown, those who took their Law for distraction and play, and whom the present life deceived.
7:51	Today, then, We forget them, as they forgot the meeting of this day of theirs, and because they used to stubbornly reject Our signs."
7:52	We indeed brought them a Scripture, which We detailed with full knowledge, a guidance and a benevolence for a people who believe.
7:53	Do they await anything but its interpretation?
7:53	On the day its interpretation comes, those who had forgotten it before will say: "The messengers of our Guardian did indeed come with the truth; do we have intercessors, that they might intercede for us, or could we be sent back, so that we might act otherwise than we used to act?"
7:53	They will have caused the loss of their Selves, and what they used to invent will have strayed away from them.
7:54	Your Guardian is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself upon the Edifice.
7:54	He covers the day with the night, which pursues it relentlessly; the sun, the moon, and the stars are subjected to His command.
7:54	Is it not to Him that creation and the Order belong?
7:54	Blessed is God, Guardian of all beings.
7:55	Invoke your Guardian, humbly and in secret.
7:55	He does not love those who cross the limits.
7:56	And do not sow corruption on the earth after its setting right,
7:56	and invoke Him with fear and hope.
7:56	The benevolence of God is indeed near to those who do good.
7:57	It is He who sends the winds, which disperse, before His benevolence,
7:57	until, laden with heavy clouds, We drive them toward a dead land: We then send down water from it, and We bring forth by it every kind of fruit.
7:57	Thus will We bring forth the dead — perhaps you will take heed.
7:58	And the good land, its vegetation comes out with the permission of its Guardian,
7:58	while that which is bad brings forth only scantily.
7:58	Thus do We diversify the signs for a people who are grateful.
7:59	We indeed sent Nuh to his people; he said: "O my people! obey God: you have no other deity than Him.
7:59	I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous day."
7:60	The court of his people said: "We see you indeed in manifest error."
7:61	He said: "O my people! there is no error in me, but I am a messenger from the Guardian of all beings.
7:62	I convey to you the messages of my Guardian, I advise you sincerely, and I know, from God, what you do not know.
7:63	Do you wonder that a reminder from your Guardian should come to you through a man from among yourselves, that he might warn you, that you might guard yourselves, and that, perhaps, benevolence might be shown to you?"
7:64	They denied him; We saved him, and those with him in the ship,
7:64	and We drowned those who had denied Our signs.
7:64	They were indeed a blind people.
7:65	And to the Recidivists [Aad], their brother Hud —
7:65	he said: "O my people! obey God: you have no other deity than Him.
7:65	Will you not then guard yourselves?"
7:66	The court of his people, those who had disowned, said: "We see you indeed in sheer foolishness, and we think you indeed among the liars."
7:67	He said: "O my people! there is no foolishness in me, but I am a messenger from the Guardian of all beings.
7:68	I convey to you the messages of my Guardian, and I am for you a trustworthy advisor.
7:69	Do you wonder that a reminder from your Guardian should come to you through a man from among yourselves, that he might warn you?
7:69	Remember that He made you successors after the people of Nuh, and gave you an increase of stature in constitution.
7:69	Remember, then, the blessings of God, perhaps you will succeed."
7:70	They said: "Have you come to us so that we may obey God alone, and abandon what our ancestors used to obey? Bring us then what you threaten us with, if you are among the truthful."
7:71	He said: "A defilement and an anger from your Guardian have already fallen upon you.
7:71	Do you argue with me concerning attributes that you and your ancestors have named, for which God has sent down no authority?
7:71	Wait then: I am, with you, among those who wait."
7:72	So We saved him, and those with him, by a benevolence from Us, and We cut off to the last remnant those who had denied Our signs: they were not believers.
7:73	And to the Depleters [Thamud], their brother Salih —
7:73	he said: "O my people! obey God: you have no other deity than Him.
7:73	A clear proof has indeed come to you from your Guardian:
7:73	this is the she-camel of God, a sign for you.
7:73	So leave her to eat on God's earth,
7:73	and do her no harm, lest a painful punishment seize you."
7:74	And remember that He made you successors after the Recidivists [Aad], and settled you on the earth: you take, in its plains, castles, and you carve the mountains into dwellings.
7:74	Remember, then, the blessings of God,
7:74	and do not spread disorder on the earth as corrupters.
7:75	The court of his people, those who had been arrogant, said to those who had been reduced to weakness, to those among them who had believed: "Do you know that Salih is sent by his Guardian?"
7:75	They said: "We indeed believe in what he was sent with."
7:76	Those who had been arrogant said: "We, for our part, disown what you believe in."
7:77	They then hamstrung the she-camel, insolently defied the order of their Guardian,
7:77	and said: "O Salih! bring us what you threaten us with, if you are among the envoys."
7:78	Then the great tremor seized them, and they found themselves, in their dwelling, lying, still.
7:79	He turned away from them and said: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the message of my Guardian, and I advised you,
7:79	but you do not love sincere advisors."
7:80	And Lut, when he said to his people: "Do you commit the indecency that none, among all beings, has committed before you?
7:81	You indeed approach men with desire, instead of women.
7:81	You are rather indeed a people of the excessive."
7:82	And the only answer of his people was to say: "Expel them from your city;
7:82	they are people who want to be pure."
7:83	So We saved him, and his family, except his wife, who was among those who remained behind.
7:84	And We rained down upon them a rain.
7:84	So look how the end of the severed was.
7:85	And to Madyan, their brother Shu'ayb —
7:85	he said: "O my people! obey God: you have no other deity than Him.
7:85	A clear proof has indeed come to you from your Guardian.
7:85	So give full measure and full weight,
7:85	and do not shortchange people in their things,
7:85	and do not sow corruption on the earth after its setting right.
7:85	That is better for you, if you are believers.
7:86	And do not sit in wait on every path, threatening and turning away from the path of God whoever believes in Him, and seeking to make it crooked.
7:86	And remember that you were few, and He multiplied you.
7:86	And look how the end of the corrupters was.
7:87	And if a group among you has believed in what I was sent with, and another group has not believed, be patient then until God judges between us:
7:87	He is the best of judges.
7:88	The court of his people, those who had been arrogant, said: "We will certainly expel you from our city, O Shu'ayb, you and those who have believed with you, unless you return to our doctrine."
7:88	He said: "Even if we were averse to it?
7:89	We would indeed have invented a lie against God, if we returned to your doctrine after God has saved us from it.
7:89	It is not for us to return to it, unless God, our Guardian, wills it.
7:89	Our Guardian encompasses all things in His knowledge.
7:89	It is upon God that we rely.
7:89	Our Guardian, decide between us and our people, in truth:
7:89	You are the best of those who decide."
7:90	And the court of his people, those who disowned, said: "If you follow Shu'ayb, you will then certainly be losers."
7:91	Then the great tremor seized them, and they found themselves, in their dwelling, lying, still.
7:92	Those who had denied Shu'ayb became as if they had never dwelt there.
7:92	Those who had denied Shu'ayb, they were the losers.
7:93	He turned away from them and said: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the messages of my Guardian, and I advised you.
7:93	How then should I lament for a people who disown?"
7:94	We have not sent, into any city, a prophet without seizing its inhabitants with misfortune and hardship, that they might humble themselves.
7:95	Then We replaced evil with good, until they prospered
7:95	and said: "Hardship and happiness already touched our ancestors"; We then seized them by surprise, without their perceiving it.
7:96	And had the inhabitants of the cities believed and guarded themselves, We would indeed have opened upon them blessings from the sky and the earth;
7:96	but they denied, and We then seized them for what they used to earn.
7:98	Are the inhabitants of the cities then secure that Our rigor should come upon them by night, while they sleep? Or are the inhabitants of the cities secure that Our rigor should come upon them in broad daylight, while they play?
7:99	Do they then feel secure from God's plot?
7:99	None feels secure from God's plot, except the people of the losers.
7:100	Has it not become clearly apparent to those who inherit the earth after its [past] inhabitants, that, had We willed, We would strike them for their offenses,
7:100	and We seal their cores, so that they do not hear?
7:101	Those are the cities of which We relate to you certain information.
7:101	Their messengers had indeed come to them with clear proofs, but they were not disposed to believe what they had first denied.
7:101	Thus does God seal the cores of those who disown.
7:102	And We found, in most of them, no engagement kept;
7:102	We indeed found most of them to be oversteppers.
7:103	Then We sent, after them, Moussa with Our signs, to Fir'awn and his court, but they were unjust toward them.
7:103	So look how the end of the corrupters was.
7:105	Moussa said: "O Fir'awn! I am a messenger from the Guardian of all beings, in truth,
7:105	bound to say about God nothing but the truth.
7:105	I have come to you with a clear proof from your Guardian;
7:105	so let the Sons of Israel go with me."
7:106	He said: "If you have come with a sign, bring it then, if you are among the truthful."
7:108	He then threw down his staff, and behold, it was a manifest serpent; and he drew out his hand, and behold, it was white to those who looked.
7:110	The court of Fir'awn's people said: "This is indeed a knowledgeable illusion-maker, who wants to bring you out of your land."
7:110	"What then do you advise?"
7:112	They said: "Put him off, him and his brother, and send into the cities gatherers, who will bring you every knowledgeable illusion-maker."
7:113	And the illusion-makers came to Fir'awn; they said: "Will we indeed have a reward, if we are the victors?"
7:114	He said: "Yes, and you will certainly be among those brought near."
7:115	They said: "O Moussa! either you throw, or we will be the ones who throw."
7:116	He said: "Throw."
7:116	When they had thrown, they bewitched the eyes of the people by illusion, and filled them with terror,
7:116	and they brought a tremendous illusion.
7:117	And We revealed to Moussa: "Throw your staff";
7:117	and behold, it swallowed up what they had forged by falsehood.
7:118	The truth then came to pass, and what they were doing proved vain.
7:119	They were defeated, right there, and went away diminished.
7:120	And the illusion-makers threw themselves down, prostrate.
7:122	They said: "We believe in the Guardian of all beings, the Guardian of Moussa and Harun."
7:123	Fir'awn said: "Have you believed in him before I permitted you? This is indeed a plot you plotted in the city, so as to drive out its inhabitants; you will soon know.
7:124	I will certainly cut off your hands and feet, on opposite sides, then I will certainly crucify you all together."
7:125	They said: "It is to our Guardian that we return.
7:126	And you reproach us for nothing, except that we believed in the signs of our Guardian, once they came to us.
7:126	Our Guardian, pour patience upon us, and take us back to You as those true to God alone."
7:127	And the court of Fir'awn's people said: "Will you leave Moussa and his people to spread corruption on the earth, and to abandon you and your deities?"
7:127	He said: "We will massacre their sons and violate the modesty of their women; we hold indeed the upper hand over them."
7:128	Moussa said to his people: "Seek help in God, and be patient;
7:128	the earth belongs to God; He gives it as inheritance to whom He wills among His obedient ones,
7:128	and the [favorable] outcome is for those who guard themselves."
7:129	They said: "We were mistreated before you came to us, and after you came to us."
7:129	He said: "It may be that your Guardian will annihilate your enemy and establish you as successors on the earth, so as to see how you would act."
7:130	And We indeed seized the clan of Fir'awn with years [of famine] and a diminution of fruits, that they might take heed.
7:131	When happiness comes to them, they say: "This belongs to us";
7:131	and if misfortune touches them, they attribute it to an ill omen from Moussa and those with him.
7:131	Is it not that in reality their omen is with God?
7:131	But most of them do not know.
7:132	And they said: "Whatever sign you bring us, to bewitch us with it, we will not believe you."
7:133	We then sent upon them the flood, the locusts, the lice, the frogs, and the blood, detailed signs; but they were arrogant and were a severed people.
7:134	And when the defilement fell upon them, they said: "O Moussa! invoke for us your Guardian, by the covenant He has made with you; if you remove the defilement from us, we will certainly give you credit, and we will certainly let the Sons of Israel go with you."
7:135	But when We had removed the defilement from them until a term they were to reach, there they were, breaking their engagement.
7:136	We then took vengeance upon them, and We drowned them in the deep, for having denied Our signs and remained heedless of them.
7:137	And We made the people who had been reduced to weakness inherit the easts and the wests of the land which We had blessed.
7:137	And the beautiful word of your Guardian was fulfilled toward the Sons of Israel, for having been patient;
7:137	and We destroyed what Fir'awn and his people were doing, and what they were building.
7:138	And We made the Sons of Israel cross the sea; they came upon a people posted before idols of their own.
7:138	They said: "O Moussa! make for us a deity, as they have deities."
7:138	He said: "You are indeed an ignorant people.
7:139	What these practice is doomed to ruin,
7:139	and vain is what they were doing."
7:140	He said: "Should I seek for you a deity other than God, while He has favored you above all beings?"
7:141	And remember when We saved you from the clan of Fir'awn, who inflicted upon you the worst of punishments, massacring your sons and violating the modesty of your women —
7:141	and there was in that, for you, an immense testing from your Guardian.
7:142	We fixed for Moussa an appointment of thirty nights, which We completed with ten: thus the appointed meeting set by his Guardian was fulfilled, in forty nights.
7:142	And Moussa said to his brother Harun: "Take my place among my people, act rightly, and do not follow the path of those who sow corruption."
7:143	And when Moussa came to Our appointed meeting, and his Guardian spoke to him, he said: "My Guardian, show Yourself to me, that I may look at You."
7:143	He said: "You will not see Me, but look at the mountain: if it remains in place, then you will see Me."
7:143	When his Guardian manifested Himself to the mountain, He made it collapse under pressure, and Moussa fell thunderstruck.
7:143	When he came to, he said: "Glory be to You! I turn back to You, and I am the first of the believers."
7:144	He said: "O Moussa! I have chosen you among mankind for My messages and for My speech; take, then, what I have given you, and be among the grateful."
7:145	And We wrote for him, on the Tablets, an admonition concerning all things, and a detail of all things.
7:145	Take them, then, with strength, and order your people to take what is best in them.
7:145	I will show you the abode of the oversteppers.
7:146	I will turn away from My signs those who are arrogant on the earth without right; even if they saw every sign, they would not believe in it, and if they saw the path of rectitude, they would not take it as a path, while, if they saw the path of misguidance, they would take it as a path.
7:146	That is because they denied Our signs and remained heedless of them.
7:147	And those who denied Our signs and the meeting of the last life, their works have collapsed; are they recompensed except according to what they used to do?
7:148	And the people of Moussa took, after him, from their ornaments, a calf, a body that lowed.
7:148	Did they not see that it did not speak to them and did not guide them to any path?
7:148	They took it [as a deity], and were unjust.
7:149	And when they were struck with regret, seeing that they had gone astray, they said: "If our Guardian does not have benevolence on us and does not forgive us, we will certainly be among the losers."
7:150	When Moussa returned to his people, angry, bitter, he said: "How evil is what you have done in my place, after me!
7:150	Did you want to hasten the command of your Guardian?"
7:150	And he threw down the Tablets, and seized his brother by the head, dragging him toward himself.
7:150	He said: "Son of my mother! the people reduced me to weakness, and almost killed me; do not, then, let the enemies gloat over me, and do not place me with the unjust people."
7:151	He said: "My Guardian, forgive me, and my brother, and admit us into Your benevolence;
7:151	You are the most benevolent of the benevolent."
7:152	Those who took the calf [as a deity], an anger from their Guardian will reach them, as well as a humiliation in the present life.
7:152	Thus do We recompense the inventors of lies.
7:153	And those who committed evil deeds, then repented after that and believed — your Guardian, after that, is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
7:154	And when Moussa's anger had subsided, he took the Tablets; in their inscription, there was guidance and benevolence for those who revere their Guardian.
7:155	And Moussa chose, from among his people, seventy men for Our appointed meeting.
7:155	When the great tremor had seized them, he said: "My Guardian, had You willed, You would have annihilated them before, and me as well.
7:155	Would You annihilate us for what the foolish among us have done?
7:155	This is nothing but Your trial, by which You lead astray whom You will, and guide whom You will.
7:155	You are our protector; forgive us, then, and have benevolence on us; You are the best of those who forgive.
7:156	And inscribe for us, in the present life, a good, as well as in the last life;
7:156	we return to You."
7:156	He said: "My punishment, I strike with it whom I will,
7:156	and My benevolence embraces all things.
7:157	I will inscribe it, then, for those who guard themselves, give the purifying alms, and who believe in Our signs, those who follow the messenger, the prophet without a prior Scripture, whom they find written down with them in the Tawrah and the Injil, who orders them what is recognized and forbids them what is disavowed, makes lawful for them the good things and forbids them the vile things, and removes from them their burden and the shackles that were upon them.
7:157	Those who believe in him, support him, help him, and follow the light sent down with him — those are the ones who succeed.
7:158	Say: "O mankind! I am the messenger of God to all of you, [God] to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.
7:158	There is no deity but Him.
7:158	He gives life and causes death.
7:158	So believe in God and His messenger, the prophet without a prior Scripture, who believes in God and His words,
7:158	and follow him, perhaps you will be rightly guided."
7:159	And among the people of Moussa, there is a community that guides according to the truth and that, by it, acts with justice.
7:160	And We divided them into twelve tribes, into communities,
7:160	and We revealed to Moussa, when his people asked him for water: "Strike the rock with your staff";
7:160	and behold, twelve springs gushed forth from it:
7:160	each group of people knew its drinking place.
7:160	And We spread over them the shade of the cloud, and We sent down upon them manna and quails:
7:160	"Eat of the good things We have provided you as sustenance."
7:160	They did not wrong Us,
7:160	but it was to themselves that they did wrong.
7:161	And remember when it was said to them: "Dwell in this city, eat from it wherever you wish, say: Relieve us [of our faults], and enter by the gate bowing down: We will forgive you your faults.
7:161	We will increase [the reward] of those who do good."
7:162	But those among them who were unjust substituted a saying other than what had been said to them; We then sent down upon them a defilement from the sky, for having been unjust.
7:163	And ask them about the city that was near the sea: when they crossed the limits by practicing as-sabt [the act of rest/inaction], their fish came to them, breaking the surface; and on the day they did not practice as-sabt, they did not come to them.
7:163	Thus did We test them, for having overstepped.
7:164	And remember when a community among them said: "Why do you exhort a people whom God is going to annihilate, or punish with a severe punishment?"
7:164	They said: "For an excuse before your Guardian, and perhaps they will guard themselves."
7:165	When they forgot what they had been reminded of, We saved those who forbade evil, and We seized the unjust with a harsh punishment, for having overstepped.
7:166	Then, when they persisted arrogantly in what had been forbidden them, We said to them: "Be apes, rejected."
7:167	And remember when your Guardian proclaimed that He would certainly send against them, until the Day of Appearance, one who would inflict upon them the worst of punishments.
7:167	Your Guardian is indeed swift in sanction,
7:167	and He is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
7:168	And We divided them on the earth into communities:
7:168	there are among them the righteous, and there are those who are less so.
7:168	And We tested them with good things and bad things, that they might return.
7:169	Then a posterity succeeded them, who inherited the Scripture, taking the fleeting goods of this lower world, and saying: "It will be forgiven us"; and if a similar good comes to them again, they take it [just the same].
7:169	Was not the solemn engagement of the Scripture taken from them, that they would say about God nothing but the truth?
7:169	And they have studied what is in it.
7:169	But the last abode is better for those who guard themselves.
7:169	Will you not then reason?
7:170	And those who hold firmly to the Scripture and maintain the Contact — We do not let the reward of those who set things right be lost.
7:171	And recall, when We tore the mountain out above them, as though it were a canopy, and they thought it was going to fall upon them:
7:171	"Take with strength what We have given you, and remember what is in it, perhaps you will guard yourselves."
7:172	And remember when your Guardian drew forth from the children of Adam their descendants after them, and made them bear witness concerning themselves: "Am I not your Guardian?" They said: "Yes indeed, we bear witness!"
7:173	[This,] lest you say, on the Day of Appearance: "We were indeed heedless of this", or that you say: "It was our ancestors who, before, associated, and we were only a descendance after them.
7:173	Would You annihilate us for what the workers of falsehood have done?"
7:174	Thus do We detail the signs, and perhaps they will return.
7:175	And recite to them the information concerning him to whom We gave Our signs, and who divested himself of them, so that the Diverter pursued him, and he was among the misled.
7:176	Had We willed, We would have raised him by these; but he clung to the earth and followed his emotion.
7:176	His likeness is that of the dog: if you burden it, it pants, and if you leave it, it pants [still].
7:176	That is the likeness of the people who denied Our signs.
7:176	Relate, then, the account, perhaps they will reflect.
7:177	Evil is the likeness of the people who denied Our signs, and who wronged themselves.
7:178	Whoever God guides, that is the one who lets himself be guided;
7:178	and whoever He leads astray, those are the losers.
7:179	And We have scattered, for Jahannam, many of the Occulted and humans;
7:179	they have cores with which they do not understand,
7:179	they have eyes with which they do not see,
7:179	and they have ears with which they do not hear.
7:179	Those are the ones who are like cattle — no, they are even more astray.
7:179	Those are the heedless.
7:180	And to God belong the most beautiful attributes; invoke Him, then, by them,
7:180	and leave those who blaspheme [by distorting] His attributes.
7:180	They will be recompensed according to what they used to do.
7:181	And among those We have created, there is a community that guides according to the truth and that, by it, acts with justice.
7:183	And those who deny Our signs, We will gradually lead them [to ruin], from where they do not know, and I grant them a delay.
7:183	My scheme is indeed solid.
7:184	Do they not then reflect?
7:184	There is no derangement in their companion.
7:184	He is nothing but a manifest warner.
7:185	Have they not looked into the sovereign dominion of the heavens and the earth, and into everything God has created, and [considered] that it may be that their term has already drawn near?
7:185	In what discourse, after this one, will they then believe?
7:186	Whoever God leads astray, no guide for him,
7:186	and He leaves them, in their excess, to wander blindly.
7:187	They ask you about the Hour: when will it drop anchor?
7:187	Say: "Knowledge of it is only with my Guardian;
7:187	none but Him will unveil it in its time.
7:187	It weighs heavily in the heavens and on the earth;
7:187	it will come to you only unexpectedly."
7:187	They ask you as if you were well informed about it.
7:187	Say: "Knowledge of it is only with God,
7:187	but most people do not know."
7:188	Say: "I hold, for myself, neither benefit nor harm, except what God wills.
7:188	And if I knew what escapes the senses, I would indeed have amassed abundant good things,
7:188	and evil would not have touched me.
7:188	I am nothing but a warner,
7:188	and a bearer of good tidings for a people who believe."
7:189	It is He who created you from a single Self, and made from it its spouse, so that he might find rest with it.
7:189	And when he had covered her, she carried a light burden, with which she could move about;
7:189	and when she became heavy with it, they both invoked God, their Guardian: "If You give us a righteous [child], we will certainly be among the grateful."
7:190	But when He had given them a righteous [child], they attributed to Him associates in what He had given them.
7:190	But God is far above what they associate with Him.
7:191	Do they associate with Him what creates nothing, and is [itself] created,
7:192	and can neither help them, nor help itself?
7:193	And if you call them to guidance, they do not follow you.
7:193	It is the same to you, whether you call them, or remain silent.
7:194	Those you invoke besides God are obedient ones like yourselves;
7:194	invoke them, then, and let them answer you, if you are truthful.
7:195	Do they have feet with which they walk?
7:195	Or do they have hands with which they seize?
7:195	Or do they have eyes with which they see?
7:195	Or do they have ears with which they hear?
7:195	Say: "Invoke your associates, then scheme against me, and grant me no respite.
7:196	My protector is God, who sent down the Scripture,
7:196	and it is He who protects the righteous.
7:197	And those you invoke besides Him can neither help you, nor help themselves."
7:198	And if you call them to guidance, they do not hear;
7:198	and you see them looking at you, without seeing.
7:199	Take what is easy,
7:199	order what is recognized,
7:199	and turn away from the ignorant.
7:200	And if an incitement from the Diverter incites you [to evil], seek refuge in God.
7:200	He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
7:201	Those who guard themselves, when a procession [of suggestions] from the Diverter touches them, take heed, and there they are, clear-sighted;
7:202	while their brothers [the disowners] draw them ever further into misguidance,
7:202	then they do not stop.
7:203	And when you do not bring them a sign, they say: "Why did you not choose it yourself?"
7:203	Say: "I only follow what is revealed to me from my Guardian;
7:203	these are insights from your Guardian, a guidance and a benevolence for a people who believe."
7:204	And when this Recitation is recited, listen to it and keep silent, perhaps benevolence will be shown to you.
7:205	And remember your Guardian, within yourself, humbly and with fear, without raising your voice in speech, in the morning and in the evening, and do not be among the heedless.
7:206	Those who are with your Guardian are not arrogant about obeying Him, they glorify Him, and it is before Him that they prostrate.

Sura 8 — What Gives You Life (Al-Anfal)

8:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. They ask you about the surpluses [of war].
8:1	Say: "The surpluses belong to God and the messenger.
8:1	So guard yourselves toward God, and set right [what is] between you,
8:1	and obey God and His messenger, if you are believers."
8:2	The believers are only those whose cores tremble when God is remembered, whose faith increases when His signs are recited to them, and who rely upon their Guardian,
8:4	who maintain the Contact, and who spend from what We have provided them as sustenance — those are the true believers.
8:4	They have degrees with their Guardian, a forgiveness, and a generous provision.
8:6	As when your Guardian brought you out of your dwelling in truth, while a group of believers were averse to it, arguing with you about the truth once it had become clear, as if they were being driven toward death, their eyes open.
8:7	And when God promised you that one of the two groups would be yours, while you wished it would be the one without arms.
8:8	But God wanted, by His words, to make the truth prevail and to cut off, to the last remnant, those who disown so as to make the truth prevail and to nullify falsehood, however much the severed detest it.
8:9	When you implored the help of your Guardian, and He answered you: "I reinforce you with a thousand Agents, following one another."
8:10	And God made it only a good tiding, and so that your cores might find ease in it.
8:10	But victory comes only from God.
8:10	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
8:11	When He enveloped you in drowsiness, as a security from Himself, and sent down upon you, from the sky, water, to purify you with it, to remove from you the defilement of the Diverter, to bind your cores, and to make firm your steps with it.
8:12	When your Guardian revealed to the Agents: "I am with you; so make firm those who have believed.
8:12	I will cast terror into the cores of those who disown.
8:12	So multiply the captives beyond [their necessary number], and multiply among them those of the greatest exchange value."
8:13	That is because they set themselves against God and His messenger.
8:13	And whoever sets himself against God and His messenger — God is indeed severe in sanction.
8:14	That is for you: taste it, then!
8:14	And for those who disown is reserved the punishment of the Fire.
8:15	O you who have believed! when you meet those who disown advancing [for battle], do not turn your backs to them.
8:16	And whoever, on that day, turns his back to them — except as a maneuver for battle, or a withdrawal toward a [allied] group — incurs God's anger, and his refuge will be Jahannam.
8:16	And what an evil destination!
8:17	So it was not you who killed them,
8:17	but it was God who killed them.
8:17	And you did not throw, when you threw, but it was God who threw,
8:17	so as to test the believers with a good testing, from Himself.
8:17	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
8:18	That is for you! And God weakens the scheming of those who disown.
8:19	If you sought a decisive judgment, the decisive judgment has already come to you;
8:19	and if you cease, it will be better for you;
8:19	but if you resume, We will resume,
8:19	and your group will not avail you at all, even if it is numerous;
8:19	for God is with the believers.
8:20	O you who have believed! obey God and His messenger,
8:20	and do not turn away from him, while you hear.
8:21	And do not be like those who say: "We have heard", while they do not hear.
8:22	The worst of living beings, with God, are the deaf, the mute, those who do not reason.
8:23	Had God known any good in them, He would certainly have made them hear;
8:23	and even had He made them hear, they would have turned away, evading.
8:24	O you who have believed! respond to God and to the messenger, when he calls you to what gives you life,
8:24	and know that God interposes between the human being and his core, and that it is to Him that you will be gathered.
8:25	And guard yourselves against a trial that will not strike exclusively those among you who have done wrong,
8:25	and know that God is severe in sanction.
8:26	And remember when you were few, reduced to weakness on the earth, fearing that people would snatch you away; He then granted you refuge, reinforced you with His help, and provided you with good things as sustenance — perhaps you will be grateful.
8:27	O you who have believed! do not betray God and the messenger, and do not betray your trusts, while you know.
8:28	And know that your goods and your children are but a trial, and that with God there is an immense reward.
8:29	O you who have believed! if you guard yourselves toward God, He will grant you a Discernment, cover your evil deeds for you, and forgive you.
8:29	God holds the immense favor.
8:30	And when those who disown were plotting against you, to immobilize you, kill you, or expel you.
8:30	They plotted, and God plotted [in return],
8:30	and God is the best of those who plot.
8:31	And when Our signs are recited to them, they say: "We have indeed heard; if we wished, we would say the same;
8:31	these are nothing but legends of the ancients."
8:32	And when they said: "O God! if this is indeed the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky, or bring us a painful punishment."
8:33	But it was not for God to punish them while you were among them,
8:33	and it was not for God to punish them while they were asking forgiveness.
8:34	And what reason would they have for God not to punish them, while they turn [people] away from the inviolable place of prostration, without even being its allies?
8:34	Its allies are only those who guard themselves,
8:34	but most of them do not know.
8:35	And their Contact, near the House, was nothing but a brawl mixed with a diversion [from the path of God].
8:35	Taste then the punishment, for having disowned.
8:36	Those who disown spend their goods so as to turn [others] away from the path of God.
8:36	So they will spend it, then it will become for them a bitter regret, then they will be overcome.
8:37	And those who disown will be gathered toward Jahannam, so that God may distinguish the vile from the good, place the vile, part upon part, make of it a whole heap, and put it into Jahannam.
8:37	Those are the losers.
8:38	Say to those who disown: if they cease, what has already passed will be forgiven them;
8:38	but if they resume, the way [of acting] of the ancients is already well established.
8:39	And fight them until there is no more trial, and the Law is entirely for God.
8:39	But if they cease, then God sees perfectly what they do.
8:40	And if they turn away, know then that God is your nearest Guarantor.
8:40	What an excellent Guarantor,
8:40	and what an excellent Helper!
8:41	And know that, of everything you take as spoils, a fifth belongs to God, to the messenger, to relatives, to orphans, to the destitute, and to the stranded traveler — if you believe in God and in what We sent down upon Our obedient one, on the day of the Discernment, the day the two forces met.
8:41	And God is capable of all things.
8:42	When you were on the nearer side, and they were on the farther side, and the cavalry was lower than you.
8:42	And had you made an appointment [to meet], you would have differed over that appointment;
8:42	but [it happened thus] so that God might accomplish a matter already decreed, so that whoever was to perish might perish upon clear evidence, and whoever was to live might live upon clear evidence.
8:42	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
8:43	When God showed them to you, in your sleep, as few —
8:43	and had He shown them to you as many, you would certainly have faltered, and you would certainly have disagreed over the matter;
8:43	but God preserved [you from that].
8:43	He is certainly All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
8:44	And when He showed them to you, when you met, as few in your eyes, and made you appear few in their eyes, so that God might accomplish a matter already decreed.
8:44	And it is to God that all matters return.
8:45	O you who have believed! when you meet a [hostile] group, stand firm, and remember God abundantly — perhaps you will succeed.
8:46	And obey God and His messenger,
8:46	and do not disagree with one another, lest you falter and lose your momentum;
8:46	and be patient.
8:46	God is with the patient.
8:47	And do not be like those who came out of their dwellings with insolence and for show before the people, and who turn [others] away from the path of God.
8:47	God encompasses perfectly what they do.
8:48	And when the Diverter embellished their deeds for them, and said: "None, today, among the people, can overcome you, and I am your neighboring protector";
8:48	but when the two forces saw one another, he turned back on his heels, and said: "I am clear of you; I see what you do not see; I fear God."
8:48	God is severe in sanction.
8:49	When the hypocrites, and those in whose cores is a sickness, said: "Their Law has indeed deceived these people."
8:49	But whoever relies upon God — God is indeed All-Powerful, Wise.
8:50	And if you could see, when the Self is taken from those who disowned,
8:50	the Agents multiply their haul of them, whether they face forward or turn away in flight: "Taste the punishment of the Blaze!"
8:51	That is what your hands have prepared; and God is not at all unjust toward the constrained [under compulsion].
8:52	Like the conduct of the clan of Fir'awn,
8:52	and of those before them, who disowned the signs of God; God then seized them for their offenses.
8:52	God is strong, severe in sanction.
8:53	That is because God never changes a blessing He has granted a people, until they change what is in themselves; and God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
8:54	Like the conduct of the clan of Fir'awn,
8:54	and of those before them, who denied the signs of their Guardian; We then annihilated them for their offenses,
8:54	and We drowned the clan of Fir'awn.
8:54	All were unjust.
8:56	The worst of living beings, with God, are those who disowned and who, henceforth, do not believe — those with whom you made a pact, and who, every time, break their pact, and who do not guard themselves.
8:57	So if you overtake them in war, scatter them, along with them, those who follow them, that they may take heed.
8:58	And if you fear treachery from a people, denounce [the pact] toward them, on equal terms.
8:58	God does not love the treacherous.
8:59	And let those who disown by no means think that they have gotten ahead.
8:59	They cannot render [God] powerless.
8:60	And prepare, against them, whatever you can of force and of steeds held ready for battle,
8:60	so as to strike terror thereby into the enemy of God and your enemy, and others, besides them, whom you do not know:
8:60	God, He, knows them.
8:60	And whatever you spend in the way of God will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.
8:61	And if they incline toward peace, incline toward it also, and rely upon God.
8:61	He is, indeed, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
8:62	And if they want to deceive you, then God suffices you.
8:63	It is He who reinforced you with His help and with the believers, and who reconciled their cores.
8:63	Had you spent all that is on earth, you would not have reconciled their cores,
8:63	but it is God who reconciled them.
8:63	He is All-Powerful, Wise.
8:64	O Prophet! God suffices you,
8:64	and so do those of the believers who follow you.
8:65	O Prophet! urge the believers to combat.
8:65	If there are, among you, twenty patient men, they will overcome two hundred [men];
8:65	and if there are a hundred among you, they will overcome a thousand of those who disown, for they are a people who do not understand.
8:66	Now, God has lightened [your burden], and He has known that there was weakness in you.
8:66	So if there are a hundred among you, patient, they will overcome two hundred;
8:66	and if there are a thousand among you, they will overcome two thousand, with God's permission.
8:66	God is with the patient.
8:67	It was not for a prophet to have captives, until he had fully subdued the land.
8:67	You wanted the fleeting goods of the present life,
8:67	while God wants the last life.
8:67	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
8:68	Had it not been for a prior register from God, an immense punishment would have touched you for what you took.
8:69	So eat of what you have taken as spoils, lawful and good,
8:69	and guard yourselves toward God.
8:69	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
8:70	O Prophet! say to those of the captives in your hands: "If God knows any good in your cores, He will give you better than what was taken from you, and He will forgive you."
8:70	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
8:71	And if they want to betray you, they have already betrayed God before, and He has given you power over them.
8:71	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
8:72	Those who have believed, emigrated, and striven with their goods and their Selves in the way of God, and those who gave refuge and helped — those are allies of one another.
8:72	And those who believed without emigrating — you have, of their protection, no responsibility, until they emigrate.
8:72	And if they ask you for help in the name of the Law, help is incumbent upon you, except against a people between whom and you there is a solemn engagement.
8:72	God sees perfectly what you do.
8:73	And those who disown are allies of one another.
8:73	If you do not do this, there will be a trial on earth, and immense corruption.
8:74	And those who have believed, emigrated, and striven in the way of God, and those who gave refuge and helped — those are the true believers.
8:74	They have a forgiveness, and a generous provision.
8:75	And those who believed afterward, emigrated, and strove with you — those are among you.
8:75	And the possessors of kinship ties have, toward one another, greater right according to God's Code.
8:75	God is All-Knowing of all things.

Sura 9 — God Suffices Me (At-Tawba)

9:1	Exoneration from obligation, from God and His messenger, toward those of the associators with whom you had made a pact.
9:2	So move about freely in the land for four months,
9:2	and know that you cannot render God powerless, and that God covers with disgrace those who disown.
9:3	And a proclamation from God and His messenger to mankind, on the day of the Great Convergence of the Hajj: God is clear of the associators, and so is His messenger.
9:3	So if you turn back [to God], that is better for you;
9:3	but if you turn away, know that you cannot render God powerless.
9:4	Announce to those who have disowned a painful punishment — except those of the associators with whom you made a pact, and who then did not fail you in anything nor supported anyone against you: fulfill your pact toward them until its term.
9:4	God loves those who guard themselves.
9:5	When the inviolable months have passed, kill the associators wherever you find them; seize them, besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every point of observation.
9:5	But if they turn back [to God], maintain the Contact, and give the purifying alms, then leave their way clear.
9:5	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
9:6	And if one of the associators asks you for protection, protect him, until he hears the word of God, then convey him to his place of safety.
9:6	That is because they are a people who do not know.
9:7	How could there be, for the associators, a pact with God and with His messenger — except those with whom you made a pact near the inviolable place of prostration? As long as they stand straight with you, stand straight with them.
9:7	God loves those who guard themselves.
9:8	How, then? If they gained the upper hand over you, they would respect toward you neither kinship nor covenant.
9:8	They satisfy you with their mouths, while their cores refuse; and most of them are oversteppers.
9:9	They sold the signs of God for a small price, and they turned [others] away from His path.
9:9	How evil is what they used to do!
9:10	They respect, toward a believer, neither kinship nor covenant.
9:10	Those are the aggressors.
9:11	If they turn back [to God], maintain the Contact, and give the purifying alms, then they are your brothers in the Law.
9:11	And thus do We detail the signs for a people who know.
9:12	But if they break their oaths after their engagement, and attack your Law, then fight the leaders of disowning,
9:12	for their oaths are not valid — perhaps they will cease.
9:13	Will you then not fight a people who broke their oaths, who intended to expel the messenger, and who attacked you first? Would you fear them?
9:13	God is more worthy that you should fear Him, if you are believers.
9:15	Fight them: God will punish them by your hands, cover them with disgrace, grant you victory over them, heal the chests of a believing people, and remove the rage of their cores.
9:15	And God turns with clemency toward whom He wills.
9:15	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
9:16	Or did you think that you would be left, without God having yet distinguished those among you who have striven and have not taken, besides God, His messenger, and the believers, any close confidant?
9:16	God is Informed of what you do.
9:17	It is not for the associators to populate the places of prostration of God, bearing witness against themselves of disowning.
9:17	Those are the ones whose works have collapsed, and who abide eternally in the Fire.
9:18	Only he populates the places of prostration of God who has believed in God and the Last Day, has maintained the Contact, given the purifying alms, and feared none but God alone — those, it may be, are among those who let themselves be guided.
9:19	Would you make the watering of the arrival and the maintenance of the inviolable place of prostration equivalent to one who has believed in God and the Last Day, and has striven in the way of God?
9:19	They are not equal in the sight of God.
9:19	And God does not guide the unjust people.
9:20	Those who have believed, emigrated, and striven in the way of God with their goods and their Selves have a greater rank with God,
9:20	and those are the ones who triumph.
9:22	Their Guardian announces to them a benevolence from Himself, a good pleasure, and gardens where they will have lasting bliss, abiding therein eternally, forever.
9:22	With God there is an immense reward.
9:23	O you who have believed! do not take your fathers and your brothers as allies, if they prefer disowning to faith.
9:23	And whoever among you takes them as allies, those are the unjust.
9:24	Say: "If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, your clan, the goods you have acquired, a trade whose decline you fear, and dwellings that please you, are dearer to you than God, His messenger, and striving in His way, then wait, until God brings His command."
9:24	And God does not guide the people of the oversteppers.
9:25	God indeed helped you in many places, and on the day of Hunayn, when your great number pleased you, but it availed you nothing, and the earth, despite its vastness, became narrow for you; then you turned your backs, fleeing.
9:26	Then God sent down His tranquility upon His messenger and upon the believers, and sent down soldiers you did not see, and He punished those who had disowned.
9:26	Such is the recompense of those who disown.
9:27	Then God turns with clemency, after that, toward whom He wills.
9:27	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
9:28	O you who have believed! the associators are nothing but impurity: let them not approach the inviolable place of prostration, after this year of theirs.
9:28	And if you fear poverty, God will enrich you from His favor, if He wills.
9:28	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
9:29	Fight those who do not believe in God nor in the Last Day, who do not forbid what God and His messenger have forbidden, and who do not submit to the Law of truth, among those to whom the Scripture was given — until they pay the war indemnity, by their own hand, being diminished.
9:30	The Reoriented said: "Al-'Uzayr is the son of God";
9:30	and the Helpers said: "Al-Massih is the son of God."
9:30	That is their saying, [uttered] by their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who, before them, disowned.
9:30	May God combat them!
9:30	How then are they turned away?
9:31	They took their rabbis and their monks as masters besides God, as well as Al-Massih, son of Maryam,
9:31	though they had been ordered only to obey one deity.
9:31	There is no deity but Him.
9:31	Glory be to Him, above what they associate with Him!
9:32	They want to extinguish God's light with their mouths, but God refuses everything except to bring His light to completion, however much those who disown detest it.
9:33	It is He who sent His messenger with the guidance and the Law of truth, so as to make it prevail over every [other] law, however much the associators detest it.
9:34	O you who have believed! many rabbis and monks devour the goods of people through falsehood, and turn [others] away from the path of God.
9:34	And those who hoard gold and silver, and do not spend it in the way of God — announce to them a painful punishment,
9:35	on the day when it will be heated in the fire of Jahannam, and their foreheads, their sides, and their backs will be branded with it: "This is what you hoarded for yourselves; taste then what you used to hoard!"
9:36	The number of months, with God, is twelve months, in God's Code, since the day He created the heavens and the earth;
9:36	four of them are inviolable.
9:36	That is the upright Law.
9:36	So do not wrong yourselves during these.
9:36	And fight the associators throughout all the months, as they fight you throughout all the months,
9:36	and know that God is with those who guard themselves.
9:37	The intercalation is only an increase in disowning, by which those who disown mislead [the people]: they make it free one year and restrict it another, so as to adjust the number of what God has made inviolable, thereby making permitted what God has made inviolable.
9:37	The evil of their deeds has been embellished for them.
9:37	And God does not guide the people who disown.
9:38	O you who have believed! what is with you, when it is said to you: 'Mobilize on the way of God', that you cling heavily to the earth?
9:38	Are you satisfied with the present life rather than the last life?
9:38	The enjoyment of the present life, compared with the last life, is but little.
9:39	If you do not mobilize, He will punish you with a painful punishment, and replace you with another people, without your harming Him in any way.
9:39	God is capable of all things.
9:40	If you do not help him, God has already helped him, when those who disowned expelled him, the second of two, when they were both in the cave, when he said to his companion: "Do not grieve, God is with us."
9:40	God then sent down His tranquility upon him,
9:40	and He reinforced him with soldiers you did not see,
9:40	and He made lowest the word of those who had disowned,
9:40	while the word of God is the highest.
9:40	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
9:41	Mobilize, light or heavy, and strive with your goods and your Selves in the way of God.
9:41	That is better for you, if you knew.
9:42	Had it been a near gain and an easy journey, they would have followed you; but the distance seemed long to them.
9:42	They will swear by God: "If we had been able, we would have gone out with you";
9:42	they annihilate themselves,
9:42	and God knows that they are indeed liars.
9:43	May God efface [that] for you! Why did you give them permission, before those who spoke truly became clear to you, and before you knew the liars?
9:44	Those who believe in God and the Last Day do not ask you for permission [to be excused] from striving with their goods and their Selves.
9:44	God is All-Knowing of those who guard themselves.
9:45	Only those who do not believe in God nor in the Last Day ask you for permission, whose cores are seized with doubt, so that they waver in their doubt.
9:46	Had they wanted to set out, they would have prepared equipment for it;
9:46	but God was averse to their setting out, and He held them back, and it was said to them: "Stay with those who stay."
9:47	Had they gone out among you, they would only have increased your confusion, and would have rushed about among you, seeking to put you to the trial — and among you are some who listen to them.
9:47	God is All-Knowing of the unjust.
9:48	They had already sought the trial before, and had turned matters over for you in every direction, until the truth came and God's command became manifest, in spite of their aversion.
9:49	And among them is one who says: "Grant me permission, and do not expose me to the trial."
9:49	Is it not into the trial itself that they have already fallen?
9:49	Jahannam indeed surrounds those who disown.
9:50	If good befalls you, it grieves them,
9:50	and if misfortune befalls you, they say: "We had already taken our precautions before" — and they turn away, rejoicing.
9:51	Say: "Nothing will befall us except what God has decreed for us;
9:51	He is our nearest Guarantor.
9:51	It is upon God that the believers should rely."
9:52	Say: "Do you await for us anything but one of the two best [outcomes]?
9:52	And we, we await for you that God strike you with a punishment from Himself, or by our hands.
9:52	So wait,
9:52	we are waiting with you."
9:53	Say: "Spend willingly or reluctantly, it will not be accepted from you,
9:53	for you are a people of oversteppers."
9:54	And nothing prevented their contributions from being accepted, except that they disowned God and His messenger, that they come to the Contact only lazily, and spend only reluctantly.
9:55	Let neither their goods nor their children impress you then.
9:55	God wants only, through this, to punish them in the present life, and that their Selves depart while they disown.
9:56	They swear by God that they are indeed of you, when they are not of you; but they are a people who love to divide.
9:57	If they found a refuge, caves, or a hiding place, they would rush headlong into it.
9:58	And among them is one who disparages you by insinuation concerning the alms: if they are given some of it, they are satisfied; and if they are not given any of it, at once they are angry.
9:59	Had they instead been satisfied with what God and His messenger gave them, and said: "God suffices us; God will grant us of His favor, and His messenger too;
9:59	it is toward God that we turn in desire."
9:60	The alms are destined only for the poor, the destitute, those who administer them, those whose cores have been united with the believers, those under the burden of a debt, those indebted by an unforeseen expense, in the way of God, and the stranded traveler — an obligation from God.
9:60	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
9:61	And among them are those who hurt the Prophet and say: "He is all ear."
9:61	Say: "An ear of good for you: he believes in God, gives credit to the believers, and is a benevolence for those among you who have believed."
9:61	And those who hurt the messenger of God will have a painful punishment.
9:62	They swear to you by God, to satisfy you; but God and His messenger are more worthy that they should seek to satisfy Him, if they are believers.
9:63	Do they not know that whoever sets himself against God and His messenger will have the fire of Jahannam, wherein he will abide eternally?
9:63	That is the immense disgrace.
9:64	The hypocrites are wary lest a surah be sent down concerning them, informing them of what is in their cores.
9:64	Say: "Mock away!
9:64	God will bring out into the open what you are wary of."
9:65	And if you question them, they will certainly say: "We were only chatting and playing."
9:65	Say: "Was it God, His signs, and His messenger that you were mocking?"
9:66	Do not make excuses:
9:66	you have disowned after your faith.
9:66	If effacement is granted to a group among you, another group will be punished, for having been severed.
9:67	The hypocrites, men and women, are of one another: they enjoin what is disavowed and forbid what is recognized, and they close their hands; they forgot God, so He forgot them.
9:67	The hypocrites are indeed the oversteppers.
9:68	God has promised the hypocrites, men and women, and those who disown, the fire of Jahannam, wherein they will abide eternally.
9:68	That suffices them.
9:68	God has cursed them,
9:68	and they will have a lasting punishment.
9:69	Like those who preceded you: they were stronger than you in power, richer in goods and children; they enjoyed their share, and you have enjoyed your share as those before you enjoyed their share, and you have plunged [into futility] as they plunged.
9:69	Those are the ones whose works have collapsed, in the present life and in the last life;
9:69	and those are the losers.
9:70	Has there not come to them the information concerning those before them: the people of Nuh, the Recidivists [Aad], the Depleters [Thamud], the people of Ibrahim, the companions of Madyan, and the overturned cities?
9:70	Their messengers had come to them with clear proofs.
9:70	It was not for God to wrong them;
9:70	but it was themselves that they wronged.
9:71	The believers, men and women, are allies of one another:
9:71	they enjoin what is recognized and forbid what is disavowed, they maintain the Contact, give the purifying alms, and obey God and His messenger.
9:71	Those are the ones on whom God will have benevolence.
9:71	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
9:72	God has promised the believers, men and women, gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, and good dwellings in the gardens of permanent abode;
9:72	and a good pleasure from God is greater still.
9:72	That is the immense triumph.
9:73	O Prophet! strive against those who disown and the hypocrites, and be firm with them.
9:73	Their refuge will be Jahannam,
9:73	and what an evil destination!
9:74	They swear by God that they said nothing;
9:74	yet they did indeed utter the word of disowning, and they disowned after having been true to God, and they intended what they could not attain.
9:74	They have nothing to reproach, except that God and His messenger enriched them from His favor.
9:74	If they turn back [to God], it will be better for them;
9:74	but if they turn away, God will punish them with a painful punishment, in the present life and in the last life,
9:74	and they will have, on earth, neither protector nor helper.
9:75	And among them is one who made a pact with God: "If He gives us of His favor, we will surely give alms, and we will surely be among the righteous."
9:76	But when He gave them of His favor, they became stingy with it and turned away, evading.
9:77	So He made this followed by hypocrisy in their cores, until the day they will meet Him, for having failed God in what they had promised Him, and for having lied.
9:78	Do they not know that God knows their secret and their private talks, and that God is the great Knower of what escapes the senses?
9:79	Those who disparage by insinuation the believers who give alms willingly, and mock those who have only their effort to give — God mocks them,
9:79	and they will have a painful punishment.
9:80	Whether you ask forgiveness for them or not —
9:80	even if you asked forgiveness for them seventy times, God will never forgive them.
9:80	That is because they disowned God and His messenger.
9:80	And God does not guide the people of the oversteppers.
9:81	Those who stayed behind rejoiced in their position, apart from the messenger of God, and were averse to striving with their goods and their Selves in the way of God, and said: 'Do not mobilize in the heat.'
9:81	Say: "The fire of Jahannam is even more intense in heat" — if only they understood!
9:82	Let them laugh little, then, and weep much, as a recompense for what they used to earn.
9:83	If God brings you back to a group of them, and they ask you permission to go out [with you], say then: "You will never go out with me, and you will never fight with me an enemy.
9:83	You were satisfied with staying behind the first time;
9:83	so stay with those who stay behind."
9:84	And never be in contact with any of them who dies, and do not maintain yourself for his burial:
9:84	they disowned God and His messenger, and died as oversteppers.
9:85	Let neither their goods nor their children impress you then.
9:85	God wants only, through this, to punish them in the present life, and that their Selves depart while they disown.
9:86	And when a surah is sent down [demanding]: "Believe in God, and strive with His messenger", those among them who have the means ask you permission [to stay], and say: "Leave us, that we may be with those who stay."
9:87	They were satisfied to be with those who stay behind,
9:87	and a seal has been set upon their cores, so that they do not understand.
9:88	But the messenger, and those who believed with him, strove with their goods and their Selves,
9:88	and those are the ones to whom belong the excellent things,
9:88	and those are the ones who succeed.
9:89	God has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally.
9:89	That is the immense triumph.
9:90	And the excuse-makers, among the notables, came so that permission [to stay] might be granted them, while those who lied to God and His messenger remained seated.
9:90	A painful punishment will strike those among them who disowned.
9:91	No blame upon the weak, nor upon the sick, nor upon those who find nothing to spend, so long as they are sincere toward God and His messenger.
9:91	No blame upon those who do good.
9:91	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
9:92	Nor against those who, having come to you so that you might transport them, [heard you] say: "I find nothing on which to transport you",
9:92	and who went away, their eyes overflowing with tears, grieved that they could not find anything to spend.
9:93	The blame falls only on those who ask you permission while they are rich.
9:93	They were satisfied to be with those who stay behind,
9:93	and God has set a seal upon their cores, so that they do not know.
9:94	They will make excuses to you, when you have returned to them.
9:94	Say: "Do not make excuses, we will not give you credit.
9:94	God has already informed us of your news.
9:94	God will see your deed, and so will His messenger,
9:94	then you will be brought back to the Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is manifest, and He will inform you of what you used to do."
9:95	They will swear to you by God, once you have returned to them, so that you may turn away from them.
9:95	So turn away from them:
9:95	they are a defilement,
9:95	and their refuge will be Jahannam,
9:95	as a recompense for what they used to earn.
9:96	They swear to you, so that you may be satisfied with them; but even if you were satisfied with them, God would not be satisfied with the people of the oversteppers.
9:97	The notables are even more intense in disowning and hypocrisy, and they all the more deserve not to know the limits of what God has sent down upon His messenger.
9:97	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
9:98	And among the notables is one who regards what he spends as a forced loss, and awaits misfortunes for you.
9:98	Upon them, the cycle of misfortune.
9:98	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
9:99	And among the notables is one who believes in God and the Last Day, and who regards what he spends as a means of drawing near to God and the visits of the messenger.
9:99	Is that not, for him, a true drawing-near?
9:99	God will admit them into His benevolence.
9:99	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
9:100	The very first forerunners, among the emigrants and the helpers [those who took the refugees into their homes], and those who followed them in excellence — God is satisfied with them, and they are satisfied with Him;
9:100	He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, forever.
9:100	That is the immense triumph.
9:101	And among the notables around you, there are hypocrites,
9:101	as well as, among those of them who dwell in the Capital, people hardened in hypocrisy whom you do not know:
9:101	We, We know them.
9:101	We will punish them twice, then they will be brought back to an immense punishment.
9:102	And others have acknowledged their offenses, having mixed a righteous deed with another that was evil; it may be that God will turn toward them with clemency.
9:102	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
9:103	Take from their goods an alms that purifies them and makes them grow, and be in contact with them:
9:103	your visits are a comfort for them.
9:103	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
9:104	Do they not know that God, He, accepts the repentance of His obedient ones and receives the alms, and that God, He, is the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent?
9:105	And say: "Act; God will see your deed, and so will His messenger and the believers,
9:105	and you will be brought back to the Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is manifest, and He will inform you of what you used to do."
9:106	And others are held in suspense for God's command: either He will punish them, or He will turn toward them with clemency.
9:106	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
9:107	And those who took a place of prostration for harm, for disowning, for division among the believers, and as a lookout post for one who, previously, had made war on God and His messenger —
9:107	they will surely swear: "We wanted only the best";
9:107	but God testifies that they are indeed liars.
9:108	Never maintain yourself therein.
9:108	A place of prostration founded upon guardedness, from the very first day, is far more worthy that you should maintain yourself therein.
9:108	In it are men who love to purify themselves.
9:108	God loves those who purify themselves.
9:109	Is one whose structure has been founded upon guardedness toward God and His good pleasure better, or one whose structure has been founded on the edge of a crumbling ravine, which then collapses with him into the fire of Jahannam?
9:109	And God does not guide the unjust people.
9:110	The structure they built continues to be a doubt in their cores, unless their cores break into pieces.
9:110	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
9:111	God has bought from the believers their Selves and their goods, in exchange for the Garden that belongs to them.
9:111	They fight in the way of God, kill and are killed — it is a promise incumbent upon Him, in truth, in the Tawrah, the Injil, and this Recitation.
9:111	And who keeps his engagement better than God?
9:111	So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him,
9:111	and that is the immense triumph.
9:112	Those who return [to God], who obey, who praise, who journey [His way], who bow, who prostrate, who enjoin what is recognized and forbid what is disavowed, and who guard the limits of God —
9:112	and give good news to the believers.
9:113	It was not for the Prophet, nor for those who believed, to ask forgiveness for the associators, even if they were close relatives, once it had become clear to them that they were the companions of the Blaze.
9:114	And Ibrahim's asking forgiveness for his father was only because of a promise he had made him;
9:114	but when it became clear to him that he was an enemy of God, he disavowed him.
9:114	Ibrahim was indeed full of [repentant] sighs, thoughtful.
9:115	It was not for God to lead a people astray after having guided them, without first having made clear to them what they must guard themselves against.
9:115	God is All-Knowing of all things.
9:116	To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth;
9:116	He gives life and causes death.
9:116	And you have, besides God, neither protector nor helper.
9:118	God has indeed turned with clemency toward the Prophet, the emigrants, and the helpers [those who took in the refugees], who followed him in the hour of hardship, after the cores of a group among them had almost wavered; then He turned toward them with clemency — He is, toward them, full of kindness, Benevolent — and [He turned] toward the three who had stayed behind,
9:118	until, when the earth had become narrow for them despite its vastness, and their very Selves had become narrow for them, and they thought that there is no refuge from God except toward Him — then He turned toward them with clemency, so that they might turn back [to Him].
9:118	God, He, is the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.
9:119	O you who have believed! guard yourselves toward God, and be with the truthful.
9:120	It was not for the notables, whether dwelling in the Capital or around it, to stay behind, apart from the messenger of God, nor to prefer their own Selves to his.
9:120	That is because no thirst, no fatigue, no hunger touches them in the way of God, no step they tread irritates those who disown, and they gain nothing from an enemy, without a righteous deed being inscribed for them because of it.
9:120	God does not let the reward of those who do good be lost.
9:121	And they do not spend any expenditure, small or great, nor do they cut off traffic in any valley [during the mobilization], without it being inscribed for them,
9:121	so that God may recompense them according to the best of what they used to do.
9:122	It was not for the believers to mobilize all together.
9:122	Why did not a detachment mobilize from every group among them, so that they might gain deep understanding in the Law, and warn their people upon their return to them, that they might be wary?
9:123	O you who have believed! fight those among the disowners who are near you, and let them find in you firmness.
9:123	And know that God is with those who guard themselves.
9:124	And when a surah is sent down, there is among them one who says: "Which of you has this [surah] increased in faith?"
9:124	As for those who have believed, it has increased them in faith, and they rejoice at it.
9:125	But as for those in whose cores is a sickness, it has added a defilement to their defilement, and they died disowning.
9:126	Do they not see that they are tried every year, once or twice? Yet they do not turn back [to God], and they do not take heed.
9:127	And when a surah is sent down, they look at one another: "Does anyone see you?" Then they slip away.
9:127	God has turned away their cores, for they are a people who do not understand.
9:128	A messenger has indeed come to you, from among yourselves; it is grievous to him that you should suffer,
9:128	attentive to you,
9:128	full of kindness, benevolent toward the believers.
9:129	If they turn away, say then: "God suffices me;
9:129	there is no deity but Him;
9:129	upon Him I rely,
9:129	and He is the Guardian of the immense Edifice."

Sura 10 — The Abode of Peace (Yunus)

10:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Ra.
10:1	These are the signs of the Scripture full of wisdom.
10:2	Is it then a wonder for people that We revealed to a man among them: "Warn mankind,"
10:2	and give good news to those who have believed that they have, with their Guardian, a firm standing of truth?
10:2	Those who disown say: "This is indeed a manifest illusion."
10:3	Your Guardian is God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself upon the Edifice.
10:3	He governs the Order.
10:3	No intercessor except after His permission.
10:3	That is God, your Guardian.
10:3	So obey Him.
10:3	Will you not then be reminded?
10:4	To Him will be your return, all together.
10:4	It is God's promise, in truth.
10:4	It is He who begins creation, then remakes it, so as to recompense with equity those who believed and did righteous deeds.
10:4	As for those who disowned, they will have a scalding drink and a painful punishment, for having disowned.
10:5	It is He who made the sun a brightness and the moon a light, and appointed it stations, so that you might know the count of years and the reckoning.
10:5	God created that in nothing but truth.
10:5	Thus He details the signs for a people who know.
10:6	In the alternation of night and day, and in what God created in the heavens and the earth, there are indeed signs for a people who guard themselves.
10:8	Those who do not hope for Our meeting, who were content with the present life and found ease in it, and those who are heedless of Our signs — their refuge will be the Fire, for what they used to earn.
10:9	Those who believed and did righteous deeds, their Guardian guides them by reason of their faith.
10:9	Beneath them rivers will flow, in the Gardens of bliss.
10:10	Their cry there will be: "Glory be to You, O God!"
10:10	And their greeting there will be: "Peace".
10:10	And the end of their cry will be: "Praise be to God, Guardian of all beings."
10:11	If God hastened evil for people as they hasten [the arrival of] good, their term would already have been settled for them.
10:11	So We leave those who do not hope for Our meeting to wander blindly in their excess.
10:12	And when hardship touches the human being, he calls upon Us lying on his side, sitting, or standing;
10:12	then, when We have removed his hardship from him, he goes his way as if he had never called upon Us for a hardship that had touched him.
10:12	Thus were embellished, for the excessive ones, the deeds they used to do.
10:13	We annihilated the generations before you as soon as they committed injustice, even though their messengers had come to them with clear proofs;
10:13	but they were not disposed to believe.
10:13	Thus do We recompense the severed people.
10:14	Then We made you successors on the earth, after them, so as to see how you would act.
10:15	And when Our signs are recited to them, wholly explicit, those who do not hope for Our meeting say: "Bring a Recitation other than this one, or change it."
10:15	Say: "It is not for me to change it of my own accord;
10:15	I only follow what is revealed to me.
10:15	I fear, if I disobeyed my Guardian, the punishment of a tremendous day."
10:16	Say: "Had God willed, I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have made it known to you.
10:16	I dwelt among you a whole lifetime before it, after all.
10:16	Will you not then reason?"
10:17	Who is then more unjust than one who invents a lie against God, or denies His signs?
10:17	The severed do not succeed.
10:18	They obey, besides God, what neither harms nor benefits them, and they say: "These are our intercessors with God."
10:18	Say: "Do you inform God of what He does not know in the heavens or on the earth?"
10:18	Glory be to Him! He is far above what they associate with Him.
10:19	Mankind was but one single community, then they diverged.
10:19	And had it not been for a word that preceded from your Guardian, it would already have been settled between them concerning what they differ over.
10:20	And they say: "Why has no sign been sent down to him from his Guardian?"
10:20	Say: "What escapes the senses belongs exclusively to God.
10:20	So wait:
10:20	I am, with you, among those who wait."
10:21	And when We let people taste a benevolence after a hardship that had touched them, there they are, plotting against Our signs.
10:21	Say: "God is swifter in plotting."
10:21	Our envoys write down what you plot.
10:22	It is He who makes you travel on land and sea,
10:22	until, when you are in the ship and it sails with them by a favorable wind, and they rejoice in it, a violent wind comes upon them, the swell comes at them from every side, and they think they are surrounded — then they call upon God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him: "If You save us from this, we will surely be among the grateful."
10:23	But as soon as He saves them, there they are, committing aggression on earth, without right.
10:23	O mankind! your aggression falls back only upon yourselves,
10:23	an enjoyment of the present life;
10:23	then to Us will be your return, and We will inform you of what you used to do.
10:24	The likeness of the present life is that of water which We send down from the sky, and which mingles
10:24	with the vegetation of the earth, from which men and cattle eat,
10:24	until, when the earth has taken on its adornment and become embellished, and its people think they have mastery over it, Our command comes to it, by night or by day, and We make it a mown field, as if it had not flourished the day before.
10:24	Thus do We detail the signs for a people who reflect.
10:25	God calls to the Abode of Peace, and He guides whom He wills to a straight path.
10:26	To those who do good belongs the best reward, and even more;
10:26	neither dark dust nor humiliation will veil their faces.
10:26	Those are the companions of the Garden,
10:26	they will abide therein forever.
10:27	As for those who committed evil deeds, the recompense of an evil deed will be its equivalent, and humiliation will cover them; they will have no preserver against God — as if their faces were covered with strips of dark night.
10:27	Those are the companions of the Fire, they will abide therein forever.
10:28	On the day when We gather them all together, then say to those who associated: "Stay in your place, you and your associates" — then We will separate them from one another,
10:28	and their associates will say: "It was not us that you obeyed."
10:29	God suffices as a witness between us and you: we were indeed heedless of your obedience.
10:30	There, every Self will experience what it did before,
10:30	and they will be returned to God, their true nearest Guarantor,
10:30	and what they used to invent will have strayed away from them.
10:31	Say: "Who provides for you from the sky and the earth?
10:31	Or who holds mastery over hearing and sight, who brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living, and who governs the Order?"
10:31	They will say: "God."
10:31	Then say: "Will you not then guard yourselves?"
10:32	That is God, your Guardian, the True.
10:32	After the truth, what is there but error?
10:32	How then can you be turned away?
10:33	Thus did the word of your Guardian prove true concerning the oversteppers: they do not believe.
10:34	Say: "Is there, among your associates, one who begins creation then remakes it?"
10:34	Say: "God begins creation, then remakes it.
10:34	How then can you be turned away from the truth?"
10:35	Say: "Is there, among your associates, one who guides to the truth?"
10:35	Say: "God guides to the truth.
10:35	Is one who guides to the truth more worthy of being followed, or one who does not guide himself unless he is guided?
10:35	What is with you then? How do you judge?"
10:36	Most of them follow nothing but conjecture;
10:36	and conjecture does not avail at all against the truth.
10:36	God is All-Knowing of what they do.
10:37	This Recitation was not something that could have been invented besides God;
10:37	rather, it confirms what precedes it, and it details the Code — with no doubt possible — from the Guardian of all beings.
10:38	Will they say: "He invented it"?
10:38	Say: "Bring then a surah like it,
10:38	and call upon whomever you can, besides God, if you are truthful."
10:39	In reality, they denied what they did not encompass in knowledge, and whose interpretation had not yet come to them.
10:39	Thus did those before them deny.
10:39	So look how the end of the unjust was.
10:40	Among them are some who believe in it, and some who do not believe in it;
10:40	your Guardian knows best the corrupters.
10:41	And if they deny you, say: "To me my deed, and to you your deed; you are clear of what I do, and I am clear of what you do."
10:42	Among them are some who listen to you —
10:42	but will you make the deaf hear, even though they do not reason?
10:43	And among them are some who look at you —
10:43	but will you guide the blind, even though they do not see?
10:44	God does no wrong to people, in anything;
10:44	it is people who wrong themselves.
10:45	On the day He gathers them, as if they had remained but an hour of the day, they will recognize one another.
10:45	They are indeed losers, those who denied the meeting with God, and they did not let themselves be guided.
10:46	Whether We show you part of what We promise them, or We take you back to Us, to Us will be their return;
10:46	God is thereafter a witness over what they do.
10:47	To every community, a messenger.
10:47	And when their messenger came, it was settled between them with equity, and they were not wronged.
10:48	And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are truthful?"
10:49	Say: "I hold, for myself, neither harm nor benefit, except what God wills.
10:49	To every community a term.
10:49	When their term arrives, they cannot delay it by an hour,
10:49	nor advance it."
10:50	Say: "What do you think? If His punishment came upon you by night or by day, what is it the severed would want to hasten?
10:51	Is it then only once it has happened that you will believe in it?
10:51	Now?! when you used to seek to hasten it!
10:52	Then it will be said to those who did wrong: "Taste the punishment of eternity;
10:52	are you recompensed except for what you used to earn?"
10:53	They ask you: "Is it truly so?"
10:53	Say: "Yes, by my Guardian! It is truly so, and you will not be able to render [Him] powerless."
10:54	And if every unjust Self possessed all that is on earth, it would ransom itself with it.
10:54	And they will conceal their regret upon seeing the punishment, and it will be settled between them with equity, and they will not be wronged.
10:55	Is it not so: to God belongs what is in the heavens and on the earth.
10:55	Is it not so: God's promise is true;
10:55	but most of them do not know.
10:56	It is He who gives life and causes death,
10:56	and to Him you will be returned.
10:57	O mankind! an admonition has come to you from your Guardian, a healing for what is in the chests, a guidance and a benevolence for the believers.
10:58	Say: "It is by God's favor and by His benevolence — let them rejoice in that!
10:58	That is better than what they amass."
10:59	Say: "What do you think? Of what God sent down for you as provision, you made some of it forbidden and some lawful —
10:59	say: Is it God who permitted you, or is it against God that you invent?"
10:60	What will they think, on the Day of Appearance, those who invent the lie against God?
10:60	God indeed holds a favor toward mankind,
10:60	but most of them are not grateful.
10:61	You are not in any situation, nor do you recite any Recitation from it, nor do you do any deed, without Our being witnesses over you when you engage in it.
10:61	Nothing escapes your Guardian, even the weight of a grain on earth or in the sky,
10:61	nothing smaller or greater that is not in a clear register.
10:62	Is it not so: the allies of God have nothing to fear, and they will not grieve,
10:63	those who believed and used to guard themselves.
10:64	To them the good news, in the present life and in the last life.
10:64	No change to God's words.
10:64	That is the immense triumph.
10:65	Let not their speech grieve you:
10:65	power belongs to God in its entirety.
10:65	He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
10:66	Is it not so: to God belongs whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth;
10:66	what then do those who invoke, besides God, associates, follow?
10:66	They follow nothing but conjecture,
10:66	and they do nothing but engage in baseless guesswork.
10:67	It is He who made for you the night so that you might rest in it, and the day for seeing clearly.
10:67	There are indeed signs in that for a people who listen.
10:68	They say: "God has taken a child."
10:68	Glory be to Him!
10:68	He is self-sufficient.
10:68	To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
10:68	You have no authority for this.
10:68	Will you say about God what you do not know?
10:69	Say: "Those who invent the lie against God do not succeed."
10:70	An enjoyment in the present life,
10:70	then to Us will be their return; then We will make them taste the severe punishment, for having disowned.
10:71	Recite to them the information concerning Nuh, when he said to his people: "O my people! if my standing among you and my reminder of God's signs weigh upon you, it is upon God that I rely.
10:71	So gather your resolve and your associates,
10:71	let your resolve no longer be, for you, a confused matter,
10:71	then carry it out against me, and grant me no respite."
10:72	If you turn away, I have not asked you for any reward;
10:72	my reward is incumbent only upon God,
10:72	and I have been commanded to be among those true to God alone.
10:73	But they denied him; We saved him, and those with him in the ship, and We made them successors,
10:73	and We drowned those who had denied Our signs.
10:73	So look how the end of those who had been warned turned out.
10:74	Then, after him, We sent messengers to their respective peoples; they brought them clear proofs, but they were not disposed to believe what they had first denied.
10:74	Thus do We seal the cores of those who cross the limits.
10:75	Then, after them, We sent Moussa and Harun to Fir'awn and his court, with Our signs; but they were arrogant and were a severed people.
10:76	When the truth came to them from Us, they said: "This is indeed a manifest illusion."
10:77	Moussa said: "Do you say this of the truth, once it has come to you?
10:77	Is this illusion?
10:77	But illusion-makers do not succeed."
10:78	They said: "Have you come to us to turn us away from what we found our ancestors upon, and so that greatness, on earth, would belong to you both? We will not believe in you two."
10:79	Fir'awn said: "Bring me every knowledgeable illusion-maker."
10:80	When the illusion-makers came, Moussa said to them: "Throw what you have to throw."
10:81	When they had thrown, Moussa said: "What you have brought is illusion;
10:81	God will nullify it.
10:81	God does not make the work of corrupters prosper."
10:82	And God establishes the truth by His words, however much the severed detest it.
10:83	None gave credit to Moussa except a lineage of his people, in fear of Fir'awn and their court, lest he try them.
10:83	Fir'awn was indeed highly placed on earth,
10:83	and he was indeed among the excessive ones.
10:84	Moussa said: "O my people, if you believe in God, rely upon Him, if you are true to God alone."
10:85	They said: "It is upon God that we rely.
10:85	Our Guardian, do not make us a trial for the unjust people,
10:86	and save us, by Your benevolence, from the people who disown."
10:87	We revealed to Moussa and his brother: "Establish houses for your people in Egypt; make your houses an anchor point; and maintain the Contact."
10:87	And give good news to the believers.
10:88	Moussa said: "Our Guardian, You have given Fir'awn and his court adornment and goods in the present life,
10:88	our Guardian, so that they may lead astray from Your path.
10:88	Our Guardian, obliterate their goods and harden their cores, so that they do not believe until they see the painful punishment."
10:89	He said: "Your invocation is answered; so stand you both straight,
10:89	and do not follow the path of those who do not know."
10:90	We made the Sons of Israel cross the sea; Fir'awn and his armies pursued them in aggression and hostility,
10:90	until, when the drowning overtook him, he said: "I believe that there is no deity but He in whom the Sons of Israel have believed, and I am among those true to God alone."
10:91	"Now?! when you disobeyed before, and were among the corrupters!
10:92	Today, then, We save you as to your body, so that you may be a sign for those who come after you."
10:92	But many people are indeed heedless of Our signs.
10:93	We settled the Sons of Israel in a true dwelling, and We provided them with good things as sustenance; they did not diverge until the knowledge had come to them.
10:93	Your Guardian will settle between them, on the Day of Appearance, concerning what they used to differ over.
10:94	If you are in doubt about what We have sent down to you, ask those who read the Scripture before you.
10:94	The truth has certainly come to you from your Guardian;
10:94	so do not be among those who doubt.
10:95	And do not be among those who denied the signs of God, you would then be among the losers.
10:97	Those on whom the word of your Guardian has proven true will not believe, even if every sign came to them, until they see the painful punishment.
10:98	Was there ever a city that believed and whose faith benefited it — except the people of Younes! When they believed, We removed from them the punishment of disgrace in the present life, and We granted them enjoyment until a term.
10:99	Had your Guardian willed, all those on earth would have believed, all of them together.
10:99	Is it you who would compel people to become believers?
10:100	It is not for any Self to believe except with God's permission,
10:100	and He places defilement upon those who do not reason.
10:101	Say: "Look at what is in the heavens and the earth" — but of what avail are signs and warnings to a people who do not believe?
10:102	What then do they await, but the like of the days of those who came before them?
10:102	Say: "Wait then, I am, with you, among those who wait."
10:103	Then We save Our messengers, and those who believed — thus;
10:103	it is a duty upon Us to save the believers.
10:104	Say: "O mankind! if you are in doubt about my Law, I do not obey those you obey besides God,
10:104	but I obey God, who will recall you to Him.
10:104	And I have been commanded to be among the believers,
10:105	and: "Set your direction toward the Law, wholly turned toward God,
10:105	and do not be among those who associate."
10:106	Do not invoke, besides God, what neither benefits nor harms you;
10:106	if you did so, you would then be among the unjust.
10:107	If God touches you with harm, none can remove it but Him;
10:107	and if He wills good for you, none can repel His favor.
10:107	He grants it to whom He wills among His obedient ones.
10:107	He is the Most-Forgiving, the Benevolent.
10:108	Say: "O mankind! the truth has come to you from your Guardian;
10:108	whoever is guided is guided only for himself,
10:108	and whoever strays only strays to his own detriment.
10:108	And I am not, for you, a trustee."
10:109	Follow what is revealed to you, and be patient until God judges.
10:109	He is the best of judges.

Sura 11 — Stand Straight (Hud)

11:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Ra.
11:3	A Scripture whose signs have been made firm, then made explicit, from a Wise, Informed One: "Obey none but God; I am for you, from Him, a warner and a bearer of good tidings; ask forgiveness of your Guardian, then turn back to Him: He will let you enjoy a fine enjoyment until an appointed term, and grant every possessor of favor his favor.
11:3	But if you turn away, I fear for you the punishment of an immense day."
11:4	To God is your return,
11:4	and He is capable of all things.
11:5	Is it not that they fold their chests to hide from Him?
11:5	Is it not that, when they cover themselves with their garments, He knows what they keep secret and what they disclose?
11:5	He is certainly All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
11:6	There is no living creature on earth whose provision does not fall to God; He knows its abode and its repository:
11:6	everything is in a clear register.
11:7	And it is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days, while His Edifice was founded upon the water [as primary matter], so as to test you: which of you acts best.
11:7	And if you say: "You will be resurrected after death," those who disown will surely say: "This is nothing but a manifest illusion."
11:8	And if We delay for them the punishment until a counted term, they will surely say: "What holds it back?"
11:8	Is it not that, the day it comes to them, it will not be turned away from them,
11:8	and what they used to mock will envelop them.
11:9	And if We let the human being taste a benevolence from Us, then withdraw it from him, he becomes indeed hopeless, a great disowner.
11:10	And if We let him taste a blessing after adversity has touched him, he will surely say: "The bad deeds have departed from me":
11:10	he becomes joyful, full of vanity.
11:11	Except those who were patient and did righteous deeds: those will have forgiveness and a great reward.
11:12	It may be that you will leave out part of what is revealed to you, and that your chest will tighten because of it, since they say: "Why has a treasure not been sent down upon him, or why does an Agent not come with him!"
11:12	You are, yourself, only a warner;
11:12	and God is, over everything, a trustee.
11:13	Or will they say: "He has invented it"?
11:13	Say: "Then bring ten invented sûrahs resembling it, and call upon whomever you can, besides God, if you are truthful."
11:14	If they do not answer you, then know that it has been sent down only with God's knowledge, and that there is no deity but Him.
11:14	Will you then be true to God alone?
11:15	Whoever wants the present life and its adornment, We pay him in full for his deeds therein, and he will not be shortchanged in it:
11:16	those are the ones who will have, in the last life, nothing but the Fire;
11:16	what they fabricated therein will have collapsed,
11:16	and what they did will be null and void.
11:17	Is he who relies on a clear proof from his Guardian, followed by a witness from Him, [like those others]?
11:17	And before him, the Scripture of Moussa, as a reference and a benevolence.
11:17	Those are the ones who believe in it.
11:17	And whoever, among the parties, disowns it, the Fire is his appointment:
11:17	So do not be in doubt about it:
11:17	it is the truth from your Guardian, but most people do not believe.
11:18	And who is more unjust than one who invents a lie against God?
11:18	Those are the ones who will be presented before their Guardian, and the witnesses will say: "These are the ones who lied against their Guardian!"
11:19	Is it not that God's curse falls upon the unjust, those who turn [others] away from God's path and seek to make it crooked, and who disown the last life?
11:20	Those are the ones who, on earth, will not be able to render [Him] powerless, and who will have, besides God, no ally:
11:20	the punishment will be doubled for them.
11:20	They could neither hear, nor see.
11:21	Those are the ones who have lost themselves, and what they invented has strayed away from them.
11:22	There is no doubt that, in the last life, they are the greatest losers.
11:23	Those who have believed, done righteous deeds, and found peace before their Guardian: those are the companions of the Garden,
11:23	wherein they will remain.
11:24	The example of the two groups is like the blind and the deaf, and the seeing and the hearing:
11:24	are they equal in example?
11:24	Will you not then remember?
11:25	We have indeed sent Nuh to his people:
11:25	"I am for you a clear warner:
11:26	obey none but God;
11:26	I fear for you the punishment of a painful day."
11:27	The court of those who disowned, among his people, said: "We see you only as a human like us, and we see that only those who are, among us, the most abject, followed you, at first glance.
11:27	And we see in you no favor over us; we rather think you liars."
11:28	He said: "O my people, do you see? If I rely on a clear proof from my Guardian, and He has granted me a benevolence from Him, and it has become obscured for you, shall we impose it upon you while you detest it?
11:29	O my people, I do not ask you for any goods for this:
11:29	my reward is incumbent only upon God.
11:29	And I am not of those who drive away those who believe: they will surely meet their Guardian;
11:29	but I see you a people given to ignorance.
11:30	O my people, who would help me against God, if I drove them away?
11:30	Will you not then remember?
11:31	And I do not tell you that I hold God's treasures, nor that I know what escapes the senses, nor that I am an Agent;
11:31	and I do not say, of those your eyes hold in contempt, that God will grant them no good:
11:31	God knows best what is in their Selves.
11:31	I would then be among the unjust."
11:32	They said: "O Nuh, you have indeed argued with us, and multiplied the argument; bring us then what you threaten us with, if you are among the truthful."
11:33	He said: "It is God alone who will bring it to you, if He wills, and you will not be able to render [Him] powerless.
11:34	And my counsel will be of no use to you, even were I to wish to counsel you, if God wills to mislead you:
11:34	He is your Guardian,
11:34	and to Him you will be returned."
11:35	Or will they say: "He has invented it"?
11:35	Say: "If I have invented it, then my own severance falls upon me, and I am clear of your severance."
11:36	And it was revealed to Nuh that none of your people will believe anymore, except those who have already believed:
11:36	so do not grieve over what they were doing.
11:37	And build the vessel, under Our eyes and by Our revelation,
11:37	and do not speak to Me about those who have been unjust: they will be drowned.
11:38	He was building the vessel; and every time a court of his people passed by him, it mocked him.
11:38	He said: "If you mock us, we will mock you as you mock."
11:39	You will soon know upon whom a punishment comes that covers him with disgrace, and upon whom a lasting punishment falls.
11:40	Until, when Our command came and the oven began to boil over, We said: "Load into it, of every kind, two elements of a pair, and your family, except him against whom the word has already been pronounced, and those who have believed."
11:40	And only a few had believed with him.
11:41	And he said: "Embark therein: in the name of God be its course and its mooring.
11:41	My Guardian is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."
11:42	And it sailed with them amid waves like mountains.
11:42	And Nuh called his son, who stood apart: "O my little one, embark with us, and do not be with those who disown."
11:43	He said: "I shall take refuge on a mountain, which will preserve me from the water."
11:43	He said: "There is no preserver today from God's command, except for him to whom He shows benevolence."
11:43	And the wave came between them, and he was among the drowned.
11:44	And it was said: "O earth, swallow your water! O sky, hold back!"
11:44	And the water subsided, the command was fulfilled, and [the vessel] settled on al-Judi.
11:44	And it was said: "Far removed be the unjust people!"
11:45	And Nuh called upon his Guardian and said: "My Guardian, my son is of my family, and Your promise is truth,
11:45	and You are the most just of judges."
11:46	He said: "O Nuh, he is not of your family:
11:46	it is an unrighteous deed.
11:46	So do not ask Me about what you have no knowledge of:
11:46	I exhort you not to be among the ignorant."
11:47	He said: "My Guardian, I take refuge with You from asking You about what I have no knowledge of,
11:47	and if You do not forgive me and show me benevolence, I will be among the losers."
11:48	It was said: "O Nuh, descend with a peace from Us, and blessings upon you and upon communities from those who are with you;
11:48	and there are communities that We shall let enjoy [life], then a painful punishment from Us will touch them."
11:49	Those are pieces of information about what escapes the senses, which We reveal to you:
11:49	you did not know them, neither you nor your people, before this.
11:49	So be patient:
11:49	the [favorable] outcome belongs to those who guard themselves.
11:50	And to the Recidivists [Aad], their brother Hud:
11:50	he said: "O my people, obey God: you have no other deity than Him;
11:50	you are only inventors [of falsehood]."
11:51	O my people, I do not ask you for any reward for this:
11:51	my reward is incumbent only upon Him who originated me.
11:51	Will you not then reason?
11:52	O my people, ask forgiveness of your Guardian, then turn back to Him: He will send upon you the sky abundantly, and add strength to your strength; and do not turn away as severed."
11:53	They said: "O Hud, you have not brought us a clear proof, and we will not abandon our deities on your word, and we do not give you credit.
11:54	We only say that one of our deities has struck you with evil."
11:54	He said: "I call God to witness,
11:55	And bear witness that I am clear of what you associate besides Him:
11:55	so scheme against me all together, and give me no respite.
11:56	I rely upon God, my Guardian and yours:
11:56	there is no living creature that He does not hold by the forelock.
11:56	My Guardian is indeed upon a straight path.
11:57	If you turn away, I have conveyed to you that with which I was sent to you;
11:57	and my Guardian will substitute in your place another people, without your harming Him in anything:
11:57	my Guardian watches over everything."
11:58	And when Our command came, We saved Hud and those who had believed with him, by a benevolence from Us, and We saved them from a harsh punishment.
11:59	And such were the Recidivists [Aad]: they stubbornly rejected the signs of their Guardian, disobeyed His messengers, and followed the command of every stubborn tyrant.
11:60	And they were pursued, in the present life, by a curse, and on the Day of Appearance too:
11:60	Is it not that the Recidivists [Aad] disowned their Guardian?
11:60	Far removed be the Recidivists [Aad], the people of Hud!
11:61	And to the Depleters [Thamud], their brother Salih:
11:61	he said: "O my people, obey God: you have no other deity than Him.
11:61	It is He who brought you forth from the earth and settled you therein to dwell long: so ask His forgiveness, then turn back to Him:
11:61	my Guardian is near, responsive."
11:62	They said: "O Salih, you were among us a hope before this; do you forbid us to obey what our ancestors obeyed? We are indeed in a troubling doubt about what you call us to."
11:63	He said: "O my people, do you see? If I rely on a clear proof from my Guardian, and He has granted me, from Him, a benevolence, who then would help me against God if I disobeyed Him?
11:63	You would then only increase my loss.
11:64	O my people, this is the she-camel of God, a sign for you:
11:64	so let her eat on God's earth,
11:64	and do her no harm, or a near punishment will seize you."
11:65	But they hamstrung her. He then said: "Enjoy yourselves in your dwelling for three days:
11:65	that is a promise that will not be belied."
11:66	When Our command came, We saved Salih and those who had believed with him, by a benevolence from Us, and from the disgrace of that day.
11:66	Your Guardian is indeed the Strong, the All-Powerful.
11:68	And the Cry seized those who had been unjust, so that they became, in their dwellings, prostrate, as if they had never dwelt there.
11:68	Is it not that the Depleters [Thamud] disowned their Guardian?
11:68	Far removed be the Depleters [Thamud]!
11:69	And Our messengers indeed came to Ibrahim with the glad tidings: they said: "Peace!"
11:69	He said: "Peace!"
11:69	and he did not delay in bringing a roasted calf.
11:70	But when he saw that their hands did not reach it, he found them strange and felt fear of them.
11:70	They said: "Do not fear:
11:70	we are sent to the people of Lut."
11:71	And his wife, standing, began to laugh;
11:71	We then gave her the glad tidings of Ishaq,
11:71	and, after Ishaq, Yaacoub.
11:72	She said: "Woe is me! Shall I bear a child, when I am old, and here is my husband, an old man?
11:72	That is indeed an astonishing thing!"
11:73	They said: "Do you marvel at God's command?
11:73	God's benevolence and His blessings be upon you, people of the house!
11:73	He is praiseworthy, full of glory."
11:74	When the fright had left Ibrahim and the glad tidings had come to him, he began to argue with Us about the people of Lut:
11:75	Ibrahim is indeed thoughtful, full of [repentant] sighs, ever turning back [to God].
11:76	"O Ibrahim, turn away from this:
11:76	the command of your Guardian has already come,
11:76	and an irrevocable punishment surely comes to them."
11:77	And when Our messengers came to Lut, he was distressed by it, and felt helpless about them, and said: "This is a hard day."
11:78	And his people came to him, rushing, though they had previously been committing evil deeds.
11:78	He said: "O my people, here are my daughters: they are purer for you; so guard yourselves toward God, and do not disgrace me concerning my guests:
11:78	is there not among you a reasonable man?"
11:79	They said: "You already know what right we have over your daughters, and you well know, [right now], what we want."
11:80	He said: "Would that I had some strength against you, or could take refuge in a strong support!"
11:81	They said: "O Lut, we are the messengers of your Guardian: they will never reach you.
11:81	So depart with your family, at a time of the night, and let none of you turn around, except your wife.
11:81	What befalls them will also befall her.
11:81	Their appointment is the morning:
11:81	is the morning not near?"
11:83	When Our command came, We made the top [of their city] its bottom, and rained upon it stones of hardened clay, layered, marked with your Guardian:
11:83	and it is not far from the unjust.
11:84	And to Madyan, their brother Shu'ayb:
11:84	he said: "O my people, obey God: you have no other deity than Him,
11:84	and do not diminish the measure nor the weight.
11:84	I see you in prosperity, and I fear for you the punishment of an encompassing day.
11:85	O my people, give full measure and full weight, with equity,
11:85	and do not shortchange people in their things, and do not spread disorder on the earth as corrupters.
11:86	What remains [licitly] with God is better for you, if you are believers;
11:86	and I am not, over you, a guardian.
11:87	They said: "O Shu'ayb, does your Contact command you that we abandon what our ancestors obeyed, or that we stop doing with our goods what we wish?
11:87	You are indeed, yourself, the thoughtful, the reasonable one!"
11:88	He said: "O my people, do you see? If I rely on a clear proof from my Guardian, and He has provided me, from Him, with a fine provision...
11:88	And I do not want to contradict you by doing myself what I turn you away from:
11:88	I only want reform, as much as I can;
11:88	and my success rests only with God:
11:88	upon Him I rely,
11:88	and to Him I return.
11:89	O my people, let not your rupture with me draw upon you what befell the people of Nuh, or the people of Hud, or the people of Salih;
11:89	and the people of Lut are not far from you.
11:90	Ask forgiveness of your Guardian, then turn back to Him:
11:90	my Guardian is Benevolent, full of affection.
11:91	They said: "O Shu'ayb, we do not understand much of what you say, and we indeed see you weak among us; were it not for your clan, we would have banished you; and you have no power over us."
11:92	He said: "O my people, does my clan then weigh more with you than God, whom you have relegated behind your back?
11:92	My Guardian indeed encompasses what you do.
11:93	O my people, act according to your position; I, [too], act:
11:93	you will soon know upon whom a punishment falls that covers him with disgrace, and who is a liar.
11:93	So watch:
11:93	I watch with you."
11:94	And when Our command came, We saved Shu'ayb and those who had believed with him, by a benevolence from Us.
11:95	And the Cry seized those who had been unjust, so that they became, in their dwellings, prostrate, as if they had never dwelt there.
11:95	Far removed be Madyan, as the Depleters [Thamud] were removed!
11:97	We have indeed sent Moussa with Our signs and manifest authority, to Fir'awn and his court; but they followed the command of Fir'awn,
11:97	and the command of Fir'awn was not reasonable.
11:98	He will precede his people on the Day of Appearance, and bring them to arrive at the Fire:
11:98	what a detestable place of arrival to arrive at!
11:99	And they were pursued, here, by a curse, and on the Day of Appearance too:
11:99	what a detestable gift is that which was given to them!
11:100	Those are pieces of information about the cities which We relate to you: some of them remain standing, and others are mown down.
11:101	And We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves:
11:101	their deities, which they invoked besides God, availed them nothing when your Guardian's command came,
11:101	and they only increased their ruin.
11:102	Such is the seizure of your Guardian, when He seizes the cities while they are unjust:
11:102	His seizure is indeed painful, severe.
11:103	There is indeed in that a sign for whoever fears the punishment of the last life:
11:103	that is a day on which the people will be gathered,
11:103	and that is a witnessed day.
11:104	And We defer it only until a counted term.
11:105	The day it comes, no Self will speak without His permission:
11:105	there will then be the wretched and the happy.
11:107	As for those who will be wretched, they will be in the Fire, wherein they will have moaning and sobbing, wherein they will remain as long as the heavens and the earth endure, except what your Guardian wills:
11:107	your Guardian is indeed ever doing what He wills.
11:108	And as for those who will be happy, they will be in the Garden, wherein they will remain as long as the heavens and the earth endure, except what your Guardian wills:
11:108	a gift that will never be cut off.
11:109	So do not be in doubt about what those people obey:
11:109	they obey only as their ancestors obeyed before.
11:109	And We shall surely give them their share, without any deduction.
11:110	We have indeed given Moussa the Scripture, and there was divergence about it;
11:110	and had it not been for a word that preceded from your Guardian, it would have been decided between them;
11:110	and they are indeed, about it, in a troubling doubt.
11:111	And to each, your Guardian will surely pay in full for their deeds:
11:111	He is Informed of what they do.
11:112	So stand straight, as you have been commanded, and those who have turned back [to God] with you, and do not exceed the measure:
11:112	He sees perfectly what you do.
11:113	And do not lean upon those who have been unjust, or the Fire would touch you,
11:113	and you would have, besides God, no ally,
11:113	then you would not be helped.
11:114	And maintain the Contact at the two ends of the day, and at close moments of the night:
11:114	good deeds indeed dispel bad ones:
11:114	that is a reminder for those who remember.
11:115	And be patient:
11:115	God does not let go to waste the reward of those who do good.
11:116	Were there not, among the generations before you, possessors of a remnant [of virtue] who forbade corruption on earth, except a few among those We saved?
11:116	And those who were unjust followed what they were indulged in, and became severed.
11:117	And your Guardian was not one to annihilate the cities unjustly, while their inhabitants were reforming.
11:118	And had your Guardian willed, He would have made the people a single community;
11:119	but they do not cease to differ, except those to whom your Guardian shows benevolence,
11:119	and it is for this that He created them.
11:119	And the word of your Guardian shall be fulfilled: "I will surely fill Jahannam with the Occulted and humans, all together."
11:120	And all that We relate to you, among the pieces of information about the messengers, is that by which We make your Conscience firm;
11:120	and there has come to you, in this, the truth, an admonition, and a reminder for the believers.
11:122	And say to those who do not believe: "Act according to your position; we, [too], act; and wait: we too are waiting."
11:123	And to God belongs what escapes the senses in the heavens and on the earth,
11:123	and to Him the whole matter returns:
11:123	so obey Him, and rely upon Him:
11:123	your Guardian is not at all heedless of what you do.

Sura 12 — The Finest of Accounts (Yusuf)

12:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Ra.
12:1	These are the signs of the explicit Scripture.
12:2	We have sent it down as a flawless Recitation, perhaps you will reason.
12:3	We relate to you the finest of accounts, by revealing to you this Recitation, though you were indeed, before it, among the heedless.
12:4	[Recall] when Youssof said to his father: "O my father, I saw eleven stars, and the sun and the moon,
12:4	I saw them prostrate before me."
12:5	He said: "O my little one, do not relate your vision to your brothers, or they will scheme against you with a scheme:
12:5	the Diverter is, to the human being, a manifest enemy.
12:6	And it is thus that your Guardian will elect you and teach you the interpretation of events,
12:6	and He will complete His blessing upon you and upon the family of Yaacoub, as He completed it before upon your two ancestors, Ibrahim and Ishaq.
12:6	Your Guardian is indeed All-Knowing, Wise.
12:7	There were indeed, in Youssof and his brothers, signs for those who ask.
12:8	[Recall] when they said: "Youssof and his brother are dearer to our father than we, though we are a close-knit group:
12:8	our father is indeed in manifest error.
12:9	Kill Youssof, or banish him to some land, so that your father's face may be freed for you alone, and that you may be, after that, righteous people."
12:10	One of them said: "Do not kill Youssof, but throw him into the depths of the well: some travelers will pick him up, if you must act."
12:11	They said: "O our father, what is it with you, that you do not trust us with Youssof, when we are indeed sincere counselors to him?
12:12	Send him with us tomorrow, that he may enjoy himself and play; we will indeed be his guardians."
12:13	He said: "It indeed grieves me that you take him, and I fear the wolf may devour him while you are heedless of him."
12:14	They said: "If the wolf were to devour him, while we are a close-knit group, we would then indeed be losers."
12:15	When they took him away and agreed to put him in the depths of the well — and We revealed to him: "You will surely inform them of this affair, while they do not suspect it" —
12:17	they came to their father in the evening, weeping, and said: "O our father, we went off racing and left Youssof with our belongings, and the wolf devoured him."
12:17	But you will not give us credit, even if we speak the truth.
12:18	They brought his shirt stained with false blood.
12:18	He said: "Rather, your Self has suggested a course to you.
12:18	Beautiful patience!
12:18	And it is with God that help must be sought against what you describe."
12:19	Travelers arrived; they sent their water-drawer, who let down his bucket. He said: "Good news! Here is a boy!"
12:19	They hid him away as merchandise —
12:19	but God was All-Knowing of what they were doing.
12:20	And they sold him for a paltry price, a few counted coins: they attached little importance to him.
12:21	The one who bought him, in Egypt, said to his wife: "Make his stay honorable; perhaps he will be useful to us, or we may adopt him as a son."
12:21	And thus We established Youssof on that land, and so as to teach him the interpretation of events —
12:21	God is victorious in His purpose,
12:21	but most people do not know.
12:22	And when he reached his full maturity, We gave him judgment and knowledge:
12:22	thus do We recompense those who do good.
12:23	She in whose house he was sought to seduce him; she bolted the doors and said: "Come here."
12:23	He said: "May God preserve me from that!
12:23	He is my master: he has made my stay excellent:
12:23	the unjust do not succeed."
12:24	And she certainly had an intention toward him,
12:24	and he would have had one toward her, had he not seen a proof of his Guardian:
12:24	thus it was, so that We might turn away from him evil and indecency:
12:24	he was among Our purified obedient ones.
12:25	They both raced to the door, and she tore his shirt from behind, and they found her chief at the door.
12:25	She said: "What is the recompense of one who intends evil against your family, except prison or a painful punishment?"
12:26	He said: "It is she who sought to seduce me."
12:27	A witness from her family bore witness: "If his shirt is torn from the front, she speaks truly, and he is among the liars; but if his shirt is torn from behind, she has lied,
12:27	and he is among the truthful."
12:28	When he saw that his shirt was torn from behind, he said: "This is of your scheme, [women]: your scheme is immense.
12:29	Youssof, turn away from this;
12:29	and you, ask forgiveness for your offense: you are indeed among those at fault."
12:30	Women, in the Capital, said: "The wife of the Powerful One is seeking to seduce her young man: he has indeed captivated her with love;
12:30	we indeed see her in manifest error."
12:31	When she heard of their plot, she invited them and prepared for them something to recline on; she gave each of them a knife, and said [to Youssof]: "Come out before them."
12:31	When they saw him, they found him so great that they cut their hands, saying: "Far be it from God [such an imperfection]! This is no human:
12:31	this is nothing but a noble Agent."
12:32	She said: "This is the one about whom you blamed me.
12:32	I indeed sought to seduce him, but he absolutely defended himself;
12:32	and if he does not do what I order him, he will surely be imprisoned, and will surely be among the diminished."
12:33	He said: "My Guardian, prison is dearer to me than what they call me to; and if You do not turn their scheme away from me, I would incline toward them and be among the ignorant."
12:34	His Guardian answered him and turned their scheme away from him:
12:34	it is He, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
12:35	Then it seemed good to them, after seeing the signs, to imprison him for a time.
12:36	Two young men entered the prison with him.
12:36	One of them said: "I saw myself pressing wine."
12:36	The other said: "I saw myself carrying bread on my head, from which the birds were eating.
12:36	Inform us of its interpretation: we indeed see you among those who do good."
12:37	He said: "No food will be brought to you, destined for you, without my informing you of its interpretation before it reaches you:
12:37	that is part of what my Guardian has taught me.
12:37	I have left the doctrine of a people who do not believe in God, and who disown the last life,
12:38	and I have followed the doctrine of my ancestors, Ibrahim, Ishaq, and Yaacoub:
12:38	it is not for us to associate anything with God.
12:38	That is part of God's favor upon us and upon the people,
12:38	but most people are not grateful.
12:39	O my two prison companions, are divided masters better, or God, the One, the Subjugator?
12:40	What you obey, besides Him, is nothing but attributes you have named, you and your ancestors, without God having sent down any authority for it:
12:40	judgment belongs only to God:
12:40	He has commanded that you obey none but Him:
12:40	that is the upright Law,
12:40	but most people do not know.
12:41	O my two prison companions, one of you will pour wine for his master;
12:41	as for the other, he will be crucified, and the birds will eat from his head.
12:41	The matter on which you both consulted me is decided."
12:42	And he said to the one of the two he thought would be saved: "Remember me to your master."
12:42	But the Diverter made him forget to mention this to his master, and [Youssof] remained in prison for some years.
12:43	And the king said: "I see seven fat cows being devoured by seven lean ones, and seven green ears of grain and others withered:
12:43	O court, enlighten me about my vision, if you can cross through visions [to their meaning]."
12:44	They said: "A jumble of confused dreams,
12:44	and we are not versed in the interpretation of dreams."
12:45	The one of the two who had been saved said, remembering after a long while: "I will inform you of its interpretation: so send me forth."
12:46	"Youssof, man of truth, enlighten us about the seven fat cows devoured by seven lean ones, and the seven green ears of grain and others withered, so that I may return to the people and they may know."
12:47	He said: "You shall cultivate for seven years, unremittingly;
12:47	and what you have harvested, leave it in its ear, except the little that you eat.
12:48	Then there will come, after that, seven severe years, which will consume what you had prepared for them, except the little you set aside.
12:49	Then there will come, after that, a year in which the people will be relieved by rain, and in which they will press [the fruits]."
12:50	And the king said: "Bring him to me."
12:50	When the messenger came to him, he said: "Return to your master, and ask him about the women who cut their hands:
12:50	my Guardian is All-Knowing of their scheme."
12:51	He said: "What was your affair, when you sought to seduce Youssof?"
12:51	They said: "Far be it from God [such an imperfection]! We know no evil of him."
12:51	The wife of the Powerful One said: "Now the truth comes out: it is I who sought to seduce him, and he is indeed among the truthful.
12:52	This, so that he may know that I did not betray him in his absence, and that God does not guide the scheme of traitors.
12:53	And I do not declare my Self clear [of all evil]:
12:53	the Self indeed incites to evil, except one to whom my Guardian shows benevolence.
12:53	My Guardian is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."
12:54	And the king said: "Bring him to me: I shall reserve him exclusively for myself."
12:54	When he had spoken to him, he said: "You are, today, with us, in a position of authority, trustworthy."
12:55	He said: "Place me in charge of the treasuries of this land: I am indeed a knowledgeable guardian."
12:56	And thus We established Youssof on that land, settling there wherever he wished:
12:56	We grant Our benevolence to whom We will, and We do not let go to waste the reward of those who do good.
12:57	And the reward of the last life is indeed better for those who believe and guard themselves.
12:58	The brothers of Youssof came [to Egypt] and entered upon him; he recognized them, but they did not recognize him.
12:59	When he had provided them with their supplies, he said: "Bring me a brother of yours from your father's side.
12:59	Do you not see that I give full measure and am the best of those who grant a dwelling?
12:60	And if you do not bring him to me, you will have no more measure with me, and you shall not approach me again."
12:61	They said: "We shall seek to obtain him from his father, we shall indeed do it."
12:62	He said to his young men: "Put their merchandise back in their saddlebags, perhaps they will recognize it when they return to their people, perhaps they will come back."
12:63	When they returned to their father, they said: "O our father, measure has been withheld from us; so send our brother with us, we shall obtain measure, and we shall indeed be his guardians."
12:64	He said: "Shall I trust you with him otherwise than as I trusted you before with his brother?
12:64	God is the best guardian,
12:64	and He is the most benevolent of the benevolent."
12:65	When they opened their belongings, they found their merchandise, which had been returned to them. They said: "O our father, what more could we seek?
12:65	Here is our merchandise, returned to us; we shall provide for our family, guard our brother, and obtain an extra camel-load:
12:65	that is an easy measure."
12:66	He said: "I will not send him with you, until you bring me a solemn engagement before God, that you will bring him back to me, unless you are surrounded."
12:66	When they had brought him their solemn engagement, he said: "God is trustee over what we say."
12:67	He said: "O my sons, do not enter by a single gate, but enter by separate gates;
12:67	I can be of no use to you against God:
12:67	judgment belongs only to God;
12:67	upon Him I rely,
12:67	and let those who rely [upon God] rely upon Him."
12:68	When they entered as their father had commanded them, it was of no use to them against God, except for a need in Yaacoub's Self, which he satisfied;
12:68	he indeed possessed knowledge We had taught him,
12:68	but most people do not know.
12:69	When they entered upon Youssof, he took his brother in with him,
12:69	and said: "I am, indeed, your brother: so do not grieve over what they were doing."
12:70	When he had provided them with their supplies, he placed the cup in his brother's saddlebag; then a herald proclaimed: "O caravan, you are indeed thieves!"
12:71	They said, turning toward them: "What are you missing?"
12:72	They said: "We are missing the king's measuring vessel;
12:72	whoever brings it will have a camel-load, and I stand guarantor for it."
12:73	They said: "By God, you well know we did not come to spread corruption on this land, and we are not thieves."
12:74	They said: "What then will be his recompense, if you are liars?"
12:75	They said: "His recompense: he in whose saddlebag it is found shall himself be the recompense.
12:75	Thus do we recompense the unjust."
12:76	He began with their bags before his brother's bag, then drew it out of his brother's bag:
12:76	thus did We scheme for Youssof:
12:76	he could not, under the king's law, seize his brother, unless God willed it.
12:76	We raise in degrees whom We will,
12:76	and above every possessor of knowledge, there is one [more] knowing.
12:77	They said: "If he has stolen, a brother of his had already stolen before."
12:77	Youssof kept this secret within himself and did not reveal it to them;
12:77	he said: "You are in the worst of positions,
12:77	and God knows best what you describe."
12:78	They said: "O Powerful One, he has a very old father; so take one of us in his place: we indeed see you among those who do good."
12:79	He said: "May God preserve us from taking anyone other than the one with whom we found our belongings: we would then indeed be unjust."
12:80	When they had lost all hope of him, they withdrew into confidential converse.
12:80	The eldest among them said: "Do you not know that your father took a solemn engagement from you before God,
12:80	and that before this you failed in your duty toward Youssof?
12:80	I shall not leave this land, then, until my father permits me, or God judges in my favor:
12:80	He is the best of judges.
12:81	Return to your father, and say: 'O our father, your son has stolen;
12:81	and we attest only to what we know, and we could not guard what escaped the senses.
12:82	Ask the city where we were, and the caravan with which we returned: we are indeed truthful.'"
12:83	He said: "Rather, your Self has suggested a course to you.
12:83	Beautiful patience!
12:83	It may be that God will bring them all back to me:
12:83	it is He, the All-Knowing, the Wise."
12:84	And he turned away from them and said: "O my bitterness, for Youssof!"
12:84	And his eyes turned white from grief, while he suppressed his sorrow.
12:85	They said: "By God, you will not cease to recall Youssof, until you are worn out or until you perish."
12:86	He said: "I complain of my anguish and my grief only to God,
12:86	and I know, from God, what you do not know.
12:87	O my sons, go and inquire about Youssof and his brother, and do not lose hope of God's rest:
12:87	none loses hope of God's rest, except the people who disown."
12:88	When they entered upon him, they said: "O Powerful One, misfortune has touched us and our family, and we have come with merchandise of little value:
12:88	so give us full measure, and give us alms:
12:88	God indeed recompenses those who give alms."
12:89	He said: "Do you know what you did to Youssof and his brother, when you were ignorant?"
12:90	They said: "Is it you, Youssof?"
12:90	He said: "I am Youssof, and this is my brother.
12:90	God has indeed favored us:
12:90	whoever guards himself and is patient — God does not let go to waste the reward of those who do good."
12:91	They said: "By God, God has indeed preferred you over us, and we were indeed at fault."
12:92	He said: "No reproach upon you:
12:92	today, God forgives you,
12:92	He is the most benevolent of the benevolent.
12:93	Go with this shirt of mine, and cast it upon my father's face: he will regain his sight. Then bring me your whole family."
12:94	When the caravan had set off, their father said: "I indeed sense the scent of Youssof, if you do not think me a dotard."
12:95	They said: "By God, you are indeed in your old error."
12:96	When the bearer of good news arrived, he cast it upon his face, and he at once regained his sight.
12:96	He said: "Did I not tell you that I know, from God, what you do not know?"
12:97	They said: "O our father, ask forgiveness for our offenses: we were indeed at fault."
12:98	He said: "I shall soon ask forgiveness for you from my Guardian:
12:98	it is He, the Most-Forgiving, the Benevolent."
12:99	When they entered upon Youssof, he took his two parents in with him, and said: "Enter Egypt, if God wills, in security."
12:100	And he raised his two parents upon the Edifice, and they fell down before him in prostration.
12:100	He said: "O my father, this is the interpretation of my vision of old: my Guardian has made it true.
12:100	He has been good to me, when He brought me out of prison, and brought you from the countryside, after the Diverter had sown discord between me and my brothers.
12:100	My Guardian is indeed Subtle in what He wills:
12:100	it is He, the All-Knowing, the Wise.
12:101	My Guardian, You have granted me a share of sovereignty, and taught me the interpretation of events.
12:101	Originator of the heavens and the earth, You are my protector in the present life and in the last life: cause me to die true to You alone, and join me with the righteous."
12:102	That is part of the information about what escapes the senses, which We reveal to you:
12:102	you were not with them when they resolved their affair while plotting.
12:103	And most people, however much you may desire it, are not believers.
12:104	And you ask of them, for this, no reward:
12:104	it is only a reminder for all beings.
12:105	How many signs, in the heavens and on the earth, do they pass by, turning away from them!
12:106	And most of them do not believe in God without associating [others] with Him.
12:107	Are they then sure that a covering of God's punishment will not come to them, or that the Hour will not come to them suddenly, without their perceiving it?
12:108	Say: "This is my path: I call to God.
12:108	With full clear-sightedness, myself and those who follow me.
12:108	Glory be to God!
12:108	And I am not among those who associate."
12:109	And We sent, before you, none but men to whom We revealed, from among the people of the cities.
12:109	Have they not traveled the earth to see what was the end of those before them?
12:109	And the abode of the last life is indeed better for those who guarded themselves:
12:109	will you not then reason?
12:110	[We sent them] until, when the messengers had lost all hope and thought they had been denied, Our help came to them, and whom We willed was saved,
12:110	and Our rigor is not turned away from the severed people.
12:111	There was indeed, in their account, a lesson for the possessors of intelligence:
12:111	it was not an invented account,
12:111	but the confirmation of what precedes it, the detail of everything, and a guidance and a benevolence for a people who believe.

Sura 13 — What Is in Themselves (Ar-Ra'd)

13:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Mim. Ra.
13:1	These are the signs of the Scripture.
13:1	And what has been sent down to you from your Guardian is the truth,
13:1	but most people do not believe.
13:2	God is the One who raised the heavens without pillars
13:2	that you can see;
13:2	then He established Himself upon the Edifice;
13:2	and He subjected the sun and the moon,
13:2	each running to a set term.
13:2	He governs the Order,
13:2	He details the signs, perhaps you will have certainty of the meeting with your Guardian.
13:3	And it is He who spread out the earth, and placed upon it firmly-anchored mountains and rivers;
13:3	and of all the fruits, He placed therein two elements of a pair,
13:3	He covers the day with the night.
13:3	There are indeed in that signs for a people who reflect.
13:4	And on the earth, there are neighboring plots, gardens of vines, crops, palms clustered or standing alone, watered by the same water,
13:4	and We favor some of them over others in what they yield as food.
13:4	There are indeed in that signs for a people who reason.
13:5	And if you marvel, it is marvelous that they say: "Once we are earth, shall we really be in a new creation?"
13:5	Those are the ones who disown their Guardian,
13:5	those are the ones who will have chains around their necks,
13:5	those are the companions of the Fire, wherein they will remain.
13:6	They ask you to hasten evil before good, though there have already come to pass, before them, exemplary precedents.
13:6	And your Guardian is indeed possessed of forgiveness for the people, despite their injustice;
13:6	and your Guardian is indeed severe in sanction.
13:7	And those who disown say: "Why has a sign not been sent down upon him from his Guardian?"
13:7	You are, yourself, only a warner,
13:7	and to every people belongs a guide.
13:8	God knows what every female carries, and what the wombs diminish and what they increase;
13:8	and everything, with Him, is according to a measure.
13:9	The Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is manifest,
13:9	the Great, the Supreme.
13:10	It is equal, among you, whether one keeps his word secret or discloses it, and whether he hides in the night or moves openly by day.
13:11	He has, [placed] before him and behind him, relaying watchers, preserving him by God's command.
13:11	God does not change what is in a people until they change what is in themselves;
13:11	and when God wills harm for a people, nothing can repel it,
13:11	and they have, besides Him, no protector.
13:13	It is He who shows you the lightning, feared and hoped for, and who raises the heavy clouds; and the thunder glorifies Him in praise, as do the Agents, out of fear of Him;
13:13	and He sends the thunderbolt, and strikes with it whom He wills, while they argue about God; and He is of a formidable rigor.
13:14	To Him belongs the call of truth;
13:14	and those they invoke besides Him respond to them in nothing, except like one who stretches out his palms toward water so that it may reach his mouth, never reaching it.
13:14	The invocation of those who disown is nothing but in error.
13:15	And before God prostrates whoever is in the heavens and on the earth, willingly or unwillingly, as do their shadows, morning and evening.
13:16	Say: "Who is the Guardian of the heavens and the earth?" Say: "God."
13:16	Say: "Have you then taken, besides Him, allies who hold for themselves neither profit nor harm?"
13:16	Say: "Are the blind and the seeing equal?"
13:16	Or are the darknesses and the light equal?
13:16	Or have they assigned to God associates who created as He creates, such that creation seems alike to them?
13:16	Say: "God is the Creator of everything,
13:16	and He is the One, the Subjugator."
13:17	He has sent down from the sky a water, and valleys began to flow according to their measure, and the torrent carried a swollen froth;
13:17	and of what is heated in the fire, seeking an ornament or a use, there is likewise a froth.
13:17	Thus does God multiply truth and falsehood:
13:17	the froth goes off as scum,
13:17	while what is useful to people remains on the earth.
13:17	Thus God multiplies the examples.
13:18	To those who respond to their Guardian belongs the best;
13:18	and those who do not respond to Him, if they possessed all that is on the earth, and its equivalent besides, they would give it as ransom.
13:18	Those are the ones who will have the worst of reckonings,
13:18	and their refuge will be Jahannam:
13:18	what an evil bed!
13:19	Is he who knows that what has been sent down to you from your Guardian is the truth then like one who is blind?
13:22	Only the possessors of intelligence remember, those who keep God's covenant and do not break the solemn engagement, those who join what God has commanded to be joined, dread their Guardian and fear the worst of reckonings, those who were patient seeking the direction of their Guardian, maintained the Contact, spent from what We provided them, secretly and openly, and repel evil with good.
13:22	Those are the ones who will have the outcome of the Abode:
13:23	the Gardens of permanent abode, which they will enter, along with those who were righteous among their ancestors, their spouses, and their descendants,
13:23	and the Agents will enter upon them through every gate:
13:24	"Peace be upon you, for what you were patient in!"
13:24	What an excellent outcome of the Abode!
13:25	And those who break God's covenant after the solemn engagement that binds it, sever what God has commanded to be joined, and spread corruption on the earth — those are the ones to whom belongs the curse, and to whom belongs the worst of abodes.
13:26	God extends provision to whom He wills, and He measures it:
13:26	and they rejoice in the present life,
13:26	while the present life, compared to the last life, is only a fleeting enjoyment.
13:27	And those who disown say: "Why has a sign not been sent down upon him from his Guardian?"
13:27	Say: "God lets go astray whom He wills, and guides to Himself whoever turns back to Him,
13:28	those who believe and whose cores find peace in the remembrance of God.
13:28	Is it not in the remembrance of God that the cores find peace?"
13:29	Those who have believed and done righteous deeds — what felicity for them, and what a fine place of return!
13:30	Thus We have sent you within a community before which other communities have already passed, so that you may recite to them what We have revealed to you, while they disown the All-Benevolent.
13:30	Say: "He is my Guardian;
13:30	there is no deity but Him;
13:30	upon Him I rely, and to Him goes my repentance."
13:31	And even if a Recitation caused the mountains to move by it, or split the earth by it, or made the dead speak by it [they would not believe].
13:31	But to God belongs the command, entirely:
13:31	have those who believe not yet understood that, if God willed, He would guide all the people?
13:31	And those who disown will not cease to be struck, for what they have fabricated, by a sudden calamity, or [that calamity] will alight near their abode, until God's promise comes:
13:31	God indeed does not fail His promise.
13:32	And messengers before you were indeed mocked; I then granted a delay to those who disowned, then I seized them:
13:32	and what then was My sanction?
13:33	Is He who watches over every Self, according to what it has earned, [like another]?
13:33	And they have assigned associates to God: say: "Name them!
13:33	Will you inform Him of what He does not know on the earth, or is this only a word in appearance?"
13:33	It is nothing of the sort: their plot has been made to appear pleasing to those who disown, and they have been turned away from the path.
13:33	And whoever God lets go astray has no guide left.
13:34	There is for them a punishment in the present life,
13:34	but the punishment of the last life is even more grievous,
13:34	and they have, against God, no defender.
13:35	The example of the Garden promised to those who guard themselves: rivers flow beneath it, its food is constant, as is its shade —
13:35	such is the outcome of those who guarded themselves,
13:35	while the outcome of those who disown is the Fire.
13:36	And those to whom We gave the Scripture rejoice at what has been sent down to you,
13:36	but there are, among the parties, those who disavow part of it.
13:36	Say: "I have only been commanded to obey God, and to associate nothing with Him:
13:36	it is to Him that I call,
13:36	and to Him is my return."
13:37	And thus We have sent it down, as a flawless judgment:
13:37	and if you followed their emotions after knowledge has come to you, you would have, against God, neither protector nor defender.
13:38	We have indeed sent messengers before you, and given them spouses and progeny;
13:38	and it was not for any messenger to bring a sign, except with God's permission.
13:38	To every term belongs a register.
13:39	God effaces what He wills, and He affirms,
13:39	and with Him is the Source of the Scripture.
13:40	Whether We show you a part of what We promise them, or whether We call you back to Us, only the transmission is incumbent upon you, and the reckoning belongs to Us.
13:41	Have they not seen that We come to the earth, reducing it from its extremities?
13:41	God judges, and none can revise His judgment:
13:41	He is swift in reckoning.
13:42	Those before them indeed plotted, but to God belongs the whole plot:
13:42	He knows what every Self earns,
13:42	and those who disown will soon know to whom belongs the outcome of the Abode.
13:43	And those who disown say: "You are not sent."
13:43	Say: "God suffices as witness between me and you, and whoever holds the knowledge of the Scripture."

Sura 14 — A Good Word (Ibrahim)

14:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Ra.
14:1	A Scripture that We have sent down to you, so that you may bring the people out of the darknesses into the light, with the permission of their Guardian, to the path of the All-Powerful, the Praiseworthy.
14:2	God, to whom belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
14:2	And woe to those who disown, from a severe punishment —
14:3	those who prefer the present life to the last life, who turn [others] away from God's path and seek to make it crooked: those are the ones in deep error.
14:4	We have sent no messenger except in the language of his people, so that he might make [the message] clear to them;
14:4	God then lets go astray whom He wills, and guides whom He wills:
14:4	He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.
14:5	We have indeed sent Moussa with Our signs: "Bring your people out of the darknesses into the light, and remind them of the days of God."
14:5	There are indeed in that signs for every very patient, very grateful one.
14:6	And [recall] when Moussa said to his people: "Remember God's blessing upon you, when He saved you from the people of Fir'awn, who inflicted upon you the worst punishment, slaughtering your sons and violating the modesty of your women:
14:6	and there was in that, from your Guardian, an immense testing."
14:7	And [recall] when your Guardian made known: "If you are grateful, I shall surely increase you; but if you disown, My punishment is indeed severe."
14:8	And Moussa said: "If you disown, you and all who are on the earth, God is self-sufficient, He is praiseworthy."
14:9	Has there not reached you the account of those before you, the people of Nuh, of the Recidivists [Aad] and the Depleters [Thamud], and those who came after them,
14:9	whom only God knows?
14:9	Their messengers came to them with clear proofs, but they put their hands to their mouths and said: "We disown that with which you have been sent, and we are indeed in a troubling doubt about what you call us to."
14:10	Their messengers said: "Is there doubt about God, the Originator of the heavens and the earth? He calls you so as to forgive you some of your offenses and grant you a delay until an appointed term."
14:10	They said: "You are only humans like us; you want to turn us away from what our ancestors obeyed. So bring us a manifest authority."
14:11	Their messengers said to them: "We are only humans like you, but God bestows grace upon whom He wills among His obedient ones.
14:11	It is not for us to bring you an authority, except with God's permission.
14:11	So let the believers rely upon God."
14:12	And why should we not rely upon God, when He has guided us on our paths?
14:12	We shall surely be patient in the face of the harm you do us;
14:12	so let those who rely [upon God] rely upon God."
14:13	And those who disown said to their messengers: "We shall surely expel you from our land, or you will return to our doctrine!"
14:14	Their Guardian then revealed to them: "We shall surely annihilate the wrongdoers, and We shall surely establish you on this land after them.
14:14	That is for whoever fears My position, and fears My threat."
14:15	And they [all] sought the decisive judgment,
14:17	and every stubborn tyrant was disappointed; behind him, Jahannam, and he will be given to drink there a purulent water, which he will gulp down without almost being able to swallow it; death will come to him from every side without his dying; and behind that, a harsh punishment.
14:18	The example of those who disown their Guardian:
14:18	their deeds are like ashes that the wind whips violently, on a stormy day: they can hold on to nothing of what they earned.
14:18	That is the deep error.
14:19	Have you not seen that God created the heavens and the earth with truth?
14:19	If He willed, He would make you disappear and bring a new creation,
14:20	and that is not at all difficult for God.
14:21	And they will all appear before God, and the weak will say to those who were arrogant: "We were your followers; can you then be of any use to us, against God's punishment?"
14:21	They will say: "Had God guided us, we would certainly have guided you.
14:21	It is the same for us, whether we are impatient or patient: we have no escape."
14:22	And the Diverter will say, when the matter is decided: "God made you a true promise, and I made you a promise, but I failed you; I had no authority over you, except to call you, and you answered me. So do not blame me, but blame yourselves: I cannot answer your cry, nor can you answer mine. I disown that you associated me with God before."
14:22	The wrongdoers will indeed have a painful punishment.
14:23	And those who have believed and done righteous deeds will be admitted into gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will remain, with the permission of their Guardian.
14:23	Their greeting, there, will be: "Peace!"
14:25	Have you not seen how God multiplies an example? A good word is like a good tree, whose root is firm and whose branches are in the sky, giving its fruit at every moment, with the permission of its Guardian.
14:25	And God multiplies the examples for the people, perhaps they will remember.
14:26	And the example of a bad word is like a bad tree, uprooted from the surface of the earth, having no stability.
14:27	God makes firm those who believe by the firm word, in the present life and in the last life,
14:27	and God lets the wrongdoers go astray,
14:27	and God does what He wills.
14:29	Have you not seen those who exchanged God's blessing for disowning, and settled their people in the abode of ruin — Jahannam, wherein they will burn:
14:29	what a detestable resting-place!
14:30	And they assigned rivals to God, so as to mislead from His path:
14:30	Say: "Enjoy yourselves, for your destination is the Fire."
14:31	Tell My obedient ones who believe to maintain the Contact and to spend from what We have provided them, secretly and openly, before a day comes wherein there will be neither trade nor friendship.
14:32	God is the One who created the heavens and the earth, and who sent down from the sky a water, by which He brought forth fruits as provision for you, and He subjected for you the vessel, so that it might sail upon the sea by His command,
14:32	and He subjected for you the rivers.
14:33	And He subjected for you the sun and the moon, constant in their course,
14:33	and He subjected for you the night and the day.
14:34	And He gave you of everything you asked of Him;
14:34	and if you counted God's blessing, you could not enumerate it.
14:34	The human being is indeed quite unjust, a great disowner.
14:35	And [recall] when Ibrahim said: "My Guardian, make this land a secure place, and keep me and my sons away from obeying idols.
14:36	My Guardian, they have led astray a great number of people. Whoever follows me is then of mine, and whoever disobeys me — You are then Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
14:37	Our Guardian, I have settled part of my progeny in a valley without cultivation, near Your Forbidden House,
14:37	Our Guardian, so that they may maintain the Contact; so make Consciences, among the people, incline toward them, and provide them with fruits, perhaps they will be grateful.
14:38	Our Guardian, You indeed know what we keep hidden and what we disclose;
14:38	and nothing escapes God, neither on earth nor in the sky.
14:39	Praise be to God, who has granted me, despite old age, Ismail and Ishaq!
14:39	My Guardian indeed hears the call.
14:40	My Guardian, make me one who maintains the Contact, and of my progeny too;
14:40	our Guardian, and accept my call.
14:41	Our Guardian, forgive me, and my two parents, and the believers, on the day the Reckoning stands up."
14:42	And do not ever think that God is heedless of what the wrongdoers do:
14:43	He only defers them until a day when the gazes will be fixed, [people] rushing forward, heads raised, their gaze never returning to them, and their Consciences will be void.
14:44	And warn the people of the day the punishment will come to them, and those who were unjust will say: "Our Guardian, grant us a delay until a near term: we will answer Your call and follow the messengers."
14:44	"Had you not sworn, before, that you would know no decline?
14:45	And you dwelt in the abodes of those who were unjust to themselves, and it became clear to you how We dealt with them, and We multiplied the examples for you."
14:46	They indeed plotted their plot,
14:46	but their plot is [known] with God,
14:46	even if their plot were of a kind to make the mountains vanish.
14:47	So do not ever think that God fails His promise to His messengers:
14:47	God is All-Powerful, possessor of vengeance.
14:48	The Day the earth will be changed into another earth, and the heavens too,
14:48	and they will appear before God, the One, the Subjugator.
14:51	And you will see the severed, that Day, bound together in chains, their garments of tar, and the fire covering their faces, so that God may recompense every Self according to what it earned:
14:51	God is swift in reckoning.
14:52	This is a transmission for the people, so that they may be warned by it, know that He is but a single deity, and that the possessors of intelligence may remember.

Sura 15 — Until Certainty Comes (Al-Hijr)

15:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Ra.
15:1	These are the signs of the Scripture, and of a clear Recitation.
15:2	It may often be that those who disown wish they had been true to God alone.
15:3	Leave them to eat, enjoy themselves, and let hope distract them:
15:3	they will soon know.
15:4	We have not annihilated any city without it having had, concerning it, a known register.
15:5	No community precedes its term, nor delays it.
15:7	And they said: "O you upon whom the Reminder has been sent down, you are indeed deranged! Why do you not bring us the Agents, if you are among the truthful?"
15:8	We do not send down the Agents except with truth,
15:8	and then, they would be granted no reprieve.
15:9	It is indeed We who have sent down the Reminder,
15:9	and it is We who are indeed its preservers.
15:10	We have indeed sent, before you, [messengers] among the factions of the ancients,
15:11	and no messenger came to them without their mocking him.
15:13	Thus We insinuate it into the cores of the severed: they do not believe in it, though the precedent of the ancients has already come to pass.
15:15	And even if We opened for them a gate of the sky, through which they kept ascending, they would say: "Our sight is only obnubilated; we are rather a people abused by illusion."
15:18	We have indeed placed in the sky constellations, and adorned them for those who look, and preserved them from every banished Diverter — except one who steals a furtive hearing, and is then pursued by a clear, blazing projectile.
15:20	And the earth, We spread it out, and cast upon it firmly-anchored mountains, and caused to grow upon it everything in due measure, and We gave you therein means of livelihood,
15:20	as well as to those you do not provide for.
15:21	There is nothing whose treasures We do not hold,
15:21	and We send it down only according to a known measure.
15:22	And We sent the fecundating winds, and then sent down from the sky a water with which We gave you drink, and which you do not hold in reserve.
15:23	And it is indeed We who give life and give death, and it is We who are the heirs.
15:24	We indeed know those among you who go first, and We indeed know those who lag behind.
15:25	And it is your Guardian who will gather them:
15:25	He is Wise, All-Knowing.
15:26	We have indeed created the human being from resonant clay, [drawn] from molded mud,
15:27	and the Occulted, We had created them before, from a fire of scorching wind.
15:29	And [recall] when your Guardian said to the Agents: "I am going to create a human from resonant clay, [drawn] from molded mud; when I have formed him and breathed into him of My Influx, fall down before him in prostration."
15:31	The Agents then prostrated, all together, except the Despairing One [Iblis]: he refused to be among those who prostrated.
15:32	He said: "O Despairing One [Iblis], what is with you, that you are not among those who prostrate?"
15:33	He said: "I am not [made] to prostrate before a human You created from resonant clay, [drawn] from molded mud."
15:35	He said: "Get out of here, for you are now banished, and the curse will weigh upon you until the Day of Retribution."
15:36	He said: "My Guardian, grant me then a delay until the day they are raised up."
15:38	He said: "You are then among those granted a delay, until the day of the known moment."
15:40	He said: "My Guardian, for having let me be misled, I shall surely make [evil] appear pleasing to them on earth, and I shall surely mislead them all, except Your obedient ones among them who are purified."
15:41	He said: "This is a path incumbent upon Me, a straight path.
15:42	Over My obedient ones, you have no authority, except over whoever follows you among the misled."
15:44	And Jahannam is indeed their meeting-place, all of them; it has seven gates,
15:44	to each gate belongs a determined portion of them.
15:46	Those who guarded themselves will be in gardens and springs: "Enter therein in peace, in security."
15:47	And We shall have removed from their chests all rancor,
15:47	[they will be] brothers, upon couches, facing one another.
15:48	No fatigue will touch them therein,
15:48	and they will never be expelled from it.
15:50	Inform My obedient ones that it is I, the Most-Forgiving, the Benevolent, and that My punishment is the painful punishment.
15:52	And inform them about the guests of Ibrahim, when they entered upon him and said: "Peace!"
15:52	He said: "We are trembling because of you."
15:53	They said: "Do not tremble: we bring you glad tidings of a knowledgeable boy."
15:54	He said: "Do you give me this glad tiding, when old age has touched me? Of what then do you give me tidings?"
15:55	They said: "We bring you this glad tiding in truth: so do not be among those who lose heart."
15:56	He said: "And who loses heart regarding his Guardian's benevolence, except the astray?"
15:57	He said: "What then is your errand, O envoys?"
15:59	They said: "We are sent to a severed people, except the family of Lut.
15:60	We shall surely save them all, except his wife: We have determined that she is indeed among those who remain behind."
15:62	And when the envoys came to the family of Lut, he said: "You are people I do not recognize."
15:64	They said: "We bring you rather that about which they were in doubt. We have come to you with the truth, and we are indeed truthful.
15:65	So depart with your family, at a time of the night, and follow behind them, and let none of you turn around, and go where you are commanded."
15:66	And We conveyed to him this command: the last remnant of those people would be cut off, by morning.
15:67	And the people of the Capital came, rejoicing.
15:68	He said: "These are my guests: do not dishonor me,
15:69	and guard yourselves toward God, and do not disgrace me."
15:70	They said: "Did we not forbid you [to receive] anyone from among all beings?"
15:71	He said: "Here are my daughters, if you must act."
15:72	By your life, they were indeed wandering blindly in their intoxication.
15:74	The Cry then seized them at daybreak, and We made the top [of their city] its bottom, and rained upon them stones of hardened clay.
15:75	There are indeed in that signs for those who can read the marks.
15:76	And it is indeed upon a path that endures.
15:77	There is indeed in that a sign for the believers.
15:78	And the companions of the Thicket were indeed unjust,
15:79	so We took vengeance upon them,
15:79	and these two [cities] are indeed upon a manifest reference.
15:80	The companions of al-Hijr indeed denied the envoys,
15:81	And We gave them Our signs, but they turned away from them.
15:82	And they carved, in the mountains, houses, in complete security.
15:83	The Cry then seized them in the morning,
15:84	and what they had earned availed them nothing.
15:85	We created the heavens, the earth, and what is between them, only with truth.
15:85	And the Hour is indeed coming:
15:85	so overlook, with a fine overlooking.
15:86	Your Guardian is indeed the Great Creator, the All-Knowing.
15:87	We have indeed given you seven iterative [verses], and the immense Recitation.
15:88	Do not extend your eyes toward what We have granted some pairs among them to enjoy,
15:88	and do not grieve over them,
15:88	and lower your wing for the believers.
15:91	And say: "I am, indeed, the clear warner" — as We sent it down upon those who divided it, those who made of this Recitation disparate fragments.
15:93	By your Guardian, We shall surely question them all about what they used to do.
15:94	So proclaim openly what you are commanded,
15:94	and turn away from those who associate.
15:96	We have indeed sufficed you against the mockers, those who place, alongside God, another deity:
15:96	they will soon know.
15:97	We indeed know that your chest tightens from what they say:
15:98	so glorify, with praise, your Guardian, and be among those who prostrate,
15:99	and obey your Guardian until certainty comes to you.

Sura 16 — In Which There Is Healing (An-Nahl)

16:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. The command of God has come: so do not seek to hasten it.
16:1	Glory be to Him, and He is far above what they associate with Him.
16:2	He sends down the Agents with the Influx, by His command, upon whom He wills among His obedient ones: "Warn that there is no deity but Me; so guard yourselves before Me."
16:3	He created the heavens and the earth with truth.
16:3	He is far above what they associate with Him.
16:4	He created the human being from a drop, and behold, he is a declared quarreler.
16:5	And the cattle, He created them:
16:5	in them you find warmth and benefits, and from them you eat.
16:6	And in them you find a beauty, when you bring them back in the evening and when you lead them out to pasture.
16:7	And they carry your burdens to a land you would not have reached except with great hardship on yourselves:
16:7	your Guardian is indeed full of kindness, Benevolent.
16:8	And horses, mules, and donkeys, for you to ride, and as adornment.
16:8	And He creates what you do not know.
16:9	To God belongs the tracing of the straight path; some of it veers off.
16:9	Had He willed, He would have guided you all.
16:10	It is He who sent down from the sky a water: from it you have a drink, and from it comes vegetation where you graze [your herds].
16:11	By it, He causes to grow for you the crops, the olive, the palms, the vines, and every kind of fruit:
16:11	there is indeed in that a sign for a people who reflect.
16:12	He has subjected for you the night and the day, the sun and the moon; and the stars are subjected by His command.
16:12	There are indeed in that signs for a people who reason.
16:13	And what He has scattered for you on the earth, of varied colors:
16:13	there is indeed in that a sign for a people who remember.
16:14	It is He who has subjected the sea, so that you may eat from it tender flesh and extract from it an ornament that you wear;
16:14	and you see the vessel cleaving through it, so that you may seek His favor, and perhaps you will be grateful.
16:16	And He cast upon the earth firmly-anchored mountains, so that it would not shake beneath you, and rivers and paths, so that you might be guided, and landmarks,
16:16	and it is by the star that they find their way.
16:17	Is He who creates then like one who creates nothing?
16:17	Will you not then remember?
16:18	If you counted God's blessing, you could not enumerate it.
16:18	God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
16:19	God knows what you keep secret and what you disclose.
16:20	Those you invoke besides God create nothing; it is they who are created.
16:21	Dead, without life,
16:21	and they do not even know when they will be raised.
16:22	Your deity is a single deity.
16:22	Those who do not believe in the last life have a denying core, and they are puffed up with pride.
16:23	There is no doubt that God knows what they keep secret and what they disclose:
16:23	He does not love those who are puffed up with pride.
16:25	And when it is said to them: "What has your Guardian sent down?" they say: "Legends of the ancients" — so as to bear, on the Day of Appearance, their burdens in full, and a portion of the burdens of those they mislead without knowledge:
16:25	how detestable is what they bear!
16:26	Those before them indeed plotted; but God seized their structure from the foundations, so that the roof collapsed upon them from above, and the punishment came to them from where they did not perceive.
16:27	Then, on the Day of Appearance, He will cover them with disgrace and say: "Where are My associates, about whom you were in dissension?"
16:28	Those to whom knowledge was given will say: "Disgrace, today, and misfortune, are upon those who disown" — those the Agents take, wronging themselves.
16:28	They then offer their submission: "We were doing no evil!" — But yes, indeed!
16:28	God is All-Knowing of what you were doing.
16:29	So enter through the gates of Jahannam, to remain therein:
16:29	what a detestable abode for those puffed up with pride!
16:30	And it is said to those who guarded themselves: "What has your Guardian sent down?" They say: "Something good."
16:30	For those who do good, in the present life, there is good;
16:30	but the abode of the last life is better,
16:30	and what an excellent abode is that of those who guard themselves!
16:31	The Gardens of permanent abode, which they will enter, beneath which rivers flow; they will have therein what they desire.
16:32	Thus God recompenses those who guard themselves, those the Agents take in a state of purity,
16:32	saying: "Peace be upon you! Enter the Garden, for what you used to do."
16:33	Do they then wait only for the Agents to come to them, or for the command of your Guardian to come?
16:33	Thus did those before them act.
16:33	God did not wrong them,
16:33	but they were unjust toward themselves.
16:34	The evils of what they did overtook them,
16:34	and what they used to mock enveloped them.
16:35	Those who associated said: "Had God willed, we would not have obeyed anything besides Him, neither we nor our ancestors, nor would we have forbidden anything besides Him."
16:35	Thus did those before them act.
16:35	Is anything then incumbent upon the messengers, except clear transmission?
16:36	We have indeed raised up, in every community, a messenger: "Obey God and avoid the Tyrant,"
16:36	there are among them those God has guided,
16:36	and there are those upon whom error has proven true.
16:36	So travel the earth and see what was the end of those who denied.
16:37	If you are eager for their guidance, God does not guide him whom He lets go astray,
16:37	and they will have no helpers.
16:38	They swore by God, with their most solemn oaths, that God will not raise up the one who dies.
16:39	But yes indeed! It is a promise incumbent upon Him, in truth — but most people do not know — so that He may make clear to them that on which they differ, and so that those who disown may know that they were liars.
16:40	Our only word, for a thing, when We will it, is to say to it: "Be,"
16:40	and it is.
16:41	And those who emigrated for God, after having suffered injustice, We shall surely establish them in a fine position in the present life;
16:41	and the reward of the last life is even greater, if they knew —
16:42	those who were patient and who rely upon their Guardian.
16:44	And We sent, before you, none but men to whom We revealed: so ask the keepers of the Reminder, if you do not know — with the clear proofs and the Formulary.
16:44	And We have sent down to you the Reminder, so that you may make clear to the people what has been sent down to them, and perhaps they will reflect.
16:47	Are those who plotted the evils then sure that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the punishment will not come to them from where they do not perceive, or that He will not seize them in their comings and goings, without their being able to render [Him] powerless, or that He will not seize them in a gradual dread?
16:47	Your Guardian is indeed full of kindness, Benevolent.
16:48	Have they not seen that, of everything God has created, the shadows incline to the right and the left, prostrate before God, in utter humility?
16:50	And before God prostrates everything in the heavens and on the earth, among living creatures, as well as the Agents, without being puffed up with pride: they fear their Guardian, above them, and do what they are commanded.
16:51	And God said: "Do not take two deities.
16:51	He is but a single deity;
16:51	so it is Me you must revere."
16:52	To Him belongs what is in the heavens and on the earth,
16:52	and to Him the Law, permanently.
16:52	Is it then before other than God that you guard yourselves?
16:53	Every blessing that is in you comes from God;
16:53	then, when harm touches you, it is to Him that you cry out, imploring.
16:55	Then, when He removes harm from you, behold, a group among you associates [others] with its Guardian, so as to disown what We have given them.
16:55	So enjoy yourselves,
16:55	but you will soon know.
16:56	And they assign, to what they do not know, a share of what We have provided them.
16:56	By God, you will surely be questioned about what you used to invent.
16:57	And they assign to God daughters — Glory be to Him!
16:57	while for themselves is what they desire.
16:59	And when one of them receives the news of a daughter, his face darkens, and he is filled with suppressed distress; he hides himself from the people, because of the ill news he was given:
16:59	shall he keep her despite the humiliation, or bury her in the ground?
16:59	How detestable is what they decide!
16:60	To those who do not believe in the last life belongs the example of evil,
16:60	and to God belongs the most exalted example:
16:60	He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.
16:61	If God were to seize the people for their injustice, He would not leave upon it [the earth] a single living creature;
16:61	but He defers them until an appointed term,
16:61	and when their term comes, they will not be able to delay it by an hour,
16:61	nor advance it.
16:62	And they assign to God what they themselves detest,
16:62	and their tongues describe the lie, claiming that to them belongs the best:
16:62	there is no doubt that to them belongs the Fire, and that they will be sent forth into it first.
16:63	By God, We indeed sent [messengers] to communities before you; but the Diverter made their actions appear pleasing to them, and he is their ally today:
16:63	and they will have a painful punishment.
16:64	And We have sent down to you the Scripture only so that you may make clear to them that on which they differ, and as guidance and benevolence for a people who believe.
16:65	And God sent down from the sky a water, by which He revived the earth after its death:
16:65	there is indeed in that a sign for a people who hear.
16:66	And there is indeed, for you, in the cattle, a lesson:
16:67	We provide you drink from what is in their bellies, between chyme and blood, a pure milk, pleasant to drink for those who drink it; and from the fruits of palms and vines, you draw an intoxicating drink and an excellent provision.
16:67	There is indeed in that a sign for a people who reason.
16:69	And your Guardian inspired the bee: "Take, among the mountains, dwellings, and in the trees and in what they build [the people]; then eat of all the fruits, and follow the paths of your Guardian, made smooth."
16:69	From their bellies comes forth a drink of varied colors, in which there is healing for the people:
16:69	there is indeed in that a sign for a people who reflect.
16:70	God created you, then He causes you to die;
16:70	and among you are those brought back to the most abject age, so as to know nothing more after having known.
16:70	God is All-Knowing, Able.
16:71	And God has favored some among you over others in provision:
16:71	those who have been favored do not hand back their provision to those bound by pledge among them, so that they would be equal in it.
16:71	Would they then stubbornly reject the blessing of God?
16:72	And God has given you, from yourselves, spouses, and given you, from your spouses, children and grandchildren,
16:72	and He has provided you with good things.
16:72	Would they then believe in falsehood, and disown the blessing of God?
16:73	And they obey, besides God, what holds for them, from the heavens and the earth, no provision at all, and has no power to do so.
16:74	So do not multiply examples for God:
16:74	God knows,
16:74	and you do not know.
16:75	God multiplies an example: a constrained one, having no power at all, and one to whom We have granted, from Us, a fine provision, from which he spends secretly and openly — would they be equal?
16:75	Praise be to God!
16:75	But most of them do not know.
16:76	And God multiplies another example: two men, one of whom is mute, possessing no power at all, an entire burden upon his nearest guarantor; wherever he sends him, he brings back nothing good — is that one the equal of one who commands justice and stands upon a straight path?
16:77	To God belongs what escapes the senses in the heavens and on the earth.
16:77	The matter of the Hour is only like the twinkling of an eye, or even swifter.
16:77	God is capable of all things.
16:78	And God brought you out of your mothers' wombs, knowing nothing,
16:78	and He gave you hearing, sight, and Consciences, perhaps you will be grateful.
16:79	Have they not seen the birds, subjected in the space of the sky, held by nothing but God?
16:79	There are indeed in that signs for a people who believe.
16:80	And God has given you, from your houses, a peaceful abode, and He has given you, from the hides of cattle, dwellings you find light on the day of your departure and the day of your settling,
16:80	and, from their wool, their fur, and their hair, furnishings and use for a time.
16:81	And God has given you, from what He created, shades, and He has given you, from the mountains, shelters, and He has given you garments that protect you from the heat, and garments that protect you from your own violence:
16:81	thus He completes His blessing upon you, perhaps you will be true to Him alone.
16:82	If they turn away, only clear transmission is incumbent upon you.
16:83	They recognize the blessing of God, then disavow it,
16:83	and most of them disown.
16:84	And the Day We raise up, from every community, a witness, it will no longer be permitted to those who disown [to excuse themselves], nor will they be asked to make amends.
16:85	And when those who were unjust see the punishment, it will neither be lightened for them, nor will they be granted a reprieve.
16:86	And when those who associated see their associates, they will say: "Our Guardian, these are our associates whom we used to invoke besides You."
16:86	These will then address these words to them: "You are indeed liars."
16:87	And they will offer to God, that Day, their submission,
16:87	and what they used to invent will stray away from them.
16:88	Those who disown and who turned away from God's path — We shall add for them a punishment upon the punishment, for the corruption they spread.
16:89	And the Day We raise up, in every community, a witness from among themselves, against it, and We bring you, as a witness against these,
16:89	And We have sent down to you the Scripture, making everything clear, and as guidance, benevolence, and glad tidings for those who are true to God alone.
16:90	God commands justice, beneficence, and giving to the close relative,
16:90	and He forbids indecency, the disavowed, and aggression:
16:90	He exhorts you, perhaps you will remember.
16:91	And keep God's covenant when you make a covenant,
16:91	and do not break oaths after affirming them, having taken God as a guarantor over you:
16:91	God knows what you do.
16:92	And do not be like her who unravels her thread, after having firmly spun it, reducing it to fibers; you take your oaths as a means of deceit among yourselves, on the pretext that one community is more numerous than another:
16:92	God only thereby tests you,
16:92	and He will surely make clear to you, on the Day of Appearance, that on which you differed.
16:93	Had God willed, He would have made you a single community;
16:93	but He lets go astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills,
16:93	and you will surely be questioned about what you did.
16:94	And do not take your oaths as a means of deceit among yourselves, or a foot would slip after having been firm, and you would taste evil for having turned away from God's path; and you would have an immense punishment.
16:95	And do not sell God's covenant for a small price:
16:95	what is with God is better for you, if you knew.
16:96	What is with you is exhausted,
16:96	and what is with God endures.
16:96	And We shall surely reward those who were patient according to the best of their deeds.
16:97	Whoever does what is right, male or female, while being a believer, We shall surely make him live a good life, and We shall surely reward them according to the best of their deeds.
16:98	When you recite the Recitation, seek refuge with God from the banished Diverter.
16:99	He has no authority over those who believe and who rely upon their Guardian.
16:100	His authority is exercised only over those who take him as ally, and over those who make him an associate.
16:101	And when We substitute one sign for another sign — God knows best what He sends down — they say: "You are but an inventor."
16:101	But most of them do not know.
16:102	Say: "The Influx of holiness has brought it down, from your Guardian, with truth, so as to make firm those who believe, and as guidance and glad tidings for those who are true to God alone."
16:103	We indeed know that they say: "It is only a human who teaches it to him."
16:103	Yet the tongue of the one to whom they allude is confused, whereas this tongue is flawless, clear.
16:104	Those who do not believe in God's signs, God does not guide them,
16:104	and they will have a painful punishment.
16:105	Those who invent falsehood are those who do not believe in God's signs,
16:105	and they are the liars.
16:106	Whoever disowns God after having believed — except one who is coerced, while his core remains at peace in faith —
16:106	but whoever opens his chest to disowning, upon them falls a wrath from God,
16:106	and they will have an immense punishment.
16:107	That, because they preferred the present life to the last life, and because God does not guide the people who disown.
16:108	Those are the ones on whose core, hearing, and sight God has set a seal,
16:108	and those are the heedless.
16:109	There is no doubt that, in the last life, they are the losers.
16:110	Then, your Guardian, toward those who emigrated after having been tried, then strove and were patient — your Guardian, after that, is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
16:111	The Day every Self will come pleading for itself, and every Self will be paid in full for what it did, without being wronged.
16:112	And God proposes an example: a city that was secure, at peace, to which its provision came abundantly from everywhere; then it disowned God's blessings, and God made it taste the garment of hunger and fear, for what they were fabricating.
16:113	A messenger, from among them, had indeed come to them, but they denied him; the punishment then seized them, while they were unjust.
16:114	So eat of what God has provided you, lawful and good,
16:114	and be grateful for God's blessing, if it is Him you obey.
16:115	He has forbidden you only carrion, blood, the flesh of swine, and what has been consecrated to other than God.
16:115	But whoever is compelled, without rebellion or crossing the limits, God is then Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
16:116	And do not say, for what your tongues falsely describe: "This is lawful and this is forbidden," so as to invent falsehood against God:
16:116	those who invent falsehood against God will not succeed.
16:117	A fleeting enjoyment,
16:117	and they will have a painful punishment.
16:118	And to the Reoriented, We forbade what We have already set out to you;
16:118	We did not wrong them,
16:118	but they were unjust toward themselves.
16:119	Then, your Guardian, toward those who did evil out of ignorance, then repented after that and reformed — your Guardian, after that, is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
16:120	Ibrahim was indeed a community unto himself, devoted to God, wholly turned toward Him, and he was not among those who associate,
16:121	grateful for His blessings.
16:121	He elected him and guided him to a straight path.
16:122	And We gave him, in the present life, good;
16:122	and in the last life, he is indeed among the righteous.
16:123	Then We revealed to you: "Follow the doctrine of Ibrahim, wholly turned toward God,"
16:123	and he was not among those who associate.
16:124	The sabt [the act of rest/inaction] was instituted only for those who differed about it:
16:124	your Guardian will surely judge between them, on the Day of Appearance, concerning that in which they differed.
16:125	Call to the path of your Guardian with wisdom and fine admonition, and argue with them in the finest manner.
16:125	Your Guardian indeed knows best who has strayed from His path,
16:125	and He knows best those who let themselves be guided.
16:126	And if you pay back in kind, pay back to the exact measure of what was done to you;
16:126	but if you are patient, that is indeed better for those who are patient.
16:127	And be patient —
16:127	yet your patience rests only in God.
16:127	And do not grieve over them, and do not be constrained because of what they plot.
16:128	God is with those who guard themselves and those who do good.

Sura 17 — To What Is Most Upright (Al-Isra)

17:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Exalted is He who made His obedient one travel by night, from the inviolable place of prostration to the farthest place of prostration, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him some of Our signs.
17:1	Indeed, He is the All-Hearing, the One who sees perfectly.
17:3	And We gave Moussa the Scripture, and made it a guidance for the Sons of Israel: "Take no one, besides Me, as a trustee" — progeny of those We carried with Nuh.
17:3	He was indeed a grateful obedient one.
17:4	And We decreed to the Sons of Israel, in the Scripture: "You will surely spread corruption on the earth twice, and you will surely rise to an immense arrogance."
17:5	When the promise of the first of these two came, We raised up against you obedient ones of Ours, possessed of severe rigor, who ranged through the dwellings in every direction —
17:5	and it was a fulfilled promise.
17:6	Then We gave you back the upper hand over them, and supported you with goods and children, and made you more numerous in ranks.
17:7	If you do well, you do well for yourselves,
17:7	and if you do ill, it is against yourselves.
17:7	Then, when the promise of the second time came, [We raised up obedient ones] to afflict your faces, to enter the place of prostration as they had entered it the first time, and to utterly destroy whatever they seized.
17:8	It may be that your Guardian will show you benevolence;
17:8	but if you revert, We will revert.
17:8	And We have made Jahannam, for those who disown, an enclosure.
17:10	This Recitation guides to what is most upright, and gives the believers who do righteous deeds the glad tidings that they will have a great reward, and that those who do not believe in the last life — We have prepared for them a painful punishment.
17:11	The human being calls for evil with the same haste with which he calls for good,
17:11	for the human being is hasty.
17:12	We have made the night and the day two signs; We effaced the sign of the night and made the sign of the day a time of clarity, so that you might seek a favor from your Guardian and know the count of years and reckoning.
17:12	And everything, We have set out in detail.
17:13	And to every human being We have fastened his own omen to his neck; and We shall bring forth for him, on the Day of Appearance, a register which he will find laid open:
17:14	"Read your register: today, it suffices that you be your own accountant."
17:15	Whoever lets himself be guided is guided only for himself,
17:15	and whoever goes astray does so only against himself.
17:15	No bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another.
17:15	And We never punish until We have raised up a messenger.
17:16	And when We wish to annihilate a city, We command its privileged ones [to reform], but they overstep within it; so the word proves true against it, and We destroy it utterly.
17:17	How many generations have We annihilated after Nuh!
17:17	Your Guardian suffices, to know the offenses of His obedient ones, as Informed and the One who sees perfectly.
17:18	Whoever wants the immediate life, We hasten for him in it what We will, to whom We will; then We assign him Jahannam, where he will burn, blamed, driven away.
17:19	And whoever wants the last [life] and strives for it with the effort it deserves, while being a believer — those are the ones whose effort will be acknowledged.
17:20	To all, We grant —
17:20	to these as to those — from your Guardian's gift,
17:20	and your Guardian's gift is never restricted.
17:21	See how We have favored some over others;
17:21	and the last life is indeed greater in degrees, and greater in preference.
17:22	Do not place, alongside God, another deity, or you would find yourself blamed, abandoned.
17:23	Your Guardian has decreed that you obey none but Him,
17:23	and beneficence toward one's two parents.
17:23	If either of them, or both, reach old age with you, do not say to them "ugh!" and do not rebuke them,
17:23	but speak to them a noble word.
17:24	And lower for them the wing of humility, out of tenderness,
17:24	and say: "My Guardian, have benevolence on them as they raised me when I was small."
17:25	Your Guardian knows best what is in your Self.
17:25	If you are righteous, He is, toward those who ever turn back to Him, Most-Forgiving.
17:26	And give to the close relative his due, and to the destitute and the traveler on the road,
17:26	and do not squander wastefully.
17:27	Those who squander are the brothers of the Diverters,
17:27	and the Diverter is, toward his Guardian, a great disowner.
17:28	And if you must turn away from them, seeking a benevolence from your Guardian that you hope for, then speak to them an easy word.
17:29	Do not keep your hand chained to your neck, nor stretch it out completely, or you would find yourself blamed, overwhelmed with regret.
17:30	Your Guardian extends provision to whom He wills, and He measures it;
17:30	He is, toward His obedient ones, Informed and the One who sees perfectly.
17:31	Do not kill your children for fear of poverty:
17:31	it is We who provide for them, as for you.
17:31	Killing them is indeed a great fault.
17:32	Do not approach fornication: it is an indecency, and what a detestable path!
17:33	And do not kill the Self that God has made inviolable, except by right.
17:33	Whoever is killed unjustly, We have granted the legal authority [in charge] an authority; but let him not exceed the bound in taking life,
17:33	for he will be helped.
17:34	Do not approach the orphan's goods, except in the best manner, until he reaches his full maturity,
17:34	and keep the covenant,
17:34	for the covenant will be questioned.
17:35	Give full measure when you measure, and weigh with the straight balance:
17:35	that is better, and of finer interpretation.
17:36	Do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge:
17:36	hearing, sight, and the Conscience — of all that, account will be asked.
17:37	And do not walk upon the earth with insolence:
17:37	you will never split the earth, nor reach the mountains in height.
17:38	All that, its evil is, with your Guardian, detestable.
17:39	That is what your Guardian has revealed to you of wisdom.
17:39	Do not place, alongside God, another deity, or you would be cast into Jahannam, blamed, driven away.
17:40	Has your Guardian then favored you with sons, and taken, among the Agents, daughters?
17:40	You are indeed uttering an enormous word.
17:41	We have indeed diversified, in this Recitation, [Our words] so that they might remember; but it only increases their aversion.
17:42	Say: "If there were, with Him, deities, as they say, they would then have sought a way to the Holder of the Edifice."
17:43	Glory be to Him, and He is exalted, above what they say, in immense exaltation.
17:44	The seven heavens glorify Him, as does the earth and those within it;
17:44	there is nothing that does not glorify Him in praise,
17:44	but you do not understand their glorification.
17:44	He is full of patience, Most-Forgiving.
17:45	And when you recite the Recitation, We place between you and those who do not believe in the last life a hidden veil,
17:46	and We place over their cores coverings, [preventing them] from understanding it, and in their ears a deafness.
17:46	And when you mention your Guardian in the Recitation, Him alone, they turn their backs in aversion.
17:47	We know best what they listen for, when they listen to you, and when they are in private converse, when the wrongdoers say: "You follow none but a man abused by illusion."
17:48	See how they have multiplied examples against you, and so gone astray:
17:48	so they cannot find a way.
17:49	And they said: "When we are bones and fragments, shall we really be raised in a new creation?"
17:51	Say: "Be stone, or iron, or any creation that looms great in your chests,
17:51	They will then say: 'Who will bring us back?'
17:51	Say: 'He who originated you the first time.'
17:51	Then they will shake their heads at you and say: 'When will that be?'
17:51	Say: 'It may well be near.
17:52	The Day He calls you, you will respond in praise of Him, and you will think you had stayed only a little [while]."
17:53	And tell My obedient ones to say what is best:
17:53	the Diverter sows discord among them;
17:53	the Diverter is, to the human being, a manifest enemy.
17:54	Your Guardian knows you best; if He wills, He shows you benevolence, and if He wills, He punishes you.
17:54	We have not sent you to be their trustee.
17:55	Your Guardian knows best those who are in the heavens and the earth.
17:55	We have indeed favored some prophets over others, and We gave Dawud the Formulary.
17:56	Say: "Invoke those you claim [to be divine] besides Him: they have no power to remove harm from you, nor to divert it."
17:57	Those very ones they invoke seek, toward their Guardian, the means of approach — whichever of them is nearest — and hope for His benevolence and fear His punishment,
17:57	for your Guardian's punishment is indeed to be feared.
17:58	There is not a city but We shall annihilate it before the Day of Appearance, or punish it with a severe punishment:
17:58	that is inscribed in the register.
17:59	Nothing has kept Us from sending the signs, except that the former peoples denied them.
17:59	We gave the Depleters [Thamud] the she-camel, as clear evidence, but they wronged her.
17:59	And We send the signs only as a warning.
17:60	And [recall] when We told you that your Guardian encompasses the people [in His knowledge] —
17:60	We made the vision that We showed you only a trial for the people, as also the cursed tree in this Recitation.
17:60	And We warn them, but it only increases their immense excess.
17:61	And [recall] when We said to the Agents: "Prostrate before Adam," they prostrated,
17:61	except the Despairing One [Iblis]: he said: "Shall I prostrate before one You created from clay?"
17:62	He said: "Do You see this one You have honored above me? If You give me respite until the Day of Appearance, I shall surely seize his progeny, except a few."
17:63	He said: "Go! Whoever among them follows you — Jahannam will be your recompense, an abundant recompense.
17:64	Rouse, by your voice, whomever you can among them; rally against them your cavalry and your infantry; share with them in goods and children; and make them promises —
17:64	but the Diverter promises them only deception.
17:65	Over My obedient ones, you have no authority;
17:65	and your Guardian suffices as trustee."
17:66	Your Guardian is the One who makes the vessel glide for you on the sea, so that you may seek His favor.
17:66	He is, toward you, Benevolent.
17:67	And when harm touches you at sea, those you invoke abandon you, except Him.
17:67	Then, when He saves you to dry land, you turn away:
17:67	the human being is a great disowner.
17:69	Are you then sure He will not cause a part of the dry land to swallow you, or send upon you a storm of stones, leaving you then to find no trustee? Or are you sure He will not bring you back into it another time, to send upon you a shattering wind that drowns you, for your disowning, leaving you then to find no one to pursue Us on your behalf?
17:70	We have indeed honored the sons of Adam, carried them on land and sea, provided them with good things, and preferred them, in preference, over many of those We have created.
17:71	The Day We call every group of people with their reference,
17:71	whoever is given his register in his right hand — those will read their register, and not be wronged a hair's breadth.
17:72	And whoever is blind in this [life] will be blind in the last life, and further astray in path.
17:73	They have indeed nearly tried you, [to turn you away] from what We revealed to you, so that you might invent against Us something else;
17:73	and then, they would have taken you as an intimate friend.
17:74	And had We not made you firm, you would well nigh have inclined toward them, a little.
17:75	We would then have made you taste double [the punishment] of life and double [the punishment] of death; then you would have found, against Us, no helper.
17:76	They have indeed nearly shaken you out of this land, to drive you out of it —
17:76	and then, they would not have remained after you, except a little.
17:77	Such is the norm concerning those We sent before you among Our messengers,
17:77	and you will find no change to Our norm.
17:78	Maintain the Contact from the sun's decline until the darkness of night, and the Recitation of dawn:
17:78	the Recitation of dawn is indeed witnessed.
17:79	And for part of the night, keep vigil with it, as an addition for you: it may be that your Guardian will raise you to a praised station.
17:80	And say: "My Guardian, cause me to enter by an entrance of truth, and cause me to exit by an exit of truth, and grant me, from Yourself, a supporting authority."
17:81	And say: "The truth has come, and falsehood has vanished:
17:81	falsehood is bound to vanish."
17:82	And We send down, from this Recitation, that which is healing and benevolence for the believers,
17:82	but it only increases the wrongdoers in loss.
17:83	And when We favor the human being with blessings, he turns away and withdraws to his side;
17:83	and when harm touches him, he is hopeless.
17:84	Say: "Each one acts according to his own manner; your Guardian knows best who is best guided in path."
17:85	And they ask you about the Influx.
17:85	Say: "The Influx is of my Guardian's affair; and you have been given of knowledge only a little."
17:87	And if We willed, We would surely take away what We have revealed to you; then you would find, against Us, no trustee for it — except a benevolence from your Guardian.
17:87	His favor toward you is indeed immense.
17:88	Say: "If humans and the Occulted united to produce the equal of this Recitation, they would not produce its equal, even were they mutual support to one another."
17:89	We have indeed diversified for the people, in this Recitation, every kind of example; but most people persisted in nothing but disowning.
17:93	And they said: "We will not give you credit until you make a spring gush forth for us from the earth, or you have a garden of palm trees and vines in which you make rivers gush forth abundantly, or you make the sky fall upon us in pieces as you claim, or you bring God and the Agents before us, or you have a house of ornament, or you ascend to the sky — and we will not give credit even to your ascent until you bring down upon us a register we can read."
17:93	Say: "Exalted is my Guardian! Am I anything but a human, a messenger?"
17:94	And nothing kept the people from believing, when guidance came to them, except that they said: "Would God have sent a human as a messenger?"
17:95	Say: "Had there been on earth Agents walking about in tranquility, We would have sent down to them, from the sky, an Agent, as messenger."
17:96	Say: "God suffices as witness between me and you:
17:96	He is, toward His obedient ones, Informed and the One who sees perfectly."
17:97	Whoever God guides, he is the one who lets himself be guided,
17:97	and whoever He lets go astray, you will never find for them allies besides Him.
17:97	And We shall gather them, on the Day of Appearance, upon their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf:
17:97	their refuge will be Jahannam:
17:97	every time it dies down, We revive for them the inferno.
17:98	That is their recompense, for having disowned Our signs and said: "When we are bones and fragments, shall we really be raised in a new creation?"
17:99	Have they not seen that God, who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create their like, and that He has appointed for them a term about which there is no doubt?
17:99	But the wrongdoers persisted in nothing but disowning.
17:100	Say: "If you possessed the treasures of my Guardian's benevolence, you would then hold them back, for fear of spending."
17:100	The human being is stingy.
17:101	We have indeed given Moussa nine clear signs:
17:101	so ask the Sons of Israel: when he came to them, Fir'awn said to him: "I think you are indeed abused by illusion, O Moussa."
17:102	He said: "You well know that none but the Guardian of the heavens and the earth has sent down these enlightening proofs,
17:102	and I think you are indeed ruined, O Fir'awn."
17:103	He then wanted to shake them out of that land; but We drowned him, and all those with him.
17:104	And We said after him to the Sons of Israel: "Dwell in this land,"
17:104	then, when the promise of the second time comes, We shall bring you all together, mingled.
17:105	With truth We sent it down,
17:105	and with truth it descended;
17:105	and We have sent you only as a bearer of good tidings and a warner.
17:106	And a Recitation that We have divided, so that you recite it to the people gradually,
17:106	and We have sent it down by successive stages.
17:107	Say: "Believe in it, or do not believe:
17:108	those to whom knowledge was given before it, when it is recited to them, fall prostrate on their chins, saying: 'Glory to our Guardian! Our Guardian's promise is indeed fulfilled.'
17:109	And they fall on their chins, weeping, and it increases their humility.
17:110	Say: "Invoke God, or invoke the All-Benevolent:
17:110	whichever [name] you invoke, to Him belong the most beautiful attributes."
17:110	Do not raise your voice too much in your Contact, nor whisper it either: seek, between the two, a path.
17:111	And say: "Praise be to God, who has not taken a child, who has no associate in sovereignty, and who needs no protector out of any weakness,"
17:111	and proclaim His greatness, fully.

Sura 18 — Unless God Wills (Al-Kahf)

18:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Praise be to God, who has sent down upon His obedient one the Scripture and placed in it no deviation,
18:4	straight — to warn of a severe rigor from Him, to give the believers who do righteous deeds the glad tidings that they will have a fine reward, wherein they will remain forever, and to warn those who said: "God has taken a child."
18:5	They have no knowledge of it, nor did their ancestors.
18:5	How grave is the word that comes out of their mouths!
18:5	They say nothing but falsehood.
18:6	Perhaps you will consume yourself with bitterness, following after them, if they do not believe in this account.
18:7	We have made what is on the earth an ornament for it, so as to test them: which of them acts best.
18:8	And We shall surely make what is on it a barren, stripped ground.
18:9	Did you suppose that the companions of the Cave and of ar-Raqim were, among Our signs, a marvel?
18:10	When the young people took refuge in the Cave and said: "Our Guardian, grant us, from Yourself, a benevolence, and prepare for us, in our affair, a path of rectitude."
18:12	We then set up [a barrier] over their ears, in the Cave, for a counted number of years; then We revived them to know which of the two parties better reckoned the length of their stay.
18:13	We relate to you their account in truth:
18:13	they were young people who believed in their Guardian, and We increased them in guidance.
18:14	We bound their cores [firm], when they stood up and said: "Our Guardian is the Guardian of the heavens and the earth; never shall we call upon any deity besides Him — we would then have uttered an enormous excess."
18:15	Here is our people, who have taken deities besides Him: why do they not produce, concerning them, a clear authority?
18:15	Who then is more unjust than one who invents a lie against God?
18:16	And since you have separated yourselves from them and from what they obey besides God, take refuge in the Cave: your Guardian will spread over you some of His benevolence and prepare for you, in your affair, a support.
18:17	You would have seen the sun, at its rising, pay only a brief visit to their cave on the right, and at its setting, leave it with a graze on the left, while they lay in a recess set apart from it.
18:17	That is among the signs of God.
18:17	Whoever God guides, he lets himself be guided,
18:17	and whoever He lets go astray, you will never find for him an ally to set him back on the path.
18:18	You would have thought them awake, while they were asleep.
18:18	We turned them to the right and to the left, while their dog lay, paws stretched out, in a guarding stance [on watch].
18:18	Had you seen them, you would surely have turned away from them in flight, and been filled with terror at them.
18:19	Thus We revived them, so that they might question one another.
18:19	One of them said: "How long have you stayed?"
18:19	They said: "We have stayed a day, or part of a day."
18:19	They said: "Your Guardian knows best how long you have stayed; so send one of you, with these silver coins of yours, to the Capital, and let him see which of its foods is purest, and let him bring you provision from it, and let him act with discretion,
18:19	and let no one notice you in any way.
18:20	for if they discovered you, they would banish you, or bring you back into their doctrine, and you would then never succeed."
18:21	Thus We caused their presence to be discovered, so that they might know that God's promise is true and that the Hour is not in doubt,
18:21	when they disagreed among themselves about them and said: "Build over them a structure" —
18:21	their Guardian knows them best.
18:21	Those who prevailed in the matter said: "We shall surely set up over them a place of prostration."
18:22	They will say: "Three, their dog the fourth,"
18:22	and they will say: "Five, their dog the sixth," guessing at what escapes the senses,
18:22	and they will say: "Seven,"
18:22	their dog being the eighth.
18:22	Say: "My Guardian knows best their number";
18:22	none knows them, except a few.
18:22	So do not wrangle about them except in an apparent wrangling, and do not consult anyone among them about them.
18:24	And never say, of a thing: "I will do that tomorrow," without [adding]: "unless God wills."
18:24	And remember your Guardian when you forget,
18:24	and say: "It may be that my Guardian will guide me to a rectitude nearer than this."
18:25	They remained in their cave three hundred years, and added nine.
18:26	Say: "God knows best how long they remained:
18:26	to Him belongs what escapes the senses in the heavens and on the earth.
18:26	How well He sees and hears!
18:26	They have, besides Him, no protector,
18:26	and He associates no one with His judgment."
18:27	Recite what has been revealed to you of the Scripture of your Guardian: none can alter His words,
18:27	and you will find, besides Him, no refuge.
18:28	Hold yourself, with constancy, alongside those who call upon their Guardian morning and evening, seeking His direction,
18:28	and do not let your eyes turn away from them, seeking the ornament of the present life;
18:28	and do not obey one whose core We have made heedless of Our remembrance, who has followed his emotion, and whose affair has [become] excess.
18:29	And say: "The truth is from your Guardian: so let whoever wishes believe, and whoever wishes disown."
18:29	We have prepared for the wrongdoers a fire whose enclosure surrounds them.
18:29	And if they cry for help, they will be helped with a water like molten metal, which scalds the faces.
18:29	What a detestable drink!
18:29	And what a detestable resting-place!
18:30	Those who have believed and done righteous deeds — We surely do not let go to waste the reward of one who does well.
18:31	Those are the ones who will have the Gardens of permanent abode, beneath which rivers flow; they will be adorned there with bracelets of gold and clothed in green garments of fine silk and brocade, reclining on couches.
18:31	What an excellent requital!
18:31	And what an excellent resting-place!
18:32	Multiply for them an example: two men; to one of them We gave two gardens of vines, which We surrounded with palm trees, and between which We placed cultivated fields.
18:33	Each of the two gardens gave its fruit without failing in anything,
18:34	and We made a river burst forth between them; and he had fructified wealth.
18:34	He said to his companion, while conversing with him: "I am richer than you in goods, and stronger in numbers."
18:35	He entered his garden, wronging himself,
18:36	and said: "I do not think this will ever perish, and I do not think the Hour will come; and even if I am brought back to my Guardian, I shall surely find something better than this garden as a return."
18:37	His companion said to him, while conversing with him: "Do you disown Him who created you from earth, then from a drop, then fashioned you into a well-formed man?
18:38	As for me, He is God, my Guardian, and I associate no one with my Guardian.
18:39	Why did you not say, upon entering your garden: 'What God wills! No strength except in God!' —
18:41	If you see me as having less goods and children than you, it may be that my Guardian will grant me better than your garden, and send upon it, from the sky, a reckoned punishment, so that it becomes a slippery ground, or its water sinks away, so that you will never be able to seek it out.
18:42	And his fructified wealth was surrounded [by ruin], so that he began wringing his hands over what he had spent on it, while it [the garden] was empty despite its edifices, and he was saying: "Would that I had associated no one with my Guardian!"
18:43	He had no group to help him besides God,
18:43	and he could not help himself.
18:44	In this, the [protective] sovereignty belongs to God, the True.
18:44	He is best in requital and best in outcome.
18:45	Multiply for them the example of the present life: it is like water that We send down from the sky; the vegetation of the earth mingles with it, then it becomes chaff scattered by the winds —
18:45	God is capable of all things.
18:46	Goods and children are the ornament of the present life;
18:46	and the enduring, righteous deeds are, with your Guardian, better in requital and better in hope.
18:47	The Day We set the mountains in motion, and you see the earth laid bare, and We gather them, leaving out not one of them.
18:48	They will be presented before your Guardian in rows:
18:48	"Here you have come to Us as We created you the first time;
18:48	but you claimed that We would never appoint you a meeting."
18:49	The register will be set down, and you will see the severed apprehensive of what is in it,
18:49	and they will say: "Woe to us! What is it with this register that it leaves out nothing, small or great, without counting it!"
18:49	They will find before them what they have done,
18:49	and your Guardian wrongs no one.
18:50	And [recall] when We said to the Agents: "Prostrate before Adam," they prostrated,
18:50	except the Despairing One [Iblis]: he was among the Occulted, and he overstepped the command of his Guardian.
18:50	Would you then take him and his progeny as allies besides Me, while they are enemies to you?
18:50	What a detestable exchange for the wrongdoers!
18:51	I did not make them witnesses to the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor to their own creation, and I would never take those who mislead as a support.
18:52	And the Day He says: "Call upon My associates whom you claimed [to have]," they will call upon them, but they will not respond to them; and We shall place between them a place of perdition.
18:53	The severed will see the Fire and know that they are about to fall into it, finding no way to turn away from it.
18:54	We have indeed diversified, in this Recitation, every kind of example for the people;
18:54	but the human being is, more than anything, given to argument.
18:55	And nothing prevents the people from believing, when guidance has come to them, and from asking forgiveness of their Guardian, except that they wait for the precedent of the former peoples to come to them, or for the punishment to come to them, face to face.
18:56	We send the envoys only as bearers of good tidings and warners;
18:56	and those who disown argue by falsehood, to shake the truth by it,
18:56	and they have taken My signs, and what they were warned of, in mockery.
18:57	And who is more unjust than one who, reminded of the signs of his Guardian, turns away from them, forgetting what his hands have prepared?
18:57	We have placed over their cores coverings, [preventing them] from understanding it, and in their ears a deafness;
18:57	and if you call them to guidance, they will never let themselves be guided.
18:58	Your Guardian is the Most-Forgiving, the Possessor of benevolence;
18:58	were He to seize them for what they have earned, He would have hastened the punishment for them;
18:58	but they have an appointment from which they will find, besides Him, no refuge.
18:59	And those cities, We annihilated them when they did wrong, and We set an appointment for their annihilation.
18:60	And [recall] when Moussa said to his young companion: "I will not stop until I reach the meeting-place of the two seas, though I journey long."
18:61	When they had reached the meeting-place of the two seas, they forgot their fish, which then took its way into the sea, like a mirage vanishing.
18:62	When they had passed beyond [the place], he said to his young companion: "Bring us our meal; we have indeed met, on this journey, much fatigue."
18:63	He said: "Did you see? When we took refuge near the rock, I forgot the fish —
18:63	and only the Diverter made me forget it, so that I did not think to mention it —
18:63	and it took its way into the sea,
18:63	in an astonishing way!"
18:64	He said: "That is what we were seeking."
18:65	So they returned upon their own tracks, retracing them, and found an obedient one among Our obedient ones, to whom We had granted a benevolence from Us and to whom We had taught, from Us, a knowledge.
18:66	Moussa said to him: "May I follow you, on condition that you teach me, of what you have been taught, a rectitude?"
18:67	He said: "You will never be able to be patient with me.
18:68	And how would you be patient about what you do not encompass by experience?"
18:69	He said: "You will find me, if God wills, patient,
18:69	and I will not disobey you in anything."
18:70	He said: "If then you follow me, do not question me about anything, until I myself make mention of it to you."
18:71	So they set off, until, when they had boarded the boat, he made a hole in it.
18:71	He said: "Have you made a hole in it to drown its occupants? You have done a very grave thing!"
18:72	He said: "Did I not tell you that you would never be able to be patient with me?"
18:73	He said: "Do not take me to task for what I forgot, and do not burden me, in my affair, with excessive hardship."
18:74	So they set off, until, meeting a young boy, he killed him. He said: "Have you killed a pure Self, without it being for [another] Self? You have done a horrible thing!"
18:75	He said: "Did I not tell you that you would never be able to be patient with me?"
18:76	He said: "If I question you about anything after this, do not keep me as a companion; you will then have, from me, an excuse."
18:77	So they set off, until, arriving at the people of a city, they asked them for food; but they refused to receive them as guests. There they found a wall about to collapse, and he set it upright.
18:77	He said: "Had you wished, you could have taken a reward for that."
18:78	He said: "This is the parting between you and me;
18:78	I will tell you the interpretation of what you were not able to bear with patience.
18:79	As for the boat, it belonged to destitute people working at sea; I wanted to damage it, for behind them was a king who was seizing every [sound] boat by force.
18:80	As for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overwhelm them with excess and disowning,
18:81	and we wanted their Guardian to give them in exchange one [a child] better than him in purity and closer in tenderness.
18:82	As for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys of the Capital, and beneath it was a treasure belonging to them;
18:82	their father was righteous, and your Guardian wanted them to reach their full maturity and extract their treasure themselves, as a benevolence from your Guardian;
18:82	and I did not do that of my own accord.
18:82	That is the interpretation of what you were not able to bear with patience."
18:83	And they ask you about Dhul-Qarnayn.
18:83	Say: "I will recite to you a remembrance of him."
18:86	We established him on the earth, and gave him, of everything, a link; he then followed a link, until, having reached the setting-place of the sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring, and found by it a people.
18:86	We said: "O Dhul-Qarnayn, either you punish them, or you adopt toward them a fine conduct."
18:87	He said: "As for the one who has done wrong, we shall punish him; then he will be brought back to his Guardian, who will punish him with a horrible punishment.
18:88	As for the one who believes and does a righteous deed, he will have the finest [of outcomes] as recompense,
18:88	and we shall speak to him, of our affair, an easy word."
18:91	Then he followed a link, until, having reached the rising-place of the sun, he found it rising on a people to whom We had given, besides it, no shelter. So it was.
18:91	And We encompassed by knowledge all that concerned him.
18:93	Then he followed a link, until, having reached [a place] between the two barriers, he found, on the near side of them, a people who could hardly understand any speech.
18:94	They said: "O Dhul-Qarnayn, Yajuj and Majuj are spreading corruption in the land; shall we grant you a tribute, on condition that you place between us and them a barrier?"
18:95	He said: "That in which my Guardian has established me is better [than your tribute];
18:95	so help me with strength, and I will set up between you and them a rampart.
18:96	Bring me blocks of iron."
18:96	Then, when he had leveled the space between the two sides, he said: "Blow!"
18:96	Then, when he had made it fire, he said: "Bring me, that I may pour molten naphtha over it."
18:97	They were able neither to scale it, nor to pierce it.
18:98	He said: "This is a benevolence from my Guardian;
18:98	but when the promise of my Guardian comes, He will reduce it to dust — and the promise of my Guardian is true."
18:99	We shall leave them, that Day, surging one against another,
18:99	and it will be blown into the Horn, and We shall gather them in a single gathering.
18:101	And We shall present, that Day, Jahannam to those who disown, in full view — those whose eyes were under a veil, away from My remembrance, and who could not hear at all.
18:102	Have those who disown then thought they could take My obedient ones, besides Me, as allies?
18:102	We have prepared Jahannam as a lodging for those who disown.
18:104	Say: "Shall I inform you of those who are the greatest losers in their deeds — those whose effort has gone astray in the present life, while they think they are doing well?"
18:105	Those are the ones who disowned the signs of their Guardian and the meeting with Him: their works have collapsed, and We shall not assign them, on the Day of Appearance, any weight.
18:106	Such: their recompense will be Jahannam, for having disowned and having taken My signs and My messengers in mockery.
18:108	Those who have believed and done righteous deeds will have, as a lodging, the Gardens of the Firdaws, wherein they will remain, with no desire to turn away from it.
18:109	Say: "If the sea were ink for the words of my Guardian, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Guardian were exhausted, even if We brought the like of it in reinforcement."
18:110	Say: "I am only a human like you; it is revealed to me that your deity is a single deity.
18:110	So whoever hopes for the meeting with his Guardian, let him do a righteous deed and associate no one in obedience to his Guardian."

Sura 19 — A Remembrance of Benevolence (Maryam)

19:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Kaf. Ha. Ya. ʿAyn. Ṣad.
19:3	A remembrance of your Guardian's benevolence toward His obedient one Zakariya, when he called upon his Guardian with a secret call,
19:4	he said: "My Guardian, the bone has grown weak within me, the head has blazed white, and never, in calling upon You, my Guardian, have I been wretched.
19:6	I have feared for my kin after me, and my wife is barren. So grant me, from Yourself, an heir who will inherit from me and inherit from the line of Yaacoub,
19:6	and make him, my Guardian, pleasing [to You]."
19:7	"O Zakariya, We give you glad tidings of a boy: his attribute is Yahya, to whom We have given, before him, no one sharing this attribute."
19:8	He said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a boy, when my wife is barren and I have reached, in old age, utter decrepitude?"
19:9	He said: "So it will be. Your Guardian has said: That is easy for Me, and I created you before, when you were nothing."
19:10	He said: "My Guardian, appoint for me a sign."
19:10	He said: "Your sign is that you shall not speak to the people for three complete nights."
19:11	He came out to his people, from the oratory, and signaled to them: "Glorify [Him] at morning and evening."
19:12	"O Yahya, take the Scripture with strength."
19:12	And We gave him judgment, while he was a young child,
19:13	and a tenderness from Us, and a purity;
19:13	and he guarded himself.
19:14	Virtuous toward his parents, he was neither tyrannical nor rebellious.
19:15	And peace be upon him the day he was born, the day he dies, and the day he is raised alive.
19:17	And mention, in the Scripture, Maryam, when she withdrew from her people to a place toward the east and took, apart from them, a screen of seclusion.
19:17	So We sent to her Our Influx, who took before her the form of a well-formed human.
19:18	She said: "I take refuge from you with the All-Benevolent! If you guard yourself [before Him]…"
19:19	He said: "I am only the messenger of your Guardian, that He may grant you a pure boy."
19:20	She said: "How shall I have a boy, when no human has touched me and I have not been unchaste?"
19:21	He said: "So it will be. Your Guardian has said: That is easy for Me.
19:21	And We shall make him a sign for the people and a benevolence from Us.
19:21	It is a matter already decreed."
19:22	She conceived him, then withdrew with him to a far-off place.
19:23	The pangs of childbirth drove her to the trunk of the palm tree. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and been a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!"
19:24	He called to her from below her: "Do not grieve! Your Guardian has set beneath you a couch.
19:25	And shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree: it will drop upon you fresh, ripe dates.
19:26	So eat, drink, and let your eye find rest.
19:26	If you see anyone among the humans, say: "I have vowed to the All-Benevolent an abstention [from speech]; so I shall not speak today to any human."
19:27	Then she came with him to her people, carrying him.
19:27	They said: "O Maryam, you have done a monstrous thing!
19:28	O sister of Harun, your father was not a man of evil, nor your mother unchaste."
19:29	So she pointed to him.
19:29	They said: "How shall we speak to one who is a young child in the cradle?"
19:32	The child said: "I am the obedient one of God. He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet; He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and enjoined upon me the Contact and the purifying alms as long as I live, and virtue toward my mother.
19:32	He has not made me tyrannical or wretched.
19:33	And peace be upon me the day I was born, the day I die, and the day I am raised alive."
19:34	Such is Issa, son of Maryam —
19:34	the word of truth, about which they are in doubt.
19:35	It is not for God to take a child.
19:35	Glory be to Him!
19:35	When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: "Be,"
19:35	and it is.
19:36	God is my Guardian and your Guardian: so obey Him.
19:36	This is a straight path.
19:37	But the parties diverged among themselves.
19:37	So woe to those who disown, at the witnessing of an immense Day!
19:38	How well they will hear and see, the Day they come to Us!
19:38	Yet the wrongdoers, today, are in manifest error.
19:39	And warn them of the Day of Regret, when the matter is decided, while they are heedless and do not believe.
19:40	It is We who will inherit the earth and all who are upon it,
19:40	and to Us they will be returned.
19:42	And mention, in the Scripture, Ibrahim: he was a man of truth, a prophet, when he said to his father: "O my father, why do you obey what neither hears nor sees and avails you nothing?
19:43	O my father, there has come to me of knowledge what has not come to you; so follow me, I will guide you along an even path.
19:44	O my father, do not obey the Diverter:
19:44	the Diverter is rebellious toward the All-Benevolent.
19:45	O my father, I fear that a punishment from the All-Benevolent will touch you, and you become an ally of the Diverter."
19:46	[His father] said: "Do you spurn my deities, O Ibrahim?
19:46	If you do not desist, I will banish you! Keep away from me for a long time."
19:48	[Ibrahim] said: "Peace be upon you. I will ask my Guardian's forgiveness for you: He has ever been attentive to me. I withdraw from you and from what you invoke besides God, and I invoke my Guardian; perhaps, in invoking my Guardian, I shall not be wretched."
19:49	When he had withdrawn from them and from what they obeyed besides God, We granted him Ishaq and Yaacoub,
19:49	and each We made a prophet.
19:50	And We granted them [a share] of Our benevolence, and gave them a lofty renown of truth.
19:51	And mention, in the Scripture, Moussa: he was devoted exclusively [to God], and he was a messenger, a prophet.
19:52	We called him from the right side of the Mount, and drew him near in confidence.
19:53	And We granted him, out of Our benevolence, his brother Harun, a prophet.
19:55	And mention, in the Scripture, Ismail: he was true to his promise, and he was a messenger, a prophet. He would enjoin upon his people the Contact and the purifying alms,
19:55	and he was, with his Guardian, well-pleasing.
19:56	And mention, in the Scripture, Idris: he was a man of truth, a prophet.
19:57	And We raised him to a lofty station.
19:58	Those are the ones God has favored among the prophets: of the progeny of Adam, of those We carried with Nuh, of the progeny of Ibrahim and of Israel, and of those We guided and chose.
19:58	When the signs of the All-Benevolent were recited to them, they fell down prostrate, weeping.
19:61	Then there succeeded them a generation who neglected the Contact and followed desires: so they will meet with misguidance — except one who repents, believes, and acts righteously; those will enter the Garden and be wronged in nothing: the Gardens of permanent abode which the All-Benevolent has promised His obedient ones, in what escapes their presence.
19:61	His promise is surely to be fulfilled.
19:62	They will hear in it no idle talk,
19:62	only: "Peace!"
19:62	And they will have their provision there, morning and evening.
19:63	Such is the Garden that We shall give as inheritance, among Our obedient ones, to whoever guarded himself.
19:64	"We do not descend except by the command of your Guardian.
19:64	To Him belongs what is before us, what is behind us, and what is between that.
19:64	And your Guardian is never forgetful."
19:65	The Guardian of the heavens, the earth, and what is between them: so obey Him, and be constant in His obedience.
19:65	Do you know anyone who shares His attribute?
19:66	And the human being says: "When I am dead, shall I really be brought forth alive?"
19:67	Does the human being not remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?
19:68	By your Guardian, We will surely gather them, along with the Diverters; then We will bring them, on their knees, around Jahannam.
19:69	Then We will pluck out, from every faction, those most insolent toward the All-Benevolent.
19:70	Then it is We who know best who most deserves to burn in it.
19:71	There is none of you but will come to it: that is, for your Guardian, an irrevocable decree.
19:72	Then We will save those who guarded themselves, and leave the wrongdoers in it, on their knees.
19:73	And when Our clear signs are recited to them, those who disown say to those who believe: "Which of the two parties has the better standing and the finer assembly?"
19:74	How many a generation before them We have annihilated, finer in possessions and in appearance!
19:75	Say: "Whoever is in error, let the All-Benevolent extend for him a long respite!"
19:75	until, seeing what they are promised — either the punishment or the Hour — they know who is worse in station and weaker in support.
19:76	And God increases in guidance those who let themselves be guided.
19:76	And the enduring, righteous deeds are, with your Guardian, better in requital and better in outcome.
19:79	Have you seen the one who disowned Our signs and said: "I will surely be given goods and children"? Has he pierced what escapes his presence, or taken a pact with the All-Benevolent? By no means!
19:79	We will record what he says and extend for him the punishment, at length.
19:80	And We will inherit what he speaks of, and he will come to Us, alone.
19:82	They have taken, besides God, deities, that they might be a might for them. By no means!
19:82	They will disown their obedience and stand against them as adversaries.
19:83	Have you not seen that We have loosed the Diverters upon those who disown, inciting them relentlessly?
19:84	So do not be hasty against them:
19:84	We are only counting out for them [their days], count by count.
19:86	The Day We gather those who guarded themselves to the All-Benevolent, as a delegation, and drive the severed to Jahannam, like a herd to the watering-place.
19:87	They will hold no intercession, except one who has taken a pact with the All-Benevolent.
19:88	And they have said: "The All-Benevolent has taken a child."
19:91	You have put forth an enormity! The heavens nearly rupture from it, the earth splits open, and the mountains collapse in ruin — that they have ascribed a child to the All-Benevolent.
19:92	It does not befit the All-Benevolent to take a child.
19:93	There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes to the All-Benevolent as an obedient one.
19:94	He has enumerated them and counted them, one by one.
19:95	And each of them will come to Him, on the Day of Appearance, alone.
19:96	To those who have believed and done righteous deeds, the All-Benevolent will grant affection.
19:97	We have made it easy on your tongue only so that you may give glad tidings by it to those who guard themselves and warn by it a contentious people.
19:98	How many a generation before them We have annihilated! Do you perceive a single one of them, or hear from them the faintest murmur?

Sura 20 — Not for You to Toil (Ta-Ha)

20:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ṭa. Ha.
20:2	We did not send down upon you the Recitation for you to toil,
20:3	but as a reminder for whoever is in awe,
20:4	a descent from the One who created the earth and the lofty heavens,
20:5	the All-Benevolent, who established Himself upon the Edifice.
20:6	To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens, whatever is on the earth, whatever is between them, and whatever is beneath the moist soil.
20:7	Whether you speak aloud or not, He knows the secret, and what is even more hidden.
20:8	God — no deity but Him.
20:8	To Him belong the most beautiful attributes.
20:9	Has the account of Moussa reached you?
20:10	When he saw a fire, he said to his household: "Stay here, I have perceived a fire; perhaps I will bring you a torch from it, or find at the fire some guidance."
20:12	When he reached it, he was called: "Moussa! In truth, it is I, your Guardian. Take off your sandals, for you are in the sanctified valley of Touwa."
20:14	And I have chosen you: so listen to what is revealed. Truly it is I, God — no deity but Me. Obey Me, then, and maintain the Contact for My remembrance.
20:15	The Hour is coming — I keep it almost hidden — so that every Self may be recompensed for what it has striven toward.
20:16	Let not him who does not believe in it and follows his emotion turn you away from it, lest you perish.
20:17	And what is that in your right hand, Moussa?
20:18	He said: "It is my staff; I lean on it, I beat down leaves with it for my flock, and I have other uses for it."
20:19	He said: "Throw it down, Moussa."
20:20	He threw it down, and behold, it became a serpent, moving swiftly.
20:21	He said: "Take it, and do not fear: We shall restore it to its former state."
20:23	And press your hand to your side: it will come out white, without harm — another sign, that We may show you some of Our greatest signs.
20:24	Go to Fir'awn: he has exceeded all measure.
20:30	He said: "My Guardian, open up my chest for me, ease my task for me, undo a knot from my tongue so that they may understand my speech, and appoint for me an assistant from my own, Harun, my brother.
20:35	Strengthen through him my resolve, and associate him with my task, so that we may glorify You abundantly and remember You abundantly; You are, over us, All-Seeing."
20:36	He said: "Your request is granted, Moussa.
20:39	We had already favoured you once before, when We inspired your mother with what was inspired: "Place him in the chest, then cast him into the river;
20:39	let the river cast him onto the shore; an enemy to Me and an enemy to him will take him up."
20:40	I cast upon you a love from Me, so that you might be formed under My watch — when your sister walked along and said: "Shall I point you to one who can take charge of him?"
20:40	So We returned you to your mother, that her gaze might find repose and she not grieve.
20:40	And you killed a Self, and We delivered you from distress; and We tried you with a hard trial.
20:40	You stayed years among the people of Madyan, then you came at the appointed measure, Moussa.
20:41	And I formed you for Myself.
20:42	Go, you and your brother, with My signs, and do not weaken in My remembrance.
20:44	Go, both of you, to Fir'awn: he has exceeded all measure. Speak to him gently; perhaps he will be reminded, or feel awe.
20:45	They said: "Our Guardian, we fear that he will rush against us or that he will exceed all measure toward us."
20:46	He said: "Do not fear: I am with you both, I hear and I see."
20:47	So go to him and say: "We are two messengers of your Guardian; send with us the Sons of Israel, and do not punish them; we have brought you a sign from your Guardian."
20:47	Peace be upon whoever follows the guidance.
20:48	It has been revealed to us that the punishment falls upon whoever denies and turns away.
20:49	He said: "And who is your Guardian, Moussa?"
20:50	He said: "Our Guardian is the One who gave to each thing its own form, then guided it."
20:51	He said: "And what of the former generations?"
20:52	He said: "Knowledge of them rests with my Guardian, in a record.
20:52	My Guardian neither strays nor forgets."
20:53	He who made the earth for you a spread, and traced for you paths within it, and sent down water from the sky,
20:53	by which We brought forth pairs of plants of every kind.
20:54	Eat, and graze your livestock.
20:54	In that are signs for those endowed with reason.
20:55	From it We created you, into it We shall return you, and from it We shall bring you out yet another time.
20:56	We showed him all Our signs, but he denied and refused.
20:58	He said: "Have you come to us to drive us out of our land with your illusion, Moussa? We shall surely bring you illusion to match it.
20:58	So set between us and you an appointment, which neither we nor you shall fail, at a fair place."
20:59	He said: "Your appointment shall be the day of adornment, and that the people be gathered in broad morning."
20:60	Fir'awn turned away, gathered his scheme, then came.
20:61	Moussa said to them: "Woe to you! Do not fabricate a lie against God, lest He extirpate you with a punishment."
20:61	And whoever fabricates has already failed.
20:62	So they disagreed among themselves about their matter and kept their counsel secret.
20:63	They said: "These two are indeed two workers of illusion who wish to drive you out of your land with their illusion and to carry off your exemplary way.
20:64	So gather your scheme, then come in a single rank.
20:64	And whoever rises above shall prosper today."
20:65	They said: "Moussa, either you throw, or we shall be the first to throw."
20:66	He said: "Rather, you throw."
20:66	And behold, their ropes and their staffs, through their illusion, appeared to him to be moving swiftly.
20:67	Moussa felt within himself a certain apprehension.
20:68	We said: "Do not fear, it is you who are the uppermost.
20:69	Throw what is in your right hand: it will swallow up what they have contrived.
20:69	What they have contrived is but a worker of illusion's scheme,
20:69	and the worker of illusion does not prosper, wherever he goes."
20:70	So the workers of illusion were cast down, prostrate.
20:70	They said: "We believe in the Guardian of Harun and Moussa."
20:71	He said: "You gave him credit before I gave you permission! He is indeed your chief, who taught you illusion.
20:71	I shall surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I shall surely crucify you on trunks of palm trees; and you shall know which of us is harsher in punishment and more lasting."
20:72	They said: "We shall never prefer you over the clear proofs that have come to us, nor over the One who originated us.
20:72	So decide whatever you are to decide:
20:72	you decide only over the present life.
20:73	We believe in our Guardian, that He may forgive us our faults and the illusion to which you compelled us.
20:73	And God is better, and more lasting."
20:74	Whoever comes to his Guardian in a state of severance, for him is Jahannam, wherein he neither dies nor lives.
20:75	And whoever comes to Him believing, having done righteous deeds — for those, the highest ranks:
20:76	gardens of permanent abode, beneath which rivers flow, wherein they remain.
20:76	Such is the recompense of whoever purifies himself.
20:77	And We had revealed to Moussa: "Travel by night with My obedient ones, and strike out for them a dry path through the sea; do not fear being overtaken, and do not dread."
20:78	So Fir'awn pursued them with his forces, and there covered them, from the flood, that which covered them.
20:79	And Fir'awn led his people astray; he did not guide them.
20:80	Sons of Israel, We delivered 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 quail.
20:81	Eat of the good things We have provided you, and do not exceed the measure therein, lest My anger fall upon you;
20:81	and whoever is struck by My anger has indeed fallen.
20:82	And I am indeed a Great Forgiver toward whoever repents, believes, does righteousness, then lets himself be led.
20:83	And what made you hasten away from your people, Moussa?
20:84	He said: "There they are, close upon my tracks; and I hastened to You, Guardian, that You might be pleased."
20:85	He said: "We have indeed tried your people after you, and as-Samiri has led them astray."
20:86	So Moussa returned to his people, angry and bitter.
20:86	He said: "O my people, did your Guardian not make you a fair promise?
20:86	Did the time appointed seem too long to you, or did you wish that a wrath from your Guardian should fall upon you, that you thus broke your appointment with me?"
20:87	They said: "We did not break your appointment of our own will; but we were burdened with loads of the people's ornaments, and we cast them away, and thus did as-Samiri also throw."
20:88	So he brought forth for them a calf, a lowing body, and they said: "This is your deity, and the deity of Moussa" — but he had forgotten.
20:89	Do they not see that it returns them no word, and holds for them neither harm nor benefit?
20:90	And Harun had indeed told them before: "O my people, you are only being tried by it;
20:90	and truly your Guardian is the All-Benevolent: so follow me, and obey my command."
20:91	They said: "We shall not cease to remain posted by it until Moussa returns to us."
20:93	He said: "Harun, what kept you, when you saw them straying, from following me? Did you then disobey my order?"
20:94	He said: "Son of my mother, do not seize me by the beard nor by the head; I feared you would say: 'You have divided the Sons of Israel', and that you did not heed my word."
20:95	He said: "And what is your affair, Samiri?"
20:96	He said: "I perceived what they did not perceive; so I seized a handful from the track of the messenger, then I cast it away — thus did my Self prompt me."
20:97	He said: "Go away then: your lot in this life shall be to say 'Touch me not',
20:97	and there is set for you an appointment you shall not fail.
20:97	And look at your deity, by which you remained posted: we shall surely burn it, then we shall surely scatter it into the flood, utterly scattered."
20:98	Your only deity is God, besides whom there is no deity,
20:98	whose knowledge embraces all things.
20:99	Thus do We relate to you certain accounts of what has already passed,
20:99	and We have given you, from Our own presence, a reminder.
20:101	Whoever turns away from it shall bear, on the Day of Appearance, a burden, abiding therein,
20:101	and evil will be that burden for them on the Day of Appearance!
20:103	The day the Horn is blown, We shall gather the severed, that day, livid, whispering among themselves: "You stayed no more than ten."
20:104	We know best what they will say, when the most discerning of them in conduct will say: "You stayed no more than a day."
20:107	And they ask you about the mountains; say: "My Guardian will scatter them utterly, leaving them a level plain, wherein you will see neither hollow nor rise."
20:108	That day, they will follow the caller, with no deviation possible,
20:108	and all voices will hush before the All-Benevolent; you will hear nothing but a murmur.
20:109	That day, intercession will not avail, except for him whom the All-Benevolent permits, and whose word He is pleased to accept.
20:110	He knows what is before them and what is behind them, while they do not encompass Him in their knowledge.
20:111	And all faces will humble themselves before the Living, the Sustainer,
20:111	and whoever bears an injustice will indeed have failed.
20:112	And whoever does righteous deeds, being a believer, shall fear neither injustice nor deprivation.
20:113	Thus have We sent it down, a flawless Recitation, and We have varied therein the threat, that they may guard themselves, or that it may awaken in them a remembrance.
20:114	So exalted be God, the Sovereign, the True!
20:114	And do not hasten with the Recitation before its revelation is completed for you,
20:114	and say: "My Guardian, increase me in knowledge."
20:115	And We had already made a covenant with Adam before, but he forgot, and We found in him no firm resolve.
20:116	And when We said to the Agents: "Prostrate before Adam", they prostrated,
20:116	save the Despairing One [Iblis], who refused.
20:117	So We said: "Adam, this is indeed an enemy to you and to your spouse; let him not drive you both out of the Garden, or you would toil.
20:118	You have therein the assurance that you will not go hungry nor be unclothed,
20:119	nor that you will thirst therein, nor be exposed to the sun."
20:120	Then the Diverter whispered to him,
20:120	he said: "Adam, shall I point you to the tree of everlastingness and a dominion that does not decay?"
20:121	So they both ate from it, and their nakedness became apparent to them, and they both set about covering themselves with leaves from the Garden.
20:121	And Adam disobeyed his Guardian, and was misled.
20:122	Then his Guardian chose him, turned toward him, and guided him.
20:123	He said: "Go down from it, both of you, together,
20:123	some of you enemies to others.
20:123	And should guidance come to you from Me, then whoever follows My guidance shall neither stray nor toil;
20:124	and whoever turns away from My remembrance shall have a straitened existence, and We shall gather him blind on the Day of Appearance."
20:125	He will say: "My Guardian, why have You gathered me blind, when I used to see?"
20:126	He will say: "Thus it is: Our signs came to you, and you forgot them;
20:126	and thus, today, you are forgotten."
20:127	Thus do We recompense whoever has committed excess and has not believed in the signs of his Guardian;
20:127	and the punishment of the last life is harsher and more lasting.
20:128	Has it not become clear to them how many generations We annihilated before them, in whose dwellings they now walk?
20:128	In that are signs for those endowed with reason.
20:129	And had it not been for a word that preceded from your Guardian, it would have been inevitable, and a term already set.
20:130	So be patient over what they say,
20:130	and glorify, with praise, your Guardian, before the rising of the sun and before its setting;
20:130	and glorify Him during some hours of the night, and at the edges of the day, that you may be well-pleased.
20:131	And do not stretch your eyes toward what We have granted some of them to enjoy — the flower of the present life — that We may try them therein;
20:131	and the provision of your Guardian is better, and more lasting.
20:132	Order your household to the Contact, and be steadfast in it:
20:132	We ask no provision of you,
20:132	it is We who provide for you;
20:132	and the outcome belongs to guardedness.
20:133	And they said: "Why does he not bring us a sign from his Guardian?"
20:133	Has there not come to them the clear proof of what is in the former pages?
20:134	And had We annihilated them with a punishment before this, they would have said: "Our Guardian, why did You not send to us a messenger, that we might have followed Your signs before we were humbled and disgraced?"
20:135	Say: "Each one waits in expectation; so wait, then:
20:135	you shall soon know who are the companions of the even path, and who has let himself be guided."

Sura 21 — We Answered Him (Al-Anbiya)

21:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Mankind's reckoning has drawn near, while they are turned away in heedlessness.
21:3	No new reminder comes to them from their Guardian without their listening to it while playing, their core distracted.
21:3	Those who did wrong kept their counsel secret: 'Is this anything but a human like yourselves?'
21:3	Will you then go along with illusion, while you can see clearly?
21:4	He said: 'My Guardian knows what is said in the heaven and on the earth,
21:4	and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.'
21:5	They said instead: 'A jumble of confused dreams! He has rather invented it! He is rather a beguiling rhetorician!
21:5	Let him then bring us a sign, just as the earlier ones were sent with.'
21:6	No city that We annihilated before them had believed —
21:6	will they, then, believe?
21:7	And We sent, before you, none but men to whom We revealed: so ask the keepers of the Reminder, if you do not know.
21:8	We did not make them bodies that ate no food,
21:8	nor were they immortal.
21:9	Then We fulfilled the promise for them: We saved them and whoever We willed, and We annihilated the excessive.
21:10	We have sent down to you a Writ in which is your remembrance —
21:10	will you not, then, reason?
21:11	How many a city, doing wrong, have We shattered, raising up after it another people!
21:12	Then, when they sensed Our rigor, at once they were fleeing from it.
21:13	'Do not flee — return to the comfort you were given and to your dwellings, so that you may be questioned.'
21:14	They said: 'Woe to us — we have indeed been wrongdoers!'
21:15	That cry did not cease until We made them a mown harvest, extinguished.
21:16	We did not create the heaven and the earth, and what is between them, in play.
21:17	Had We wished to take on a distraction, We would have taken it from within Ourself,
21:17	had We been ones to do so.
21:18	We hurl truth against falsehood instead, so it crushes it, and at once it vanishes.
21:18	Woe to you for what you describe!
21:19	To Him belongs whoever is in the heavens and the earth.
21:19	Those who are with Him are not too proud to obey Him, nor do they grow weary;
21:20	they glorify Him night and day, never flagging.
21:21	Or have they taken deities from the earth who awaken [the dead]?
21:22	Had there been in them [the heaven and earth] deities other than God, both would have become corrupt.
21:22	Glory, then, to God, Guardian of the Edifice, above what they describe!
21:23	He is not questioned about what He does,
21:23	while they will be questioned.
21:24	Or have they taken deities besides Him?
21:24	Say: 'Bring your proof.'
21:24	This is the remembrance of those with me, and the remembrance of those before me.
21:24	But most of them do not know the truth, so they turn away.
21:25	We did not send any messenger before you without revealing to him that there is no deity but Me — so obey Me.
21:26	And they said: 'The All-Benevolent has taken a child.'
21:26	Glory be to Him!
21:26	They are rather honoured obedient ones,
21:27	who do not precede Him in speech, and who act by His command.
21:28	He knows what is before them and what is behind them,
21:28	and they intercede only for whom He approves, while they tremble in awe of Him.
21:29	Whoever among them were to say, 'I am a deity besides Him' — that one We would recompense with Jahannam:
21:29	thus do We recompense the wrongdoers.
21:30	Have those who disowned not seen that the heavens and the earth were a joined mass, and We split them apart?
21:30	And We made every living thing from water —
21:30	will they not, then, believe?
21:31	And We placed firm anchors on the earth, lest it sway with them,
21:31	and We made in it passes and paths, so that they might be guided.
21:32	And We made the heaven a protected ceiling,
21:32	while they turn away from its signs.
21:33	It is He who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon —
21:33	each sailing in an orbit.
21:34	We did not grant immortality to any human before you —
21:34	so if you were to die, would they be immortal?
21:35	Every Self will taste death,
21:35	and We test you with bad and with good, as a trial;
21:35	and to Us you will be returned.
21:36	When those who disowned see you, they take you as nothing but an object of mockery:
21:36	'Is this the one who mentions your deities?' — while they themselves disown the remembrance of the All-Benevolent.
21:37	The human being was created out of haste.
21:37	I will show you My signs, so do not ask Me to hasten.
21:38	And they say: 'When will this promise be, if you are truthful?'
21:39	If only those who disowned knew — the moment when they will not be able to keep the fire off their faces or their backs, and will not be helped...
21:40	It [the Hour] will come to them instead, suddenly, and stun them, so that they will not be able to repel it, nor will they be granted any respite.
21:41	Messengers before you were indeed mocked, and what they used to mock enveloped those who mocked them.
21:42	Say: 'Who guards you, by night and by day, from the All-Benevolent?'
21:42	Yet they turn away from the remembrance of their Guardian.
21:43	Or do they have deities that protect them against Us?
21:43	They cannot help themselves, nor are they granted any aid against Us.
21:44	We rather gave enjoyment to these and to their fathers, until life grew long for them.
21:44	Do they not see that We come to the earth, reducing it from its edges?
21:44	Are they, then, the victors?
21:45	Say: 'I only warn you by the revelation' —
21:45	but the deaf do not hear the call when they are warned.
21:46	And if a breath of your Guardian's punishment were to touch them, they would surely say: 'Woe to us — we have indeed been wrongdoers!'
21:47	And We shall set up the weights of equity for the Day of Appearance, so that no Self will be wronged in the least;
21:47	and even if it be the weight of a mustard seed, We shall bring it forth — and We suffice as reckoners.
21:49	We certainly gave Moussa and Harun the Criterion, a light, and a remembrance for those who guard themselves, who fear their Guardian without seeing Him, and tremble before the Hour.
21:50	And this is a blessed remembrance that We have sent down —
21:50	will you, then, disavow it?
21:51	We certainly gave Ibrahim his rectitude before, and We knew him well.
21:52	When he said to his father and his people: "What are these statues before which you remain posted?"
21:53	They said: 'We found our fathers obeying them.'
21:54	He said: 'You and your fathers were indeed in manifest error.'
21:55	They said: 'Have you come to us with the truth, or are you one of those who play?'
21:56	He said: 'Your Guardian is rather the Guardian of the heavens and the earth, who originated them,
21:56	and I am, among you, one of those who bear witness to that.'
21:57	And by God, I will surely devise something against your idols after you have turned your backs and gone.
21:58	So he broke them into pieces, except a great one of theirs, so that they might return to it.
21:59	They said: 'Who has done this to our deities? He is indeed one of the wrongdoers!'
21:60	They said: 'We heard a young man mention them; he is called Ibrahim.'
21:61	They said: 'Bring him, then, before the eyes of the people, so that they may witness.'
21:62	They said: 'Is it you who did this to our deities, Ibrahim?'
21:63	He said: 'It was rather this, their great one, who did it — ask them, if they can speak.'
21:64	So they turned back to themselves and said: 'It is you, truly, who are the wrongdoers.'
21:65	Then they were turned back upon their heads [in confusion]:
21:65	'You know well that these do not speak!'
21:66	He said: 'Do you, then, obey besides God what neither benefits nor harms you in anything?
21:67	Fie upon you, and upon what you obey besides God!
21:67	Will you not, then, reason?'
21:68	They said: 'Burn him, and help your deities, if you are going to act!'
21:69	We said: 'O fire, be coolness and peace upon Ibrahim.'
21:70	They intended a scheme against him, but We made them the greatest losers.
21:71	And We saved him, and Lut, to the land that We blessed for all beings.
21:72	And We granted him Ishaq,
21:72	and Yaacoub, as a further gift.
21:72	And each of them We made righteous.
21:73	And We made them leaders who guide by Our command,
21:73	and We revealed to them the doing of good deeds, the maintaining of the Contact, and the giving of the purifying alms;
21:73	and they were obedient ones of Us.
21:74	And to Lut We gave judgment and knowledge,
21:74	and We saved him from the city that used to commit vile practices —
21:74	they were indeed an evil people, oversteppers.
21:75	And We admitted him into Our benevolence,
21:75	for he was among the righteous.
21:76	And Nuh, when he called out earlier: We answered him, and saved him and his family from the great distress.
21:77	And We helped him against the people who denied Our signs;
21:77	they were indeed an evil people, so We drowned them all together.
21:78	And Dawud and Sulayman, when they judged concerning the cultivated field into which the people's sheep had strayed by night,
21:78	and We were witnesses to their judgment.
21:79	We granted Sulayman the understanding of it,
21:79	and to each of them We gave judgment and knowledge.
21:79	And We subjected the mountains to glorify with Dawud, and the birds as well;
21:79	and it was We who did it.
21:80	And We taught him the making of coats of mail for you, so that it might protect you from your own violence —
21:80	will you, then, be grateful?
21:81	And to Sulayman, the raging wind, running by his command to the land that We blessed,
21:81	and We had knowledge of all things.
21:82	And among the Diverters were some who dived for him and performed other tasks besides that;
21:82	and We were their keeper.
21:83	And Ayyub, when he called out to his Guardian: 'Harm has touched me, and You are the most benevolent of the benevolent!'
21:84	So We answered him and lifted the harm that was upon him,
21:84	and We restored his family to him, and as many again with them, as a benevolence from Us, and a remembrance for the obedient ones.
21:85	And Ismail, and Idris, and Dhul-Kifl:
21:85	each was among the patient.
21:86	And We admitted them into Our benevolence,
21:86	for they were among the righteous.
21:87	And Dhu'n-Nun, when he went off in anger and thought that We would have no power over him: he called out in the darkness: 'There is no deity but You! Glory be to You! I have indeed been among the wrongdoers!'
21:88	So We answered him and saved him from distress;
21:88	and thus do We save the believers.
21:89	And Zakariya, when he called out to his Guardian: 'My Guardian, do not leave me alone, though You are the best of inheritors!'
21:90	So We answered him, and granted him Yahya, and made his wife fit [to bear a child] for him;
21:90	they used to hasten to good deeds, and call upon Us in longing and in reverence, and were humble before Us.
21:91	And Maryam, who protected her intimacy: We breathed into her of Our Influx, and made her and her son a sign for all beings.
21:92	This community of yours is a single community, and I am your Guardian — obey Me, then.
21:93	But they split their affair among themselves;
21:93	all will return to Us.
21:94	So whoever does righteous deeds, being a believer, his effort will never be disowned —
21:94	and We are indeed recording it for him.
21:95	And it is forbidden, for a city that We have annihilated, that they should return —
21:97	until Gog and Magog are opened, and they come streaming down from every height, and the true promise draws near — then at once the eyes of those who disowned stare fixedly: 'Woe to us! We were heedless of this — we have rather been wrongdoers!'
21:98	You, and what you obey besides God, are the fuel of Jahannam — you will come to it.
21:99	Had these been deities, they would not have come to it;
21:99	and all will abide in it forever.
21:100	In it they will have groaning, and in it they will hear nothing.
21:101	As for those to whom the best has already gone forth from Us, those will be kept far from it:
21:102	they will not hear its faintest sound, and they will abide forever in what their Self desires.
21:103	The greatest terror will not grieve them,
21:103	and the Agents will receive them: 'This is your day, the one you were promised.'
21:104	The day We fold up the heaven as a binder closes over the writings it holds,
21:104	just as We began the first creation, We shall repeat it —
21:104	a promise binding upon Us:
21:104	We shall indeed do it.
21:105	We have certainly written in the Formulary, after the Remembrance, that the earth will be inherited by My righteous obedient ones.
21:106	In this there is indeed a sufficient message for a people of obedient ones.
21:107	And We did not send you except as a benevolence for all beings.
21:108	Say: 'It is only revealed to me that your deity is a single deity —
21:108	will you, then, be true to Him alone?'
21:109	If they turn away, then say: 'I have informed you all equally,
21:109	and I do not know whether what you are promised is near or far.'
21:110	He indeed knows what is said aloud, and He knows what you conceal.
21:111	And I do not know — perhaps it is a trial for you, and an enjoyment for a while.'
21:112	He said: 'My Guardian, judge with truth;
21:112	and our Guardian is the All-Benevolent, whose help is sought against what you describe.'

Sura 22 — Neither Their Meat nor Their Blood (Al-Hajj)

22:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O mankind, guard yourselves against your Guardian,
22:1	for the tremor of the Hour is a tremendous thing.
22:2	The Day you see it, every woman with a child in her care will forget the child she was caring for, and every pregnant one will deliver her burden, and you will see mankind as if drunk, though they are not drunk — but the punishment of God is severe.
22:4	And among mankind is he who argues about God without knowledge and follows every rebellious Diverter, for whom it has been decreed that whoever takes him as an ally, he will misguide him and guide him to the punishment of the Inferno.
22:5	O mankind, if you are in doubt about the Deployment, then indeed We created you from dust, then from a drop, then from a clinging clot, then from a lump of flesh, formed and unformed, that We may make things clear to you.
22:5	And We settle in the wombs whatever We will until a specified term,
22:5	then We bring you out as a child, that you may then reach your full maturity.
22:5	And among you is he who dies [early], and among you is he who is returned to the most decrepit age, so that he knows nothing after having known [much].
22:5	And you see the earth barren, but when We send down water upon it, it stirs, swells, and grows every splendid pair.
22:7	That is because God is the Truth, He gives life to the dead, He is capable of all things, the Hour is coming — no doubt about it — and God will raise up those who are in the graves.
22:9	And among mankind is he who argues about God without knowledge, without guidance, and without an illuminating Scripture, turning his side away in arrogance, to lead [others] astray from the way of God.
22:9	For him is disgrace in the present life,
22:9	and We will make him taste, on the Day of Appearance, the punishment of the burning fire.
22:10	That is for what your hands have prepared; and God is not unjust to the constrained [under compulsion].
22:11	And among mankind is he who obeys God in a distorted manner: if good befalls him, he is content with it, but if a trial befalls him, he turns back on his face — losing both the present life and the last life.
22:11	That is the manifest loss.
22:12	He calls upon, besides God, that which can neither harm him nor benefit him.
22:13	That is indeed far-reaching error — he calls upon
22:13	one whose harm is nearer than his benefit. What a wretched guarantor, and what a wretched companion!
22:14	Indeed, God admits those who have believed and done righteous deeds into gardens beneath which rivers flow.
22:14	Indeed, God does what He wills.
22:15	Whoever thinks that God will never help him in the present life and the last life, let him extend a link toward the sky, then let him withdraw from it, then let him wait to see whether his scheme removes what enrages him.
22:16	Thus have We sent it down as clear signs,
22:16	and [know] that God guides whom He wills.
22:17	Those who have believed, the Reoriented, the Aspirants, the Helpers, the Magians, and those who ascribe partners to God — God will separate between them on the Day of Appearance.
22:17	Indeed, God is witness over all things.
22:18	Have you not seen that to God prostrate whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the trees, the living beings, and many among mankind?
22:18	And upon many [others], the punishment has proven true.
22:18	And whoever God humiliates has none to honor him.
22:18	Indeed, God does what He wills.
22:19	These are two opposing parties who have quarreled concerning their Guardian.
22:20	Those who disown will have garments of fire cut out for them; boiling water will be poured over their heads, melting what is in their bellies as well as their skins.
22:21	And for them are maces of iron.
22:22	Every time they wish to come out of it, out of anguish, they will be returned to it:
22:22	"Taste the punishment of the burning fire!"
22:23	Indeed, God admits those who have believed and done righteous deeds into gardens beneath which rivers flow; they will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls,
22:23	and their garments therein will be of silk.
22:24	And they were guided to the good in speech,
22:24	and they were guided to the path of the Praiseworthy.
22:25	Indeed, those who disown and turn [people] away from the way of God and from the inviolable place of prostration, which We made for the people equally, whether one dwells there or is passing through —
22:25	and whoever intends therein a deviation through injustice, We will make him taste a painful punishment.
22:26	And remember when We established for Ibrahim the site of the House: "Do not associate anything with Me,
22:26	and purify My House for those who frequent it, those who maintain it, and those who bow in service and submit [in allegiance]."
22:28	And proclaim to mankind the Hajj: they will come to you on foot and on every lean mount, coming from every distant, deep-cut path, to witness the benefits [granted] to them and to mention the name of God on known days over the grazing livestock He has provided them.
22:28	So eat of it and feed the distressed, the poor.
22:29	Then let them put an end to their unkempt state, fulfill their commitments, and frequent the freed House.
22:30	That is so.
22:30	And whoever magnifies the sacred prohibitions of God, it is better for him with his Guardian.
22:30	And lawful to you is the livestock, except what is recited to you:
22:31	so avoid the defilement of idols, and avoid false speech, wholly turned toward God, associating nothing with Him.
22:31	And whoever associates [others] with God, it is as though he had fallen from the sky, and the birds snatch him away, or the wind sweeps him down into a far-off place.
22:32	That is so.
22:32	And whoever magnifies the perceptible markers of God — that is part of the guardedness of the cores.
22:33	For you in them are benefits until a specified term; then their place of release is at the freed House.
22:34	And for every community We have assigned a beneficent practice, that they may mention the name of God over the grazing livestock He has provided them.
22:34	So your deity is a single deity.
22:34	So to Him alone be true.
22:35	And give good news to the humble, whose cores tremble when God is mentioned, who are patient over what befalls them, who maintain the Contact, and who spend from what We have provided them.
22:36	And the sacrificial animals — We have made them for you among the perceptible markers of God; in them is good for you.
22:36	So mention the name of God over them, while they are lined up in rows;
22:36	then when their flanks fall [to the ground], eat of them and feed the one who is content without asking and the one who asks.
22:36	Thus have We subjected them to you, that you may be grateful.
22:37	Neither their meat nor their blood reaches God, but the guardedness from you reaches Him.
22:37	Thus has He subjected them to you, that you may magnify God for having guided you.
22:37	And give good news to those who do good.
22:38	Indeed, God defends those who believe.
22:38	Indeed, God does not love any grand traitor, grand disowner.
22:39	Permission is given to those who are being fought, because they have been wronged —
22:39	and God is indeed able to help them.
22:40	those who were expelled from their homes without right, only because they said, "Our Guardian is God."
22:40	And were it not for God's defense of people, some by means of others, there would have been demolished hermitages, churches, synagogues, and places of prostration wherein the name of God is much mentioned.
22:40	And God will surely help whoever helps Him —
22:40	indeed, God is the Strong, the All-Powerful.
22:41	those who, if We establish them in the land, maintain the Contact, render the purifying alms, enjoin what is recognized [by custom], and forbid what is disavowed.
22:41	And to God belongs the outcome of all affairs.
22:44	And if they deny you, before them the people of Nuh, the Recidivists [Aad], the Depleters [Thamud], the people of Ibrahim, the people of Lut, and the people of Madyan denied —
22:44	and Moussa too was denied.
22:44	So I granted a delay to those who disowned, then I seized them:
22:44	and how was My disavowal!
22:45	How many a city have We annihilated while it was committing injustice: they now stand empty despite their edifices, with an abandoned well and a lofty, deserted palace!
22:46	Have they not traveled through the land, so as to have cores with which to reason, or ears with which to hear?
22:46	For it is not the eyes that are blind, but rather the cores that are within the breasts.
22:47	And they urge you to hasten the punishment,
22:47	though God will never fail His promise.
22:47	And indeed, a day with your Guardian is like a thousand years of those you count.
22:48	And how many a city to which I granted a delay while it was committing injustice, then I seized it —
22:48	and to Me is the destination.
22:49	Say, "O mankind, I am only a clear warner to you."
22:50	So those who have believed and done righteous deeds will have forgiveness and generous provision.
22:51	But those who strive against Our signs, seeking to thwart [them], those are the companions of the Blaze.
22:53	And We did not send before you any messenger or prophet except that when he had a wish, the Diverter would insert something into it. God then transcribes what the Diverter inserts, and He affirms His signs — God is All-Knowing, Wise — so that this transcription may be a trial for those in whose cores is a sickness and whose cores are hardened.
22:53	And indeed, the wrongdoers are in a deep rupture.
22:54	And so that those who were given knowledge may know that it is the truth from your Guardian, and believe in it, and their cores humbly submit to it.
22:54	And indeed, God surely guides those who believe to a straight path.
22:55	And those who disown will not cease to be in doubt of it until the Hour comes upon them unexpectedly, or there comes to them the punishment of a barren day.
22:56	The dominion, that Day, belongs to God.
22:56	He will judge between them.
22:56	So those who believed and did righteous deeds will be in gardens of bliss.
22:57	And those who disowned and denied Our signs — those will have a humiliating punishment.
22:58	And those who emigrated in the way of God and then were killed or died — God will surely provide them with a good provision.
22:58	And indeed, God is surely the best of providers.
22:59	He will surely admit them to an entrance with which they will be pleased.
22:59	And indeed, God is All-Knowing, full of patience.
22:60	That is so.
22:60	And whoever pays back in kind to the exact measure of what was done to him, and then is aggressed against again — God will surely help him.
22:60	Indeed, God is surely the One who effaces, Most-Forgiving.
22:61	That is because God causes the night to enter into the day and the day to enter into the night, and because God is the All-Hearing, the One who sees perfectly.
22:62	That is because God is the Truth, and what you invoke besides Him is falsehood, and because God is the Most High, the Great.
22:63	Have you not seen that God sends down water from the sky, and the earth becomes green?
22:63	Indeed, God is Subtle, Informed.
22:64	To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth.
22:64	And indeed, God is surely the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy.
22:65	Have you not seen that God has subjected to you whatever is on the earth, and the ship which sails through the sea by His command?
22:65	And He withholds the sky from falling upon the earth, except by His permission.
22:65	Indeed, God is, to mankind, full of kindness, Benevolent.
22:66	And it is He who gave you life, then will cause you to die,
22:66	then will give you life again.
22:66	Indeed, the human being is surely a great disowner.
22:67	For every community We have assigned a beneficent practice which it carries out.
22:67	So let them not contest with you concerning the matter,
22:67	and call to your Guardian,
22:67	for you are surely upon straight guidance.
22:68	And if they argue with you, say, "God knows best what you do.
22:69	God will judge between you on the Day of Appearance concerning that in which you used to differ."
22:70	Do you not know that God knows whatever is in the heaven and the earth?
22:70	Indeed, that is in a record:
22:70	indeed, that is easy for God.
22:71	And they obey, besides God, that for which He has sent down no authority and of which they have no knowledge.
22:71	And for the wrongdoers there is no helper.
22:72	And when Our clear signs are recited to them, you recognize disavowal on the faces of those who disown; they nearly assault those who recite Our signs to them.
22:72	Say, "Shall I inform you of something worse than that?
22:72	The Fire, which God has promised to those who disown —
22:72	and what an evil destination!"
22:73	O mankind! An example has been put forth, so listen to it:
22:73	indeed, those you invoke besides God will never create a fly, even if they gathered together for that.
22:73	And if the fly should snatch away something from them, they could not recover it from it.
22:73	Weak are the seeker and the sought!
22:74	They did not measure God with His true measure.
22:74	Indeed, God is surely the Strong, the All-Powerful.
22:75	God chooses from the Agents messengers, and from mankind [as well].
22:75	Indeed, God is the All-Hearing, the One who sees perfectly.
22:76	He knows what is before them and what is behind them.
22:76	And it is to God that all matters return.
22:77	O you who have believed! Kneel, prostrate, obey your Guardian, and do good, that you may succeed.
22:78	And strive for God with the striving due to Him.
22:78	It is He who has chosen you,
22:78	and He has not placed upon you, in the Law, any hardship —
22:78	[it is] the way of your father Ibrahim.
22:78	It is He who named you the true [obedient ones of God] before, and in this [Recitation], so that the messenger may be a witness over you, and that you may be witnesses over mankind.
22:78	So maintain the Contact and render the purifying alms,
22:78	and hold fast to God:
22:78	He is your nearest Guarantor —
22:78	what an excellent Guarantor,
22:78	and what an excellent helper!

Sura 23 — Have Attained Success (Al-Mu'minun)

23:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. The believers have attained success,
23:2	those who, in their Contact, are humble,
23:3	and those who turn away from idle talk,
23:4	and those who fulfill the purifying alms,
23:6	and those who guard their private parts, except with their spouses or those bound by pledge — for then they are not blameworthy;
23:7	whoever seeks beyond that — those are the ones who cross the limits.
23:8	and those who are watchful over their trusts and their covenant,
23:11	And those who, toward their Contacts, are watchful — those are the inheritors, who will inherit Paradise,
23:11	abiding therein forever.
23:12	We created the human being from an extract of clay,
23:13	then We made him a drop in a secure receptacle,
23:14	then We created from the drop a clinging form, then We created from the clinging form a lump, then We created from the lump bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, then We brought it forth as another creation.
23:14	Blessed is God, the best of creators!
23:15	Then, after that, you are destined to die,
23:16	then, on the Day of Appearance, you will be raised.
23:17	We created above you seven passages,
23:17	and We have never been heedless of creation.
23:18	We sent down from the sky water in due measure, and We settled it in the earth —
23:18	and We are indeed able to take it away.
23:20	We thus brought forth for you, through it, gardens of palms and vines, wherein you have abundant fruits and from which you eat, and a tree that comes out of Mount Sinai, producing oil and a condiment for those who eat.
23:21	And there is indeed, for you, a lesson in the livestock:
23:21	We give you drink from what is in their bellies,
23:22	and you have in them many benefits, and you eat from them, and upon them as well as upon ships you are carried.
23:23	We sent Nuh to his people, and he said: O my people, obey God, you have no other deity than Him.
23:23	Will you not then guard yourselves?
23:25	The court of his people, those who disowned, then said: This is nothing but a human like you, who wants to gain superiority over you; had God willed, He would have sent down Agents; we have not heard this among our first ancestors. He is nothing but a man afflicted with derangement — so wait concerning him for a while.
23:26	He said [Nuh]: My Guardian, help me, for they have denied me.
23:27	We then revealed to him: Build the ark under Our eyes and by Our revelation.
23:27	Then, when Our command comes and the oven boils over, put into it a pair of every kind, along with your family, except him among them against whom the word has already been pronounced;
23:27	and do not address Me concerning those who have done injustice, for they are to be drowned.
23:28	And when you are settled, you and those with you, upon the ark, say: Praise be to God who has saved us from the unjust people.
23:29	And say: My Guardian, grant me a blessed dwelling, for You are the best of those who grant a dwelling.
23:30	There are indeed signs in that,
23:30	and We were indeed putting [that people] to the test.
23:32	Then We brought forth, after them, another generation, and We sent among them a messenger, [one] of themselves: Obey God, you have no other deity than Him.
23:32	Will you not then guard yourselves?
23:38	The court of his people, those who disowned and denied the meeting of the last life, and to whom We had given ease in the present life, said: This is nothing but a human like you, who eats of what you eat and drinks of what you drink; and if you obey a human like you, you will then indeed be losers. Does he promise you that, once dead and become dust and bones, you will be raised up? Far, far indeed is what you are promised! There is nothing but our present life, we die and we live, and we will not be raised up! He is nothing but a man who has invented a lie against God, and we will not believe him.
23:39	He said [the messenger]: My Guardian, help me, for they have denied me.
23:40	He said [God]: A little while yet, and they will surely become full of regret.
23:41	The cry then seized them in all truth, and We made them into debris [scattered on the surface].
23:41	Far removed then be the unjust people!
23:42	Then We brought forth, after them, other generations.
23:43	No community precedes its term, nor does it delay it.
23:44	Then We sent Our messengers, one after another.
23:44	Every time a messenger came to a community, it treated him as a liar;
23:44	We thus made them follow one another, and We made them into narrated tales.
23:44	Far removed then be a people that does not believe!
23:46	Then We sent Moussa and his brother Harun, with Our signs and a clear authority, to Fir'awn and his court; but they swelled with pride and were a haughty people,
23:47	and they said: Shall we give credit to two humans like ourselves, while their people obey us?
23:48	They treated them as liars, and were thus among those annihilated.
23:49	We gave Moussa the Scripture, that they might be guided.
23:50	And We made the son of Maryam and his mother a sign,
23:50	and We sheltered them toward a height endowed with stability and a spring.
23:51	O messengers, eat of the good things and act righteously —
23:51	I am, of what you do, All-Knowing.
23:52	And this community of yours is a single community,
23:52	and I am your Guardian: so guard yourselves toward Me.
23:53	But they split, concerning their affair, into divided factions,
23:53	each party rejoicing in what it holds.
23:54	So leave them in their blindness, for a while.
23:56	Do they think that, what We grant them of goods and children, We hasten toward them with good things?
23:56	No, they do not perceive.
23:61	Those who, out of reverent awe of their Guardian, are watchful, and those who believe in the signs of their Guardian, and those who associate nothing with their Guardian, and those who give what they give, their core trembling [at the thought] that they are returning to their Guardian — those hasten toward good things,
23:61	and they are foremost in that.
23:62	And We do not burden a Self beyond its capacity,
23:62	and We have a record that speaks with truth, and they will not be wronged.
23:63	But their core is in a [dark] blindness about this,
23:63	and they have, apart from that, deeds
23:63	which they will continue to commit —
23:64	until, when We seize their privileged ones with punishment, there they are, crying out in distress.
23:65	Do not cry out today,
23:65	you will not be helped by Us.
23:67	My signs were indeed recited to you, and you turned back on your heels, swelling with pride about them,
23:67	conversing by night, you spoke outrageously.
23:68	Have they then not pondered the word, or has there come to them what did not come to their first ancestors?
23:69	Or did they not recognize their messenger, to the point that they disavow him?
23:70	Or do they say that he is afflicted with derangement?
23:70	No, he has come to them with the truth,
23:70	but most of them have an aversion to the truth.
23:71	And had the truth followed their emotions, the heavens, the earth, and those therein would have been corrupted.
23:71	No, We have brought them their own Reminder,
23:71	but they turn away from their Reminder.
23:72	Or do you ask them for a tribute?
23:72	The tribute of your Guardian is better,
23:72	and He is the best of providers.
23:73	And you indeed call them toward a straight path;
23:74	but those who do not believe in the last life indeed deviate from that path.
23:75	And if We had benevolence on them and removed from them the harm that afflicts them, they would persist in wandering blindly in their excess.
23:76	We did seize them with punishment, yet they did not submit to their Guardian, nor did they humbly plead,
23:77	until, when We open upon them a gate of severe punishment, there they are, in despair.
23:78	And He is the One who brought forth for you hearing, sight, and Consciences.
23:78	How little you are grateful!
23:79	And He is the One who has scattered you upon the earth, and it is to Him that you will be gathered.
23:80	And He is the One who gives life and gives death,
23:80	and to Him belongs the alternation of night and day.
23:80	Will you not then reason?
23:82	But they said the same thing that the ancients used to say; they said: Is it that, once dead and become dust and bones, we will be raised up?
23:83	We were promised this, we and our ancestors, before already;
23:83	this is nothing but legends of the ancients.
23:85	Say: To whom belongs the earth and what is in it, if you know? They will say: To God.
23:85	Say: Will you not then remember?
23:86	Say: Who is the Guardian of the seven heavens and the Guardian of the immense Edifice?
23:87	They will say: To God.
23:87	Say: Will you not then guard yourselves?
23:89	Say: Who holds in His hand the sovereign dominion of everything, who protects and against whom none can be protected, if you know? They will say: To God.
23:89	Say: How then are you abused by illusion?
23:90	No, We have brought them the truth,
23:90	and they are indeed liars.
23:91	God has taken no child,
23:91	and there was with Him no deity —
23:91	otherwise, each deity would have gone off with what it created, and some would have risen above others.
23:91	Glory be to God, beyond what they describe!
23:92	Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is manifest,
23:92	He is far above what they associate with Him.
23:94	Say: My Guardian, if You show me what they are promised, then, my Guardian, do not place me among the unjust people.
23:95	And We are indeed able to show you what We promise them.
23:96	Repel evil with what is better —
23:96	We know best what they describe.
23:98	And say: My Guardian, I take refuge with You from the incitements of the Diverters, and I take refuge with You, my Guardian, against their being present with me.
23:100	Until, when death comes to one of them, he says: My Guardian, send me back, that I may act righteously in that which I left. By no means!
23:100	It is a word that he utters [in vain],
23:100	and behind them there is a barrier, until the day they are raised up.
23:101	Then, when the Horn is blown, there will be no ties of lineage between them that day, and they will not question one another.
23:102	Those whose weights are heavy — those are the ones who succeed;
23:104	And those whose weights are light — those are the ones who have lost their own Self, abiding forever in Jahannam; the fire will scorch their faces, and they will grimace therein.
23:105	Were My signs not recited to you, and you denied them?
23:106	They will say: Our Guardian, our misery overcame us, and we were an astray people.
23:107	Our Guardian, bring us out of it; if we relapse, we will then [truly] be unjust.
23:108	He will say: Remain therein, humiliated, and do not speak to Me.
23:110	There was a group among My obedient ones who said: Our Guardian, we believe; forgive us and have benevolence on us, for You are the best of those who show benevolence — but you took them in mockery, until they made you forget My Reminder, and you used to laugh at them.
23:111	I have this day recompensed them for their endurance: it is they who are the triumphant.
23:112	He will say: How many years did you remain on the earth?
23:113	They will say: We remained a day,
23:113	or part of a day; so ask those who keep count.
23:114	He will say: You remained only a little, if only you knew.
23:115	Did you then think that We created you in vain, and that you would not be returned to Us?
23:116	Exalted be God, the Sovereign, the Truth!
23:116	There is no deity but Him,
23:116	the Guardian of the generous Edifice.
23:117	And whoever invokes, with God, another deity, having no proof of it, his account rests only with his Guardian.
23:117	Those who disown do not attain success.
23:118	And say: My Guardian, forgive and have benevolence, for You are the best of those who show benevolence.

Sura 24 — Light upon Light (An-Nur)

24:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. This is a surah which We have sent down and which We have made obligatory, and in which We have sent down clear signs, that you may remember.
24:2	The fornicatress and the fornicator, inflict on each of them a hundred lashes,
24:2	and let no kindness for them seize you in the Law of God, if you believe in God and the Last Day;
24:2	and let a group of believers witness their punishment.
24:3	The fornicator takes as wife only a fornicatress or an associator,
24:3	and the fornicatress, only a fornicator or an associator takes her as wife;
24:3	and that is forbidden to the believers.
24:4	And those who accuse women protected by the marital bond, then do not bring four witnesses, inflict on them eighty lashes,
24:5	and never accept their testimony again — those are the oversteppers, except those who repented after that and reformed, for God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
24:7	And those who accuse their spouses, having no witnesses except themselves, the testimony of one of them shall be four oaths by God that he is indeed among the truthful, and the fifth, that the curse of God be upon him if he is among the liars.
24:9	And the punishment will be averted from her if she testifies four times by God that he is among the liars, and a fifth time, that the wrath of God be upon her if he is among the truthful.
24:10	And were it not for the favor of God upon you, His benevolence, and that God is Accepter of repentance, Wise, [you would have been ruined].
24:11	Those who came with the calumny are a group from among you; do not think it is an evil for you,
24:11	no, it is a good for you.
24:11	To each man among them [will come] what he has earned of transgression,
24:11	and he among them who took the greatest part of it will have an immense punishment.
24:12	If only, upon hearing it, the believing men and women had thought well of themselves, and had said: This is a manifest calumny!
24:13	If only they had brought four witnesses concerning it!
24:13	Since they did not bring the witnesses, those are, in the sight of God, the liars.
24:15	And were it not for the favor of God upon you and His benevolence, in the present life and the last life, an immense punishment would have touched you for what you engaged in, when you received it with your tongues and said with your mouths that of which you had no knowledge, deeming it trivial while it is, in the sight of God, immense.
24:16	And if only, upon hearing it, you had said: It is not for us to speak of this — glory be to You, this is an immense calumny!
24:17	God exhorts you never to return to the like of it, if you are believers.
24:18	And God explicates the signs for you,
24:18	and God is All-Knowing, Wise.
24:19	Those who love that indecency should spread among those who believe will have a painful punishment, in the present life and the last life,
24:19	and God knows,
24:19	and you, you do not know.
24:20	And were it not for the favor of God upon you, His benevolence, and that God is full of kindness, Benevolent, [you would have been ruined].
24:21	O you who have believed! do not follow the steps of the Diverter;
24:21	and whoever follows the steps of the Diverter — he indeed commands indecency and what is disavowed.
24:21	And were it not for the favor of God upon you, His benevolence, not one of you would ever have been purified,
24:21	but God purifies whom He wills,
24:21	and God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
24:22	And let not those among you who have favor and ease swear not to give to their relatives, the destitute, and those who emigrated in the way of God,
24:22	let them rather efface and overlook.
24:22	Would you not love for God to forgive you?
24:22	And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
24:24	Those who accuse women protected by the marital bond, unwitting, believing, are cursed in the present life and the last life, and they will have an immense punishment, on the day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will testify against them for what they used to do.
24:25	That day, God will pay them in full their just Retribution,
24:25	and they will know that God is the manifest Truth.
24:26	The bad for the bad, and the bad for the bad;
24:26	the good for the good, and the good for the good.
24:26	Those are clear of what is said [against them];
24:26	they have forgiveness and a generous provision.
24:27	O you who have believed! do not enter houses other than your own until you have made yourselves known and greeted their occupants —
24:27	that is better for you, that you may remember.
24:28	If you find no one therein, do not enter until you are given permission;
24:28	and if you are told: Go back, then go back — it is purer for you.
24:28	And God, of what you do, is All-Knowing.
24:29	There is no fault in your entering uninhabited houses in which there is a use for you.
24:29	And God knows what you disclose and what you conceal.
24:30	Say to the believing men to lower their gazes and guard their private parts — that is purer for them.
24:30	God is Informed of what they do.
24:31	And say to the believing women to lower their gazes and guard their private parts,
24:31	and not to display that which, in them, arouses desire, except what the silhouette lets show,
24:31	and let them multiply their covering cloth over the opening of their chest,
24:31	and let them not display what, in them, arouses desire, except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husbands' fathers, or their sons, or their husbands' sons, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women [of their circle], or those bound by pledge, or male attendants devoid of desire, or children who have no awareness yet of women's private matters.
24:31	And let them not multiply their steps [about the city] so as to make known what they conceal of what arouses desire in them.
24:31	And turn all together to God, O believers, that you may succeed.
24:32	Marry the unmarried among you, as well as the righteous among your male and female obedient ones.
24:32	If they are poor, God will enrich them from His favor.
24:32	And God is Vast, All-Knowing.
24:33	And let those who do not find [the means for] marriage restrain themselves, until God enriches them from His favor.
24:33	And those, among those bound by pledge, who seek [with you] the written deed [of the marriage contract, to become protected], draw up that deed with them if you know good in them,
24:33	and give them from the goods of God which He has given you.
24:33	And do not compel your young women to prostitution, if they wish to remain chaste, seeking merely the goods of the present life.
24:33	And whoever compels them — after their compulsion, God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent [toward them].
24:34	We have sent down to you clear signs, an example from those who passed away before you, and an admonition for those who guard themselves.
24:35	God is the Light of the heavens and the earth.
24:35	The example of His Light is like a niche wherein is a lamp.
24:35	The lamp is in a glass.
24:35	The glass is like a brilliant star, kindled from a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow forth even without fire touching it.
24:35	Light upon light.
24:35	God guides to His Light whom He wills,
24:35	and God multiplies examples for the people,
24:35	and God is All-Knowing of all things.
24:37	In houses which God has permitted to be raised, and in which His name is remembered — He is glorified therein, morning and evening, by men whom neither trade nor commerce diverts from the remembrance of God, the maintaining of the Contact, and the giving of the purifying alms,
24:38	fearing a day when the cores and the gazes will be overturned, [acting] so that God may recompense them according to the best of what they have done, and grant them increase from His favor.
24:38	And God provides sustenance to whom He wills, without measure.
24:39	And those who disown, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert plain, which the thirsty one takes for water, until, when he reaches it, he finds nothing, but he finds God there, who settles his account in full.
24:39	And God is swift in reckoning.
24:40	Or like darkness on a deep, surging sea: a wave covers it, above which is another wave, above which is a cloud —
24:40	darknesses, one above another:
24:40	When he puts out his hand, he can hardly see it.
24:40	And he to whom God grants no light has no light.
24:41	Have you not seen that God — He is glorified by those in the heavens and on the earth, and the birds with wings outspread?
24:41	Each one knows its Contact and its glorification,
24:41	and God is All-Knowing of what they do.
24:42	To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth,
24:42	and to God is the destination.
24:43	Have you not seen that God drives the clouds, then joins them together, then makes them into a mass, and you see the rain come out from within it?
24:43	And He sends down from the sky, from mountains [of clouds] therein, hail, which He strikes whom He wills with, and turns away from whom He wills;
24:43	the flash of its lightning almost takes away the sight.
24:44	God alternates the night and the day.
24:44	There is indeed in that a lesson for the possessors of sight.
24:45	And God created every living being from water.
24:45	Among them is one that walks on its belly,
24:45	and among them is one that walks on two feet,
24:45	and among them is one that walks on four.
24:45	God creates what He wills,
24:45	God is capable of all things.
24:46	We have sent down clear signs,
24:46	and God guides whom He wills to a straight path.
24:47	And they say: We believe in God and in the messenger, and we obey — then a group among them turns away after that;
24:47	and those are not believers.
24:48	And when they are called to God and His messenger so that he may judge between them, there is a group among them that turns away.
24:49	But if the right is on their side, they come to him in full submission.
24:50	Is there a sickness in their cores, or do they doubt, or do they fear that God and His messenger will deal with them unjustly?
24:50	No, it is they who are the unjust.
24:51	The only word of the believers, when they are called to God and His messenger so that he may judge between them, is to say: We have heard and we obey.
24:51	And those are the ones who succeed.
24:52	And whoever obeys God and His messenger, fears God and guards himself toward Him — those are the triumphant.
24:53	And they swore by God, with their most solemn oaths, that if you ordered them, they would surely go forth.
24:53	Say: Do not swear;
24:53	a recognized obedience [suffices].
24:53	God is Informed of what you do.
24:54	Say: Obey God and obey the messenger;
24:54	but if you turn away, upon him rests only what he has been charged with, and upon you rests only what you have been charged with.
24:54	And if you obey him, you will be guided.
24:54	And upon the messenger rests only the clear transmission.
24:55	God has promised those among you who believe and do righteous deeds that He will surely establish them as successors on the earth, as He established as successors those before them, that He will surely establish firmly for them their Law which He has approved for them, and that He will surely change their state, after their fear, into security.
24:55	They obey Me without associating anything with Me.
24:55	And whoever disowns after that — those are the oversteppers.
24:56	And maintain the Contact, and fulfill the purifying alms,
24:56	and obey the messenger, that benevolence may be shown to you.
24:57	Do not ever think that those who disown can render [God] powerless on the earth;
24:57	their refuge is the fire,
24:57	and what an evil destination!
24:58	O you who have believed! let those bound by pledge and those among you who have not yet reached the age of reflection ask your permission [to enter], at three times: before the Contact of dawn, when you remove your garments at midday, and after the Contact of evening —
24:58	three times of privacy for you.
24:58	There is no fault, neither for you nor for them, outside these times,
24:58	being visitors to one another,
24:58	one with another.
24:58	Thus God explicates the signs for you,
24:58	and God is All-Knowing, Wise.
24:59	And when the children among you reach the age of reflection, let them ask permission as those before them asked permission.
24:59	Thus God explicates His signs for you,
24:59	and God is All-Knowing, Wise.
24:60	And the elderly women, among women, who no longer hope for marriage, are not at fault in laying aside their [outer] garments, without ostentatiously displaying what, in them, arouses desire;
24:60	but that they restrain themselves is better for them.
24:60	And God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
24:61	There is no fault for the blind, nor fault for the lame, nor fault for the sick, nor for yourselves, in eating in your own 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 [houses] whose keys you hold, or [the house] of your friend.
24:61	There is no fault in your eating together or separately.
24:61	And when you enter houses, greet one another with a greeting from God, blessed and good.
24:61	Thus God explicates the signs for you, that you may reason.
24:62	The believers are only those who believe in God and His messenger, and who, when they are with him for a common matter, do not leave until they have asked his permission.
24:62	Those who ask your permission, those are the ones who believe in God and His messenger.
24:62	And when they ask your permission for some matter concerning them, grant it to whom you will among them, and ask God's forgiveness for them.
24:62	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
24:63	Do not consider the call of the messenger among yourselves as the call of one of you to another.
24:63	God well knows those among you who slip away furtively.
24:63	Let those who oppose his order beware lest a trial strike them, or a painful punishment reach them.
24:64	Indeed, to God belongs what is in the heavens and on the earth.
24:64	He well knows the state you are in,
24:64	and the day when they are brought back to Him, He will inform them of what they did.
24:64	And God is All-Knowing of all things.

Sura 25 — The Obedient Ones of the All-Benevolent (Al-Furqan)

25:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion upon His obedient one, that he may be a warner to all beings,
25:2	He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, who has taken no child and has no associate in the dominion,
25:2	and who created everything and measured it with precision.
25:3	Yet they have taken, besides Him, deities that create nothing and are themselves created, that hold for themselves neither harm nor benefit, and that hold neither death, nor life, nor Awakening.
25:4	Those who disown say: This is nothing but a fabrication he invented, and another group helped him with it.
25:5	They have thus come with injustice and falsehood, saying: These are legends of the ancients that he has transcribed himself, dictated to him morning and evening.
25:6	Say: He who knows the secret of the heavens and the earth has sent it down.
25:6	He is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
25:8	They say: What is with this messenger, that he eats food and walks in the marketplaces? Why has not an Agent been sent down to him to be a warner with him, or why is a treasure not thrown down to him, or why does he not have a garden to eat from!
25:8	And the unjust say: You follow none but a man abused by illusion.
25:9	See how they multiply examples about you: they have thus gone astray and can no longer find a way.
25:10	Blessed is He who, if He willed, would give you better than that: gardens beneath which rivers flow, and He would give you palaces.
25:11	But rather they have denied the Hour.
25:12	And We have prepared, for whoever denies the Hour, the Inferno. When it sees them from a distant place, they will hear its fury and its roar.
25:13	And when they are thrown into a narrow place therein, bound together, they will call there for their ruin.
25:14	Do not call today for a single ruin, but call for many ruins.
25:15	Say: Is that better, or the garden of everlastingness promised to those who guard themselves?
25:15	It will be for them a recompense and a destination.
25:16	They will have therein whatever they desire, abiding therein —
25:16	that is, on the part of your Guardian, a promise that will be called to account.
25:17	And the day when He gathers them, them and what they obeyed besides God, He will say: Was it you who led these obedient ones of Mine astray, or did they themselves stray from the way?
25:18	They will say: Glory be to You! It was not fitting for us to take, besides You, any allies;
25:18	but You granted them enjoyment, them and their ancestors, until they forgot the Reminder and became a ruined people.
25:19	They have thus denied you in what you say; they can neither avert [the punishment] nor [give you] help.
25:19	Whoever among you commits injustice, We will make him taste a great punishment.
25:20	We did not send before you any of the envoys who did not eat food and walk in the marketplaces.
25:20	And We have made some of you a trial for others.
25:20	Will you endure?
25:20	Your Guardian sees perfectly.
25:21	And those who do not hope for Our meeting say: Why are the Agents not sent down to us, or why do we not see our Guardian!
25:21	They have greatly swelled with pride within themselves and overstepped all bounds with immense insolence.
25:22	The day they see the Agents, there will be, on that day, no good news for the severed,
25:22	and they will say: 'A barrier
25:22	that cannot be crossed!'
25:23	And We turned to every deed they had done, and We reduced it to scattered dust.
25:24	The companions of the garden, that day, will have a better abode and a more beautiful resting place.
25:25	And the day when the sky will split apart with the clouds, and the Agents will be sent down, a complete descent,
25:26	the dominion, that day, in all truth, will belong to the All-Benevolent,
25:26	and it will be, for those who disown, a difficult day.
25:29	And the day the unjust one bites his hands, he will say: Ah, if only I had taken a way with the messenger! Woe to me! If only I had not taken so-and-so as an intimate friend! He led me astray from the Reminder after it had reached me.
25:29	The Diverter is, for the human being, one who always abandons him [at the critical moment].
25:30	And the messenger will say: O my Guardian, my people have forsaken this Recitation.
25:31	Thus have We given to every prophet an enemy from among the severed.
25:31	Your Guardian suffices as guide and as helper.
25:32	And those who disown say: Why was the Recitation not sent down upon him all at once!
25:32	Thus, so that We may steady your Conscience through it —
25:32	and We conveyed it to you in measured order.
25:33	They bring you no example without Our bringing you the truth and a better explanation.
25:34	Those who will be gathered upon their faces toward Jahannam — those have the worst position and the most astray path.
25:35	We gave Moussa the Scripture, and We placed with him his brother Harun as support.
25:36	We said: Go, both of you, to the people who have denied Our signs.
25:36	And We destroyed them completely.
25:37	And the people of Nuh, when they denied the messengers, We drowned them and made them a sign for the people.
25:37	And We have prepared for the unjust a painful punishment.
25:38	And the Recidivists [Aad], and the Depleters [Thamud], and the companions of the Rass, and many generations between those times,
25:39	and to each We multiplied the examples,
25:39	and each one, We destroyed completely.
25:40	Yet they passed by the city upon which had fallen a dreadful rain:
25:40	should they not have seen it?
25:40	But they did not hope for any Awakening.
25:41	And when they see you, they take you only as an object of mockery:
25:42	Is this the one God has sent as a messenger? He nearly led us astray from our deities, had we not remained firmly attached to them!
25:42	They will know, when they see the punishment, who was most astray from the way.
25:43	Have you seen him who has taken his emotion as his deity? Would you then be his trustee?
25:44	Or do you think that most of them hear or reason?
25:44	They are but like cattle — or even further astray from the way.
25:45	Have you not seen your Guardian, how He extends the shadow?
25:45	Had He willed, He would have made it still.
25:46	Then We made the sun its indicator; then We drew it back to Us, an easy withdrawal.
25:47	It is He who made for you the night a garment, sleep a rest, and the day a time of awakening.
25:48	It is He who sends the winds, which disperse, before His benevolence,
25:49	and We sent down from the sky a purifying water, to bring to life through it a dead land, and to give drink from it to many of the livestock and human beings We created.
25:50	We distributed it among them so that they might remember; but most people want nothing but profound disowning.
25:51	Had We willed, We would have sent into every city a warner.
25:52	So do not obey those who disown,
25:52	and strive against them through it with a great striving.
25:53	It is He who made the two seas meet: this one sweet, palatable, and that one salty, bitter.
25:53	and He placed between them a barrier and an impassable boundary.
25:54	It is He who, from water, created a human, and made of him lineage and kinship by marriage.
25:54	Your Guardian is capable of all things.
25:55	And they obey, besides God, that which neither benefits nor harms them;
25:55	and he who disowns makes himself, against his Guardian, an ally [of the forces of error].
25:56	We have not sent you except as a bearer of good tidings and a warner.
25:57	Say: I ask of you no payment for this, except that whoever wishes take a way to his Guardian.
25:58	Rely upon the Living One who does not die,
25:58	and glorify Him with praise.
25:58	He suffices, He, as Informed of the offenses of His obedient ones.
25:59	He who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days, then established Himself upon the Edifice —
25:59	the All-Benevolent.
25:59	So ask about Him an Informed Knower.
25:60	And when it is said to them: Prostrate before the All-Benevolent, they say: What is the All-Benevolent?
25:60	Shall we prostrate before what you order us? And it only increases their aversion.
25:61	Blessed is He who placed in the sky constellations, and placed therein a torch and a shining moon.
25:62	It is He who made the night and the day a succession, for whoever wants to remember or wants to be grateful.
25:63	And the obedient ones of the All-Benevolent are those who walk upon the earth with humility, and who, when the ignorant address them, say: Peace.
25:64	And those who spend the night prostrating and standing for their Guardian,
25:65	and those who say: Our Guardian, turn away from us the punishment of Jahannam — for its punishment is a persistent torment;
25:66	it is an evil abode and an evil dwelling —
25:67	and those who, when they spend, neither waste nor withhold excessively, standing between the two with just measure,
25:68	and those who do not invoke, with God, any other deity, and who do not kill the Self that God has made inviolable, except by right, and who do not commit fornication —
25:70	and whoever does that will meet with grave transgression: the punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Appearance, and he will abide therein humiliated, except him who repents, believes, and does righteous work — those, God will change their bad deeds into good deeds,
25:70	for God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
25:71	And whoever repents and acts righteously truly returns to God, a sincere return.
25:72	And those who do not bear witness to falsehood, and who, when they pass by idle talk, pass with dignity,
25:73	and those who, when reminded by the signs of their Guardian, do not collapse upon them as deaf and blind,
25:74	and those who say: Our Guardian, grant us, from our spouses and our descendants, a rest of the gaze, and make us a model for those who guard themselves —
25:76	those will be recompensed with the high chamber for their endurance, and will be received therein with a greeting and a peace, abiding therein forever.
25:76	What an excellent abode and an excellent dwelling!
25:77	Say: My Guardian would care little for you, were it not for your invocation.
25:77	You have thus denied, and it will become inescapable.

Sura 26 — A Sound Core (Ash-Shu'ara)

26:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ṭa. Sin. Mim.
26:2	These are the signs of the explicit Scripture.
26:3	Perhaps you will consume yourself with grief because they are not believers.
26:4	If We willed, We could send down upon them a sign from the sky before which their necks would stay bowed.
26:5	No new reminder comes to them from the All-Benevolent without them turning away from it.
26:6	Yet they have denied; the news of what they used to mock will soon reach them.
26:7	Have they not seen the earth, how much We have made grow in it of every generous pair?
26:8	In that, there is indeed a sign.
26:8	But most of them are not believers.
26:9	And your Guardian is indeed the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
26:11	And recall when your Guardian called out to Moussa: 'Go to the unjust people, the people of Fir'awn.
26:11	Will they not guard themselves?'
26:14	He said [Moussa]: 'My Guardian, I fear they will deny me, that my chest will tighten and my tongue will not loosen; so send to Harun. They hold a grievance against me, and I fear they will kill me.'
26:15	He said [God]: 'By no means!
26:15	Go, both of you, with Our signs; We are with you, listening.'
26:17	'Go then to Fir'awn and say: We are the messengers of the Guardian of all beings; let the Sons of Israel go with us.'
26:19	He said [Fir'awn]: 'Did we not raise you among us as a child, and did you not stay among us for years of your life? You committed the act you committed, and you are among those who disown.'
26:20	He said [Moussa]: 'I did it then, while I was among the astray.
26:21	So I fled from you when I feared you; then my Guardian granted me judgment and made me one of the envoys.
26:22	And this blessing you reproach me with is that you enslaved the Sons of Israel!'
26:23	Fir'awn said: 'And what is the Guardian of all beings?'
26:24	He said [Moussa]: 'The Guardian of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, if you are of those who are certain.'
26:25	He said [Fir'awn] to those around him: 'Do you not listen?'
26:26	He said [Moussa]: 'Your Guardian and the Guardian of your earliest forefathers.'
26:27	He said [Fir'awn]: 'Your messenger who has been sent to you is certainly deranged.'
26:28	He said [Moussa]: 'The Guardian of the east and the west and what is between them, if you would reason.'
26:29	He said [Fir'awn]: 'If you take a deity other than me, I will certainly put you among the imprisoned.'
26:30	He said [Moussa]: 'Even if I brought you something explicit?'
26:31	He said [Fir'awn]: 'Bring it then, if you are among the truthful.'
26:33	He threw down his staff, and behold, it was a manifest serpent; and he drew out his hand, and behold, it was white to those who looked.
26:35	He said [Fir'awn] to the court around him: 'This one is truly a knowing worker of illusion, who wants to drive you out of your land by his illusion. What do you propose then?'
26:37	They said [Fir'awn's court]: 'Put him and his brother off, and send gatherers into the cities, who will bring you every great, knowing worker of illusion.'
26:38	The workers of illusion were gathered for the appointment of a known day.
26:40	And it was said to the people: 'Will you gather, so that we may follow the workers of illusion, if they are the victors?'
26:41	When the workers of illusion came, they said to Fir'awn: 'Will there truly be a reward for us, if we are the victors?'
26:42	He said [Fir'awn]: 'Yes, and you will then certainly be among those brought near.'
26:43	Moussa said to them: 'Throw what you have to throw.'
26:44	So they threw their ropes and their staffs and said: 'By the might of Fir'awn, it is we, indeed, who will be the victors!'
26:45	Then Moussa threw his staff, and behold, it swallowed up what they had fabricated as illusion.
26:46	The workers of illusion then fell down prostrate.
26:48	They said [the workers of illusion]: 'We believe in the Guardian of all beings, the Guardian of Moussa and Harun.'
26:49	He said [Fir'awn]: 'Have you given him credit before I gave you permission? He is certainly your chief, who taught you illusion.
26:49	You will soon know.
26:49	I will certainly cut off your hands and feet on opposite sides, and crucify you all together.'
26:50	They said [the workers of illusion]: 'No harm!
26:50	It is to our Guardian that we are turning back.
26:51	We hope our Guardian will forgive us our faults, since we are the first of the believers.'
26:52	And We revealed to Moussa: 'Set out by night with My obedient ones; you will be pursued.'
26:53	Fir'awn then sent gatherers into the cities:
26:56	'These are indeed a small band, and they enrage us, and we are, all together, a vigilant force.'
26:58	So We brought them out of gardens and springs, and treasures and a noble station.
26:59	Thus.
26:60	And We made the Sons of Israel inherit them, and they pursued them at sunrise.
26:61	And when the two groups saw each other, the companions of Moussa said: 'We are certainly overtaken!'
26:62	He said [Moussa]: 'By no means!
26:62	My Guardian is indeed with me; He will guide me.'
26:63	We then revealed to Moussa: 'Strike the sea with your staff.' It split, and each part was like an immense mountain.
26:64	And We brought the others close there.
26:66	And We saved Moussa and all those with him, then We drowned the others.
26:67	In that, there is indeed a sign.
26:67	But most of them are not believers.
26:68	And your Guardian is indeed the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
26:70	And recite to them the account of Ibrahim, when he said to his father and his people: 'What do you obey?'
26:71	They said [Ibrahim's people]: 'We obey idols, and we remain posted by them.'
26:73	He said [Ibrahim]: 'Do they hear you when you call upon them, or do they benefit you, or do they harm you?'
26:74	They said [Ibrahim's people]: 'No, but we found our ancestors acting thus.'
26:77	He said [Ibrahim]: "Have you then seen what you used to obey, you and your most distant forefathers? They are indeed enemies to me,
26:78	except the Guardian of all beings, the one who created me and who guides me,
26:80	and the one who feeds me and gives me drink, and who, when I am ill, heals me,
26:81	and the one who will cause me to die then bring me back to life,
26:82	and the one from whom I hope forgiveness for my fault on the Day of Retribution.
26:83	My Guardian, grant me judgment and join me with the righteous,
26:84	and grant me a tongue of truth among those who come after,
26:85	and make me one of the heirs of the garden of bliss,
26:86	and forgive my father, for he was among the astray,
26:89	and do not disgrace me on the day they are resurrected, the day when neither goods nor sons will be of use, except to one who comes to God with a sound core.
26:90	And the Garden will be brought near to those who guard themselves,
26:91	and the Blaze will be shown to the misled.
26:93	And it will be said to them: 'Where are those you used to obey, besides God,
26:93	do they help you, or do they help themselves?'
26:95	They will be cast into it, they, the misled, and the troops of the Despairing One [Iblis], all together.
26:98	They will say, quarreling there: 'By God, we were indeed in explicit error, when we set you on the same level as the Guardian of all beings.
26:99	And it was only the severed who led us astray.
26:101	So we have neither intercessors, nor a warm friend.
26:102	If only we had a return, we would be among the believers!'
26:103	In that, there is indeed a sign.
26:103	But most of them are not believers.
26:104	And your Guardian is indeed the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
26:107	The people of Nuh denied the envoys, when their brother Nuh said to them: 'Will you not guard yourselves? I am for you a trustworthy messenger.
26:108	So guard yourselves toward God and obey me.
26:109	I ask you no reward for this;
26:109	my reward is incumbent only upon the Guardian of all beings.
26:110	So guard yourselves toward God and obey me.'
26:111	They said [Nuh's people]: 'Shall we give you credit while it is the most abject who have followed you?'
26:112	He said [Nuh]: 'What do I know of what they used to do?
26:113	Their account is due only to my Guardian, if only you could perceive it.
26:115	And I am not one to drive away the believers; I am only an explicit warner.'
26:116	Nuh's people said: "If you do not stop, O Nuh, you will certainly be among the banished."
26:118	He said [Nuh]: 'My Guardian, my people have denied me. Decide then between me and them decisively, and save me and those of the believers who are with me.'
26:119	So We saved him and those with him, in the laden vessel.
26:120	Then We drowned afterward those who remained.
26:121	In that, there is indeed a sign.
26:121	But most of them are not believers.
26:122	And your Guardian is indeed the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
26:125	The Recidivists [Aad] denied the envoys, when their brother Hud said to them: 'Will you not guard yourselves? I am for you a trustworthy messenger.
26:126	So guard yourselves toward God and obey me.
26:127	I ask you no reward for this;
26:127	my reward is incumbent only upon the Guardian of all beings.
26:130	Do you build on every height a monument, in play, and take for yourselves works in hope of lasting forever, and when you seize, you seize as tyrants?
26:131	So guard yourselves toward God and obey me.
26:134	And guard yourselves before the One who has provided you with what you know: He has provided you with livestock, sons, gardens and springs.
26:135	I fear for you the punishment of an immense day.'
26:138	They said [Aad's people]: 'It is the same to us whether you warn or are not among those who warn; this is only the custom of the ancients, and we shall not be punished.'
26:139	So they denied him, and We annihilated them.
26:139	In that, there is indeed a sign.
26:139	But most of them are not believers.
26:140	And your Guardian is indeed the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
26:143	The Depleters [Thamud] denied the envoys, when their brother Salih said to them: 'Will you not guard yourselves? I am for you a trustworthy messenger.
26:144	So guard yourselves toward God and obey me.
26:145	I ask you no reward for this;
26:145	my reward is incumbent only upon the Guardian of all beings.
26:149	Will you be left secure here, amid gardens and springs, and crops and date-palms with tender clusters, while you carve houses out of the mountains, skilled and expert?
26:150	So guard yourselves toward God and obey me.
26:152	And do not obey the command of the excessive, who spread corruption on the earth and set nothing right.
26:154	They said [Thamud's people]: 'You are only among those abused by illusion; you are only a human like us; bring then a sign, if you are among the truthful.'
26:155	He said [Salih]: 'Here is a she-camel; she has a right to drink,
26:155	and you have a right to drink on a known day.
26:156	Do her no harm, or the punishment of an immense day will seize you.'
26:158	Yet they hamstrung her, then found themselves full of regret, and the punishment seized them.
26:158	In that, there is indeed a sign.
26:158	But most of them are not believers.
26:159	And your Guardian is indeed the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
26:162	The people of Lut denied the envoys, when their brother Lut said to them: 'Will you not guard yourselves? I am for you a trustworthy messenger.
26:163	So guard yourselves toward God and obey me.
26:164	I ask you no reward for this;
26:164	my reward is incumbent only upon the Guardian of all beings.
26:166	Do you approach males, among all beings, and leave what your Guardian has created for you as spouses?
26:166	You are rather a people who cross the limits.
26:167	They said [Lut's people]: 'If you do not stop, O Lut, you will certainly be among those expelled.'
26:168	He said [Lut]: 'I am certainly, toward your conduct, among those who abhor.
26:169	My Guardian, save me, and my family, from what they do.'
26:172	So We saved him, and all his family, except an old woman, among those who remained behind; then We destroyed afterward the others.
26:173	And We rained down upon them a rain;
26:173	how evil was the rain of those who had been warned!
26:174	In that, there is indeed a sign.
26:174	But most of them are not believers.
26:175	And your Guardian is indeed the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
26:178	The companions of the Thicket denied the envoys, when Shu'ayb said to them: 'Will you not guard yourselves? I am for you a trustworthy messenger.
26:179	So guard yourselves toward God and obey me.
26:180	I ask you no reward for this;
26:180	my reward is incumbent only upon the Guardian of all beings.
26:181	Give full measure,
26:181	and do not be among those who cause loss.
26:182	Weigh with the exact scale,
26:183	and do not shortchange people in their things,
26:183	and do not spread disorder on the earth as corrupters.
26:184	Guard yourselves before the One who created you, and the earlier generations.
26:187	They said [the people of the Thicket]: 'You are only among those abused by illusion; you are only a human like us, and we certainly consider you among the liars. So cause a fragment of the sky to fall upon us, if you are among the truthful.'
26:188	He said [Shu'ayb]: 'My Guardian knows best what you do.'
26:189	So they denied him, and the punishment of the day of shadow seized them.
26:189	It was certainly the punishment of an immense day.
26:190	In that, there is indeed a sign.
26:190	But most of them are not believers.
26:191	And your Guardian is indeed the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
26:192	And this is indeed a revelation from the Guardian of all beings.
26:195	The trustworthy Influx came down with it, upon your core, so that you may be among the warners, in impeccable, explicit tongue.
26:196	And this is indeed found in the Formularies of the ancients.
26:197	Is it not a sign for them, that the scholars of the Sons of Israel know it?
26:199	And if We had sent it down upon one of those whose tongue is not impeccable, and he had recited it to them, they would not have believed in it.
26:203	Thus We have made it penetrate the cores of the severed; they will not believe in it until they see the painful punishment, which will come to them suddenly, without their perceiving it, and they will say then: 'Will we be granted a delay?'
26:204	Is it then Our punishment that they seek to hasten?
26:207	Do you see? If We granted them enjoyment for years, then what they were promised came to them, of what use to them was the enjoyment they were granted?
26:209	And We did not annihilate any city without it having had warners, as a reminder;
26:209	and We have never been unjust.
26:211	And it is not the Diverters who descended with it; that does not suit them, and they cannot do it.
26:212	They are indeed kept away from all listening.
26:213	So do not invoke, alongside God, another deity, or you would be among the punished.
26:215	And warn your closest clan, and lower your wing toward those who follow you, among the believers.
26:216	If they disobey you, say then: 'I am clear of what you do.'
26:219	And rely upon the All-Powerful, the Benevolent, the One who sees you when you stand, and your movement among those who prostrate.
26:220	It is He, indeed, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
26:223	Shall I inform you upon whom the Diverters descend? They descend upon every inveterate liar, laden with transgressions, who lend an ear, and most of them are liars.
26:224	And the beguiling rhetoricians, it is the misled who follow them.
26:226	Have you not seen that they ramble on about every subject, and that they say what they never do?
26:227	except those who have believed, done righteous deeds, remembered God much, and defended themselves after being wronged;
26:227	and those who have done injustice will soon know to what turning point they will turn.

Sura 27 — Will I Acknowledge, or Disown? (An-Naml)

27:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ṭa. Sin.
27:1	These are the signs of the Recitation and an explicit Scripture,
27:3	guidance and glad tiding for the believers, those who maintain the Contact and give the purifying alms, and who, as for the last life, are certain of it.
27:4	Those who do not believe in the last life, We have made their deeds seem fair to them, and they wander blindly.
27:5	Those are the ones for whom the worst punishment is due, and it is they, in the last life, who will be the greatest losers.
27:6	And you, you receive the Recitation from a Wise, an All-Knowing.
27:7	When Moussa said to his family: 'I have perceived a fire; I will bring you news of it, or bring you a burning brand, so that you may warm yourselves.'
27:8	When he came to it, he was called: 'Blessed is he who is in the fire, and he who is around it!
27:8	Glory to God, Guardian of all beings!
27:10	O Moussa, it is I, God, the All-Powerful, the Wise. Throw down your staff.'
27:10	When he saw it vibrate as though it were an Occulted, he turned back in flight and did not return.
27:10	'O Moussa, do not fear;
27:10	as for Me, the envoys do not fear in My presence,
27:11	except one who has done wrong, then replaced evil with good; then, indeed, I am Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
27:12	Put your hand into your collar: it will come out white, without any harm,
27:12	among nine signs, to Fir'awn and his people;
27:12	they are indeed a people of oversteppers.'
27:13	When Our signs came to them, plainly visible, they said: 'This is an explicit illusion.'
27:14	And they stubbornly rejected them, while their own selves were certain of them, out of injustice and arrogance.
27:14	So look at what was the end of the corrupters.
27:15	And We certainly gave Dawud and Sulayman knowledge; and both said: 'Praise be to God, who has favored us above many of His believing obedient ones.'
27:16	And Sulayman inherited from Dawud, and he said: 'O people, we have been taught the language of birds, and we have been given a share of everything;
27:16	this is indeed the explicit favor.'
27:17	And Sulayman's troops were gathered for him, among the Occulted, humans and birds, and they were arranged in ranks.
27:18	Until, when they came to the valley of the ants, an ant said: 'O ants, enter your dwellings, lest Sulayman and his troops crush you without perceiving it.'
27:19	He smiled, amused at her words, and said: 'My Guardian, inspire me to acknowledge the blessing You have granted me and my parents, and to do righteous work that pleases You, and admit me, by Your benevolence, among Your righteous obedient ones.'
27:20	He reviewed the birds, and said: 'Why do I not see the hoopoe? Is she among the absent?
27:21	I will certainly punish her with a severe punishment, or I will slaughter her, unless she brings me a clear authority.'
27:22	She did not stay away long,
27:22	and said [the hoopoe]: 'I have grasped what you have not grasped, and I bring you from Saba a certain report.
27:23	I found a woman ruling over them, who has been given everything,
27:23	And she has an immense Edifice.
27:25	I found her and her people prostrating before the sun, besides God; and the Diverter has made their deeds seem fair to them, and thus turned them from the path, so that they are not guided, so that they do not prostrate before God, who brings forth what is hidden in the heavens and the earth, and who knows what they conceal and what they disclose.
27:26	God, there is no deity but Him, the Guardian of the immense Edifice.
27:27	He said [Sulayman]: 'We shall see whether you have spoken truly, or are among the liars.
27:28	Go with this letter of mine, cast it to them, then withdraw from them, and see what they send back.'
27:31	She said [the Queen of Saba]: 'O court, a noble letter has been cast to me. It is from Sulayman, and it reads: In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent; do not exalt yourselves against me, and come to me as those true to God alone.'
27:32	She said [the Queen of Saba]: 'O court, advise me on my affair; I do not decide any affair without you bearing witness to it.'
27:33	They said [the queen's court]: 'We are possessors of strength and possessors of severe rigor, but the affair is yours to decide; so consider what you command.'
27:34	She said [the Queen of Saba]: 'Kings, when they enter a city, corrupt it, and reduce the noble among its people to humiliation;
27:34	and thus they act.
27:35	Now, I am going to send them a gift, and see what the envoys bring back.'
27:36	When it came to Sulayman, he said: 'Do you wish to aid me with goods? What God has given me is better than what He has given you; it is you rather who rejoice in your gift.
27:37	Go back to them: we shall certainly come to them with troops they cannot withstand, and we shall certainly drive them out from it, humbled and diminished.'
27:38	He said [Sulayman]: 'O court, which of you will bring me her Edifice before they come to me true to God alone?'
27:39	An ifrit among the Occulted said: 'I will bring it to you before you rise from your place; and I am capable of it, trustworthy.'
27:40	The one who possessed knowledge of the Code said: 'I will bring it to you before even your glance returns to you.'
27:40	When he saw it placed beside him, he said: 'This is from the favor of my Guardian, to test me: will I acknowledge, or will I disown?
27:40	And whoever acknowledges, does so only for himself,
27:40	and whoever disowns, my Guardian is indeed Self-Sufficient, generous.'
27:41	He said [Sulayman]: 'Make her Edifice unrecognizable to her; we shall see whether she is guided, or is among those who are not guided.'
27:42	When she arrived, it was said: 'Is your Edifice like this?' She said: 'It is as if it were.
27:42	And knowledge had been given to us before her, and we were true to God alone.'
27:43	And what she used to obey, besides God, had turned her away;
27:43	she indeed belonged to a people who disown.
27:44	It was said to her [by Sulayman]: 'Enter the palace.'
27:44	When she saw it, she took it for a pool of water, and bared her legs.
27:44	He said [Sulayman]: 'It is a polished palace, made of crystal.'
27:44	She said [the Queen of Saba]: 'My Guardian, I have wronged myself, and I am true, with Sulayman, to God, Guardian of all beings.'
27:45	And We certainly sent to the Depleters [Thamud] their brother Salih: 'Obey God'; and behold, two camps quarreling.
27:46	He said [Salih]: 'O my people, why do you hasten evil before good? Will you not seek God's forgiveness, so that He may show you benevolence?'
27:47	They said [Thamud's people]: 'We see an evil omen in you and in those with you.'
27:47	He said [Salih]: 'Your omen is with God;
27:47	you are rather a people being tried.'
27:48	And there were in the Capital nine individuals who spread corruption on the earth and set nothing right.
27:49	They said: 'Swear to one another by God that we will attack him by night, him and his family, then we will certainly say to his legal guardian: We did not witness the annihilation of his family, and we are certainly truthful.'
27:50	They plotted a plot, and We plotted a plot, without their perceiving it.
27:51	So look at what was the outcome of their plot:
27:51	We destroyed them, and their people, all together.
27:52	So there are their houses, deserted because of their injustice.
27:52	In that, there is indeed a sign for a people who know.
27:53	And We saved those who had believed and guarded themselves.
27:54	And Lut, when he said to his people: 'Do you commit indecency while you see clearly?
27:55	You approach, out of desire, men, instead of women;
27:55	you are rather a people who persist in ignorance.'
27:56	The only response of his people was to say: 'Expel the family of Lut from your city;
27:56	these are people who want to keep themselves pure.'
27:57	So We saved him, and his family, except his wife; We had determined that she would be among those who stayed behind.
27:58	And We rained down upon them a rain;
27:58	how evil was the rain of those who had been warned!
27:59	Say: 'Praise be to God, and peace upon His obedient ones whom He has chosen.
27:59	Is God better, or what you associate?'
27:60	Is it not He who created the heavens and the earth, and who sent down for you, from the sky, water by which We caused enclosed gardens full of delight to grow,
27:60	without it being possible for you to make their trees grow?
27:60	Is there a deity alongside God?
27:60	They are rather a people who deviate.
27:61	Is it not He who made the earth a stable place, placed rivers within it, gave it firmly anchored mountains, and set between the two seas a barrier?
27:61	Is there a deity alongside God?
27:61	But most of them do not know.
27:62	Is it not He who answers the one in distress, when he calls upon Him, who removes evil, and who makes you successors on the earth?
27:62	Is there a deity alongside God?
27:62	How little you remember!
27:63	Is it not He who guides you in the darknesses of land and sea, and who sends the winds, which disperse, before His benevolence?
27:63	Is there a deity alongside God?
27:63	God is far above what they associate with Him!
27:64	Is it not He who originates creation, then remakes it, and who provides for you from the sky and the earth?
27:64	Is there a deity alongside God?
27:64	Say: 'Bring your proof, if you are truthful.'
27:65	Say: 'None, in the heavens and on the earth, knows what escapes the senses, except God;
27:65	and they do not perceive when they will be resurrected.
27:66	But rather, their knowledge has reached its limit regarding the last life;
27:66	they are rather in doubt about it, they are rather blind to it.
27:67	And those who disown said: "When we are earth, we and our ancestors, will we really be brought out?
27:68	We have indeed been promised this, we and our ancestors, before;
27:68	these are nothing but legends of the ancients.'
27:69	Say: 'Travel the earth, and see what was the end of the severed.'
27:70	And do not grieve for them, and do not be in distress because of what they plot.
27:71	And they say: 'When then is this promise, if you are truthful?'
27:72	Say: 'It may be that some of what you seek to hasten is very close behind you.'
27:73	And your Guardian indeed holds a favor toward mankind,
27:73	but most of them are not grateful.
27:74	And your Guardian certainly knows what their chests conceal and what they disclose.
27:75	And there is nothing hidden in the sky and the earth that is not in an explicit record.
27:76	This Recitation indeed relates to the Sons of Israel most of what they differ about.
27:77	And it is indeed guidance and benevolence for the believers.
27:78	Your Guardian indeed judges between them by His judgment,
27:78	and it is He, the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing.
27:79	So rely upon God,
27:79	for you are indeed upon the explicit truth.
27:80	You do not make the dead hear, nor do you make the deaf hear the call, when they turn their backs in retreat.
27:81	Nor are you the one who guides the blind out of their error;
27:81	you make hear only him who believes in Our signs, and those are true to God alone.
27:82	And when the word is fulfilled against them, We will bring forth for them a conscious being, from the earth, who will speak to them,
27:82	because people had no certainty regarding Our signs.
27:83	And the day when We gather, from every community, a crowd among those who deny Our signs, they will be marshaled in ranks,
27:84	until, when they arrive, it will be said: 'Did you deny My signs, without having encompassed them in knowledge?
27:84	Or what then were you doing?'
27:85	And the word will be fulfilled against them because of their injustice, and they will not speak.
27:86	Do they not see that We made the night for them to rest in, and the day for them to see clearly?
27:86	In that, there are indeed signs for a people who believe.
27:87	And the day the Horn is blown, those in the heavens and those on the earth will be seized with terror, except him whom God wills to spare;
27:87	and all will come to Him, humbled.
27:88	And you see the mountains, you think them fixed, while they pass as the clouds pass:
27:88	the work of God, who has perfected everything.
27:88	He is indeed Informed of what you do.
27:89	Whoever comes with good will have better than it, and those will be, that day, safe from terror.
27:90	And whoever comes with evil, then their faces will be tumbled into the Fire.
27:90	Will you be recompensed otherwise than according to what you used to do?
27:91	[The Prophet speaks]: 'I have only been ordered to obey the Guardian of this land, which He has made inviolable, and to whom belongs everything;
27:92	and I have been ordered to be among those true to God alone, and to recite the Recitation.'
27:92	Whoever is guided, is guided only for himself,
27:92	and whoever goes astray, say then: 'I am only one of the warners.'
27:93	And say: 'Praise be to God; He will show you His signs, and you will recognize them.'
27:93	And your Guardian is not heedless of what you do.

Sura 28 — Neither Exaltation nor Corruption (Al-Qasas)

28:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ṭa. Sin. Mim.
28:2	These are the signs of the explicit Scripture.
28:3	We relate to you, in truth, part of the account of Moussa and Fir'awn, for a people who believe.
28:4	Fir'awn rose up with excess in the land and split its people into factions; he kept one group of them weak, slaughtering their sons and violating the modesty of their women,
28:4	for he was one of those who spread corruption.
28:6	We wanted to favor those who had been kept weak in the land, to make them leaders, to make them the heirs, to establish them firmly in the land, and to show Fir'awn, Haman, and their armies, through them, what they had been guarding against.
28:7	We inspired Moussa's mother: "Take him into your care; and when you fear for him, cast him into the river, without fear or grief,
28:7	for We will return him to you and make him one of the envoys."
28:8	Fir'awn's household picked him up, so that he would become, in the end, an enemy and a source of grief for them —
28:8	Fir'awn, Haman, and their armies were at fault.
28:9	Fir'awn's wife said: "A rest of the gaze for me and for you; do not kill him;
28:9	perhaps he will be useful to us, or we will adopt him as a son." They were not aware of it.
28:10	The Conscience of Moussa's mother became empty; she nearly revealed it, had We not steadied her core, so that she would be among those who believe.
28:11	She said to his sister: "Follow his trail." She watched him from a distance, without their being aware.
28:12	We had beforehand forbidden him to be taken in charge by anyone else; she then said: "Shall I show you a family who will take charge of him for you, with true care for him?"
28:13	Thus We returned him to his mother, so that her gaze might settle, that she would grieve no more, and that she would know that God's promise is true —
28:13	but most of them do not know.
28:14	When he reached his full maturity and had become established, We gave him judgment and knowledge —
28:14	thus do We recompense those who do good.
28:15	He entered the Capital at a moment when its people were inattentive, and found there two men fighting: one from his own camp, the other from the opposing camp.
28:15	The one from his own camp called for help against the one from the opposing camp; Moussa struck him with his fist and left him for dead.
28:15	He said: "This is the work of the Diverter;
28:15	he is an enemy, a manifest misleader."
28:16	He said: "My Guardian, I have wronged myself; forgive me."
28:16	He forgave him,
28:16	for He is the Most-Forgiving, the Benevolent.
28:17	He said: "My Guardian, by the blessing You have granted me, I will never again be a support for the severed."
28:18	He found himself in the Capital, fearful, on watch; and there was the one who, the day before, had asked for his help, crying out to him again for aid.
28:18	Moussa said to him: "You are clearly a misled man."
28:19	Then, as he was about to strike the one who was the enemy of the two, [the man] said: "O Moussa, do you want to kill me as you killed a Self yesterday?
28:19	You only want to become a tyrant in the land; you do not want to be one of those who set things right."
28:20	A man came hurrying from the far end of the Capital.
28:20	He said: "O Moussa, the court is conspiring against you to kill you; leave — I am a sincere advisor to you."
28:21	He left it, fearful, on watch,
28:21	and said: "My Guardian, save me from the unjust people."
28:22	As he headed toward Madian, he said: "Perhaps my Guardian will guide me to the straight path."
28:23	When he arrived at the water of Madian, he found there a group of people watering [their flocks], and found, apart from them, two women holding [theirs] back.
28:23	He said: "What is your matter?"
28:23	They said: "We do not water until the shepherds have driven off; and our father is a very old man."
28:24	He watered for them, then withdrew to the shade and said: "My Guardian, I am in great need of whatever good You would send down to me."
28:25	One of the two came to him, walking with reserved modesty.
28:25	She said: "My father calls you, to reward you for having watered [our flock] for us."
28:25	When he came to him and told him his account, [the old man] said: "Fear nothing, you have escaped the unjust people."
28:26	One of the two said: "O my father, hire him;
28:26	the best one you could hire is one who is strong and trustworthy."
28:27	He said: "I wish to marry you to one of these two daughters of mine, on condition that you serve me for eight years;
28:27	and if you complete ten, that will be of your own accord;
28:27	I do not wish to impose a hardship on you —
28:27	you will find me, if God wills, among the righteous."
28:28	He said: "That is settled between you and me;
28:28	whichever of the two terms I fulfill, let no injustice be done to me."
28:28	God is the trustee over what we say.
28:29	When Moussa had completed the term and set out with his family, he made out a fire on the side of the Mount.
28:29	He said to his family: "Stay here; I have made out a fire; perhaps I will bring you news from it, or a burning ember, so that you may warm yourselves."
28:31	When he reached it, he was called from the right side of the valley, in the blessed place, from the tree: "O Moussa, it is I, God, the Guardian of all beings! Cast down your staff."
28:31	When he saw it vibrate as though it were an Occulted, he turned his back to flee without looking back.
28:31	"O Moussa, come forward and fear nothing;
28:31	you are among those who are secure.
28:32	Insert your hand into your collar, it will come out white, without any harm;
28:32	and press your arm to yourself to calm the fear.
28:32	These, then, are two proofs from your Guardian, for Fir'awn and his court;
28:32	they were a people of oversteppers."
28:34	He said: "My Guardian, I killed one of theirs and I fear they will kill me; but my brother Harun has a clearer tongue than mine — send him with me as a support, so that he may affirm me;
28:34	for I fear they will deny me."
28:35	He said: "We will strengthen your arm through your brother, and We will give you both an authority, so that they will not be able to reach you — through Our signs,
28:35	you two, and those who follow you, will be the victors."
28:36	When Moussa brought them Our clear signs, they said: "This is nothing but a fabricated illusion; we never heard of this among our earliest forefathers."
28:37	Moussa said: "My Guardian knows best who comes with guidance from Him, and to whom the [happy] outcome of the Abode will belong —
28:37	the unjust never succeed."
28:38	Fir'awn said: "O court, I know of no deity for you other than myself. So kindle for me a fire upon clay, O Haman, and build me a tower, that I may climb up to the deity of Moussa; for I certainly think he is among the liars."
28:39	He swelled with pride, he and his armies, in the land, without any right, and they thought they would never be brought back to Us.
28:40	So We seized him and his armies, and cast them into the river —
28:40	so see how the end of the unjust was.
28:41	We made them leaders who call to the Fire,
28:41	and on the Day of Appearance, they will not be helped.
28:42	We made a curse follow them in the present life,
28:42	and on the Day of Appearance they will be among the repudiated.
28:43	We gave Moussa the Scripture, after having annihilated the first generations, as insights for the people, guidance, and benevolence, so that they might remember.
28:44	You were not on the western side when We decreed the command to Moussa,
28:44	nor were you among those who witnessed it.
28:45	But We caused generations to arise whose lifespan grew long;
28:45	and you did not dwell among the people of Madian, reciting Our signs to them,
28:45	but it is We who sent you.
28:46	Nor were you on the side of the Mount when We called;
28:46	but it is a benevolence from your Guardian, so that you may warn a people to whom no warner had come before you, so that they might remember.
28:47	And were it not that, when a misfortune strikes them for what their hands have prepared, they might say: "Our Guardian, why did You not send us a messenger, that we might have followed Your signs and been among the believers" —
28:48	when the truth came to them from Us, they said: "Why was he not given the like of what was given to Moussa?"
28:48	Did they not disown what was given to Moussa before?
28:48	They said: "Two illusions backing each other up!"
28:48	and they said: "We disown all of it."
28:49	Say: "Bring, then, a scripture from God more guiding than these two, and I will follow it, if you are truthful."
28:50	If they do not respond to you, know that they only follow their emotions —
28:50	and who is more astray than one who follows his emotion, without guidance from God?
28:50	God does not guide the unjust people.
28:51	We made the word reach them without a break, so that they might remember.
28:52	Those to whom We gave the Scripture before it believe in it;
28:53	and when it is recited to them, they say: "We believe in it; it is the truth from our Guardian; we were, even before it, already true to God alone."
28:54	These will be given their reward twice over, for having endured, for having repelled evil with good, and for having spent from what We provided them.
28:55	And when they hear idle talk, they turn away from it and say: "To us our deeds, to you yours; peace upon you, we do not seek [the company of] the ignorant."
28:56	You do not guide whom you love;
28:56	but God guides whom He wills,
28:56	and He knows best those who let themselves be guided.
28:57	They said: "If we follow the guidance with you, we will be torn away from our land."
28:57	Have We not firmly established them in a secure sanctuary, to which the fruits of all things flow, as provision from Us?
28:57	But most of them do not know.
28:58	How many a city have We annihilated, that had grown reckless in its own livelihood!
28:58	There are their dwellings, left uninhabited after them, save for a very few — and it is We who were the heirs.
28:59	Your Guardian never annihilates cities before raising up, in their metropolis, a messenger reciting Our signs to them;
28:59	nor have We ever annihilated cities except when their people were unjust.
28:60	Whatever you have been given is but enjoyment of the present life and its adornment;
28:60	what is with God is better and more lasting.
28:60	Will you not then reason?
28:61	Is one to whom We made a fine promise, which he will meet, comparable to one whom We let enjoy the present life, who will then, on the Day of Appearance, be among those made to appear [for judgment]?
28:62	The day He calls them and says: "Where are My associates, whom you used to claim?"
28:63	Those against whom the word will have proven true will say: "Our Guardian, these are the ones we misled; we misled them just as we ourselves were misled;
28:63	we disavow them before You;
28:63	it was not us that they obeyed."
28:64	It will be said: "Call your associates." They will call them, but they will not respond to them; and they will see the punishment — if only they had been guided...
28:65	The day He calls them and says: "What did you answer the envoys?"
28:66	That day, the accounts will become obscure to them, and they will not question one another.
28:67	As for one who repented, believed, and did righteous deeds, he may well be among those who succeed.
28:68	Your Guardian creates what He wills and chooses;
28:68	the choice does not belong to them.
28:68	Glory be to God, far above what they associate with Him.
28:69	Your Guardian knows what their chests conceal and what they disclose.
28:70	He is God; there is no deity but Him;
28:70	to Him belongs praise, in the first [life] as in the last;
28:70	to Him belongs the judgment,
28:70	and to Him you will be brought back.
28:71	Say: "Have you considered: if God made the night perpetual for you until the Day of Appearance, what deity, other than God, would bring you light?
28:71	Will you not then listen?"
28:72	Say: "Have you considered: if God made the day perpetual for you until the Day of Appearance, what deity, other than God, would bring you a night in which to rest?
28:72	Will you not then see?"
28:73	It is out of His benevolence that He made for you the night and the day, so that you might rest and seek of His favor, and so that you might be thankful.
28:74	The day He calls them and says: "Where are My associates, whom you used to claim?"
28:75	We will draw out from every community a witness, and We will say: "Bring your proof." Then they will know that the truth belongs to God, and what they used to invent will stray away from them.
28:76	Qaroon was of the people of Moussa; he committed aggression against them —
28:76	We had given him, among treasures, so much that its very keys weighed heavily on a band of strong men.
28:76	His people then said to him: "Do not exult; God does not love those who exult [with arrogance];
28:77	seek instead, in what God has given you, the last abode,
28:77	without forgetting your share of the present life;
28:77	do good as God has done good to you,
28:77	and do not seek corruption in the land;
28:77	God does not love those who spread corruption."
28:78	He said: "It has only been given to me on account of a knowledge that is mine."
28:78	Did he not know that God had annihilated, before him, generations stronger than him and amassing more?
28:78	The severed will not [need to] be questioned about their offenses [for them to be known].
28:79	He went out before his people in all his finery.
28:79	Those who desired the present life said: "Ah, if only we had the like of what has been given to Qaroon! He truly has an immense share."
28:80	But those to whom knowledge had been given said: "Woe to you! God's requital is better for one who believes and does what is right;
28:80	and that, only the patient receive it."
28:81	We caused the earth to swallow him and his dwelling;
28:81	he had no group to help him besides God,
28:81	nor was he among those who triumph.
28:82	Those who, the day before, had envied his position began to say: "Ah! So it is God who spreads out provision to whom He wills among His obedient ones, and measures it too!
28:82	Had God not favored us, He would have swallowed us up too.
28:82	Ah! So it is that those who disown never succeed."
28:83	That last abode — We reserve it for those who seek, in the land, neither to raise themselves above others, nor corruption;
28:83	and the [happy] outcome belongs to those who guard themselves.
28:84	Whoever comes with a good deed will have better than it;
28:84	and whoever comes with an evil deed — those who did evil deeds will be recompensed only for what they used to do.
28:85	He who imposed the Recitation upon you will surely bring you back to an already appointed meeting.
28:85	Say: "My Guardian knows best who comes with guidance and who is in manifest error."
28:86	You were not hoping that the Scripture would be conveyed to you; it is only by benevolence from your Guardian —
28:86	so never be a support for those who disown.
28:87	Let them not turn you away from the signs of God after they have been revealed to you;
28:87	call to your Guardian,
28:87	and never be among those who associate [others with Him].
28:88	Do not invoke, alongside God, another deity;
28:88	there is no deity but Him.
28:88	Everything perishes, except His Face.
28:88	To Him belongs the judgment,
28:88	and to Him you will be brought back.

Sura 29 — The Flimsiest of Dwellings (Al-Ankabut)

29:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Mim.
29:2	Do the people think that it will be enough for them to say, "We believe," without being put to the trial?
29:3	We have indeed put to the trial those who came before them,
29:3	so that God will surely distinguish those who have spoken truly, and will surely distinguish the liars.
29:4	Do those who commit evil deeds think that they will outrun Us?
29:4	How bad their judgment is!
29:5	Whoever hopes for the meeting with God — the term set by God will surely come;
29:5	and it is He, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
29:6	Whoever strives, strives only for himself,
29:6	for God is self-sufficient, independent of all beings.
29:7	Those who have believed and done righteous deeds — We will surely cover their bad deeds, and We will surely reward them according to the best of what they used to do.
29:8	We have enjoined upon the human being kindness toward his two parents;
29:8	but if they force you to associate with Me that of which you have no knowledge, do not obey them;
29:8	to Me will be your return, and I will then inform you of what you used to do.
29:9	Those who have believed and done righteous deeds — We will surely make them enter among the righteous.
29:10	Among the people are some who say, "We believe in God," yet when they are made to suffer for God's cause, they equate the trial inflicted by people with God's punishment.
29:10	But if help comes from your Guardian, they will surely say, "We were with you."
29:10	Does God not know best what is in the chests of all beings?
29:11	God will surely distinguish those who have believed, and will surely distinguish the hypocrites.
29:12	Those who disown said to those who believed: "Follow our way, and we will carry your faults" —
29:12	though they will carry nothing of their faults;
29:12	they are surely liars.
29:13	They will surely carry their own burdens, and burdens in addition to their burdens;
29:13	and they will surely be questioned, on the Day of Appearance, about what they used to invent.
29:14	We sent Nuh to his people; he remained among them a thousand years, less fifty conventional years, then the flood seized them while they were unjust.
29:15	We saved him, along with the companions of the vessel,
29:15	and We made it a sign for all beings.
29:16	And Ibrahim, when he said to his people: "Obey God and guard yourselves toward Him;
29:16	that is better for you, if only you knew.
29:17	You obey, besides God, only idols, and you fabricate a falsehood;
29:17	those you obey besides God hold no provision for you —
29:17	so seek provision with God,
29:17	obey Him,
29:17	and be thankful to Him;
29:17	to Him you will be brought back.
29:18	And if you deny, communities before you have already denied;
29:18	the messenger is charged with nothing but clear transmission."
29:19	Do they not see how God initiates creation,
29:19	then remakes it?
29:19	That is easy for God.
29:20	Say: "Travel through the land and see how He initiated creation;
29:20	then God will bring into being the ultimate genesis;
29:20	God is capable of all things."
29:21	He punishes whom He wills and shows benevolence to whom He wills;
29:21	and to Him you will be turned back.
29:22	You cannot render [Him] powerless anywhere, neither on earth nor in the sky;
29:22	and you have, besides God, neither protector nor helper.
29:23	Those who disown the signs of God and the meeting with Him — those have lost hope of My benevolence,
29:23	and those will have a painful punishment.
29:24	The only answer of his people was to say: "Kill him, or burn him!"
29:24	But God saved him from the fire;
29:24	there are indeed signs in that for a people who believe.
29:25	He said: "You have taken idols, besides God, only out of mutual affection among yourselves in the present life;
29:25	then, on the Day of Appearance, you will disown one another and curse one another,
29:25	and your refuge will be the Fire, and you will have no helpers."
29:26	Lut gave him credit,
29:26	and [Ibrahim] said: "I am emigrating toward my Guardian;
29:26	He is the All-Powerful, the Wise."
29:27	We granted him Ishaq and Yaacoub,
29:27	and We placed in his line the prophethood and the Scripture;
29:27	We gave him his reward in the present life,
29:27	and he will surely be, in the last life, among the righteous.
29:29	And Lut, when he said to his people: "You surely commit indecency such as no one among all beings has committed before you; do you really approach men, cut off the road [to travelers], and commit, in your gatherings, what is disavowed?"
29:29	The only answer of his people was to say: "Bring us God's punishment, if you are among the truthful!"
29:30	He said: "My Guardian, help me against the people who spread corruption."
29:31	When Our messengers came to Ibrahim with the good news, they said: "We are going to annihilate the people of this city; its people are truly unjust."
29:32	He said: "But Lut is there."
29:32	They said: "We know best who is there;
29:32	we will surely save him and his household, except his wife, who will be among those who remain behind."
29:33	When Our messengers came to Lut, he was distressed for them and felt helpless on their account;
29:33	they said: "Fear nothing and do not grieve; we will save you and your household, except your wife, who will be among those who remain behind.
29:34	We will bring down upon the people of this city a defilement from the sky, for their overstepping."
29:35	We left of it a clear sign, for a people who reason.
29:36	And to Madian, their brother Shu'ayb; he said: "O my people, obey God, hope for the Last Day, and do not spread disorder on the earth as corrupters."
29:37	They denied him; so the earthquake seized them, and they were left lifeless, face down, in their dwelling.
29:38	And the Recidivists [Aad] and the Depleters [Thamud] — this has become clear to you through their dwellings; the Diverter had embellished their deeds to them and turned them away from the path, though they had clear sight.
29:39	And Qaroon, Fir'awn, and Haman —
29:39	Moussa had indeed come to them with clear proofs, but they swelled with pride in the land, unable to outrun Us.
29:40	Each of them We seized for his offense;
29:40	upon some of them We sent a storm of stones,
29:40	some were seized by the Cry,
29:40	some We caused the earth to swallow,
29:40	and still others We drowned.
29:40	God was not going to wrong them;
29:40	but it was themselves that they wronged.
29:41	The example of those who take, besides God, allies, is that of the spider that builds itself a dwelling;
29:41	and the flimsiest of dwellings is indeed the dwelling of the spider — if only they knew.
29:42	God knows all that they invoke apart from Him;
29:42	He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.
29:43	These are the examples We put forth for the people,
29:43	but only those with knowledge grasp them with reason.
29:44	God created the heavens and the earth in truth;
29:44	there is indeed a sign in that for the believers.
29:45	Recite what has been revealed to you of the Scripture, and maintain the Contact;
29:45	the Contact turns one away from indecency and from what is disavowed;
29:45	and the remembrance of God is greater still;
29:45	God knows what you do.
29:46	Do not argue with the People of the Writ except in the best way,
29:46	except with those of them who commit injustice;
29:46	and say: "We believe in what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to you; our deity and your deity is one, and to Him we are true."
29:47	Thus have We sent down the Scripture to you;
29:47	those to whom We gave the Scripture believe in it, and among these [others], some believe in it too;
29:47	only those who disown stubbornly reject Our signs.
29:48	You did not recite, before it, any scripture, nor did you trace one with your right hand;
29:48	otherwise, those who champion falsehood would have had doubts.
29:49	Rather, it is clear signs in the chests of those to whom knowledge has been given;
29:49	only the unjust stubbornly reject Our signs.
29:50	They said: "Why were signs not sent down to him from his Guardian?"
29:50	Say: "The signs are only with God; I am only a clear warner."
29:51	Is it not enough for them that We have sent down to you the Scripture, which is recited to them?
29:51	There is indeed a benevolence and a reminder in that for a people who believe.
29:52	Say: "God suffices as a witness between me and you;
29:52	He knows what is in the heavens and the earth;
29:52	and those who believe in falsehood and disown God — those are the losers."
29:53	They urge you to hasten the punishment;
29:53	were it not for a set term, the punishment would already have come to them — it will surely come to them suddenly, without their being aware.
29:54	They urge you to hasten the punishment,
29:54	while Jahannam surely encompasses those who disown.
29:55	The day the punishment envelops them from above and from beneath their feet, and He says: "Taste what you used to do."
29:56	"O My obedient ones who have believed, My earth is vast; so obey Me, and Me alone."
29:57	Every Self will taste death,
29:57	then to Us you will be brought back.
29:58	Those who have believed and done righteous deeds — We will surely settle them in lofty chambers of the Garden, beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein forever;
29:58	what an excellent reward for those who work,
29:59	those who have endured and who rely upon their Guardian.
29:60	How many a living being does not carry its own provision! It is God who feeds it, and you along with it;
29:60	it is He, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
29:61	If you ask them who created the heavens and the earth and subjected the sun and the moon, they will surely say: "God";
29:61	how then are they turned away?
29:62	God spreads out provision to whom He wills among His obedient ones, and measures it for him too;
29:62	God is All-Knowing of all things.
29:63	And if you ask them who sends down water from the sky and gives life through it to the earth after its death, they will surely say: "God";
29:63	say: "Praise be to God!"
29:63	But most of them do not reason.
29:64	This present life is nothing but distraction and play;
29:64	and the last abode, that is the true life — if only they knew.
29:65	When they board a ship, they call upon God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him;
29:66	but when He brings them safely to dry land, there they are, associating [others with Him], so as to disown what We have given them,
29:66	and to enjoy [life] — but they will soon know.
29:67	Do they not see that We have established a secure sanctuary, while all around them people are being snatched away [by violence]?
29:67	Do they then believe in falsehood, and disown the blessing of God?
29:68	And who is more unjust than one who invents a lie against God, or denies the truth once it has come to him?
29:68	Is there not, in Jahannam, a dwelling for those who disown?
29:69	Those who have striven for Us — We will surely guide them on Our ways;
29:69	and God is surely with those who do good.

Sura 30 — The Original Nature (Ar-Rum)

30:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Mim.
30:4	The Romans were victorious, in the nearest land; but after their victory, they will be defeated, within a few years —
30:4	to God belongs the command, before and after.
30:5	And on that day the believers will rejoice in God's help —
30:5	He helps whom He wills;
30:5	and He is the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
30:6	[It is] God's promise: God does not fail His promise,
30:6	but most people do not know.
30:7	They know only an outward aspect of the present life, while of the last life they are heedless.
30:8	Have they not reflected within themselves?
30:8	God did not create the heavens and the earth, and what is between them, except in truth and for an appointed term;
30:8	and indeed many people disown the meeting with their Guardian.
30:9	Have they not traveled through the earth and seen how was the end of those before them? They were stronger than them, and they tilled the earth
30:9	and inhabited it more than they have inhabited it; and their messengers came to them with clear proofs,
30:9	and it was not God who wronged them,
30:9	but they used to wrong themselves.
30:10	Then the end of those who did evil was the worst, for they denied the signs of God and used to mock them.
30:11	God originates the creation, then remakes it, then to Him you will be returned.
30:13	And on the day the Hour rises, the severed will be plunged into despair, and they will have, among their associates, no intercessors; and even their own associates, they will disown.
30:14	And on the day the Hour rises, that day they will be separated [into groups]:
30:15	as for those who believed and did righteous deeds, they will be delighted in a garden;
30:16	and as for those who disowned and denied Our signs and the meeting of the last life, those will be brought forward into the punishment.
30:17	So glory be to God when you enter the evening and when you enter the morning!
30:18	And to Him is praise in the heavens and the earth, and at the day's decline, and when you enter midday.
30:19	He brings the living out of the dead, and brings the dead out of the living, and gives life to the earth after its death;
30:19	and thus will you be brought forth [from your graves].
30:20	And among His signs is that He created you from dust; then, behold, you are humans spreading out.
30:21	And among His signs is that He created for you, from yourselves, spouses, so that you might find rest in them, and He placed between you affection and benevolence;
30:21	there are certainly in that signs for a people who reflect.
30:22	And among His signs are the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your tongues and your colors;
30:22	there are certainly in that signs for those who know.
30:23	And among His signs are your sleep by night and by day, and your seeking of His favor;
30:23	there are certainly in that signs for a people who listen.
30:24	And among His signs is that He shows you the lightning, arousing fear and hope, and sends down water from the sky by which He gives life to the earth after its death;
30:24	there are certainly in that signs for a people who reason.
30:25	And among His signs is that the sky and the earth stand by His command;
30:25	then, when He calls you with a single call from the earth, behold, you will come forth.
30:26	And to Him belongs whoever is in the heavens and the earth;
30:26	all are devoted to Him.
30:27	And it is He who originates the creation, then remakes it — a matter yet easier for Him;
30:27	and to Him belongs the highest example, in the heavens and the earth;
30:27	and He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.
30:28	He proposes to you an example drawn from yourselves: do you have, among those bound to you by pledge, any partners in what We have provided you as sustenance, such that you would be equal in that, fearing them as you fear one another?
30:28	Thus do We detail the signs for a people who reason.
30:29	Those who did wrong rather followed their emotions, without knowledge.
30:29	So who will guide the one God has left astray?
30:29	And they will have no helpers.
30:32	Set your direction toward the Law, wholly turned toward God — the original nature God gave mankind, as He originated them. There is no changing God's creation: that is the upright Law, but most people do not know — ever turning back to Him, guard yourselves toward Him, maintain the Contact, and do not be among those who associate partners with God,
30:32	among those who split up their Law and became factions, each party rejoicing in what it has.
30:33	And when harm touches people, they call upon their Guardian, turning back to Him;
30:33	then when He lets them taste a benevolence from Him, behold, a party among them associates [partners] with their Guardian,
30:34	so as to disown what We have given them.
30:34	Enjoy yourselves, then: soon you will know.
30:35	Or have We sent down upon them an authority which speaks in favor of what they associate with Him?
30:36	And when We let people taste a benevolence, they rejoice in it;
30:36	but if evil befalls them for what their own hands have prepared, behold, they lose heart.
30:37	Have they not seen that God extends provision to whom He wills, and measures it?
30:37	There are certainly in that signs for a people who believe.
30:38	So give the close relative his due, and the destitute, and the stranded traveler;
30:38	that is better for those who seek the direction of God,
30:38	and it is they who are successful.
30:39	And whatever you give as a loan with guaranteed principal, that it may increase through the goods of people, does not increase with God;
30:39	but whatever you give in purifying alms, seeking the direction of God — it is they whose reward is multiplied.
30:40	God is He who created you, then provided for you, then will cause you to die, then will bring you to life.
30:40	Is there among your associates one who does any of that?
30:40	Glory be to Him, He is far above what they associate with Him.
30:41	Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of what people's hands have earned, so that He may let them taste some of what they have done, that they might return.
30:42	Say, "Travel through the earth and see what was the end of those before [you]."
30:42	Most of them were associators.
30:43	So set your direction toward the upright Law, before there comes, from God, a day that cannot be turned back:
30:43	that day, they will be split apart.
30:44	Whoever disowns, his disowning falls back upon him;
30:45	and whoever does righteousness — those prepare a place for themselves — so that He may recompense, out of His favor, those who believed and did righteous deeds.
30:45	He certainly does not love those who disown.
30:46	And among His signs is that He sends the winds as bearers of good news, so as to let you taste of His benevolence, and so that the ships may sail by His command, and so that you may seek His favor, and that you may be grateful.
30:47	And We certainly sent, before you, messengers to their people; they came to them with clear proofs, and We took vengeance upon those who cut themselves off;
30:47	and it was incumbent upon Us to help the believers.
30:48	God is He who sends the winds; they stir up clouds, which He spreads in the sky as He wills, and breaks into fragments; then you see the rain come forth from their midst.
30:48	Then when He causes it to reach whom He wills of His obedient ones, behold, they rejoice,
30:49	even though before that, before it was sent down upon them, they were in despair.
30:50	So look at the trace of God's benevolence: how He gives life to the earth after its death;
30:50	that is He who will certainly give life to the dead,
30:50	and He is capable of all things.
30:51	And if We sent a wind, and they saw [what has grown] turn yellow, they would persist, after that, in disowning.
30:52	You certainly cannot make the dead hear, nor make the deaf hear the call, when they turn their backs, retreating.
30:53	And you are not the one who guides the blind out of their error;
30:53	you can make hear only those who believe in Our signs, and who are true to God alone.
30:54	God is He who created you from weakness, then made, after weakness, strength, then made, after strength, weakness and old age;
30:54	He creates what He wills,
30:54	and He is the All-Knowing, the Able.
30:55	And on the day the Hour rises, the severed will swear they remained but an hour;
30:55	thus were they turned away [from the truth].
30:56	And those who were given knowledge and faith will say, "You have certainly remained, under God's Code, until the Day of Deployment;
30:56	so this is the Day of Deployment — but you did not know."
30:57	That day, the excuse of the wrongdoers will not benefit them, nor will they be asked to make amends.
30:58	And We have certainly set forth for people, in this Recitation, every kind of example;
30:58	and if you bring them a sign, those who disown will certainly say, "You are nothing but workers of falsehood."
30:59	Thus does God seal the cores of those who do not know.
30:60	So be patient:
30:60	God's promise is truth;
30:60	and do not let those who lack certainty shake you.

Sura 31 — Be Grateful to God (Luqman)

31:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Mim.
31:4	These are the signs of the Scripture full of wisdom, a guidance and benevolence for the doers of good, those who maintain the Contact, give the purifying alms, and who have certainty of the last life.
31:5	Those are upon guidance from their Guardian,
31:5	and it is they who are successful.
31:6	And among people is he who buys distracting talk, to lead [others] astray from the way of God without knowledge, and to take it in mockery;
31:6	those will have a humiliating punishment.
31:7	And when Our signs are recited to him, he turns away in arrogance, as though he had not heard them, as though there were deafness in his ears:
31:7	so give him news of a painful punishment.
31:9	Those who believed and did righteous deeds will have the gardens of bliss, abiding therein forever —
31:9	a true promise of God;
31:9	and He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.
31:10	He created the heavens without pillars
31:10	that you can see;
31:10	and He placed on the earth firm anchors, lest it shake with you, and He scattered upon it every kind of living being;
31:10	and We sent down water from the sky, and caused every generous pair [of plants] to grow in it.
31:11	This is God's creation:
31:11	so show Me what those besides Him have created.
31:11	The wrongdoers are rather in manifest error.
31:12	And We certainly gave Luqman wisdom: "Be grateful to God";
31:12	and whoever is grateful is grateful only for himself,
31:12	and whoever disowns [that blessing] — God is self-sufficient, praiseworthy.
31:13	And [recall] when Luqman said to his son, while exhorting him, "O my son, do not associate [any partner] with God;
31:13	association is certainly a great injustice."
31:14	And We enjoined upon the human being [kindness] toward his parents —
31:14	his mother carried him, weakness upon weakness,
31:14	and his weaning is completed within the two years that follow — :
31:14	"Be grateful to Me and to your parents;
31:14	to Me is the destination."
31:15	But if they press you to associate with Me that of which you have no knowledge, do not obey them;
31:15	but accompany them in the present life in a recognized manner,
31:15	and follow the path of one who turns back to Me;
31:15	then to Me is your return, and I will inform you of what you used to do.
31:16	"O my son, indeed if it should be the weight of a mustard seed, and should be in a rock, or in the heavens, or in the earth, God will bring it forth,
31:16	for God is Subtle, Informed.
31:17	O my son, maintain the Contact,
31:17	enjoin what is recognized,
31:17	forbid what is disavowed,
31:17	and be patient over what befalls you:
31:17	that is indeed among matters requiring resolve.
31:18	And do not turn your cheek away from people [in disdain],
31:18	nor walk upon the earth exultantly:
31:18	God certainly does not love any arrogant boaster.
31:19	Be moderate in your pace,
31:19	and lower your voice:
31:19	for the least recognizable of voices is the voice of donkeys."
31:20	Have you not seen that God has subjected to you what is in the heavens and what is on the earth, and has lavished His favors upon you, apparent and hidden?
31:20	And among people is he who argues about God without knowledge, without guidance, and without an illuminating Scripture.
31:21	And when it is said to them, "Follow what God has sent down,"
31:21	they say, "We rather follow what we found our ancestors upon."
31:21	What, even if the Diverter was calling them to the punishment of the Inferno?
31:22	And whoever renders his direction true to God alone, while being virtuous, has certainly grasped the firmest handhold;
31:22	and to God is the outcome of all things.
31:23	And whoever disowns, let not his disowning grieve you:
31:23	to Us is their return, and We will then inform them of what they did —
31:23	God is certainly All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
31:24	We grant them a brief enjoyment, then We will compel them toward a harsh punishment.
31:25	And if you ask them, "Who created the heavens and the earth?" they will certainly say, "God";
31:25	say, "Praise be to God!"
31:25	But most of them do not know.
31:26	To God belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth;
31:26	God is certainly the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy.
31:27	And if whatever trees are on the earth were pens, and the sea, extended by seven seas after it, [were ink], the words of God would not be exhausted:
31:27	God is certainly All-Powerful, Wise.
31:28	Your creation and your deployment are but as [that of] a single Self;
31:28	God is certainly the All-Hearing, the One who sees perfectly.
31:29	Have you not seen that God makes the night pass into the day, and makes the day pass into the night, and has subjected the sun and the moon, each running to an appointed term, and that God is Informed of what you do?
31:30	That is because God is the Truth, and what you invoke besides Him is falsehood, and because God is the Most High, the Great.
31:31	Have you not seen that the ships sail on the sea by the blessing of God, that He may show you some of His signs?
31:31	There are certainly in that signs for every very patient, very grateful one.
31:32	And when a wave covers them like shadows, they call upon God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him;
31:32	but when He brings them safely to land, some of them remain moderate [in gratitude];
31:32	and none stubbornly rejects Our signs except every treacherous, great disowner.
31:33	O mankind, guard yourselves before your Guardian, and fear a day when no father will avail his child, nor any child avail his father at all.
31:33	God's promise is certainly true:
31:33	so do not let the present life deceive you,
31:33	and do not let the great deceiver deceive you about God.
31:34	God certainly has knowledge of the Hour,
31:34	and sends down the rain,
31:34	and knows what is in the wombs;
31:34	and no Self knows what it will earn tomorrow,
31:34	and no Self knows in what land it will die;
31:34	God is certainly All-Knowing, Informed.

Sura 32 — The Rest of the Gaze (As-Sajda)

32:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Alif. Lam. Mim.
32:2	The descent of the Scripture, without doubt, is from the Guardian of all beings.
32:3	Will they say, "He has invented it"?
32:3	It is rather the truth from your Guardian, that you may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you, that they might be guided.
32:4	God is He who created the heavens and the earth, and what is between them, in six days, then established Himself upon the Edifice;
32:4	you have, besides Him, neither protector nor intercessor.
32:4	Will you not then be reminded?
32:5	He governs the Order from the sky to the earth, then it ascends to Him in a day whose measure is a thousand years by your reckoning.
32:6	That is the Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is manifest, the All-Powerful, the Benevolent,
32:7	who perfected everything He created, and began the creation of the human being from clay,
32:8	then made his progeny from an extract of a lowly fluid,
32:9	then formed him and breathed into him of His Influx,
32:9	and He appointed for you hearing, sight, and Consciences —
32:9	how little you are grateful!
32:10	And they said, "When we are dissolved into the earth, will we truly be in a new creation?"
32:10	They rather disown the meeting with their Guardian.
32:11	Say, "The Agent of death, who has been charged with you, will take you; then to your Guardian you will be returned."
32:12	And if you could see when the severed, heads bowed before their Guardian, [will say], "Our Guardian, we have seen and heard, so return us; we will do righteousness — we are now certain."
32:13	And had We willed, We could have given every Self its guidance;
32:13	but My word has proven true: "I will surely fill Jahannam with the Occulted and mankind, all together."
32:14	So taste, for having forgotten the meeting of this Day of yours — We have [likewise] forgotten you —
32:14	and taste the punishment of eternity for what you used to do.
32:15	Only those believe in Our signs who, when they are reminded of them, fall down in prostration and glorify their Guardian with praise, and are not arrogant.
32:16	Their sides draw away from their beds, calling upon their Guardian in fear and hope, and they spend out of what We have provided them.
32:17	And no Self knows what has been hidden for it of a rest of the gaze, as recompense for what they used to do.
32:18	Is he who is a believer like him who is an overstepper?
32:18	They are not equal.
32:19	As for those who believed and did righteous deeds, they have the gardens of refuge, as a welcome, for what they used to do;
32:20	and as for those who overstepped the limits, their refuge is the Fire:
32:20	every time they wish to come out of it, they will be returned to it, and it will be said to them, "Taste the punishment of the Fire which you used to deny."
32:21	And We will surely let them taste the nearer punishment, short of the greater punishment, that they might return.
32:22	And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the signs of his Guardian, and then turns away from them?
32:22	We will surely take vengeance upon the severed.
32:23	And We certainly gave Moussa the Scripture —
32:23	so be not in doubt about his meeting [with it] —
32:23	and We made it a guidance for the Sons of Israel.
32:24	And We appointed among them leaders guiding by Our command, when they had endured patiently,
32:24	and had certainty in Our signs.
32:25	Your Guardian is certainly He who will separate between them, on the Day of Appearance, concerning that in which they differed.
32:26	Has it not become clear to them how many generations We annihilated before them, in whose dwellings they now walk?
32:26	There are certainly in that signs.
32:26	Do they not then listen?
32:27	Have they not seen that We drive the water to the barren land, and thereby bring forth crops from which their cattle and they themselves eat?
32:27	Do they not then see?
32:28	And they say, "When is this judgment, if you are truthful?"
32:29	Say, "On the day of judgment, faith will no longer benefit those who disowned, nor will they be given respite."
32:30	So turn away from them, and wait:
32:30	they too are waiting.

Sura 33 — A Single Core (Al-Ahzab)

33:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O Prophet, guard yourself before God,
33:1	and do not obey those who disown nor the hypocrites.
33:1	God is certainly All-Knowing, Wise.
33:2	And follow what is revealed to you from your Guardian.
33:2	God is certainly Informed of what you do.
33:3	And rely upon God:
33:3	God suffices as a trustee.
33:4	God has not assigned to any man two cores within his chest.
33:4	Nor has He made your wives — those against whom you pronounce the exclusion formula — your mothers,
33:4	nor has He made your adopted sons your [true] sons.
33:4	That is only your saying, [uttered] by your mouths;
33:4	and God speaks the truth, and it is He who guides to the way.
33:5	Call them by their fathers' names: that is more equitable with God.
33:5	And if you do not know their fathers, then they are your brothers in the Law, and your allies.
33:5	And there is no fault upon you in what you may have gotten wrong,
33:5	but rather in what your cores have premeditated.
33:5	And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
33:6	The Prophet has, over the believers, more right than they have over themselves,
33:6	and his wives are their mothers.
33:6	And those bound by kinship have, toward one another, more right under God's Code than the [unrelated] believers and the emigrants — except that you do a kindness toward your allies.
33:6	That was recorded in the Scripture.
33:7	And [recall] when We took from the prophets their solemn engagement, and from you, and from Nuh, Ibrahim, Moussa, and Issa, son of Maryam —
33:8	and We took from them a solemn and firm engagement, so that He might question the truthful about their truthfulness;
33:8	and He has prepared for those who disown a painful punishment.
33:9	O you who have believed! remember God's blessing upon you, when armies came against you, and We sent upon them a wind and armies you did not see.
33:9	And God sees perfectly what you do.
33:10	remember when they came upon you from above you and from below you,
33:10	and when eyes turned aside, and cores reached the throats, and you conjectured about God all manner of conjectures.
33:11	There the believers were tested, and shaken with a violent shaking.
33:12	And when the hypocrites, and those in whose cores is a sickness, said, "God and His messenger promised us nothing but delusion,"
33:13	and when a party among them said, "O people of Yathrib, there is no place for you [here]; go back,"
33:13	and a party among them was asking the Prophet's leave, saying, "Our houses lack privacy" — when they did not:
33:13	they wanted nothing but to flee.
33:14	And if [the city] had been entered from all its sides, and they had then been asked to betray, they would have done it, and would have hesitated but a little.
33:15	And they had certainly made a pact with God before, not to turn their backs [in battle];
33:15	and for God's pact one will be held to account.
33:16	Say, "Flight will not benefit you if you flee from death or killing,
33:16	and then you would only enjoy [life] a little."
33:17	Say, "Who is it that could shield you from God, should He intend for you harm, or intend for you benevolence?"
33:17	And they will find, besides God, neither ally nor helper.
33:19	God certainly knows those among you who obstruct, and those who say to their brothers, "Come to us," and who come to the fight only a little, being stingy toward you.
33:19	Then, when fear comes, you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like one overcome by fainting from death.
33:19	Then, when the fear departs, they assail you with sharp tongues, stingy over any good.
33:19	Those have not believed, so God has voided their deeds,
33:19	and that is, for God, an easy thing.
33:20	They think the parties have not gone;
33:20	and were the parties to come [again], they would wish they had withdrawn among the notables,
33:20	asking about your news; and were they among you, they would have fought only a little.
33:21	You have certainly had, in the messenger of God, a beautiful example for whoever hopes for [the meeting with] God and the Last Day, and remembers God much.
33:22	And when the believers saw the parties, they said, "This is what God and His messenger promised us, and God and His messenger spoke truly,"
33:22	and it only increased them in faith and [trusting] submission.
33:23	Among the believers are men who have been true to what they pledged to God:
33:23	some of them have fulfilled their vow [unto death], and some of them are waiting,
33:24	and they have not changed in the least — so that God may recompense the truthful for their truthfulness, and punish the hypocrites, if He wills, or turn to them [in forgiveness].
33:24	God is certainly Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
33:25	And God turned back those who disowned, in their rage, without their obtaining any good;
33:25	and God spared the believers the fight.
33:25	And God is Strong, All-Powerful.
33:26	And He brought down from their strongholds those, among the People of the Scripture, who had supported them, and cast terror into their cores:
33:26	one party you were killing, and another party you were taking captive;
33:27	and He made you inherit their land, their homes, and their goods, and a land you had not trodden.
33:27	And God is capable of all things.
33:28	O Prophet, say to your wives, "If you desire the present life and its adornment, come, I will grant you provision and release you with a fitting release;
33:29	but if you desire God, His messenger, and the last abode, then God has prepared, for those among you who do good, a great reward."
33:30	O wives of the Prophet, whoever among you commits a manifest indecency, the punishment would be doubled for her, twice over;
33:30	and that is, for God, an easy thing.
33:31	And whoever among you is devoted to God and His messenger and does righteousness, We will give her reward twice, and We have prepared for her a generous provision.
33:32	O wives of the Prophet, you are not like any other of women, if you guard yourselves [before Him].
33:33	So do not be complaisant in speech, lest he in whose core is a sickness should covet; and speak a recognized word, and remain in your homes,
33:33	and do not flaunt yourselves as was flaunted in the former ignorance.
33:33	Maintain the Contact, and give the purifying alms,
33:33	and obey God and His messenger.
33:33	God only intends to remove from you impurity, People of the House, and to purify you completely.
33:34	And remember what is recited in your homes of God's signs and wisdom.
33:34	God is certainly Subtle, Informed.
33:35	Men true to God alone and women true to God alone, believing men and believing women, devoted men and devoted women, truthful men and truthful women, enduring men and enduring women, humble men and humble women, men who give alms and women who give alms, men and women who abstain from vain speech, men who guard their private parts and women who guard them, men who remember God much and women who remember Him — God has prepared for them forgiveness and an immense reward.
33:36	And it is not for any believing man or believing woman, when God and His messenger have decided a matter, to have the choice in their own affair.
33:36	And whoever disobeys God and His messenger has strayed into manifest error.
33:37	And [recall] when you said to the one God had favored and you had favored, "Keep your wife and guard yourself before God," while concealing within yourself what God was going to make known, and fearing the people, when God is more deserving that you fear Him.
33:37	Then when Zayd had ended all engagement toward her, We gave her to you in marriage, so that there would be no discomfort for the believers concerning the wives of their adopted sons, once they have ended all engagement toward them.
33:37	And God's command is [always] carried out.
33:38	There is no discomfort for the Prophet in what God has ordained for him —
33:38	such was God's norm with those who passed before.
33:38	And God's command is a decree determined.
33:39	Those who deliver God's messages, and fear Him, and fear no one but God —
33:39	and God suffices as a reckoner.
33:40	Muhammad is not the father of any of your men,
33:40	but rather the messenger of God and the seal of the prophets.
33:40	And God is All-Knowing of all things.
33:42	O you who have believed! remember God much, and glorify Him morning and evening.
33:43	It is He who is in contact with you, He and His Agents, so as to bring you out of the darknesses into the light;
33:43	and He is, toward the believers, Benevolent.
33:44	Their greeting, the day they meet Him, will be, "Peace."
33:44	And He has prepared for them a generous reward.
33:46	O Prophet, We have sent you as a witness, a bearer of good tidings, and a warner, as one calling to God by His permission, and as an illuminating torch.
33:47	And give the believers the good news that they will have, from God, great favor.
33:48	And do not obey those who disown nor the hypocrites,
33:48	and disregard their harm,
33:48	and rely upon God:
33:48	God suffices as a trustee.
33:49	O you who have believed! when you marry believing women and then divorce them before you have touched them, you have no waiting period against them for you to count.
33:49	So grant them provision, and release them with a fitting release.
33:50	O Prophet, We have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have given their bridal gifts, she who is bound to you by pledge among what God has granted you, and the daughters of your paternal uncle, the daughters of your paternal aunts, the daughters of your maternal uncle, and the daughters of your maternal aunts who emigrated with you, and any believing woman if she gives herself to the Prophet — provided the Prophet wishes to marry her:
33:50	exclusively for you, and not for the [other] believers.
33:50	We certainly know what We have ordained for them concerning their wives and those bound to them by pledge, so that there may be no discomfort for you;
33:50	and God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
33:51	You may defer whom you will of them, and take to yourself whom you will;
33:51	and whomever you desire of those you had set aside, no blame attaches to you.
33:51	That is more fitting so that their gaze may settle, and they not grieve, and they be content, all of them, with what you give them.
33:51	And God knows what is in your cores;
33:51	and God is All-Knowing, full of patience.
33:52	It is not lawful for you [to marry other] women after this, nor to exchange them for other wives, even were their beauty to please you — except she who is bound to you by pledge.
33:52	And God watches over all things.
33:53	O you who have believed! do not enter the houses of the Prophet unless permission is given you for a meal, without awaiting its readiness;
33:53	but when you are invited, enter; and when you have eaten, disperse, without lingering for conversation.
33:53	That used to trouble the Prophet, though he felt shy toward you,
33:53	whereas God is not shy of the truth.
33:53	And when you ask them for an item, ask them from behind a screen:
33:53	that is purer for your cores and their cores.
33:53	And it is not for you to trouble the messenger of God, nor to marry his wives after him, ever;
33:53	that is, with God, momentous.
33:54	Whether you disclose a thing or conceal it, God is All-Knowing of all things.
33:55	There is no blame upon them concerning their fathers, nor their sons, nor their brothers, nor their brothers' sons, nor their sisters' sons, nor the women of their own circle, nor those bound to them by pledge.
33:55	And guard yourselves before God:
33:55	God is, over all things, a witness.
33:56	God and His Agents are in constant contact with the Prophet.
33:56	O you who have believed! be in contact with him, and greet him with a [peaceful] salutation.
33:57	Those who trouble God and His messenger — God has cursed them in the present life and the last life, and has prepared for them a humiliating punishment.
33:58	And those who trouble believing men and believing women for anything other than what they have earned bear the weight of slander and manifest transgression.
33:59	O Prophet, tell your wives, your daughters, and the women of the believers to draw over themselves part of their outer garments:
33:59	that is more fitting so that they will be recognized and not be harmed.
33:59	And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
33:61	If the hypocrites, those in whose cores is a sickness, and the rumor-mongers in the Capital do not cease, We will certainly incite you against them; then they will not remain your neighbors there except a little, being cursed.
33:61	Wherever they are found, they will be seized and massacred in an utter massacre.
33:62	[Such was] God's norm with those who passed before,
33:62	and you will never find in God's norm any change.
33:63	The people ask you about the Hour.
33:63	Say, "Its knowledge is only with God,
33:63	and what would make you know?
33:63	Perhaps the Hour is near."
33:65	God has certainly cursed those who disown, and has prepared for them an Inferno in which they will abide forever, finding neither ally nor helper —
33:66	the day their direction is overturned in the Fire, they will say, "Would that we had obeyed God and obeyed the messenger!"
33:67	And they will say, "Our Guardian, we obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they led us astray from the way.
33:68	Our Guardian, give them double punishment, and curse them with a many-fold curse."
33:69	O you who have believed! do not be like those who troubled Moussa; God cleared him of what they said,
33:69	and he was, with God, of high standing.
33:71	O you who have believed! guard yourselves toward God and speak a straight word: He will set right your deeds for you and forgive you your offenses.
33:71	And whoever obeys God and His messenger has attained an immense triumph.
33:72	We offered the trust to the heavens, the earth, and the mountains; they refused to bear it and were afraid of it,
33:73	and the human being bore it: he was certainly deeply unjust, deeply ignorant — so that God may punish the hypocrites, men and women, and those who associate [others with God], men and women, and turn in forgiveness to the believing men and the believing women.
33:73	And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Sura 34 — Two by Two, or One by One (Saba)

34:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Praise be to God, to whom belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth,
34:1	and to Him belongs praise in the last life.
34:1	He is the Wise, the Informed.
34:2	He knows what enters into the earth and what comes out of it, what descends from the sky and what ascends into it.
34:2	He is the Benevolent, the Most-Forgiving.
34:3	Those who disown have said, "The Hour will not come to us."
34:3	Say, "Yes indeed, by my Guardian, it will surely come to you —
34:3	Knower of what escapes the senses, from whom nothing escapes, not the weight of a grain, in the heavens or on the earth,
34:4	nor anything smaller or greater than that, without it being in a clear record — so that He may recompense those who believed and did righteous deeds."
34:4	Those will have forgiveness and generous provision.
34:5	But those who strove against Our signs, seeking to thwart them, those will have a punishment of painful defilement.
34:6	And those who were given knowledge see that what has been revealed to you from your Guardian is the truth, and it guides to the path of the All-Powerful, the Praiseworthy.
34:7	And those who disown have said, "Shall we point you to a man who will inform you that, once you have been utterly disintegrated, you will be in a new creation?
34:8	Has he invented a lie against God, or is he afflicted with some derangement?"
34:8	No — those who do not believe in the last life are in punishment and far-reaching error.
34:9	Have they not looked at what is before them and what is behind them, of the sky and the earth?
34:9	If We willed, We could make the earth swallow them, or make fragments of the sky fall upon them.
34:9	There is certainly in that a sign for every obedient one ever turning back [to God].
34:10	And We certainly gave Dawud a favor from Us: "O mountains, echo [Our praise] with him, and the birds [as well]."
34:11	And We softened the iron for him: "Make full coats of mail, and measure well the links,
34:11	and do righteous deeds:
34:11	I am, of what you do, All-Seeing."
34:12	And to Sulayman [We subjected] the wind: its outward course was a month's journey, and its return course was a month's journey.
34:12	And We made flow for him a spring of naphtha.
34:12	And among the Occulted were some who worked before him, by the permission of his Guardian;
34:12	and whoever among them deviated from Our command, We made him taste the punishment of the Inferno.
34:13	They made for him whatever he wished of sanctuaries, statues, basins like great reservoirs, and cauldrons cast to their full measure, firmly anchored.
34:13	"Work, family of Dawud,
34:13	in gratitude" —
34:13	but few of My obedient ones are grateful.
34:14	Then when We decreed death upon him, nothing informed them of his death except a creature of the earth eating away his staff;
34:14	and when he fell, it became clear to the Occulted that, had they known what escapes our presence, they would not have remained in the humiliating punishment.
34:15	There was certainly for Saba' a sign in their dwelling place:
34:15	two gardens, on the right and on the left.
34:15	"Eat from the provision of your Guardian, and be grateful to Him:
34:15	a good land, and a Most-Forgiving Guardian."
34:16	But they turned away, so We sent upon them the destructive flood of the dam,
34:16	and We replaced their two gardens with two gardens bearing bitter fruit, tamarisk, and a few lote trees.
34:17	That is how We recompensed them for what they disowned —
34:17	and is anyone repaid, except the great disowner?
34:18	And We had placed between them and the cities that We had blessed, cities clearly visible, and We had measured the journey between them:
34:18	"Travel between them by nights and days, in safety."
34:19	But they said, "Our Guardian, lengthen the distances between our journeys" — and they wronged themselves; so We made them into cautionary tales, and We disintegrated them utterly.
34:19	There are certainly in that signs for every very patient, very grateful one.
34:20	And the Despairing One [Iblis] had certainly confirmed his conjecture about them, and they followed him, except a party of the believers.
34:21	And he had no authority over them, except that We might distinguish who believes in the last life from who is in doubt about it.
34:21	And your Guardian watches over all things.
34:22	Say, "Call upon those you claim [to be deities] besides God:
34:22	they do not possess the weight of a grain, in the heavens or on the earth,
34:22	and they have no share in either,
34:22	nor does He have among them any supporter."
34:23	And intercession does not benefit [anyone] with Him, except for one to whom He has given permission,
34:23	until, when fear is lifted from their cores, they say, "What did your Guardian say?" They will say, "The truth."
34:23	And He is the Most High, the Great.
34:24	Say, "Who provides for you from the heavens and the earth?" Say, "God.
34:24	And indeed, either we or you are upon guidance, or in manifest error."
34:25	Say: "You will not be questioned about our severance, nor will we be questioned about what you do."
34:26	Say, "Our Guardian will gather us together, then He will decide between us in truth,
34:26	and He is the Decider, the All-Knowing."
34:27	Say, "Show me those you have attached to Him as partners. By no means! —
34:27	He is rather God, the All-Powerful, the Wise."
34:28	And We have not sent you except to all mankind, a bearer of good tidings and a warner,
34:28	but most people do not know.
34:29	And they say, "When will this promise be, if you are truthful?"
34:30	Say, "You have the appointment of a Day you can neither delay nor advance by a single hour."
34:31	And those who disown have said, "We will never believe in this Recitation, nor in what came before it."
34:31	If only you could see when the wrongdoers are made to stand before their Guardian, throwing the word back at one another —
34:31	those who were deemed weak will say to those who were arrogant, "Had it not been for you, we would have been believers."
34:32	Those who were arrogant will say to those who were deemed weak, "Was it we who turned you away from guidance after it had come to you? No — you were rather severed."
34:33	And those who were deemed weak will say to those who were arrogant, "It was rather a plot, night and day, when you commanded us to disown God and to set up equals to Him."
34:33	And they will conceal their regret when they see the punishment.
34:33	And We will place shackles on the necks of those who disowned:
34:33	will they be recompensed except according to what they used to do?
34:34	And We have not sent into any city a warner without its affluent ones saying, "We disown what you have been sent with."
34:35	And they said, "We have more goods and children, and we will not be punished."
34:36	Say, "My Guardian extends provision to whom He wills, and measures [it];
34:36	but most people do not know."
34:37	And it is not your goods or your children that bring you nearer to Us in closeness — except for one who believed and did righteous deeds: those will have a doubled recompense for what they did, and they will be secure in the elevated chambers.
34:38	But those who strove against Our signs, seeking to thwart them, those will be brought into the punishment.
34:39	Say, "My Guardian extends provision to whom He wills among His obedient ones, and measures it for him;
34:39	and whatever you spend of anything, He replaces it,
34:39	and He is the best of providers."
34:40	And the Day We will gather them all together, then We will say to the Agents, "Was it you these used to obey?"
34:41	they will say, "Glory be to You! You are our Protector, not them:
34:41	they were rather obeying the Occulted;
34:41	most of them believed in them."
34:42	Today, none of you will have power to benefit or harm another, and We will say to those who did wrong, "Taste the punishment of the Fire that you used to deny."
34:43	And when Our verses are recited to them, clear, they say, "This is nothing but a man who wants to turn you away from what your ancestors used to obey"; and they say, "This is nothing but a fabricated lie."
34:43	And those who disown say of the truth when it comes to them, "This is nothing but manifest illusion."
34:44	And We had not given them any writings that they studied,
34:44	nor had We sent them, before you, any warner.
34:45	And those before them denied — these have not attained a tenth of what We had given [the former] —
34:45	and they denied My messengers.
34:45	How was My disavowal!
34:46	Say, "I only exhort you to one thing:
34:46	that you stand up for God, two by two or one by one, then reflect —
34:46	your companion has no derangement;
34:46	he is only a warner for you, before a severe punishment."
34:47	Say, "Whatever reward I have asked of you, it is for you;
34:47	my reward is incumbent only upon God,
34:47	and He is, over all things, a witness."
34:48	Say, "My Guardian projects the truth,
34:48	He is the great Knower of what escapes the senses."
34:49	Say, "The truth has come, and falsehood can neither begin nor return."
34:50	Say, "If I stray, I stray only against my own Self; and if I am guided, it is by what my Guardian reveals to me —
34:50	He hears, He is near."
34:51	And if only you could see when they are seized with terror, with no escape, and they are seized from a place nearby —
34:52	they will say, "We believe in it!"
34:53	But how could they reach, from so distant a place, what they had disowned before?
34:53	And they cast conjectures about what escapes the senses from a distant place.
34:54	And a barrier will be set between them and what they desire, just as was done before to their counterparts: they were certainly in disquieting doubt.

Sura 35 — The Poor Before God (Fatir)

35:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Praise be to God, Originator of the heavens and the earth, who made the Agents messengers organized into departments — by twos, by threes, by fours.
35:1	He adds to creation whatever He wills.
35:1	God is capable of all things.
35:2	Whatever benevolence God opens up for mankind, none can withhold it,
35:2	and whatever He withholds, none can release it after Him.
35:2	He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.
35:3	O mankind, remember God's blessing upon you.
35:3	Is there any creator other than God who provides for you from the sky and the earth?
35:3	There is no deity but Him.
35:3	How then are you turned away?
35:4	And if they call you a liar, messengers before you were already called liars.
35:4	And it is to God that all matters return.
35:5	O mankind, God's promise is true.
35:5	So let not the present life deceive you,
35:5	nor let the great deceiver deceive you concerning God.
35:6	The Diverter is an enemy to you: so take him as an enemy.
35:6	He only calls his party so that they may be among the companions of the Inferno.
35:7	Those who disown will have a severe punishment,
35:7	and those who believed and did righteous deeds will have forgiveness and a great reward.
35:8	The one to whom the evil of his deed has been made appealing, so that he sees it as good [is he comparable to the rightly guided]?
35:8	God leaves astray whom He wills, and guides whom He wills.
35:8	So let not your Self waste away in grief over them.
35:8	God is All-Knowing of what they do.
35:9	It is God who sends the winds, which stir up clouds; We drive them to a dead land, and by them We bring the earth to life after its death.
35:9	So will be the Awakening.
35:10	Whoever desires might should know that all might belongs to God.
35:10	To Him ascends the good word,
35:10	and the righteous deed, He raises it.
35:10	And those who plot evil deeds will have a severe punishment,
35:10	and the plot of those is bound to perish.
35:11	God created you from dust, then from a drop, then made you into pairs.
35:11	No female conceives nor gives birth except with His knowledge.
35:11	No being has his life extended, nor is his life shortened, except that it is in a record.
35:11	That is easy for God.
35:12	The two seas are not alike:
35:12	this one is sweet, fresh, pleasant to drink, and that one is salty, bitter.
35:12	From each you eat fresh meat, and you extract an ornament that you wear,
35:12	and you see the ships cleaving through it, so that you may seek of His favor, and that you may be grateful.
35:13	He causes the night to enter into the day, and causes the day to enter into the night,
35:13	and He has subjected the sun and the moon,
35:13	each running toward an appointed term.
35:13	That is God, your Guardian; to Him belongs the dominion.
35:13	And those you call upon besides Him do not possess even the skin of a date-stone.
35:14	If you call upon them, they do not hear your call; and even if they heard, they would not respond to you.
35:14	And on the Day of Appearance they will disown your association [with God].
35:14	And none can inform you like the Informed One.
35:15	O mankind, it is you who are the poor before God,
35:15	while God is the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy.
35:16	If He willed, He would remove you and bring a new creation.
35:17	And that is not at all difficult for God.
35:18	No bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another;
35:18	and if a heavily laden [Self] calls for help with its burden, nothing of it will be carried, even by a close relative.
35:18	You warn usefully only those who fear their Guardian unseen, and maintain the Contact,
35:18	and whoever purifies himself only purifies himself for his own Self.
35:18	And to God is the destination.
35:21	The blind and the seeing are not equal, nor are darkness and light, nor shade and scorching heat.
35:22	Nor are the living and the dead equal.
35:22	God makes whoever He wills hear,
35:22	and you cannot make those in the graves hear.
35:23	You are but a warner.
35:24	We have sent you with the truth, as a bearer of good tidings and a warner.
35:24	And there is no community but a warner passed among it.
35:26	And if they call you a liar, those before them also called [their messengers] liars: their messengers came to them with clear proofs, the Formularies, and the Illuminating Scripture; then I seized those who disowned.
35:26	And how was My disavowal!
35:27	Have you not seen that God sends down water from the sky, by which We bring forth fruits of varying colors?
35:27	And in the mountains are tracts, white and red, of varying colors, and others intensely black.
35:28	And among mankind, and beasts, and livestock, there is likewise a variety of colors.
35:28	Only those among His obedient ones who know truly fear God.
35:28	God is All-Powerful, Most-Forgiving.
35:30	Those who recite the Scripture of God, maintain the Contact, and spend, secretly and openly, from what We have provided them, hope for a trade that will never perish, so that He may repay them fully and increase them from His favor.
35:30	He is Most-Forgiving, Grateful.
35:31	And what We have revealed to you of the Scripture is the truth, confirming what came before it.
35:31	God is, toward His obedient ones, Informed, the One who sees perfectly.
35:32	Then We caused the Scripture to be inherited by those We chose among Our obedient ones:
35:32	some of them wrong their own Self,
35:32	some follow a moderate course,
35:32	and some race ahead in good deeds, by God's permission.
35:32	That is the great favor.
35:33	Gardens of permanent abode, which they will enter, adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls,
35:33	and their garment therein will be silk.
35:34	And they will say: "Praise be to God, who has removed sorrow from us; our Guardian is indeed Most-Forgiving, Grateful,
35:35	who has settled us, by His favor, in the abode of everlasting stay, where no fatigue touches us, nor any weariness."
35:36	And those who disown will have the fire of Jahannam; it will not be decreed for them to die, nor will its punishment be lightened for them.
35:36	Thus do We recompense every great disowner.
35:37	And there they will cry out: "Our Guardian, bring us out, we will do righteousness, other than what we used to do!"
35:37	Did We not grant you a life long enough that whoever wished to reflect could reflect? And the warner had come to you.
35:37	So taste,
35:37	for the wrongdoers have no helper.
35:38	God knows what escapes the senses in the heavens and the earth;
35:38	He is certainly All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
35:39	It is He who made you successors on the earth:
35:39	whoever disowns, his disowning falls back upon him,
35:39	and the disowning of the disowners only increases them in detestation before their Guardian,
35:39	and the disowning of the disowners only increases them in loss.
35:40	Say: "Have you seen your partners whom you call upon besides God? Show me what they have created of the earth, or do they have a share in the heavens?
35:40	Or have We given them a scripture, so that they rely on clear proofs from it?"
35:40	Rather, the wrongdoers promise one another nothing but delusion.
35:41	God holds the heavens and the earth, lest they cease to exist;
35:41	and were they to cease, none besides Him could hold them.
35:41	He is full of patience, Most-Forgiving.
35:42	And they swore by God their strongest oaths that if a warner came to them, they would surely be better guided than any of the communities.
35:42	But when a warner came to them, it only increased them in aversion,
35:43	out of arrogance in the land, and evil plotting.
35:43	But evil plotting only envelops its own doers.
35:43	So do they await anything but the precedent of the ancients?
35:43	But you will never find any change to God's norm,
35:43	nor will you ever find any shift in God's norm.
35:44	Have they not traveled through the land and seen what was the end of those before them, who were even greater than them in strength?
35:44	And nothing in the heavens or on the earth could render God powerless.
35:44	He is All-Knowing, Able.
35:45	And if God were to seize mankind for what they have earned, He would not leave upon it [the earth] any living creature;
35:45	but He defers them until an appointed term.
35:45	And when their term comes, God sees perfectly His obedient ones.

Sura 36 — Who Will Give Life to the Bones? (Ya-Sin)

36:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ya. Sin.
36:4	By the Recitation full of wisdom, you are truly among the envoys,
36:6	a descent from the All-Powerful, the Benevolent, so that you may warn a people whose ancestors were not warned, and who are therefore heedless.
36:7	The word has proven true against most of them: they do not believe.
36:8	We have placed shackles on their necks, reaching up to their chins, so that their heads are held back.
36:9	And We have placed a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, and We have covered them over, so they do not see.
36:10	It is the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them: they do not believe.
36:11	You can only warn usefully one who follows the Reminder and fears the All-Benevolent unseen: give him good news of forgiveness and a generous reward.
36:12	It is We, We alone, who give life to the dead, and We record what they put forth and the traces they leave behind.
36:12	And everything, We have counted it in a clear reference.
36:14	Set before them, as an example, the people of the town: when the envoys came to it, when We sent two [messengers] to them, and they called them liars; so We reinforced them with a third, and they said: "We are indeed sent to you."
36:15	They said: "You are nothing but humans like us; the All-Benevolent has sent nothing down; you are only lying."
36:17	They said: "Our Guardian knows that we are indeed sent to you; and upon us is only the clear transmission."
36:18	They said: "We see in you a bad omen. If you do not stop, we will surely banish you, and a painful punishment from us will touch you."
36:19	They replied: "Your omen lies with yourselves. Is it because you are reminded [of the truth]?
36:19	Rather, you are a people of the excessive."
36:20	And a man came hurrying from the farthest end of the Capital.
36:21	He said: "O my people, follow the envoys; follow those who ask no reward of you, and who let themselves be guided.
36:22	And why should I not obey the One who originated me, and to whom you will be brought back?
36:23	Should I take, besides Him, deities? If the All-Benevolent intends harm for me, their intercession will not avail me at all, nor will they save me.
36:24	I would then truly be in manifest error.
36:25	I have indeed believed in your Guardian: so listen to me."
36:26	It was said [to him]: "Enter the Garden."
36:27	He said: "If only my people knew for what my Guardian has forgiven me, and made me one of the honored ones!"
36:28	And We did not send down upon his people, after him, any army from the sky, nor did We need to send one down.
36:29	It was but a single cry, and there they were, extinguished.
36:30	What regret for the obedient ones!
36:30	No messenger ever came to them but they mocked him.
36:31	Do they not see how many generations We annihilated before them, [generations] that will not return to them?
36:32	All of them, every single one, will be gathered, brought before Us.
36:33	A sign for them: the dead earth, which We bring to life, and from which We bring forth grain, so that they eat from it.
36:35	And We placed therein gardens of palm trees and vines, and We caused springs to gush forth in it, so that they may eat from its fruit — and it was not their hands that produced it.
36:35	Will they not then be grateful?
36:36	Glory be to the One who created all the pairs, from what the earth grows, from themselves, and from what they do not know.
36:37	A sign for them: the night, from which We strip away the day, and there they are, plunged into darkness.
36:38	And the sun runs, from a stable place that is its own.
36:38	That is the measure set by the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing.
36:39	And the moon, We have set for it stations, until it returns like an old curved palm-stalk.
36:40	It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor for the night to outrun the day.
36:40	Each sails along in an orbit.
36:42	A sign for them: We carried their offspring in the laden ship, and We created for them, in its likeness, what they ride.
36:44	And if We willed, We would drown them; then there would be none to answer their cry, nor would they be saved, except by a benevolence from Us, and enjoyment for a time.
36:45	And when it is said to them: "Guard yourselves against what is before you and what is behind you, so that you may receive benevolence,"
36:46	not a single sign, among the signs of their Guardian, comes to them but they turn away from it.
36:47	And when it is said to them: "Spend from what God has provided you," those who disown say to those who have believed: "Shall we feed one whom God, if He willed, would feed Himself? You are only in manifest error."
36:48	And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are truthful?"
36:49	They await nothing but a single cry that will seize them while they are quarreling with one another.
36:50	Then they will not be able to make any bequest, nor will they return to their people.
36:51	And the Horn will be blown, and there they are, rushing from their graves to their Guardian.
36:52	They will say: "Woe to us! Who has raised us up from our resting place?
36:52	This is what the All-Benevolent promised, and the envoys spoke the truth."
36:53	It will be but a single cry, and there they are, all together, brought before Us.
36:54	This day, no Self will be wronged in the least, and you will be recompensed only for what you used to do.
36:56	The companions of the Garden will, this day, be occupied in delight, they and their spouses, in the shade, reclining upon couches.
36:57	They will have fruit therein.
36:58	And they will have whatever they call for. Peace!
36:58	A word from a Benevolent Guardian.
36:59	"Stand apart today, O severed!
36:61	Did I not enjoin upon you, O children of Adam, not to obey the Diverter — he is indeed a manifest enemy to you — and to obey Me alone?
36:61	This is a straight path.
36:62	Yet he did lead astray a great many of you.
36:62	Did you not then reason?
36:64	This is Jahannam, which you were promised. Burn in it today, for having disowned [the truth]."
36:65	This day, We seal their mouths; their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will bear witness to what they used to earn.
36:66	And if We willed, We would blot out their eyes; then they would rush toward the path, but how would they see?
36:67	And if We willed, We would freeze them in their places, and they would be able neither to go forward nor to return.
36:68	And whomever We grant long life, We reverse in creation.
36:68	Will they not then reason?
36:69	We did not teach him beguiling rhetoric; it does not befit him.
36:70	It is nothing but a Reminder and a clear Recitation, so as to warn whoever is alive, and so that the word may prove true against those who disown.
36:71	Do they not see that We have created for them, from what Our hands have made, livestock which they own?
36:72	We have made them subservient to them: some serve as their mounts, and some they eat.
36:73	And they have in them benefits and drinks.
36:73	Will they not then be grateful?
36:75	And they have taken, besides God, deities, hoping to be helped. They cannot help them, though they are, for them, a mobilized army.
36:76	So let their words not grieve you.
36:76	We know what they conceal and what they proclaim.
36:77	Does the human being not see that We created him from a drop, and yet he is a manifest quarreler?
36:78	He sets forth for Us an example, forgetting his own creation.
36:78	He says: "Who will give life to the bones once they are decayed?"
36:79	Say: "He who brought them into being the first time will give them life; and He is All-Knowing of all creation."
36:80	He who made for you fire out of the green tree, and see, you kindle from it.
36:81	Is not the One who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them?
36:81	Yes indeed! And He is the Creator, the All-Knowing.
36:82	His command, when He wills a thing, is only to say to it: "Be,"
36:82	and it is.
36:83	So glory be to the One in whose hand is the sovereign dominion of all things, and to whom you will be brought back.

Sura 37 — Peace upon the Envoys (As-Saffat)

37:4	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those that range themselves in ranks, by those who drive back with force, by those who recite the Reminder: your deity is indeed one,
37:5	Guardian of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, and Guardian of the risings [of the sun].
37:6	We have adorned the nearest heaven with the ornament of the stars,
37:7	and guarded it from every rebellious Diverter,
37:8	who cannot listen to the sublime assembly, and are pelted from every side,
37:9	driven off violently;
37:10	and they have an unceasing punishment — except him who snatches a fleeting glimpse: a piercing flame then pursues him.
37:11	Ask them then: are they harder to create, or those We have created?
37:11	We created them from a clinging clay.
37:12	But you marvel, while they mock;
37:13	and when they are reminded, they do not remember;
37:14	and when they see a sign, they redouble their mockery,
37:17	and say: "This is nothing but a plain illusion. When we are dead, earth and bones, shall we be resurrected? And our earliest forefathers too?"
37:18	Say: "Yes, and you will be humiliated."
37:19	It will be but a single rumbling blast, and there they are, looking on,
37:20	saying: "Woe to us, this is the Day of Retribution!"
37:21	"This is the Day of Separation, which you used to deny."
37:23	"Gather those who did wrong, their spouses, and what they used to obey besides God, then guide them to the path of the Blaze,
37:24	and hold them: they are to be questioned."
37:25	"What is wrong with you, that you do not help one another?"
37:26	No, that day, they are utterly submissive.
37:27	And they turn to one another, questioning each other.
37:28	They say: "It was you who used to come at us from the right."
37:29	They answer: "No, it was you who were not believers;
37:30	and we had no authority over you — you were rather a people who exceeded all measure.
37:32	So our Guardian's word has proven true against us: we shall indeed taste [the punishment]. We misled you — we ourselves were misled."
37:33	That day, they are all partners in the punishment.
37:34	This is how We deal with the severed.
37:36	Indeed, whenever it was said to them, "There is no deity but God," they would swell with arrogance and say: "Shall we abandon our deities for a deranged beguiling rhetorician?"
37:37	No, he came with the truth, and affirmed the envoys.
37:38	You will surely taste the painful punishment,
37:40	and you will be recompensed only for what you used to do — except the purified obedient ones of God:
37:42	those have a known provision, fruits,
37:44	and they are honored in the Gardens of bliss, on couches facing one another.
37:47	A cup will be passed among them from a [pure] spring, white, delightful for those who drink it, causing no headache and no intoxication,
37:49	and beside them will be companions of reserved, clear gaze, as though they were well-guarded eggs.
37:50	And they turn to one another, questioning each other.
37:53	One of them says: "I had a companion who used to say: 'Are you truly one of those who hold this to be true? When we are dead, earth and bones, shall we truly be judged?'"
37:55	He says: "Do you wish to look?" So he looked, and saw him in the midst of the Blaze.
37:57	He says: "By God, you nearly caused my ruin; and were it not for my Guardian's blessing, I would have been among those brought forth [for punishment].
37:59	Are we not dead, except our first death, and shall we not be punished?"
37:60	This is indeed the immense triumph!
37:61	It is for such an outcome that those who act should act.
37:62	Is that a better welcome, or the tree of Zaqqoum?
37:63	We have made it a trial for the wrongdoers:
37:65	it is a tree that grows at the root of the Blaze, whose fruits resemble the heads of Diverters.
37:67	They will eat from it and fill their bellies with it; then on top of it they will have a mixture of scalding water.
37:68	Then their return will indeed be to the Blaze.
37:70	They found their ancestors astray, and rushed headlong in their footsteps.
37:71	And indeed, before them, most of the earlier peoples had gone astray,
37:72	and We had certainly sent warners among them.
37:74	So see what was the end of those who were warned — except the purified obedient ones of God.
37:75	And Nuh indeed called upon Us,
37:75	and what an excellent Responder We are!
37:76	We saved him and his household from the great distress,
37:77	and We made his offspring the ones who endured.
37:78	And We left upon him, among later generations:
37:79	"Peace upon Nuh, among all beings!"
37:80	Thus do We recompense those who do good.
37:81	He was among Our believing obedient ones.
37:82	Then We drowned the others.
37:85	And Ibrahim was indeed of his [spiritual] line, when he came to his Guardian with a sound core, when he said to his father and his people: "What do you obey?
37:86	Is it a lie — do you desire deities besides God?
37:87	What then do you think of the Guardian of all beings?"
37:90	He cast a glance at the stars, and said: "I am unwell"; so they turned away from him, departing.
37:92	Then he stole away to their deities, and said: "Do you not eat? What is wrong with you, that you do not speak?"
37:94	Then he turned upon them, striking with his right hand; then [his people] came rushing toward him.
37:96	He said: "Do you obey what you carve, when God created you and what you make?"
37:98	They said: "Build him a structure, and cast him into the Blaze!" They intended a scheme against him, but We made them the lowest.
37:99	And he said: "I am going to my Guardian; He will guide me.
37:100	My Guardian, grant me [a child] among the righteous."
37:101	So We gave him the good news of a reflective boy.
37:102	And when he reached the age of walking with him, he said: "O my son, I see in a dream that I am sacrificing you; consider, then, what you think."
37:102	He said: "O my father, do what you are commanded;
37:102	you will find me, if God wills, among the patient."
37:105	And when both of them had become true to God alone, and he had laid him down on his forehead, We called out to him: "O Ibrahim, you have indeed confirmed the vision."
37:105	Thus do We recompense those who do good.
37:106	This was indeed the manifest testing.
37:107	And We ransomed him with a great sacrifice.
37:108	And We left upon him, among later generations:
37:109	"Peace upon Ibrahim!"
37:110	This is how We recompense those who do good.
37:111	He was among Our believing obedient ones.
37:113	And We gave him the good news of Ishaq, a prophet among the righteous, and We blessed him and Ishaq.
37:113	And among their offspring is one who excels [in good], and one who is manifestly unjust toward his own Self.
37:115	And We indeed favored Moussa and Harun, and saved them and their people from the great distress;
37:116	We helped them, and they were the ones who prevailed.
37:117	And We gave them both the clear Scripture,
37:118	and We guided them both along the straight path.
37:119	And We left upon them both, among later generations:
37:120	"Peace upon Moussa and Harun!"
37:121	Thus do We recompense those who do good.
37:122	They were both among Our believing obedient ones.
37:125	And Elias was indeed among the envoys, when he said to his people: "Will you not guard yourselves? Do you call upon Ba'l, forsaking the best of creators,
37:126	God, your Guardian and the Guardian of your earliest forefathers?"
37:128	But they denied him; so they will indeed be among those brought forth [for punishment] — except the purified obedient ones of God.
37:129	And We left upon him, among later generations:
37:130	"Peace upon Ilyasin!"
37:131	Thus do We recompense those who do good.
37:132	He was among Our believing obedient ones.
37:136	And Lut was indeed among the envoys, when We saved him and his household, all of them, except an old woman among those left behind; then We destroyed the others.
37:138	And you indeed pass by them in the morning, and at night —
37:138	do you not reason?
37:142	And Younes was indeed among the envoys, when he fled to the laden ship; he took part in the drawing of lots, and was among those who lost; then the fish swallowed him while he was blameworthy.
37:144	Had he not been among those who glorify, he would indeed have remained in its belly until the day they are resurrected.
37:145	So We cast him onto bare ground, while he was unwell,
37:146	and We caused a soft, cotton-like plant to grow over him.
37:147	We then sent him to a hundred thousand [people], or more,
37:148	and they believed; so We let them enjoy [life] for a while.
37:149	Ask them then: does your Guardian have daughters, while they have sons?
37:150	Or did We create the Agents female, while they witnessed it?
37:152	Is it not that, out of their own falsehood, they say: "God has begotten"? They are indeed liars.
37:153	Would He have preferred daughters over sons?
37:154	What is wrong with you?
37:154	How do you judge?
37:155	Will you not then remember?
37:157	Or do you have a clear authority? Then bring your book, if you are truthful.
37:158	And they have set up a kinship between Him and the Occulted;
37:158	and these entities well know that they themselves will indeed be brought forth [for punishment] —
37:159	glory be to God, above what they describe!
37:160	Except the purified obedient ones of God.
37:163	Neither you, nor what you obey, can lead anyone astray against Him, except him who is destined to burn in the Blaze.
37:164	"There is not one among us who does not have a known place,
37:166	and we are indeed those who stand in ranks, and we are indeed those who glorify."
37:169	And they indeed used to say: "If only we had a reminder from the earlier peoples, we would have been the purified obedient ones of God."
37:170	But they disowned [it] when it came;
37:170	they will soon know.
37:173	And Our word has indeed gone forth in favor of Our envoys, the obedient ones: they are indeed the ones who are helped, and it is indeed Our army that prevails.
37:174	So turn away from them for a while,
37:175	and watch them: they will soon see.
37:176	Is it Our punishment that they seek to hasten?
37:177	When it descends into their courtyard, how evil will be the morning of those who were warned!
37:178	So turn away from them for a while,
37:179	and watch: they will soon see.
37:180	Glory be to your Guardian, the Guardian of might, above what they describe!
37:181	And peace upon the envoys!
37:182	And praise be to God, Guardian of all beings!

Sura 38 — The One Who Keeps Turning Back (Sad)

38:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ṣad.
38:1	By the Recitation charged with the Reminder,
38:2	No! Those who disown are steeped in [claimed] might and rupture.
38:3	How many generations did We annihilate before them! They cried out, but it was no longer time to escape.
38:4	And they marveled that a warner should come to them from among themselves,
38:5	and those who disown said: "This is a worker of illusion, a great liar. Has he made the deities a single deity? This is indeed a strange thing!"
38:8	And the court, among them, set out, saying: "Go, and remain firm toward your deities! This is something intended. We have not heard of this in the most recent doctrine; this is nothing but pure invention. Was the Reminder sent down upon him, out of all of us?"
38:8	No, they are in doubt about My Reminder; no, they have not yet tasted My punishment.
38:9	Or do they hold the treasures of the benevolence of your Guardian, the All-Powerful, the Great Bestower?
38:10	Or do they own the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them?
38:10	Then let them ascend by the means [of access]!
38:11	It is but an army among the parties, doomed to defeat.
38:13	Before them, the people of Nuh denied, and the Recidivists [Aad], and Fir'awn of the stakes, the Depleters [Thamud], the people of Lut, and the companions of the Thicket.
38:13	Those are the parties.
38:14	Each of them did nothing but deny the messengers, and so My sanction proved true.
38:15	And these await nothing but a single Cry, with no respite.
38:16	And they said: "Our Guardian, hasten for us our share [of punishment], before the Day of Reckoning."
38:17	Be patient in the face of what they say,
38:17	and remember Our obedient one Dawud, endowed with strength,
38:17	he never ceased turning back [to God].
38:19	We subjected the mountains to glorify with him, at dusk and at dawn, and the birds gathered together:
38:19	each of them kept turning back [to God].
38:20	We strengthened his rule and gave him wisdom and speech that separates.
38:22	Has the account of the opposing parties reached you, when they climbed over the wall into the sanctuary, when they entered upon Dawud, and he was alarmed by them? They said: "Do not be afraid;
38:22	we are two opposing parties, one of us has committed aggression against the other; so judge between us with truth, without excess,
38:22	and guide us to the even path."
38:23	"This is my brother; he has ninety-nine ewes, and I have but one ewe. He said: 'Entrust her to me,' and he overpowered me in speech."
38:24	He said: "He has certainly wronged you in demanding your ewe to add to his own;
38:24	and indeed, many partners commit aggression against one another, except those who have believed and done righteous deeds —
38:24	and how few they are."
38:24	And Dawud understood that We had [thus] tried him; he sought his Guardian's forgiveness, fell down bowing, and turned back [to Him].
38:25	So We forgave him that;
38:25	and he has, with Us, a place of nearness and a beautiful abode [of return].
38:26	"O Dawud, We have made you a successor on earth; so judge among the people with truth, and do not follow emotion, lest it lead you astray from the path of God.
38:26	Those who stray from the path of God will have a severe punishment, for having forgotten the Day of Reckoning."
38:27	We did not create the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in vain.
38:27	Such is the conjecture of those who disown;
38:27	so woe to those who disown, because of the Fire!
38:28	Should We treat those who have believed and done righteous deeds like those who spread corruption on earth?
38:28	Should We treat those who guard themselves like the depraved?
38:29	Here is a blessed Scripture that We sent down to you, so that they may reflect on its signs, and so that the possessors of intelligence may remember.
38:30	And We granted Dawud Sulayman —
38:30	what an excellent obedient one!
38:30	He never ceased turning back [to God].
38:32	When there were displayed to him, at dusk, the standing, well-bred horses, he said: "I have preferred the love of the good over the remembrance of my Guardian," until they withdrew behind the veil.
38:33	"Bring them back to me!" And he began to stroke their legs and necks.
38:34	And We certainly tried Sulayman: We placed upon his throne-seat a [lifeless] body; then he turned back [to Us].
38:35	He said: "My Guardian, forgive me, and grant me a kingdom that will not befit anyone after me;
38:35	You are indeed the Great Bestower."
38:38	So We subjected the wind to him, running at his command, gently, wherever he directed it; and the Diverters, every builder and diver, and others bound together in chains.
38:39	"This is Our gift: dispose of it, grant it or withhold it, without account to render."
38:40	He has, with Us, a place of nearness and a beautiful abode [of return].
38:41	And remember Our obedient one Ayyub, when he called upon his Guardian: "The Diverter has touched me with hardship and suffering."
38:42	"Run with your foot:
38:42	here is cool water for washing and for drinking."
38:43	And We granted him back his family, and as many again with them, as a benevolence from Us, and as a reminder for the possessors of intelligence.
38:44	"Take in your hand a bundle [of stalks], and strike with it, and do not break your oath."
38:44	We found him patient,
38:44	what an excellent obedient one!
38:44	He never ceased turning back [to God].
38:45	And remember Our obedient ones Ibrahim, Ishaq, and Yaacoub, endowed with strength and insight.
38:46	We purified them with a singular purity: the remembrance of the [final] Abode.
38:47	And they are, with Us, among the chosen, the best.
38:48	And remember Ismail, Elisha, and Dhul-Kifl,
38:48	each among the best.
38:49	This is a reminder.
38:49	And those who guard themselves shall indeed have a beautiful abode [of return]:
38:51	Gardens of permanent abode, whose gates will be opened for them, reclining therein, calling for abundant fruit and drink.
38:52	And beside them will be companions of reserved gaze, fertile and of shared stock.
38:53	This is what you are promised for the Day of Reckoning.
38:54	This is indeed Our provision, which knows no end.
38:56	This is so. And those who exceed all measure shall have the worst of abodes [of return]: Jahannam, wherein they will burn,
38:56	what an evil bed!
38:58	This — let them taste it: scalding water, and fetid discharge, and other [torments] of the same kind, in pairs.
38:59	"Here is a crowd rushing in with you [into the Fire],"
38:59	[it will be said]: "No welcome for them!
38:59	They will burn in the Fire."
38:60	They will say: "Rather it is you! No welcome for you! It is you who went before us into this."
38:60	What a wretched dwelling!
38:61	They will say: "Our Guardian, whoever brought this upon us, give him double punishment in the Fire."
38:62	And they will say: "Why do we not see men we used to count among the wicked?
38:63	Did we take them as objects of mockery, or has our sight simply missed them?"
38:64	This is indeed true: it is the quarrel of the people of the Fire.
38:65	Say: "I am only a warner,
38:65	and there is no deity but God, the One, the Overpowering,
38:66	Guardian of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them,
38:66	the All-Powerful, the Great Forgiver."
38:68	Say: "This is momentous news, from which you turn away:
38:69	I had no knowledge of the sublime assembly when it quarreled;
38:70	nothing is revealed to me except that I am a clear warner."
38:72	[Recall] when your Guardian said to the Agents: "I am about to create a human of clay; when I have shaped him and breathed into him of My Influx, fall down before him, prostrating."
38:74	So the Agents prostrated, all of them together, except the Despairing One [Iblis]: he swelled with arrogance and was among those who disown.
38:75	He said: "O Despairing One [Iblis], what prevented you from prostrating before what I created with My own two hands? Did you swell with arrogance, or were you among the exalted?"
38:76	He said: "I am better than him: You created me from fire, and You created him from clay."
38:78	He said: "Then get out of here; you are indeed banished, and My curse is upon you until the Day of Retribution."
38:79	He said: "My Guardian, grant me a delay until the day they are resurrected."
38:81	He said: "You are among those granted a delay, until the day of the known time."
38:83	He said: "By Your might, I will mislead them all, except Your purified obedient ones among them."
38:84	[God] said: "Here then is the truth — and I speak the truth:
38:85	I will surely fill Jahannam with you and with all of those among them who follow you."
38:86	Say: "I ask you no reward for this, and I am not one of those who pretend to be what they are not.
38:87	This is nothing but a reminder for all beings,
38:88	and you will surely know its news after a time."

Sura 39 — Do Not Lose Heart (Az-Zumar)

39:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. The descent of the Scripture comes from God, the All-Powerful, the Wise.
39:2	We have sent down to you the Scripture in truth; so obey God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him.
39:3	In truth, the pure and exclusive Law belongs to God.
39:3	And those who take allies besides Him [say]: "We only obey them so that they may bring us nearer to God, as near as can be";
39:3	God will judge between them concerning that in which they differ.
39:3	God does not guide one who is a liar, a great disowner [of the truth].
39:4	Had God wanted to take a child, He would have chosen what He wills from what He creates;
39:4	glory be to Him —
39:4	He is God, the One, the Overpowering.
39:5	He created the heavens and the earth in truth;
39:5	He wraps the night around the day, and wraps the day around the night;
39:5	He has subjected the sun and the moon,
39:5	each running to an appointed term.
39:5	Is He not the All-Powerful, the Great Forgiver?
39:6	He created you from a single Self, then brought forth from it its spouse;
39:6	and He sent down for you, among the livestock, eight pairs;
39:6	He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, in three darknesses;
39:6	that is God, your Guardian; to Him belongs the dominion;
39:6	there is no deity but Him;
39:6	how then are you turned away?
39:7	If you disown, God is Self-Sufficient, beyond you;
39:7	and He does not approve of disowning for His obedient ones;
39:7	but if you are grateful, He approves it for you.
39:7	No bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another;
39:7	then to your Guardian is your return, and He will inform you of what you used to do.
39:7	He is certainly All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
39:8	When harm touches the human being, he calls upon his Guardian, turning back to Him;
39:8	then, when He grants him a blessing from Himself, he forgets what he used to call upon before, and sets up equals to God, to lead astray from His path.
39:8	Say: "Enjoy your disowning a little; you are indeed among the companions of the Fire."
39:9	He who is devoted through the hours of the night, prostrating and standing, fearing the last life and hoping for the benevolence of his Guardian —
39:9	say: "Are those who know equal to those who do not know?"
39:9	Only the possessors of intelligence take heed.
39:10	Say: "O My obedient ones who believe, guard yourselves before your Guardian;
39:10	for those who do good in the present life there is a fine share;
39:10	and God's earth is vast;
39:10	the patient will be given their reward in full, without count."
39:12	Say: "I have been commanded to obey God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him, and I have been commanded to be the first of those true to Him alone."
39:13	Say: "I fear, should I disobey my Guardian, the punishment of a tremendous day."
39:14	Say: "It is God I obey, devoting my Law exclusively to Him;
39:15	so obey whatever you wish besides Him."
39:15	Say: "The losers are those who will have lost themselves and their families on the Day of Appearance;
39:15	is that not the manifest loss?"
39:16	They will have, above them, canopies of fire, and beneath them, likewise;
39:16	it is by this that God frightens His obedient ones:
39:16	"O My obedient ones, guard yourselves before Me!"
39:17	And those who avoid obeying the Tyrant, and turn back to God, will have the good news.
39:18	So give good news to My obedient ones who listen to the word and follow the best of it;
39:18	those are the ones God has guided,
39:18	and those are the possessors of intelligence.
39:19	He against whom the word of punishment has proven true — will you save him who is in the Fire?
39:20	But those who guarded themselves before their Guardian will have high chambers, above which other chambers are built, beneath which rivers flow;
39:20	a promise of God —
39:20	God does not fail His promise.
39:21	Have you not seen that God sends down water from the sky, and channels it as springs in the earth, then brings forth with it crops of varying colors; then they wither, and you see them yellowed; then He turns them to debris?
39:21	There is indeed in that a reminder for the possessors of intelligence.
39:22	He whose chest God has opened to true adherence [to Him], so that he is upon a light from his Guardian —
39:22	so woe to those whose cores are hardened against the remembrance of God!
39:22	Those are in manifest error.
39:23	God has sent down the most beautiful of discourse, a Scripture of verses corresponding to one another, repeated in cycles,
39:23	at which the skins of those who fear their Guardian shiver; then their skins and their cores soften toward the remembrance of God;
39:23	that is the guidance of God, by which He guides whom He wills;
39:23	and whoever God sends astray has no guide.
39:24	He who shields himself with his face from the worst punishment on the Day of Appearance —
39:24	and it will be said to the wrongdoers: "Taste what you used to earn."
39:25	Those before them denied, and the punishment came to them from where they did not perceive;
39:26	God made them taste disgrace in the present life,
39:26	and the punishment of the last life is greater still, if only they knew.
39:28	We have certainly multiplied for mankind, in this recitation, every kind of example, that they may take heed — a flawless recitation, without the slightest crookedness, that they may guard themselves.
39:29	God multiplies an example: a man belonging to quarrelling partners, and a man belonging wholly to one man —
39:29	are they equal, as an example?
39:29	Praise belongs to God!
39:29	But most of them do not know.
39:31	You will die, and they will die; then, on the Day of Appearance, you will quarrel before your Guardian.
39:32	Who then is more unjust than one who lies about God and denies the truth when it has come to him?
39:32	Is there not, in Jahannam, a dwelling for those who disown?
39:33	And he who came with the truth, and affirmed it, those are the ones who guard themselves.
39:34	They will have whatever they wish, with their Guardian;
39:35	such is the reward of those who do good: God covers for them the worst of what they did, and repays them according to the best of what they used to do.
39:36	Is God not sufficient for His obedient one?
39:36	They seek to frighten you with those besides Him;
39:36	and whoever God sends astray has no guide.
39:37	And whoever God guides has no one to lead him astray;
39:37	is God not All-Powerful, possessor of vengeance?
39:38	And if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely say: "God";
39:38	say: "Have you considered, then, what you invoke besides God? If God willed harm for me, could they remove His harm? Or if He willed benevolence for me, could they withhold His benevolence?"
39:38	Say: "God is sufficient for me;
39:38	it is in Him that those who rely [upon God] rely."
39:39	Say: "O my people, act according to your position; I am acting [according to mine];
39:40	you will soon know upon whom a punishment will fall that disgraces him, and upon whom a lasting punishment will settle."
39:41	We have sent down to you the Scripture for mankind, in truth;
39:41	whoever is guided, it is for his own Self;
39:41	and whoever strays, strays only against his own Self;
39:41	and you are not a trustee over them.
39:42	God takes back the Selves at the time of their death, and those that have not died, during their sleep;
39:42	He retains those for whom He has decreed death, and sends back the others until an appointed term;
39:42	there is indeed in that signs for a people who reflect.
39:43	Have they taken intercessors besides God?
39:43	Say: "Even though they have no power over anything and do not reason?"
39:44	Say: "Intercession belongs entirely to God;
39:44	to Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth;
39:44	then to Him you will be returned."
39:45	And when God alone is mentioned, the cores of those who do not believe in the last life shrink with revulsion;
39:45	but when those besides Him are mentioned, at once they rejoice.
39:46	Say: "O God, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is manifest, You alone will judge between Your obedient ones concerning that in which they used to differ."
39:47	If those who did wrong possessed all that is on earth, and its like besides, they would offer it as ransom from the worst punishment on the Day of Appearance;
39:47	and there will appear to them, from God, what they had not accounted for.
39:48	The evil consequences of what they earned will appear to them,
39:48	and what they used to mock will envelop them.
39:49	When harm touches the human being, he calls upon Us; then, when We grant him a blessing from Us, he says: "This was only given to me because of some knowledge [I possess]."
39:49	Rather, it is a trial,
39:49	but most of them do not know.
39:50	Those before them said the same thing, and what they used to earn availed them nothing.
39:51	The evil consequences of what they earned struck them;
39:51	and those among these who do wrong will be struck by the evil consequences of what they earn, and they will not render [Him] powerless.
39:52	Do they not know that God extends provision for whom He wills, and measures it?
39:52	There is indeed in that signs for a people who believe.
39:53	Say: "O My obedient ones who have been excessive against yourselves, do not lose heart regarding the benevolence of God;
39:53	God forgives all offenses;
39:53	He is the Most-Forgiving, the Benevolent."
39:54	Turn back to your Guardian, and be true to Him alone, before the punishment comes to you; then you will not be helped.
39:58	And follow the best of what has been sent down to you from your Guardian, before the punishment comes to you suddenly, without your realizing it — lest a Self should say: "What regret, for having neglected my duty toward God, and for having been among the mockers!" or should say: "Had God guided me, I would have been among those who guard themselves"; or should say, upon seeing the punishment: "If only I had a return, I would be among those who do good."
39:59	Indeed! My signs certainly came to you, but you denied them, grew arrogant, and were among those who disown.
39:60	And on the Day of Appearance, you will see those who lied about God, their faces blackened.
39:60	Is there not, in Jahannam, a dwelling for the arrogant?
39:61	And God saves those who guarded themselves, by their triumph; no harm will touch them, nor will they grieve.
39:62	God is the creator of all things;
39:62	and He is, over all things, a trustee.
39:63	To Him belong the charges of the heavens and the earth;
39:63	and those who disown the signs of God, those are the losers.
39:64	Say: "Do you then command me to obey other than God, O ignorant ones?"
39:65	It has certainly been revealed to you, and to those before you: "If you associate, your work will surely collapse, and you will surely be among the losers."
39:66	So obey God, and be among the grateful.
39:67	They did not measure God with His true measure; the whole earth will be in His grasp on the Day of Appearance, and the heavens will be folded in His right hand.
39:67	Glory be to Him! He is far above what they associate with Him.
39:68	The Horn will be blown, and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth will collapse, thunderstruck, except whom God wills;
39:68	then it will be blown a second time, and at once they will stand up, looking on.
39:69	The earth will shine with the light of its Guardian; the record will be set down; the prophets and the witnesses will be brought forward; it will be judged between them in truth, and they will not be wronged.
39:70	Every Self will be paid in full for what it did, and He knows best what they do.
39:71	Those who disown will be driven toward Jahannam, in troops,
39:71	until, when they reach it, its gates will open, and its keepers will say to them: "Did messengers from among you not come to you, reciting to you the signs of your Guardian and warning you of the meeting of this your day?"
39:71	They will say: "Indeed!" but the word of punishment will have proven true against those who disowned.
39:72	It will be said: "Enter the gates of Jahannam, to remain therein forever."
39:72	How wretched is the dwelling of the arrogant!
39:73	And those who guarded themselves before their Guardian will be led toward the Garden, in troops,
39:73	until, when they reach it, and its gates open, its keepers will say to them: "Peace be upon you, you have been good — enter it, to remain therein forever."
39:74	They will say: "Praise belongs to God, who has kept His promise to us, and made us inherit the earth, that we may settle in the Garden wherever we wish; how excellent is the reward of those who work!"
39:75	And you will see the Agents surrounding the Edifice, glorifying their Guardian with praise;
39:75	it will be judged between them in truth,
39:75	and it will be said: "Praise belongs to God, Guardian of all beings."

Sura 40 — My Guardian Is God (Ghafir)

40:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ḥa. Mim.
40:3	The descent of the Scripture comes from God, the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing, He who forgives offense and accepts repentance, severe in sanction, possessor of largesse,
40:3	there is no deity but Him;
40:3	to Him is the destination.
40:4	Only those who disown argue concerning the signs of God;
40:4	so let not their bustling about through the lands deceive you.
40:5	Before them, the people of Nuh denied, and the parties after them,
40:5	and every community intended to seize its messenger,
40:5	arguing by falsehood to refute the truth with it — so I seized them:
40:5	how was My sanction!
40:6	Thus did the word of your Guardian prove true against those who disown: they are the companions of the Fire.
40:7	Those who bear the Edifice and those around it glorify their Guardian with praise, believe in Him, and ask forgiveness for those who believe:
40:7	"Our Guardian, You encompass all things in benevolence and knowledge; so forgive those who repent and follow Your path, and protect them from the punishment of the Blaze;
40:8	Our Guardian, admit them into the gardens of permanent abode that You have promised them, along with whoever acted rightly among their fathers, their spouses, and their offspring;
40:8	You, indeed, are the All-Powerful, the Wise.
40:9	And protect them from evil deeds;
40:9	whoever You protect from evil deeds that day, You have shown him benevolence,
40:9	and that is the immense triumph."
40:10	Those who disown will be called out to: "God's detestation is greater than your own detestation of yourselves, when you were called to faith and you disowned."
40:11	They will say: "Our Guardian, You made us die twice and made us live twice; we acknowledge our offenses — is there then any way out?"
40:12	That is because, when God alone was invoked, you disowned, and when something was associated with Him, you believed;
40:12	so judgment belongs to God, the Most High, the Great.
40:13	It is He who shows you His signs and sends down provision for you from the sky;
40:13	but only he who turns back [to Him] takes heed.
40:14	So call upon God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him, however much those who disown detest it.
40:15	He is the Raiser of ranks, possessor of the Edifice;
40:16	He casts the Influx of His command upon whom He wills among His obedient ones, to warn of the Day of Meeting, the day they will appear exposed,
40:16	nothing of them is hidden from God.
40:16	To whom belongs the dominion today?
40:16	To God, the One, the Overpowering.
40:17	Today every Self will be recompensed for what it earned;
40:17	no injustice today;
40:17	God is swift in reckoning.
40:18	Warn them of the imminent Day, when the cores will be at the throats, choked with distress,
40:18	the wrongdoers will have neither a warm friend nor an intercessor who is heeded.
40:19	He knows the treachery of glances and what the chests conceal.
40:20	God judges with truth,
40:20	while those they invoke besides Him judge nothing;
40:20	God is the All-Hearing, the One who sees perfectly.
40:21	Have they not traveled through the earth to see how the end was of those before them?
40:21	They were stronger than them in might and in traces left on the earth, and God seized them for their offenses;
40:21	no protector defended them against God.
40:22	That was because their messengers used to bring them clear proofs, but they disowned; so God seized them:
40:22	He is strong, severe in sanction.
40:24	We certainly sent Moussa with Our signs and a clear authority, to Fir'awn, Haman, and Qaroon; they said: "A worker of illusion, a great liar."
40:25	Then, when he brought them the truth from Us, they said: "Kill the sons of those who believed with him, and violate the modesty of their women";
40:25	but the scheming of those who disown is only in error.
40:26	Fir'awn said: "Leave me to kill Moussa, and let him call upon his Guardian! I fear he may change your Law and bring about corruption in the land."
40:27	Moussa said: "I take refuge in my Guardian and your Guardian from every arrogant one who does not believe in the Day of Reckoning."
40:28	A believing man from the clan of Fir'awn, who concealed his faith, said: "Will you kill a man for saying, 'My Guardian is God,' when he has brought you clear proofs from your Guardian? If he is lying, his lie is upon him; and if he is truthful, some of what he threatens you with will befall you."
40:28	God does not guide one who is excessive, a great liar.
40:29	"O my people, the dominion is yours today, you are dominant in the land; but who will help us against God's rigor if it comes upon us?"
40:29	Fir'awn said: "I show you only what I myself see, and I guide you only to the path of rectitude."
40:31	The one who had believed said: "O my people, I fear for you a day like that of the parties, like the fate of the people of Nuh, the Recidivists [Aad], the Depleters [Thamud], and those who came after them;
40:31	and God does not intend any injustice for the obedient ones."
40:33	O my people, I fear for you the Day of Mutual Calling, the day you will turn your backs fleeing, with no preserver for you against God;
40:33	and whoever God sends astray has no guide.
40:34	Youssof certainly came to you before with clear proofs, and you did not cease to be in doubt about what he brought you, until, when he perished, you said: 'God will not send a messenger after him';
40:34	thus does God send astray whoever is excessive, full of doubt —
40:35	those who argue concerning the signs of God without any authority having come to them;
40:35	it is a grave thing in detestation, in the sight of God and of those who believe.
40:35	Thus does God seal the core of every arrogant tyrant.
40:37	Fir'awn said: "O Haman, build me a tower, that I may reach the passages, the passages to the heavens, and glimpse the deity of Moussa; I certainly think he is lying."
40:37	Thus was the evil of his deed made appealing to Fir'awn, and he was turned away from the path;
40:37	Fir'awn's scheming was nothing but ruin.
40:38	The one who had believed said: "O my people, follow me; I will guide you to the path of rectitude;
40:39	O my people, the present life is only fleeting enjoyment,
40:39	while the last life is the home of permanence.
40:40	Whoever does an evil deed is recompensed only its equivalent,
40:40	and whoever does what is right, male or female, while being a believer, those will enter the Garden, provided for therein without account.
40:41	O my people, why is it that I call you to salvation while you call me to the Fire?
40:42	You call me to disown God and to associate with Him what I have no knowledge of, while I call you to the All-Powerful, the Great Forgiver;
40:43	there is no doubt that what you call me to has no call in the present life or in the last life, that our return is to God, and that the excessive ones are the companions of the Fire.
40:44	You will soon remember what I say to you;
40:44	I entrust my affair to God;
40:44	God sees perfectly the obedient ones.
40:45	So God protected him from the evils of what they plotted,
40:45	and the worst punishment enveloped the clan of Fir'awn:
40:46	the Fire, to which they are exposed morning and evening,
40:46	and the day the Hour rises: "Admit the clan of Fir'awn into the most severe punishment."
40:47	And when they dispute with one another in the Fire, the weak will say to those who were arrogant: "We were your followers; can you then spare us a share of the Fire?"
40:48	Those who were arrogant will say: "We are all in it; God has already judged between the obedient ones."
40:49	Those in the Fire will say to the keepers of Jahannam: "Call upon your Guardian to lighten for us, even for one day, the punishment."
40:50	They will say: "Did your messengers not bring you clear proofs?" They will say: "Yes indeed." They will say: "Then call [yourselves]."
40:50	But the calling of those who disown is only in error.
40:52	We surely help Our messengers and those who believe, in the present life and on the day the witnesses rise, the day the excuse of the wrongdoers will not benefit them; theirs will be the curse, and theirs the worst of homes.
40:54	We certainly gave Moussa the guidance, and made the Sons of Israel inherit the Scripture, a guidance and a reminder for the possessors of intelligence.
40:55	So be patient: God's promise is truth;
40:55	ask forgiveness for your offense, and glorify, with praise, your Guardian, in the evening and the morning.
40:56	Those who argue concerning the signs of God without any authority having come to them have in their chests nothing but pride they will never attain;
40:56	so seek refuge in God:
40:56	He is the All-Hearing, the One who sees perfectly.
40:57	The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed greater than the creation of mankind,
40:57	but most people do not know.
40:58	The blind and the seeing are not equal, nor are those who have believed and done righteous deeds and the evildoer;
40:58	little do they take heed.
40:59	The Hour is surely coming, no doubt about it,
40:59	but most people do not believe.
40:60	Your Guardian has said: "Call upon Me, I will answer you;
40:60	those who are too arrogant to obey Me will soon enter Jahannam, humiliated."
40:61	God is He who made for you the night that you may rest in it, and the day for seeing clearly;
40:61	God indeed holds a favor toward mankind,
40:61	but most people are not grateful.
40:62	That is God, your Guardian,
40:62	creator of all things;
40:62	there is no deity but Him;
40:62	how then are you turned away?
40:63	Thus are turned away those who used to stubbornly reject the signs of God.
40:64	God is He who made for you the earth a stable ground and the sky a structure, who shaped you and made your forms excellent, and provided you with good things;
40:64	that is God, your Guardian;
40:64	blessed is God, Guardian of all beings.
40:65	He is the Living;
40:65	there is no deity but Him;
40:65	so call upon Him, devoting the Law exclusively to Him;
40:65	praise belongs to God, Guardian of all beings.
40:66	Say: "I have been forbidden to obey those you invoke besides God, since the clear proofs have come to me from my Guardian; and I have been commanded to be true to the Guardian of all beings alone."
40:67	It is He who created you from dust, then from a drop, then from a clinging form, then brings you out as a child, then lets you reach your full strength, then become old men —
40:67	and some of you die before — so that you may reach an appointed term, and perhaps you will reason.
40:68	It is He who gives life and causes death;
40:68	and when He decrees a matter, He only says to it: "Be,"
40:68	and it is.
40:69	Have you not seen those who argue concerning the signs of God, how they are turned away?
40:71	Those who denied the Scripture and that with which We sent Our messengers will soon know, when the shackles are on their necks, along with the chains,
40:72	they will be dragged through boiling water, then burned in the fire.
40:74	Then it will be said to them: "Where are those you used to associate besides God?"
40:74	They will say: "They have strayed from us; in fact, we were not calling upon anything before."
40:74	Thus does God send astray those who disown.
40:75	That is for having rejoiced on the earth without right, and for having been insolent;
40:76	enter the gates of Jahannam, to remain therein forever:
40:76	how wretched is the dwelling of the arrogant!
40:77	So be patient: God's promise is truth;
40:77	whether We show you some of what We threaten them with, or We take you in death, it is to Us they will be returned.
40:78	We certainly sent messengers before you; some We have told you about, and some We have not told you about;
40:78	and it is not for any messenger to bring a sign except by God's permission;
40:78	and when God's command comes, it is decided in truth, and there the partisans of falsehood are the losers.
40:79	God is He who made for you the livestock, that you may ride some of them and eat others;
40:80	and you have in them benefits,
40:80	and that you may satisfy on them a need in your chests,
40:80	and on them, as on ships, you are carried.
40:81	He shows you His signs;
40:81	so which of God's signs do you deny?
40:82	Have they not traveled through the earth to see how the end was of those before them?
40:82	They were more numerous than them and stronger in might and in traces left on the earth; but what they used to earn availed them nothing.
40:83	Then, when their messengers brought them clear proofs, they rejoiced in the knowledge they already possessed;
40:83	and that which they used to mock enveloped them.
40:84	Then, when they saw Our rigor, they said: "We believe in God alone, and we disown what we used to associate with Him."
40:85	But their faith did not benefit them once they saw Our rigor —
40:85	such is God's norm, already past among His obedient ones;
40:85	and there those who used to disown were the losers.

Sura 41 — Their Skins Will Testify (Fussilat)

41:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ḥa. Mim.
41:4	A revealed descent from the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent: a Scripture whose signs are made distinct, a flawless recitation for a people who know, bearing good tidings and warning,
41:4	yet most of them turn away, so that they do not hear.
41:5	They say: "Our cores are under coverings against what you call us to, and there is a deafness in our ears, and between us and you a veil. So act — we too are acting [on our side]."
41:6	Say: "I am only a human like you; it is revealed to me that your deity is a single deity. So stand straight toward Him and ask His forgiveness."
41:7	Woe to those who associate, who do not give the purifying alms and who disown the last life!
41:8	Those who have believed and done righteous deeds will have a reward never interrupted.
41:9	Say: "Do you then disown the One who created the earth in two days, and set up equals to Him?"
41:9	That is the Guardian of all beings.
41:10	He placed firmly-set mountains upon it, blessed it, and apportioned its provisions in it, in four equal days, for those who ask.
41:11	Then He established Himself toward the sky, which was smoke, and said to it and to the earth: "Come, both of you, willingly or unwillingly."
41:11	They said: "We come obediently."
41:12	So He completed them as seven skies in two days, and inspired to each sky its command.
41:12	And We adorned the nearest sky with lamps,
41:12	and with protection.
41:12	That is the measure of the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing.
41:14	If they turn away, say: "I warn you of a thunderbolt like the thunderbolt of the Recidivists [Aad] and the Depleters [Thamud]", when the messengers came to them, from before them and from behind them: "Obey none but God."
41:14	They said: "Had our Guardian willed, He would have sent down Agents. So we disown what you have been sent with."
41:15	As for the Recidivists [Aad], they were arrogant on the earth without right, and said: "Who is stronger than us in might?"
41:15	Did they not see that God, who created them, is stronger than them in might?
41:15	And they used to stubbornly reject Our signs.
41:16	So We sent upon them an icy wind, during ill-omened days, to make them taste the punishment of disgrace in the present life;
41:16	and the punishment of the last life is more disgraceful still, and they will not be helped.
41:17	As for the Depleters [Thamud], We guided them, but they preferred blindness over guidance, so the thunderbolt of the humiliating punishment seized them for what they used to earn.
41:18	And We saved those who believed and guarded themselves.
41:19	The day We gather the enemies of God toward the Fire, they will be arranged in ranks,
41:20	until, when they reach it, their hearing, their sights, and their skins will testify against them about what they used to do.
41:21	They will say to their skins: "Why did you testify against us?"
41:21	They will say: "God, who makes everything speak, made us speak. It is He who created you the first time, and to Him you are returned."
41:22	You were not hiding [in thinking] that your hearing, your sights, and your skins would not testify against you;
41:22	but you thought that God did not know much of what you were doing.
41:23	That is the thought you had of your Guardian; it has ruined you, and you have become among the losers.
41:24	If they endure, the Fire is their dwelling;
41:24	and if they ask to be accepted again, they will not be among those accepted again.
41:25	And We assigned to them companions who made attractive to them what was before them and what was behind them,
41:25	and the word proved true against them, among communities of the Occulted and humans that had already passed away before them;
41:25	they were indeed losers.
41:26	Those who disown said: "Do not listen to this recitation, and drown it out, so that you may prevail."
41:27	We will surely make those who disown taste a severe punishment, and We will surely repay them the worst of what they used to do.
41:28	That is the recompense of the enemies of God: the Fire;
41:28	they have therein the home of eternity,
41:28	a recompense for their stubbornly rejecting Our signs.
41:29	Those who disown will say: "Our Guardian, show us those who misled us among the Occulted and humans, that we may put them beneath our feet, so that they may be among the lowest."
41:30	Those who say: "Our Guardian is God," then stand straight — the Agents descend upon them: "Do not fear and do not grieve; rejoice in the Garden that you were promised."
41:31	We are your protectors in the present life and in the last life;
41:32	and you will have therein whatever your Selves desire, and you will have therein whatever you ask for, as a welcome from One Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
41:33	And who speaks better than one who calls to God, does what is right, and says: "I am indeed among those true to God alone"?
41:34	The good deed and the bad deed are not equal.
41:34	Repel with what is better; then the one between you and whom there was enmity will be like a warm friend.
41:35	But this is received only by those who endure,
41:35	and it is received only by one who has an immense share.
41:36	And if an incitement from the Diverter should ever prompt you, seek refuge in God;
41:36	it is He, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
41:37	And among His signs are the night and the day, and the sun and the moon.
41:37	Do not prostrate to the sun or to the moon,
41:37	but prostrate to God, who created them, if it is Him that you obey.
41:38	If they are arrogant, then those who are with your Guardian glorify Him night and day, without growing weary.
41:39	And among His signs: you see the earth humble; then, when We send down water upon it, it stirs and swells.
41:39	He who gave it life is surely the One who gives life to the dead;
41:39	He is capable of all things.
41:40	Those who deviate concerning Our signs are not hidden from Us.
41:40	Is one who is thrown into the Fire better, or one who comes secure on the Day of Appearance?
41:40	Do what you wish,
41:40	He sees perfectly what you do.
41:42	Those who disown the Reminder when it has come to them [will bear the consequences]; and it is indeed an impregnable Scripture, which falsehood cannot reach from before it or from behind it,
41:42	a revealed descent from One Wise, Praiseworthy.
41:43	Nothing is said to you except what was already said to the messengers before you;
41:43	your Guardian is indeed possessor of forgiveness and possessor of painful sanction.
41:44	Had We made it a confused recitation, they would have said: "Why were its signs not made distinct?"
41:44	Confused and flawless at once?
41:44	Say: "It is, for those who believe, guidance and healing;
41:44	and those who do not believe have a deafness in their ears, and it is upon them a blindness;
41:44	those are called from a distant place."
41:45	And We certainly gave Moussa the Scripture, and there was disagreement over it;
41:45	and had it not been for a word that preceded from your Guardian, it would already have been settled between them;
41:45	and they are indeed in disquieting doubt about it.
41:46	Whoever does what is right, it is for his own Self;
41:46	and whoever does wrong, it is against his own Self;
41:46	and your Guardian is not unjust to the constrained [under compulsion].
41:47	To Him is referred the knowledge of the Hour;
41:47	no fruit comes out of its sheath, nor does any female conceive or give birth, except with His knowledge;
41:47	and the day He calls out to them: "Where are My partners?", they will say: "We inform You that there is not among us any witness."
41:48	What they used to invoke before will stray away from them, and they will know that they have no escape.
41:49	The human being does not tire of calling for good;
41:49	but if evil touches him, he becomes hopeless, disheartened.
41:50	And if We let him taste benevolence from Us after hardship that touched him, he will surely say: "This is mine by right, and I do not think the Hour is coming; and if I am returned to my Guardian, I will indeed have the best with Him."
41:50	We will surely inform those who disown of what they did, and We will surely make them taste a harsh punishment.
41:51	And when We favor the human being, he turns away and distances himself disdainfully;
41:51	and when evil touches him, he is full of endless calling.
41:52	Say: "Have you considered? If this is from God and you disown it, who is more astray than one who is in a deep rupture?"
41:53	We will show them Our signs in the horizons and in themselves, until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth.
41:53	Is it not enough that your Guardian is witness over all things?
41:54	Indeed, they are in doubt about the meeting with their Guardian;
41:54	indeed, He encompasses all things.

Sura 42 — One Single Law (Ash-Shura)

42:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ḥa. Mim. ʿAyn. Sin. Qaf.
42:3	Thus God, the All-Powerful, the Wise, reveals to you — as He did to those before you.
42:4	To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth,
42:4	and He is the Most High, the Immense.
42:5	The heavens are about to be rent asunder from above them,
42:5	while the Agents glorify [God] in praise of their Guardian and ask forgiveness for whoever is on the earth.
42:5	Is it not true that God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent?
42:6	As for those who take allies besides Him, God watches over them;
42:6	and you are not, yourself, their trustee.
42:7	Thus have We revealed to you a flawless recitation, that you may warn the metropolis and those around it, and warn of the Day of Gathering, of which there is no doubt:
42:7	a group in the Garden,
42:7	and a group in the Inferno.
42:8	Had God willed, He would have made them a single community,
42:8	but He admits whom He wills into His benevolence;
42:8	and the wrongdoers have neither protector nor helper.
42:9	Have they, then, taken allies besides Him?
42:9	Yet it is God who is the Protector,
42:9	and it is He who gives life to the dead;
42:9	and He is capable of all things.
42:10	And whatever you differ about, its judgment rests with God.
42:10	Such is God, my Guardian;
42:10	upon Him I rely,
42:10	and to Him I return.
42:11	Originator of the heavens and the earth, He gave you mates from among yourselves, and mates among the cattle; by this means He multiplies you.
42:11	Nothing resembles Him,
42:11	and He is the All-Hearing, the One who sees perfectly.
42:12	To Him belong the charges of the heavens and the earth;
42:12	He extends provision to whom He wills, or measures it out sparingly.
42:12	He is All-Knowing of all things.
42:13	He has ordained for you, in the Law, what He enjoined upon Nuh, what We have revealed to you, and what We enjoined upon Ibrahim, Moussa, and Issa: "Uphold the Law, and do not become divided within it."
42:13	What you call them to weighs heavily upon the associators.
42:13	God draws to Himself whom He wills, and guides to Himself whoever turns back to Him.
42:14	Yet they became divided only after knowledge had come to them,
42:14	out of mutual aggression among themselves.
42:14	And had it not been for a word that preceded from your Guardian until an appointed term, it would have been settled between them.
42:14	And those who inherited the Scripture after them are in grave, unsettling doubt about it.
42:15	For this, then, call and stand straight as you have been commanded, and do not follow their emotions.
42:15	And say: "I believe in whatever Scripture God has sent down, and I have been commanded to be just between you.
42:15	God is our Guardian and your Guardian;
42:15	to us our deeds, and to you your deeds;
42:15	there is no argument between us and you;
42:15	God will bring us together,
42:15	and to Him is the destination."
42:16	And those who dispute about God after He has been answered, their argument is void before their Guardian, and upon them is wrath,
42:16	and for them a severe punishment.
42:17	It is God who has sent down the Scripture bearing truth, and the balance.
42:17	And what would make you know?
42:17	Perhaps the Hour is near.
42:18	Those who do not believe in it seek to hasten it,
42:18	while those who have believed are filled with apprehension of it and know that it is the truth.
42:18	Is it not true that those who wrangle about the Hour are in far-reaching error?
42:19	God is Subtle toward His obedient ones;
42:19	He provides for whom He wills,
42:19	and He is the Strong, the All-Powerful.
42:20	Whoever desires the harvest of the last life, We increase his harvest for him;
42:20	and whoever desires the harvest of the present life, We give him a portion of it,
42:20	but he will have no share in the last life.
42:21	Do they, then, have associates who have ordained for them, in the Law, what God has not authorized?
42:21	And were it not for the word of the Separation, it would have been decided between them;
42:21	and the wrongdoers will have a painful punishment.
42:22	You will see the wrongdoers apprehensive over what they have earned, while it is about to befall them;
42:22	while those who have believed and done righteous deeds will be in the flowering meadows of the Gardens,
42:22	they will have, with their Guardian, whatever they wish:
42:22	that is the great favor.
42:23	That is what God gives as glad tidings to His obedient ones who have believed and done righteous deeds.
42:23	Say: "I ask of you no reward for this, other than affection for one's close kin."
42:23	And whoever earns a good deed, We increase its beauty for him;
42:23	God is Most-Forgiving, Grateful.
42:24	Will they say that he has forged a lie against God?
42:24	Yet if God willed, He would seal your core;
42:24	but God blots out falsehood and establishes truth by His words.
42:24	He is certainly All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
42:25	It is He who accepts repentance from His obedient ones, effaces evil deeds, and knows what they do.
42:26	He answers those who have believed and done righteous deeds, and increases them out of His favor;
42:26	while those who disown will have a severe punishment.
42:27	And were God to extend provision abundantly to His obedient ones, they would commit aggression on the earth;
42:27	but He sends down in due measure what He wills.
42:27	He is, toward His obedient ones, Informed, the One who sees perfectly.
42:28	It is He who sends down the rain after they have lost heart, and who spreads out His benevolence;
42:28	and He is the Protector, the Praiseworthy.
42:29	And among His signs: the creation of the heavens and the earth, and whatever living creatures He has scattered throughout them;
42:29	and He is able to gather them together, whenever He wills.
42:30	And whatever affliction befalls you is because of what your own hands have earned — and He effaces much.
42:31	You cannot render [Him] powerless on the earth,
42:31	and you have, besides God, neither protector nor helper.
42:32	And among His signs: the [ships] that run upon the sea like mountains.
42:34	If He wills, He stills the wind, and they remain motionless upon its surface — surely in that are signs for every very patient, very grateful one — or He causes them to perish because of what they have earned, while pardoning much.
42:35	— so that those who argue about Our signs may know that they have no escape.
42:36	Whatever you have been given is only the enjoyment of the present life;
42:36	but what is with God is better and more lasting, for those who believe and rely upon their Guardian;
42:37	for those who avoid grave transgressions and indecencies, and who, when angered, forgive;
42:38	for those who answer their Guardian, maintain the Contact, conduct their affairs by mutual consultation, and spend from what We have provided them;
42:39	for those who, when aggression befalls them, defend themselves.
42:40	The recompense of an evil is an evil equal to it;
42:40	but whoever effaces and reconciles, his reward is upon God —
42:40	He does not love the wrongdoers.
42:41	And whoever defends himself after having suffered injustice, against such there is no course [of blame];
42:42	blame lies only upon those who wrong people and commit aggression on the earth without right.
42:42	Those will have a painful punishment.
42:43	And whoever endures patiently and forgives, that is indeed among matters of firm resolve.
42:44	And whoever God leaves astray has no protector after that.
42:44	You will see the wrongdoers, when they see the punishment, saying: "Is there any way back?"
42:45	You will see them exposed before it, humble,
42:45	looking with a furtive glance, out of humiliation.
42:45	And those who have believed will say: "The true losers are those who have lost themselves and their families on the Day of Appearance."
42:45	Is it not true that the wrongdoers are in lasting punishment?
42:46	They will have no allies to help them, besides God.
42:46	And whoever God leaves astray has no way at all.
42:47	Answer your Guardian before there comes a Day that God will not turn back;
42:47	you will have no refuge on that Day,
42:47	and you will have no way to deny [it].
42:48	If they turn away, [know that] We have not sent you as a guardian over them;
42:48	upon you rests only the transmission.
42:48	And when We let the human being taste a benevolence from Us, he rejoices in it;
42:48	but if an evil befalls them because of what their hands have prepared, then the human being is greatly given to disowning.
42:49	To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth;
42:49	He creates what He wills;
42:50	He grants, to whom He wills, daughters, and He grants, to whom He wills, sons, or He pairs them, males and females, and He renders barren whom He wills.
42:50	He is All-Knowing, Able.
42:51	It is not for any human that God should speak to him, except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or by sending a messenger who reveals, by His leave, what He wills;
42:51	He is the Most High, the Wise.
42:52	Thus have We revealed to you an Influx from Our own command;
42:52	you did not know what the Scripture was, nor faith, but We made it a light by which We guide whom We will among Our obedient ones;
42:53	and you indeed guide to a straight path — the path of God, to whom belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.
42:53	Is it not true that to God all affairs return?

Sura 43 — In the Footsteps of the Ancestors (Az-Zukhruf)

43:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ḥa. Mim.
43:3	By the clear Scripture! We have made it a flawless recitation, that you may reason.
43:4	And it is, in the Matrix of the Scripture with Us, indeed exalted, full of wisdom.
43:5	Shall We cease to multiply for you the pages of the Reminder, because you are an excessive people?
43:6	How many a prophet did We send among the earlier peoples!
43:7	Yet no prophet came to them without their mocking him.
43:8	So We annihilated [peoples] more formidable than they in might,
43:8	and the example of the earlier peoples has already passed.
43:9	And if you ask them: "Who created the heavens and the earth?" they will surely say: "The All-Powerful, the All-Knowing, created them."
43:10	[He] who made the earth for you a spread-out expanse, and made for you upon it pathways, that you may be guided.
43:11	and who sent down from the sky water in due measure, by which We awakened a dead land —
43:11	thus will you be brought forth.
43:14	and who created all the pairs, and gave you, among ships and cattle, that which you ride, that you may settle yourselves upon their backs, then remember the blessing of your Guardian once settled upon them, and say: "Glory to Him who has subjected this to us, for we were not capable of it by ourselves; and to our Guardian we shall indeed return."
43:15	Yet they have assigned to Him, from among His obedient ones, a part [of Himself].
43:15	The human being is indeed clearly given to disowning.
43:16	Would He have taken, from what He creates, daughters, while reserving for you sons?
43:17	Yet when one of them is given the glad tidings of what he himself sets up as an example for the All-Benevolent, his face turns dark, and he is filled with suppressed rage.
43:18	[Would one attribute to God] someone who is raised amid adornment and who, in a quarrel, lacks clarity?
43:19	And they have made the Agents, who are the obedient ones of the All-Benevolent, female beings.
43:19	Did they witness their creation?
43:19	Their testimony will be recorded, and they will be questioned.
43:20	And they say: "Had the All-Benevolent willed, we would not have obeyed them."
43:20	They have no knowledge of that;
43:20	they do nothing but engage in baseless guesswork.
43:21	Or have We given them a Scripture before this, to which they hold fast?
43:22	They say rather: "We found our ancestors upon a way, and it is in their footsteps that we let ourselves be guided."
43:23	Thus We never sent, before you, a warner into a city, without its affluent ones saying: "We found our ancestors upon a way, and it is in their footsteps that we walk."
43:24	He said: "Even if I brought you [guidance] more right than what you found your ancestors upon?"
43:24	They said: "We disown what you have been sent with."
43:25	So We took vengeance upon them; observe, then, what was the end of those who denied.
43:27	And when Ibrahim said to his father and his people: "I disavow what you obey, except Him who originated me, for it is He who will guide me" —
43:28	and he made it a lasting word among his descendants, that they might return [to it].
43:29	Rather, I granted enjoyment to these and to their ancestors, until truth came to them, and a clear messenger.
43:30	And when the truth came to them, they said: "This is an illusion, and we disown it."
43:31	And they said: "Why was this recitation not sent down upon some great man from the two cities?"
43:32	Is it they who apportion the benevolence of your Guardian?
43:32	It is We who have apportioned among them their livelihood in the present life, and raised some of them above others in degree, so that some of them may take others into their service;
43:32	and the benevolence of your Guardian is better than what they amass.
43:35	And were it not that mankind might have [risked] becoming a single community [in evil], We would have given those who disown the All-Benevolent roofs of silver for their houses, and stairways by which they ascend, and doors for their houses, and couches upon which they recline, and ornaments.
43:35	And all that is nothing but the enjoyment of the present life;
43:35	while the last life, with your Guardian, is for those who guard themselves.
43:36	And whoever turns away, blinded, from the Reminder of the All-Benevolent, We assign him a Diverter who becomes an inseparable companion to him;
43:37	and these indeed bar them from the way, while they deem themselves among those who let themselves be guided.
43:38	until, when he comes to Us, he says: "Would that between me and you there were the distance of the two easts!"
43:38	What a wretched companion!
43:39	It will not benefit you at all today, since you have done wrong, that you are partners in the punishment.
43:40	Is it you who will make the deaf hear, or guide the blind and whoever is in manifest error?
43:42	Whether We take you away — We will indeed take vengeance upon them; or whether We show you what We promised them — We have, in any case, full mastery over them.
43:43	So hold fast to what has been revealed to you;
43:43	you are indeed upon a straight path.
43:44	And it is indeed a Reminder for you and for your people;
43:44	and you will soon be questioned.
43:45	And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before you:
43:45	did We appoint, besides the All-Benevolent, deities to be obeyed?
43:46	And We indeed sent Moussa with Our signs to Fir'awn and his notables; he said: "I am the messenger of the Guardian of all beings."
43:47	But when he brought them Our signs, they laughed at them.
43:48	And every sign We showed them was greater than the one before it;
43:48	and We seized them with punishment, that they might return.
43:49	And they said: "O worker of illusion, call upon your Guardian for us by virtue of what He has pledged to you; we shall indeed let ourselves be guided."
43:50	But when We removed the punishment from them, they broke their engagement.
43:51	And Fir'awn called out among his people, saying: "O my people, does not the dominion of Egypt belong to me, and these rivers flowing beneath me?
43:51	Do you not see, then?
43:52	Am I not better than this one, who is contemptible and can hardly express himself clearly?
43:53	Why, then, were bracelets of gold not cast upon him, or the Agents not come with him in procession!"
43:54	He made light of his people, and they obeyed him;
43:54	they were indeed an overstepping people.
43:56	So when they angered Us, We took vengeance upon them: We drowned them all, and made of them a precedent and an example for later generations.
43:57	And when the son of Maryam was set up as an example, your people turned away from it with cries [of mockery].
43:58	and they said: "Are our deities better, or is he?"
43:58	They set this example before you only out of a taste for argument.
43:58	They are rather a quarrelsome people.
43:59	He is only an obedient one whom We blessed, and whom We made an example for the Sons of Israel;
43:60	and had We willed, We would have made of you Agents succeeding one another on the earth.
43:61	And this is indeed a knowledge of the Hour; so have no doubt about it,
43:61	and follow me: this is a straight path.
43:62	And let not the Diverter bar you;
43:62	he is to you a manifest enemy.
43:63	And when Issa came with the clear proofs, he said: "I have brought you wisdom, and to make clear to you some of that over which you differ;
43:63	so guard yourselves toward God, and obey me.
43:64	God is my Guardian and your Guardian; so obey Him:
43:64	this is a straight path."
43:65	Yet the parties differed among themselves;
43:65	so woe to those who did wrong, from the punishment of a painful day!
43:66	Do they await anything but the Hour, that it should come upon them suddenly, while they perceive it not?
43:67	On that Day, close friends will be, to one another, enemies, except those who guard themselves.
43:68	"O My obedient ones, no fear shall be upon you today, nor shall you grieve,
43:70	you who believed in Our signs and were true to God alone: enter the Garden, you and your spouses, rejoicing."
43:71	Trays of gold and goblets will be passed among them,
43:71	and therein will be whatever the Self may desire, and whatever delights the eyes;
43:71	and you will abide therein forever.
43:72	Such is the Garden that you have been given as an inheritance for what you used to do.
43:73	Therein you will have abundant fruit, from which you will eat.
43:74	The severed, meanwhile, will abide forever in the punishment of Jahannam,
43:75	it will not be lightened for them, and they will be therein in despair.
43:76	We did them no wrong,
43:76	but it was they who were the wrongdoers.
43:77	And they will call out: "O Malik, let your Guardian put an end to us!"
43:77	He will say: "You are to remain [here]."
43:78	We had indeed brought you the truth,
43:78	but most of you had an aversion to the truth.
43:79	Or have they settled upon some plan? We too have settled one.
43:80	Or do they think that We do not hear their secret talk and their private counsel? Yes indeed, [We do]!
43:80	and Our envoys, with them, are recording [it all].
43:81	Say: "If the All-Benevolent had a child,
43:81	I would be the first to obey Him [in that quality]."
43:82	Glory be to the Guardian of the heavens and the earth, Guardian of the Edifice, above what they describe!
43:83	So leave them to plunge and play, until they meet their Day, the one they are promised.
43:84	And it is He who is, in the heaven, Deity, and on the earth, Deity;
43:84	and He is the Wise, the All-Knowing.
43:85	Blessed be He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them;
43:85	and with Him is the knowledge of the Hour;
43:85	and to Him you will be returned.
43:86	And those they invoke besides Him have no power of intercession, except those who bear witness to the truth, and who know [it].
43:87	And if you ask them who created them, they will surely say: "God."
43:87	How then are they turned away?
43:88	And [He knows] his saying: "O my Guardian, these are indeed a people who do not believe."
43:89	So overlook them, and say: "Peace!"
43:89	They will soon know.

Sura 44 — You Will Relapse (Ad-Dukhan)

44:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ḥa. Mim.
44:3	By the clear Scripture! We sent it down in a blessed night; We are warners.
44:5	In it, every wise matter is decided, a command from Us.
44:6	We are senders [of Our messengers], a benevolence from your Guardian.
44:6	It is He, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
44:7	the Guardian of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, if you have certainty.
44:8	There is no deity but Him.
44:8	He gives life and causes death,
44:8	your Guardian and the Guardian of your forefathers.
44:9	But they play in doubt.
44:11	So watch for the day when the sky brings a clear smoke that envelops the people,
44:11	this is a painful punishment.
44:12	"Our Guardian, remove the punishment from us; we believe."
44:14	How would the reminder benefit them, when a clear messenger had come to them, then they turned away from him and said: "One taught [by others], deranged"?
44:15	We will remove the punishment for a little while,
44:15	but you will relapse.
44:16	The day We strike the greatest Strike,
44:16	We will take vengeance.
44:21	Before them, We tried the people of Fir'awn, and a noble messenger came to them: "Hand over to me the obedient ones of God; I am for you a trustworthy messenger; and do not exalt yourselves against God — I bring you clear authority; and I take refuge in my Guardian and yours against your banishing me; and if you do not give me credit, then keep away from me."
44:22	So he called upon his Guardian: "These are a severed people."
44:24	"Set out with My obedient ones by night; you will be pursued. And leave the sea parted, still."
44:24	They are an army that will be drowned.
44:27	How many gardens and springs they left behind, and crops, and noble residences, and comforts in which they took delight.
44:28	Thus.
44:28	We made another people inherit them.
44:29	Neither the sky nor the earth wept over them, and they were granted no reprieve.
44:31	We saved the Sons of Israel from the humiliating punishment [coming] from Fir'awn.
44:31	He was, among the excessive, a haughty one.
44:33	We chose them, knowingly, above all beings, and We gave them, among the signs, that which held a clear testing.
44:36	These say: "There is nothing but our first death, and we will not be awakened. Bring back our forefathers, if you are truthful."
44:37	Are they better, or the people of Tubba'?
44:37	And those before them — We annihilated them.
44:37	They were a severed people.
44:38	We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them in play.
44:39	We created them only with truth,
44:39	but most of them do not know.
44:42	The Day of Separation is the appointed time for them all — a day when no guarantor will be of any use to [another] guarantor, and they will not be helped, except those on whom God has benevolence.
44:42	He is the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
44:46	Indeed, the tree of Zaqqoum is the food of the hardened transgressor; like molten metal, it boils in the bellies as boiling water boils.
44:49	"Seize him and drag him into the midst of the Blaze, then pour over his head the punishment of boiling water. Taste!"
44:49	"You, yes you, the mighty, the noble!"
44:50	This is what you used to doubt.
44:53	Those who guard themselves will be in a secure place, in gardens and springs, dressed in fine silk and brocade, facing one another.
44:54	Thus.
44:54	We will unite them with companions of listening and support.
44:55	They will call therein for every fruit, secure.
44:56	They will not taste death therein,
44:56	except the first death.
44:57	He will have shielded them from the punishment of the Blaze, as a favor from your Guardian.
44:57	That is the immense triumph.
44:58	We have only made it easy in your tongue, so that they may remember.
44:59	So watch,
44:59	they too are watching.

Sura 45 — Emotion Taken as a Deity (Al-Jathiya)

45:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ḥa. Mim.
45:2	The descent of the Scripture comes from God, the All-Powerful, the Wise.
45:3	Indeed, in the heavens and the earth are signs for the believers.
45:5	And in your creation, and in the creatures He scatters about, are signs for a people who have certainty; and in the alternation of night and day, and what God sends down from the sky as provision, by which He revives the earth after its death, and in the diversity of the winds, are signs for a people who reason.
45:6	These are the signs of God which We recite to you in truth.
45:6	So in what discourse, after God and His signs, will they believe?
45:8	Woe to every transgressive liar, who hears the signs of God recited to him, then persists arrogantly, as if he had not heard them.
45:8	So give him news of a painful punishment.
45:9	And when he learns something of Our signs, he takes them in mockery.
45:9	Those will have a humiliating punishment.
45:10	Behind them is Jahannam; and what they earned will not avail them at all, nor will what they took as allies besides God.
45:10	And they will have a tremendous punishment.
45:11	This is guidance,
45:11	and those who disown the signs of their Guardian will have a punishment of painful defilement.
45:12	God is the One who subjected the sea for you, so that ships may sail upon it by His command, and so that you may seek of His favor, and so that you may be grateful.
45:13	And He subjected for you whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth, all from Him.
45:13	Indeed, in that are signs for a people who reflect.
45:14	Tell those who believe to forgive those who do not expect the days of God, so that He may recompense a people for what they used to earn.
45:15	Whoever does what is right, it is for his own Self,
45:15	and whoever does wrong, it is against his own Self,
45:15	then to your Guardian you will be returned.
45:17	We gave the Sons of Israel the Scripture, the judgment, and prophethood; We provided them with good things and favored them above all beings; and We gave them clear proofs concerning the Command.
45:17	They did not differ except after knowledge had come to them,
45:17	out of aggression among themselves.
45:17	Your Guardian will judge between them on the Day of Appearance concerning that in which they used to differ.
45:18	Then We placed you upon a legislated way from the Command, so follow it,
45:18	and do not follow the emotions [overriding reason] of those who do not know.
45:19	They will not avail you anything against God,
45:19	and indeed the wrongdoers are allies of one another,
45:19	while God is the Ally of those who guard themselves.
45:20	This is insight for the people, and guidance and benevolence for a people who have certainty.
45:21	Or do those who have committed evil deeds think that We will make them like those who have believed and done righteous deeds, equal in their life and their death?
45:21	How evil is what they decide!
45:22	God created the heavens and the earth with truth,
45:22	and so that every Self may be recompensed for what it earned, and they will not be wronged.
45:23	Have you seen the one who has taken his emotion [overriding reason] as his deity? God knowingly left him astray, and sealed his hearing and his core, and placed a veil over his sight. Who then will guide him after God?
45:23	Will you not then remember?
45:24	They said: "There is nothing but our present life; we die and we live, and nothing annihilates us but time."
45:24	They have no knowledge of that,
45:24	they only conjecture.
45:25	And when Our clear signs are recited to them, their only argument is to say: "Bring back our forefathers, if you are truthful."
45:26	Say: "God gives you life, then causes you to die, then He will gather you to the Day of Appearance, about which there is no doubt,"
45:26	but most people do not know.
45:27	To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth,
45:27	and on the day the Hour rises, that day those who deal in falsehood will lose.
45:28	You will see every community kneeling,
45:28	every community will be called to its record.
45:28	"Today you are recompensed for what you used to do."
45:29	"This is Our record; it speaks about you in truth,"
45:29	"We were having transcribed what you used to do."
45:30	As for those who believed and did righteous deeds, their Guardian will admit them into His benevolence;
45:30	that is the manifest triumph.
45:31	As for those who disowned: "Were not My signs recited to you? But you were arrogant and were a severed people."
45:32	And when it was said: "Indeed the promise of God is true, and the Hour, no doubt about it," you said: "We do not know what the Hour is; we only conjecture, and we are not certain."
45:33	The evils of what they did will have appeared to them,
45:33	and what they used to mock will envelop them.
45:34	It will be said: "Today We forget you, as you forgot the meeting of this your day; your refuge is the Fire, and you will have no helpers."
45:35	"That is because you took the signs of God in mockery, and the present life deceived you."
45:35	So today they will not be taken out of it, nor will they be asked to make amends.
45:36	So to God belongs praise, Guardian of the heavens and Guardian of the earth, Guardian of all beings.
45:37	And to Him belongs greatness in the heavens and the earth,
45:37	and He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.

Sura 46 — No Novelty Among the Messengers (Al-Ahqaf)

46:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ḥa. Mim.
46:2	The descent of the Scripture comes from God, the All-Powerful, the Wise.
46:3	We did not create the heavens and the earth, and what is between them, except in truth and for an appointed term.
46:3	And those who disown turn away from what they were warned of.
46:4	Say: "Have you considered what you invoke besides God? Show me what they have created of the earth, or do they have a share in the heavens?"
46:4	Bring me a Writ prior to this one, or a remnant of knowledge, if you are truthful.
46:5	And who is more astray than one who invokes, besides God, that which will not answer him until the Day of Appearance, while they remain heedless of their invocation?
46:6	And when mankind is gathered, [these objects of invocation] will be enemies to them, and they will disown that obedience [which was devoted to them].
46:7	And when Our clear signs are recited to them, those who disown say of the truth once it reaches them: "This is a manifest illusion."
46:8	Or do they say: "He has invented it"?
46:8	Say: "If I have invented it, you can do nothing for me against God."
46:8	He knows best what you engage in concerning it.
46:8	He suffices as a witness between me and you.
46:8	And He is the Most-Forgiving, the Benevolent.
46:9	Say: "I am not a novelty among the messengers, and I do not know what will be done with me or with you."
46:9	I follow only what is revealed to me.
46:9	And I am only a clear warner.
46:10	Say: "Have you considered: if this is from God and you disown it, while a witness among the Sons of Israel has testified to its conformity and believed, whereas you are arrogant..."
46:10	Indeed, God does not guide the unjust people.
46:11	And those who disown say to those who believe: "If it were good, they would not have preceded us to it."
46:11	And since they are not guided by it, they will say: "This is an ancient falsehood."
46:12	And before it was the Scripture of Moussa, as a reference and a benevolence.
46:12	And this is a confirming Writ, in an unblemished, undistorted expression, so that you may warn those who have done wrong, and as good news for those who do good.
46:13	Indeed, those who say: "Our Guardian is God," then stand straight — no fear will be upon them, nor will they grieve.
46:14	Those are the companions of the Garden, abiding therein eternally,
46:14	as a recompense for what they used to do.
46:15	And We enjoined upon the human being beneficence toward his two parents.
46:15	His mother carried him with hardship and bore him with hardship.
46:15	And his bearing and his weaning are thirty months.
46:15	Until he reaches his full maturity and reaches forty years, he says: "My Guardian, inspire me to be grateful for Your blessing which You bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do a righteous deed that pleases You.
46:15	And make righteous for me my offspring.
46:15	Indeed, I turn to You, and I am among those true to God alone."
46:16	Those are the ones from whom We accept the best of what they did, and overlook their bad deeds, among the companions of the Garden —
46:16	a true promise which they were promised.
46:17	And he who says to his two parents: "Fie on you both! Do you promise me that I will be raised, when generations have already passed before me?" — while they both cry out to God for help: "Woe to you, believe! Indeed the promise of God is true" — and he says: "This is nothing but legends of the ancients."
46:18	Those are the ones against whom the word [of punishment] has proven true, among communities that had already passed before them, of the Occulted and mankind.
46:18	Indeed, they were losers.
46:19	And to each are degrees according to what they did,
46:19	and so that He may fully repay them for their deeds, and they will not be wronged.
46:20	And the Day those who disown are exposed to the Fire: "You exhausted your good things in your present life and enjoyed them."
46:20	So today you are recompensed the humiliating punishment for having been arrogant on earth without right, and for having overstepped [the limits].
46:21	And remember the brother of the Recidivists [Aad], when he warned his people at the Ahqaf — while warners had already passed before him and after him — [saying]: "Obey none but God."
46:21	Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous day.
46:22	They said: "Have you come to us to turn us away by falsehood from our deities? Then bring us what you promise us, if you are among the truthful."
46:23	He said: "The knowledge [of that] is with God alone; I convey to you what I was sent with, but I see you to be a people who are ignorant."
46:24	Then, when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said: "This is a cloud bringing us rain."
46:24	No, it is rather what you sought to hasten —
46:24	a wind carrying a painful punishment,
46:25	destroying everything by the command of its Guardian.
46:25	And they became such that nothing could be seen except their dwellings.
46:25	Thus do We recompense the severed people.
46:26	And We had certainly established them in what We have not established you, and We gave them hearing, sight, and Consciences,
46:26	but neither their hearing, nor their sight, nor their Consciences availed them anything, since they used to stubbornly reject the signs of God,
46:26	and there enveloped them that which they used to mock.
46:27	And We had certainly annihilated the cities around you, and We diversified the signs, that they might return.
46:28	Why then did those they took, besides God, as an offering — as deities — not help them?
46:28	Rather, they strayed from them,
46:28	and that was their falsehood and what they used to invent.
46:29	And remember when We directed toward you a group of the Occulted, listening to the Recitation; and when they were present at it, they said: "Listen closely."
46:29	Then, when it was concluded, they turned back to their people as warners.
46:30	They said: "O our people, we have heard a scripture sent down after Moussa, confirming what came before it, guiding to the truth and to a straight path.
46:31	O our people, respond to the caller of God and believe in him: He will forgive you some of your offenses and protect you from a painful punishment.
46:32	And whoever does not respond to the caller of God cannot escape on earth, and has no allies besides Him.
46:32	Those are in manifest error.
46:33	Do they not see that God, who created the heavens and the earth and was not wearied by their creation, is able to give life to the dead? Yes, indeed.
46:33	He is capable of all things.
46:34	And the Day those who disown are exposed to the Fire: "Is this not the truth?"
46:34	They will say: "Yes, by our Guardian!"
46:34	He will say: "Then taste the punishment for what you used to disown."
46:35	So be patient, as the resolute among the messengers were patient, and do not seek to hasten [the punishment],
46:35	To them: "As if, on the day they see what they were promised, they had remained only an hour of the day" — this is a transmission.
46:35	So will any be annihilated except the overstepping people?

Sura 47 — Locks Upon the Cores (Muhammad)

47:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Those who disown and turn [people] away from the path of God — He renders their deeds astray.
47:2	And those who have believed and done righteous deeds, and believe in what has been sent down to Muhammad — and it is the truth from their Guardian — He covers their bad deeds and sets right their condition.
47:3	That is because those who disown follow falsehood, while those who believe follow the truth from their Guardian.
47:3	Thus does God multiply for mankind their examples.
47:4	So when you meet those who disown [the truth in combat], multiply the captives.
47:4	Then, when you have subdued them, tighten their bonds firmly,
47:4	then either grace freely, or exchange of captives, until the war lays down its burdens.
47:4	That is so. And if God willed, He would have taken vengeance upon them Himself,
47:4	but [He does otherwise] so as to test some of you by means of others.
47:4	And those who fought in the path of God, He will never render their deeds astray.
47:6	He will guide them and set right their condition, and admit them to the Garden which He has made known to them.
47:7	O you who have believed! if you help God, He will help you and make firm your feet.
47:8	And those who disown — ruin be upon them, and He renders their deeds astray.
47:9	That is because they hated what God sent down, so He voided their deeds.
47:10	Have they not traveled through the land and seen what was the end of those before them? God destroyed them,
47:10	and for those who disown is the like thereof.
47:11	That is because God is the nearest Guarantor of those who believe, while those who disown have no nearest guarantor.
47:12	Indeed, God admits those who have believed and done righteous deeds into gardens beneath which rivers flow.
47:12	And those who disown enjoy themselves and eat as cattle eat, and the Fire will be their abode.
47:13	And how many a city stronger in might than your city which expelled you have We annihilated, and they had no helper.
47:14	Is he who stands upon clear evidence from his Guardian like one to whom the evil of his deed has been made attractive, and who follow their emotions [overriding reason]?
47:15	The example of the Garden promised to those who guard themselves: therein are rivers of water unaltered, rivers of milk whose taste does not change, rivers of wine delicious to those who drink, and rivers of purified honey,
47:15	and therein they have of every fruit, and forgiveness from their Guardian — are they like one who abides eternally in the Fire, given to drink boiling water that tears apart their insides?
47:16	And among them are those who listen to you, until, when they leave your presence, they say to those given knowledge: "What did he say just now?"
47:16	Those are the ones upon whose cores God has set a seal, and who follow their emotions.
47:17	And those who are guided, He increases them in guidance and grants them their guardedness.
47:18	Do they await only the Hour, that it come upon them suddenly? Its signs have already come.
47:18	So how will they benefit, when their reminder comes to them then?
47:19	So know that there is no deity but God, and ask forgiveness for your offense and for the believing men and believing women.
47:19	And God knows your movements and your resting place.
47:20	And those who believe say: "Why has a surah not been sent down?"
47:20	But when a decisive surah is sent down and fighting is mentioned therein, you see those in whose core is a sickness looking at you with the look of one overcome by death.
47:20	Closer for them, then:
47:21	obedience and a recognized word.
47:21	Then, when the matter is resolved, if only they had been true to God, it would have been better for them.
47:22	Might you, then, if you turned away, spread corruption on earth and fragment your kinship into rival factions?
47:23	Those are the ones God has cursed, so He made them deaf and blinded their sight.
47:24	Do they not then reflect deeply upon the Recitation, or are there locks upon their cores?
47:25	Indeed, those who turned back after guidance had become clear to them — it is the Diverter who enticed them [with fair appearances],
47:25	and [God] granted them a delay.
47:26	That is because they have said to those who hate what God has sent down: "We will obey you in part of the matter."
47:26	And God knows what they conceal.
47:27	How, then, will it be when the Agents take them in death, multiplying the harvest [of their Self], whether they face them or turn their backs [in flight]?
47:28	That is because they followed what angered God and hated His good pleasure, so He voided their deeds.
47:29	Or do those in whose cores is a sickness think that God will never bring out their malice?
47:30	And if We willed, We could show them to you, and you would know them by their mark.
47:30	And you will surely know them by the tone of their speech.
47:30	And God knows your actions.
47:31	And We will surely test you, until We make evident those among you who strive and those who are patient, and We will test your accounts.
47:32	Indeed, those who disown, turn [people] away from the path of God, and set themselves in breach against the messenger after guidance has become clear to them, will not harm God in the least,
47:32	and He will soon void their deeds.
47:33	O you who have believed! obey God and obey the messenger, and do not render your deeds vain.
47:34	Indeed, those who disown, turn [people] away from the path of God, then die while they disown [the truth still] — God will never forgive them.
47:35	So do not weaken and call for peace, while you are the most exalted, and God is with you,
47:35	and He will never deprive you of [the fruit of] your deeds.
47:36	This present life is but play and distraction.
47:36	And if you believe and guard yourselves, He will give you your rewards and will not ask you for your goods.
47:37	If He were to ask you for it and press you, you would become stingy, and it would bring out your malice.
47:38	There you are — those called to spend in the path of God — yet among you are some who are stingy,
47:38	and whoever is stingy is stingy only against himself.
47:38	And God is Self-Sufficient,
47:38	while you are the poor.
47:38	And if you turn away, He will replace you with another people who will not be like you.

Sura 48 — The Hand Above Their Hands (Al-Fath)

48:3	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. We have granted you a manifest victory, so that God may forgive you your past and future offenses, complete His blessing upon you, guide you along a straight path, and aid you with a mighty aid.
48:4	It is He who sent down tranquility into the cores of the believers, so that they might add faith to their faith.
48:4	And to God belong the armies of the heavens and the earth.
48:6	God is All-Knowing, Wise — so that He may admit the believing men and the believing women into gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever, and cover their bad deeds; that is, with God, an immense triumph — and so that He may punish the hypocrites, men and women, and those who associate [others with God], men and women, who form an evil conjecture about God.
48:6	Upon them, the cycle of misfortune.
48:6	God became angry with them, cursed them, and prepared Jahannam for them.
48:6	What an evil destination!
48:7	And to God belong the armies of the heavens and the earth.
48:7	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
48:9	We have sent you as a witness, a bearer of good tidings, and a warner, so that you may believe in God and His messenger, that you may support him, that you may honor him, and that you may glorify God morning and evening.
48:10	Those who pledge allegiance to you are in truth pledging allegiance to God.
48:10	The hand of God is above their hands.
48:10	Whoever breaks [this pledge] breaks it only to his own detriment.
48:10	And whoever fulfills the commitment he made to God, [God] will give him an immense reward.
48:11	The notables who stayed behind will say to you: "Our goods and our families kept us occupied; so ask forgiveness for us."
48:11	They say with their tongues what is not in their cores.
48:11	Say: "Who then has any power over you against God, if He wished to harm you or wished to benefit you?"
48:11	God is rather Informed of what you do.
48:12	You rather conjectured that the messenger and the believers would never return to their own people, and this was embellished in your cores; you formed an evil conjecture, and you were a ruined people.
48:13	And whoever does not believe in God and His messenger — We have prepared for those who disown an inferno.
48:14	And to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.
48:14	He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills.
48:14	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
48:15	Those who stayed behind will say, when you set out to take spoils: "Let us follow you."
48:15	They want to change the word of God.
48:15	Say: "You will never follow us."
48:15	That is what God said before.
48:15	They will then say: "No, you envy us."
48:15	They understood, in fact, only a little.
48:16	Say to those of the notables who stayed behind: "You will be called to [fight] a people of severe rigor; you will fight them, or they will become true to God alone."
48:16	If you obey, God will give you a fine reward.
48:16	But if you turn away, as you turned away before, He will punish you with a painful punishment.
48:17	There is no blame upon the blind, nor blame upon the lame, nor blame upon the sick [if they do not fight].
48:17	And whoever obeys God and His messenger, [God] will admit him into gardens beneath which rivers flow.
48:17	And whoever turns away, [God] will punish him with a painful punishment.
48:19	God was certainly satisfied with the believers when they pledged allegiance to you beneath the tree; He knew what was in their cores, sent down tranquility upon them, and rewarded them with a near victory and abundant spoils that they will take.
48:19	God is All-Powerful, Wise.
48:20	God promised you abundant spoils that you would take; He hastened this one for you and held back the hands of the people from you.
48:20	so that it might be a sign for the believers, and that He might guide you along a straight path.
48:21	And other [spoils] which you had not yet attained: God has already encompassed it [within His power].
48:21	God is capable of all things.
48:22	And had those who disown fought you, they would have turned their backs, then found neither protector nor helper.
48:23	[Such is] God's norm, already established before.
48:23	And you will never find any change in God's norm.
48:24	It is He who held back their hands from you, and your hands from them, in the hollow of Makka, after having given you victory over them.
48:24	God sees perfectly what you do.
48:25	It is they who disowned and barred you from the inviolable place of prostration, and barred the offering, detained, from reaching its place of delivery.
48:25	And had it not been for believing men and believing women whom you did not know, [whom] you might have trampled underfoot, so that a wrong would have befallen you because of them without your knowing — [He would have prevented you] so that God might admit into His benevolence whom He wills.
48:25	Had they been separated [from one another], We would have punished those of them who disowned with a painful punishment.
48:26	When those who disowned placed in their cores fierce zeal, the zeal of the age of ignorance.
48:26	God then sent down His tranquility upon His messenger and upon the believers, and bound them to the word of guardedness, of which they were most worthy and most deserving.
48:26	God is All-Knowing of all things.
48:27	God has certainly made the vision of His messenger come true, in very truth: you will enter the inviolable place of prostration, if God wills, in security, your heads shaved or your hair cut short, without fear.
48:27	He knew what you did not know, and He appointed, before that, a near victory.
48:28	It is He who sent His messenger with the guidance and the Law of truth, so as to make it prevail over every [other] law.
48:28	And God suffices as a witness.
48:29	Muhammad is the messenger of God.
48:29	And those who are with him are firm toward those who disown, benevolent among themselves.
48:29	You see them bowing, prostrating, seeking favor from God and His pleasure.
48:29	Their mark is on their faces, from the trace of prostration.
48:29	That is their image in the Tawrah.
48:29	And their image in the Injil is that of a seed that puts forth its shoot, strengthens it, and it thickens and stands straight upon its stalk, delighting the sowers — so as to enrage through them those who disown.
48:29	God has promised those of them who believed and did righteous deeds forgiveness and an immense reward.

Sura 49 — Distinguish Clearly (Al-Hujurat)

49:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O you who have believed! do not put yourselves before God and His messenger.
49:1	And guard yourselves toward God.
49:1	God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
49:2	O you who have believed! do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet, and do not speak loudly to him as you speak loudly to one another, lest your deeds collapse without your realizing it.
49:3	Those who lower their voices in the presence of the messenger of God are those whose cores God has examined for guardedness.
49:3	They will have forgiveness and an immense reward.
49:4	Those who call out to you from behind the [private] chambers, most of them do not reason.
49:5	Had they been patient until you came out to them, it would have been better for them.
49:5	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
49:6	O you who have believed! if an overstepper brings you news, distinguish clearly, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and then become, over what you have done, full of regret.
49:7	Know that the messenger of God is among you; were he to obey you in many matters, you would be in great difficulty.
49:7	But God has made faith dear to you and embellished it in your cores, and has made you detest the disowning [of the truth], overstepping, and disobedience.
49:8	Those are the ones who have rectitude, by a favor and a blessing from God.
49:8	God is All-Knowing, Wise.
49:9	And if two groups of believers fight each other, reconcile between them.
49:9	If one of the two commits aggression against the other, fight the one that commits aggression until it returns to the command of God.
49:9	If it returns, reconcile between them with justice, and be equitable.
49:9	God loves the equitable.
49:10	The believers are but brothers; so reconcile between your two brothers.
49:10	And guard yourselves toward God, so that you may receive benevolence.
49:11	O you who have believed! let not a people mock [another] people: it may be that they are better than them; nor let women mock [other] women: it may be that they are better than them.
49:11	Do not disparage yourselves by insinuation, and do not call each other by offensive nicknames.
49:11	What a wretched attribute is overstepping, after faith!
49:11	And whoever does not repent, those are the unjust.
49:12	O you who have believed! avoid much conjecture.
49:12	For some conjecture is a transgression.
49:12	And do not spy.
49:12	And let none of you backbite another.
49:12	Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would detest it.
49:12	And guard yourselves toward God.
49:12	God is the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.
49:13	O mankind! We created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes, so that you may recognize one another.
49:13	The most noble of you, with God, is the most guarded.
49:13	God is All-Knowing, Informed.
49:14	The notables said: "We have believed." Say: "You have not believed; rather say: We have become true to God alone," for faith has not yet entered your cores.
49:14	And if you obey God and His messenger, He will not diminish your deeds in anything.
49:14	God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
49:15	The believers are only those who have believed in God and His messenger, then have not doubted, and have striven with their goods and their Selves in the way of God.
49:15	Those are the truthful.
49:16	Say: "Do you inform God of your Law, while God knows what is in the heavens and what is on the earth?"
49:16	God is All-Knowing of all things.
49:17	They regard it as a favor to you that they have become true to God alone.
49:17	Say: "Do not regard your true adherence to God alone as a favor to me."
49:17	Rather, it is God who bestows a favor upon you in that He has guided you to faith, if you are truthful.
49:18	God knows what escapes the senses in the heavens and the earth.
49:18	God sees perfectly what you do.

Sura 50 — Closer Than the Jugular Vein (Qaf)

50:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Qaf.
50:3	By the glorious Recitation! They marveled instead that a warner, one of their own, had come to them. Those who disown said: "This is a strange thing. When we are dead and become earth...? That return is far-fetched."
50:4	We know what the earth diminishes of them, and We have a record that keeps everything.
50:5	They rather denied the truth when it came to them; so they are in a confused state.
50:6	Have they not looked at the sky above them: how We built it and adorned it, without a single crack in it?
50:8	And the earth, We spread it out, placed firm anchors in it, and caused every splendid pair to grow in it — a means of insight and a reminder for every obedient one ever turning back [to God].
50:11	And We sent down from the sky a blessed water, by which We caused gardens to grow, and the grain of harvest, and the tall palm trees with layered clusters, as sustenance for the obedient ones.
50:11	And by it We gave life to a dead land.
50:11	Such will be the coming forth [from the earth].
50:14	Before them, the people of Nuh denied, as did the companions of the Well, the Depleters [Thamud], the Recidivists [Aad], Fir'awn, the brothers of Lut, the companions of the Thicket, and the people of Tubba'.
50:14	All of them denied the messengers, and My threat proved true.
50:15	Were We then exhausted by the first creation?
50:15	They are rather in confusion about a new creation.
50:16	We have indeed created the human being, and We know what his [own] Self whispers to him; and We are closer to him than the jugular vein.
50:17	When the two receivers receive, one on the right, one on the left, seated.
50:18	He does not utter a word without an observer, ready [to record], being at his side.
50:19	And the intoxication of death has come with the truth:
50:19	This is what you used to turn away from.
50:20	And the Horn will be blown:
50:20	this is the Day of the Threat.
50:21	And every Self will come, accompanied by a driver and a witness.
50:22	You were indeed heedless of this; so We removed your veil, and your sight today is piercing.
50:23	And his companion will say: 'Here is what I have, ready [to present].'
50:26	Cast into Jahannam, both of you, every [being] who persistently disowns, obstructive of good, an aggressor, a sower of doubt, who set up, alongside God, another deity — cast him then into the severe punishment.
50:27	His companion will say: 'Our Guardian, I did not make him exceed all measure, but he was in deep error.'
50:28	He will say: 'Do not quarrel before Me, for I had already warned you with the threat.'
50:29	The word does not change with Me, and I am not unjust to the constrained [under compulsion] at all.
50:30	The day We will say to Jahannam: 'Are you full?' and it will say: 'Is there more?'
50:31	And the Garden will be brought near to those who guard themselves, not far off.
50:32	This is what you are promised, for every [being] ever turning back [to God], watchful.
50:34	Whoever feared the All-Benevolent without seeing Him and came with a core ever turning back [to God]: "Enter it in peace."
50:34	This is the Day of eternity.
50:35	They will have therein whatever they wish,
50:35	and with Us there is even more.
50:36	How many generations have We annihilated before them, mightier than them in strike, who had scoured the land [in every direction]!
50:36	Was there any escape?
50:37	There is indeed a reminder in that for whoever has a core, or lends an ear while being present [of mind].
50:38	We have indeed created the heavens and the earth, and what is between them, in six days, without any fatigue touching Us.
50:39	So be patient over what they say,
50:39	and glorify, with praise, your Guardian, before the rising of the sun and before its setting,
50:40	and glorify Him during part of the night, and after the prostrations.
50:42	And listen, the day the Caller will call from a near place, the day they will hear the Cry in all truth —
50:42	this is the Day of the emergence.
50:43	It is We, indeed, who give life and cause death, and to Us is the destination.
50:44	The day the earth will split open from them, in haste —
50:44	that is a gathering easy for Us.
50:45	We know best what they say,
50:45	and you are not a tyrant over them.
50:45	So remind, by the Recitation, whoever fears My threat.

Sura 51 — Flee to God (Adh-Dhariyat)

51:6	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those that scatter in scattering, those that bear a heavy load, those that glide with ease, those that distribute a command: what you are promised is indeed true, and the Retribution will, in truth, fall.
51:9	By the sky of interwoven paths! You are indeed in differing speech: turned away from it is whoever is turned away.
51:11	May the conjecturers perish, those who are plunged in blindness, absent-minded!
51:13	They ask: 'When will the Day of Retribution be?' — the day they will be tried over the Fire.
51:14	'Taste your trial.'
51:14	This is what you used to seek to hasten.
51:16	Those who guard themselves are, in truth, in gardens and near springs, receiving what their Guardian has given them.
51:16	They were, before that, doers of good.
51:17	They slept but little
51:17	throughout the night, finding but little rest.
51:18	and, in the last hours of the night, they would implore forgiveness.
51:19	And in their goods there was a due for the one who asks and the one who is deprived [without asking].
51:20	And on the earth there are signs for those who have certainty,
51:21	as well as within yourselves.
51:21	Do you not then see?
51:22	And in the sky is your provision,
51:23	as well as what you are promised. By the Guardian of the sky and the earth, it is indeed the truth, just as it is true that you speak.
51:25	Has the account of Ibrahim's honored guests reached you? When they entered upon him and said: 'Peace!'
51:25	he said: 'Peace.'
51:25	People I do not recognize.
51:27	He went discreetly to his household, then brought a fat calf and presented it to them, saying: 'Will you not eat?'
51:28	He then felt, within himself, a fear of them.
51:28	They said: 'Do not be afraid.'
51:28	And they gave him good news of a knowledgeable boy.
51:29	Then his wife came forward crying out, struck her face, and said: 'An old, barren woman?!'
51:30	They said: 'Thus has your Guardian spoken.'
51:30	He is the Wise, the All-Knowing.
51:31	He said: 'What then is your errand, O envoys?'
51:34	They said: 'We have been sent to a severed people, to pour down upon them stones of clay, marked with your Guardian for the excessive people.'
51:37	We brought out from it those who believed, but We found in it only one household of those true to God alone; and We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment.
51:39	And [there is a sign] in Moussa: when We sent him to Fir'awn with clear authority, he turned away with all his might, and said: 'A worker of illusion, or a deranged one.'
51:40	We seized him, along with his armies, and cast them into the sea, while he was blameworthy.
51:42	And for the Recidivists [Aad]: when We sent upon them the barren wind, which left nothing it passed over without reducing it to dust.
51:44	And in the Depleters [Thamud]: when it was said to them, 'Enjoy yourselves for a while,' but they insolently defied the command of their Guardian, so the thunderbolt seized them while they were looking on.
51:45	They could neither rise up nor find help.
51:46	And the people of Nuh, before that —
51:46	they were, indeed, a people of oversteppers.
51:47	And the sky, We built it with might,
51:47	and We are indeed expanding [its vastness].
51:48	And the earth, We spread it out [like a carpet]:
51:48	what excellent [makers] to arrange it!
51:49	And of every thing, We created a pair, so that you may remember.
51:50	So flee to God: I am to you, from Him, a clear warner.
51:51	And do not place, alongside God, another deity: I am to you, from Him, a clear warner.
51:52	So it was:
51:52	no messenger came to those before them without their saying: 'A worker of illusion, or a deranged one.'
51:53	Have they enjoined it upon one another?
51:53	They are rather a people who exceed all measure.
51:55	So turn away from them — you will not be blamed at all — and remind,
51:55	for the reminder benefits the believers.
51:56	I did not create the Occulted and mankind except to obey Me.
51:57	I do not want any provision from them, nor do I want them to feed Me.
51:58	God is, indeed, the Provider, the Possessor of strength, the Unshakeable.
51:59	Those who did injustice will have a share [of punishment] like the share of their companions: so let them not seek to hasten it.
51:60	So woe to those who disown, because of their day which is promised to them.

Sura 52 — Unanswered Questions (At-Tur)

52:7	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the Mount! By a written record, on an unrolled parchment! By the Frequented House! By the raised canopy! By the sea set aboil! The punishment of your Guardian will, indeed, fall —
52:8	nothing can repel it.
52:10	The day the sky will be shaken with violent turbulence, and the mountains will set forth in motion —
52:12	woe, that Day, to the deniers, those who frolic in vain discourse.
52:13	The day they will be pushed violently toward the fire of Jahannam,
52:14	'This is the fire you used to deny.'
52:15	Is this, then, an illusion, or do you not see?
52:16	'Burn in it: whether you are patient or not, it is the same for you.'
52:16	You are only recompensed for what you used to do.
52:18	Those who guard themselves are, indeed, in gardens and bliss, rejoicing in what their Guardian has given them,
52:18	and their Guardian has protected them from the punishment of the Blaze.
52:20	'Eat and drink pleasantly, for what you used to do,' reclining on aligned couches; and We paired them with companions of listening and support.
52:21	And those who believed, and whose descendants followed them in faith, We joined to them their descendants, without diminishing anything from their deeds.
52:21	Every person is a pledge for what they have earned.
52:23	We will provide them with fruit and meat, of what they desire; they will pass among themselves a cup wherein there is neither idle talk nor incitement to transgression.
52:24	And there will circulate among them young boys who belong to them, like well-guarded pearls.
52:25	And they will turn to one another, questioning,
52:27	saying: 'We were before, among our own, filled with apprehension; God has favored us and protected us from the punishment of the scorching wind.'
52:28	'We used to call upon Him before: He is the Virtuous, the Benevolent.'
52:29	So remind: by the blessing of your Guardian, you are neither a soothsayer nor deranged.
52:30	Or do they say: 'A beguiling rhetorician, we await for him the blows of fate'?
52:31	Say: 'Wait, then,
52:31	'I too, with you, am among those who wait.'
52:32	Or is it their reason that commands them to this, or are they a people who exceed all measure?
52:33	Or do they say: 'He invented it'?
52:33	They rather do not believe.
52:34	Let them then produce a discourse like it, if they are truthful!
52:35	Or were they created out of nothing, or are they themselves the creators?
52:36	Or did they create the heavens and the earth?
52:36	They rather have no certainty.
52:37	Or do they possess the treasuries of your Guardian, or are they the ones who compel?
52:38	Or do they have a ladder by which they listen [to the secrets of heaven]?
52:38	Then let their listener bring a clear authority!
52:39	Or would He have daughters, while you would have sons?
52:40	Or do you ask them for a reward, so that they are weighed down by debt?
52:41	Or do they possess what escapes the senses, so that they write it down?
52:42	Or do they wish to devise a scheme?
52:42	It is rather those who disown who will be caught in their own trap.
52:43	Or do they have another deity besides God?
52:43	Glory be to God, above what they associate with Him!
52:44	And if they saw a piece of the sky falling, they would say: 'A heap of clouds.'
52:46	So leave them until they meet their day in which they will be thunderstruck — the day their scheme will not benefit them at all, and they will not be helped.
52:47	And there is, for those who did injustice, a punishment short of that,
52:47	but most of them do not know.
52:48	Be patient with the judgment of your Guardian: you are, indeed, under Our eyes.
52:48	And glorify, with praise, your Guardian, when you arise,
52:49	and glorify Him during part of the night, and at the fading of the stars.

Sura 53 — Vision and Conjecture (An-Najm)

53:4	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the star when it sets: your companion has not strayed, nor has he been misled. He does not speak from emotion — it is nothing but a revelation revealed.
53:6	One of intense strength, of sound vigor, taught him,
53:7	then he appeared in his full stature, at the highest horizon.
53:9	Then he drew near, and came closer still, until he was at the distance of two bow-lengths, or nearer.
53:10	He then revealed to His obedient one what He revealed.
53:11	The Conscience did not lie about what it saw.
53:12	Will you then wrangle with him over what he sees?
53:16	He saw him, in truth, another time, near the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary — near which lies the Garden of Refuge — when the Lote Tree was enveloped by what enveloped it.
53:17	The gaze did not turn aside, nor did it exceed the measure.
53:18	He saw, in truth, one of the greatest signs of his Guardian.
53:21	Have you then considered Al-Lat, and Al-Uzza, and Manat, the third, the other? Would the male be for you, and for Him the female?
53:22	That, then, would be an unjust division.
53:23	They are nothing but attributes you have named, you and your forefathers; God has sent down no authority for them.
53:23	They follow nothing but conjecture, and what the Selves desire.
53:23	Though guidance has indeed come to them from their Guardian.
53:24	Or does the human being get whatever he wishes?
53:25	For to God belong the last life and the first.
53:26	How many Agents are there in the heavens whose intercession avails nothing, except after God has permitted it, for whom He wills and approves.
53:27	Those who do not believe in the last life indeed give the Agents the attribute of the feminine.
53:28	Yet they have no knowledge of it.
53:28	They follow nothing but conjecture.
53:28	And conjecture does not avail at all against the truth.
53:29	So turn away from whoever has turned away from Our Reminder and desired nothing but the present life.
53:30	That is the extent of their knowledge.
53:30	Your Guardian indeed knows best who has strayed from His path,
53:30	and He knows best who has been guided.
53:31	To God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth, so that He may recompense those who did evil for what they did, and recompense those who did good with the best [recompense].
53:32	Those who avoid the major transgressions and indecencies, except minor lapses.
53:32	Your Guardian is indeed vast in forgiveness.
53:32	He knows you best, when He brought you forth from the earth, and when you were embryos in your mothers' wombs.
53:32	So do not claim yourselves to be pure.
53:32	He knows best who has guarded himself.
53:34	Have you then seen the one who turned away, gave a little, then stopped?
53:35	Does he have knowledge of what escapes the senses, so that he sees?
53:38	Or has he not been informed of what is in the scrolls of Moussa, and of Ibrahim, who fulfilled [his mission]: that no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another,
53:39	and that the human being will have nothing but what he strove for,
53:40	and that his effort will soon be shown,
53:41	then he will be recompensed for it with the fullest recompense,
53:42	and that to your Guardian is the final boundary,
53:43	and that it is He who causes laughter and weeping,
53:44	and that it is He who causes death and gives life,
53:46	and that He created the two mates, the male and the female, from a drop when it is deposited,
53:47	and that upon Him rests the other genesis,
53:48	and that it is He who enriched and granted lasting possession,
53:49	and that it is He, the Guardian of Sirius,
53:52	and that He annihilated the Recidivists [Aad], the first, and the Depleters [Thamud], leaving nothing behind, and the people of Nuh before that —
53:52	for they were, indeed, more unjust and more excessive.
53:53	And the overturned [city], He cast it down.
53:54	Then covered it with what covered it.
53:55	So which of your Guardian's blessings do you doubt?
53:56	This is a warner among the warners of old.
53:57	The Imminent has drawn near.
53:58	None besides God can unveil it.
53:61	Is it then this discourse that you marvel at, laughing, not weeping, while you remain heedless?
53:62	So prostrate to God, and obey [Him].

Sura 54 — The Recitation Made Easy (Al-Qamar)

54:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has split.
54:2	And if they see a sign, they turn away and say: 'A persistent illusion.'
54:3	They denied, and followed their emotions.
54:3	Yet every matter finds its settled term.
54:4	There had indeed come to them, among the accounts, that which should deter [them],
54:5	a consummate wisdom —
54:5	but of what avail are warnings [to them]?
54:6	So turn away from them.
54:8	The Day the Caller calls to something unheard-of, their eyes humble, they will emerge from the graves as if they were locusts spreading out, rushing toward the Caller,
54:8	Those who disown will say: 'This is a difficult day.'
54:9	Before them, the people of Nuh denied: they denied Our obedient one and said, 'He is deranged,' and he was violently repelled.
54:10	So he called upon his Guardian: 'I am overpowered, so grant [me] help.'
54:11	So We opened the gates of heaven with pouring water,
54:12	and caused the earth to burst forth in springs, so the waters met according to a matter already decreed.
54:13	And We carried him upon a vessel of planks and nails,
54:14	It sailed under Our eyes, a recompense for the one who had been disowned.
54:15	We have indeed left it as a sign: is there then anyone to take heed?
54:16	So how were My punishment and My warnings?
54:17	We have indeed made the Recitation easy for remembrance: is there then anyone to take heed?
54:18	The Recidivists [Aad] denied. So how were My punishment and My warnings?
54:20	We sent upon them an icy wind, on a day of persistent misfortune, tearing people away as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees.
54:21	So how were My punishment and My warnings?
54:22	We have indeed made the Recitation easy for remembrance: is there then anyone to take heed?
54:23	the Depleters [Thamud] denied the warnings.
54:25	They said: 'Shall we follow a single human from among us? We would then be in error and madness. Has the Reminder been cast upon him alone, among us? Rather, he is a boastful liar.'
54:26	They will know tomorrow who is the boastful liar.
54:27	We are sending the she-camel as a trial for them, so watch them and be patient.
54:28	And inform them that the water is to be shared between them,
54:28	each turn of drinking attended in its time.
54:29	So they called their companion, and he seized her and hamstrung her.
54:30	So how were My punishment and My warnings?
54:31	We sent upon them a single cry, and they became like the dry twigs of a pen-builder.
54:32	We have indeed made the Recitation easy for remembrance: is there then anyone to take heed?
54:33	The people of Lut denied the warnings.
54:34	We sent upon them a storm of stones, except the family of Lut, whom We saved before dawn,
54:35	a blessing from Us.
54:35	Thus do We recompense whoever is grateful.
54:36	He had indeed warned them of Our Strike, but they doubted the warnings.
54:37	They sought to turn him away from his guests, so We blinded their eyes: 'Taste, then, My punishment and My warnings.'
54:38	A settled punishment indeed overtook them at early morning,
54:39	'Taste, then, My punishment and My warnings.'
54:40	We have indeed made the Recitation easy for remembrance: is there then anyone to take heed?
54:41	The warnings had indeed come to Fir'awn's clan.
54:42	They denied all Our signs, so We seized them with the seizing of an All-Powerful, Capable One.
54:43	Are those of you who disown better than those, or do you have an exemption in the Formularies?
54:44	Or do they say: 'We are a united group, [we will be] helped'?
54:45	The group will be defeated, and they will turn their backs [in flight].
54:46	Rather, the Hour is their appointed time,
54:46	and the Hour is more terrible and more bitter.
54:48	The severed are indeed in error and madness, the Day they are dragged into the Fire upon their faces: 'Taste the touch of Saqar.'
54:49	We have indeed created every thing according to a measure.
54:50	And Our command is but one, like the blink of an eye.
54:51	We have indeed annihilated your likes: is there then anyone to take heed?
54:52	And everything they did is [recorded] in the Formularies.
54:53	And everything, small or great, is inscribed.
54:55	Those who guard themselves are indeed in gardens and by a river, in a seat of truth, near a Sovereign, Capable.

Sura 55 — Which of the Blessings? (Ar-Rahman)

55:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. The All-Benevolent taught the Recitation.
55:4	He created the human being, He taught him clear expression.
55:5	The sun and the moon follow a precise reckoning.
55:6	The stemless plant and the tree bow down.
55:9	And the sky, He raised it, and He set up the balance — so that you would not exceed the measure in the balance: maintain the weight with equity and do not cause loss to the balance.
55:12	And the earth, He established it for the creatures; therein are fruits, the palm with its enclosed spathes, the grain with its husk, and the fragrant plant.
55:13	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:15	He created the human being from resonant clay like pottery, and He created the Occulted from a pure flame of fire.
55:16	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:17	Guardian of the two easts and Guardian of the two wests.
55:18	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:20	He made the two seas flow together, meeting; between them a barrier they do not cross.
55:21	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:22	From them both are brought forth the pearl and the coral.
55:23	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:24	And to Him belong the vessels raised up at sea, like mountains.
55:25	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:27	Everything upon it is perishing, and only the Face of your Guardian remains, holder of majesty and nobility.
55:28	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:29	Those in the heavens and on the earth ask of Him; every day He is engaged in some matter.
55:30	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:31	We shall attend to you, O you two burdened ones.
55:32	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:33	O assembly of the Occulted and humans, if you are able to pass beyond the confines of the heavens and the earth, then pass beyond them.
55:33	You will not pass beyond them except with a [sovereign] authority.
55:34	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:35	Upon you both will be sent a blaze of flame and a jet of molten copper, and you will not be able to help each other.
55:36	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:39	And when the sky splits open and becomes rose-colored like tinted leather — which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny? — on that day, neither human nor Occulted will be asked about his offense.
55:40	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:41	The severed will be recognized by their features, and they will be seized by their forelocks and their feet.
55:42	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:44	This is Jahannam, which the severed used to deny; they will circulate between it and boiling water at its peak.
55:45	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:48	And for whoever feared standing before his Guardian, two gardens — which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny? — with abundant branches.
55:49	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:50	In them both, two springs flowing.
55:51	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:52	In them both, of every fruit, a pair.
55:53	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:54	Reclining upon couches lined with thick brocade, the harvest of the two gardens within reach.
55:55	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:56	Therein are beings of reserved gaze, untouched by any human or Occulted before them.
55:57	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:58	As though they were rubies and coral.
55:59	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:60	Is the recompense of good conduct anything but good conduct?
55:61	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:64	And besides these two, two other gardens — which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny? — deep green.
55:65	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:66	In them both, two gushing springs.
55:67	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:68	In them both, fruits, palm trees, and pomegranates.
55:69	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:70	Therein are beings excellent and beautiful.
55:71	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:72	Companions of listening and support, kept within the tents.
55:73	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:74	Untouched by any human or Occulted before them.
55:75	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:76	Reclining upon green cushions and exceptional carpets, beautiful.
55:77	Which then of your Guardian's blessings do you both deny?
55:78	Blessed be the name of your Guardian, holder of majesty and nobility.

Sura 56 — Is It You, or Is It We? (Al-Waqi'a)

56:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. When the Event occurs, none will be able to deny its coming.
56:7	Abasing [some], exalting [others] — when the earth is shaken with a violent shaking, and the mountains are crushed to powder, becoming scattered dust, and you become three categories.
56:8	The companions of the right side — what are the companions of the right side?
56:9	And the companions of the left side — what are the companions of the left side?
56:10	And the foremost, the foremost...
56:12	Those are the ones brought near, in the gardens of bliss.
56:16	A multitude from the first [generations] and few from the last, on woven couches, reclining on them, face to face.
56:21	Around them will circulate children made eternal, with goblets, ewers, and a cup [drawn] from a gushing spring — from which they will neither ache nor be intoxicated — and fruit of their choosing, and the flesh of birds that they desire.
56:24	And companions of listening and support, like well-guarded pearls, in recompense for what they used to do.
56:25	They will hear therein no idle talk and no incitement to transgression.
56:26	Only the saying: "Peace, peace."
56:27	And the companions of the right — what are the companions of the right?
56:34	Among thornless lote trees, and clustered banana trees, extended shade, flowing water, abundant fruit neither cut off nor forbidden, and raised couches.
56:38	We brought them into being in a [new] coming-into-being, and made them beings inaugural, loving, fertile and of shared stock, for the companions of the right.
56:40	A multitude from the first [generations] and a multitude from the last.
56:41	And the companions of the left — what are the companions of the left?
56:44	In scorching wind, and boiling water, and a shade of black smoke — neither cool nor pleasant.
56:45	Indeed, they were before that among the privileged.
56:46	And they used to persist in the great perjury.
56:48	And they used to say: "When we are dead, earth and bones, shall we be resurrected — we, or our earliest forefathers?"
56:50	Say: "Indeed, the first and the last will surely be gathered together at the appointment of a known day."
56:55	Then indeed you, O astray, denying ones, will eat from the tree of Zaqqoum, and fill your bellies with it, and drink on top of it boiling water, drinking as thirsty camels drink.
56:56	This is their welcome on the Day of Retribution.
56:57	It is We who created you.
56:57	So why do you not declare it true?
56:59	Have you considered that which you emit? Is it you who create it, or are We the Creator?
56:61	It is We who have decreed death among you, and We are not to be outrun in replacing you with your likenesses and producing you in that which you do not know.
56:62	And you have already known the first genesis.
56:62	So why do you not remember?
56:64	Have you considered that which you cultivate? Is it you who sow it, or are We the Sower?
56:67	If We willed, We could make it debris, and you would remain lamenting: "We are indeed ruined! Rather, we are dispossessed."
56:69	Have you considered the water that you drink? Is it you who sent it down from the clouds, or are We the Sender?
56:70	If We willed, We could make it bitter.
56:70	So why are you not grateful?
56:72	Have you considered the fire that you kindle? Is it you who brought its tree into being, or are We the One who brings it into being?
56:73	We made it a reminder and a benefit for the travelers.
56:74	So glorify in the name of your Guardian, the Immense.
56:79	No! I swear by the positions of the stars — and indeed, it is a great oath, if you but knew — indeed, it is a noble Recitation, in a well-guarded scripture, which none touch except the purified.
56:80	A revealed descent from the Guardian of all beings.
56:82	Is it this discourse that you treat with complaisance, and do you make your denial [your response to your] provision?
56:87	Then why, when [the soul] reaches the throat, and you at that moment are looking on, and We are nearer to it than you, but you do not see — then why, if you were not subject to retribution, do you not bring it back, if you are truthful?
56:89	As for the one who is among those brought near: rest, and fragrance, and a garden of bliss.
56:91	As for the one who is among the companions of the right: "Peace to you," from the companions of the right.
56:94	As for the one who is among the denying, astray ones: a welcome of boiling water, and an immersion in the Blaze.
56:95	Indeed, this is the truth of certainty.
56:96	So glorify in the name of your Guardian, the Immense.

Sura 57 — What You Hold in Trust (Al-Hadid)

57:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. All that is in the heavens and the earth has glorified God.
57:1	And He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.
57:2	To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; He gives life and gives death.
57:2	And He is capable of all things.
57:3	He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden.
57:3	And He is All-Knowing of all things.
57:4	It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself upon the Edifice.
57:4	He knows what penetrates into the earth and what comes out of it, what descends from the sky and what ascends into it.
57:4	And He is with you wherever you are.
57:4	And God sees perfectly what you do.
57:5	To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.
57:5	And it is to God that all matters return.
57:6	He causes the night to enter into the day and causes the day to enter into the night.
57:6	And He is All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
57:7	Believe in God and His messenger, and spend from that which He has made you trustees of.
57:7	Those among you who have believed and spent will have a great reward.
57:8	What is [the matter] with you that you do not believe in God, while the messenger invites you to believe in your Guardian, and He has already taken your solemn engagement, if you are believers?
57:9	It is He who sends down upon His obedient one clear signs, to bring you out of the darknesses into the light.
57:9	And indeed, God is to you full of kindness, Benevolent.
57:10	And what is [the matter] with you that you do not spend in the way of God, while to God belongs the inheritance of the heavens and the earth?
57:10	Not equal among you are those who spent and fought before the conquest [and those who did so later].
57:10	...and [those who did so] afterward. Those are greater in degree than those who spent and fought afterward.
57:10	But to all, God has promised the best [reward].
57:10	And God is Informed of what you do.
57:11	Who is it that will lend God a goodly loan, so He will multiply it for him, and he will have a generous reward?
57:12	The Day you will see the believing men and believing women, their light running before them and on their right.
57:12	Your good tidings today: gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein you will abide eternally.
57:12	That is the immense triumph.
57:13	The Day the hypocrite men and hypocrite women will say to those who believed: "Wait for us that we may borrow from your light." It will be said: "Go back behind you and seek a light."
57:13	Then a wall will be erected between them, having a gate, its interior containing benevolence, and its exterior, before it, containing punishment.
57:14	They will call to them: "Were we not with you?"
57:14	They will say: "Yes, but you put yourselves to trial, and awaited, and doubted, and false hopes deceived you until the command of God came, and the great deceiver deceived you concerning God."
57:15	So today no ransom will be taken from you, nor from those who disowned. Your refuge is the Fire; it is your nearest guarantor.
57:15	And what an evil destination!
57:16	Has the time not come for those who believe that their cores should become humble at the remembrance of God and what has descended of truth?
57:16	And let them not be like those who were given the Scripture before, and time grew long for them, so their cores hardened.
57:16	And many of them are the oversteppers.
57:17	Know that God gives life to the earth after its death.
57:17	We have already made the signs clear to you, that you might reason.
57:18	Indeed, the men and women who give alms, and who lend God a goodly loan — it will be multiplied for them, and they will have a generous reward.
57:19	And those who believe in God and His messengers — those are the men of truth.
57:19	And the witnesses, with their Guardian.
57:19	They will have their reward and their light.
57:19	And those who have disowned and denied Our signs — those are the companions of the Blaze.
57:20	Know that the present life is but play, distraction, adornment, mutual boasting among you, and rivalry in accumulation of goods and children — like the example of a rain whose vegetation delights the sowers, then it dries up, and you see it turn yellow, then it becomes debris.
57:20	And in the last life: severe punishment, and forgiveness from God and approval.
57:20	And the present life is nothing but a deceptive enjoyment.
57:21	Race toward forgiveness from your Guardian and a garden whose width is like the width of the heaven and the earth, prepared for those who believe in God and His messengers.
57:21	That is the favor of God, which He gives to whom He wills.
57:21	And God holds the immense favor.
57:22	No calamity strikes the earth or yourselves except that it is in a register before We bring it into being.
57:23	Indeed, that is easy for God — so that you do not lament for what has escaped you, nor exult [excessively] over what He has given you.
57:23	And God does not love any arrogant boaster.
57:24	Those who are stingy and enjoin stinginess upon people.
57:24	And whoever turns away — indeed God is the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy.
57:25	We have certainly sent Our messengers with clear proofs and sent down with them the Scripture and the balance that people may maintain equity.
57:25	And We sent down iron, in which is great strength and benefits for the people.
57:25	And so that God may distinguish who helps Him and His messengers, without seeing Him.
57:25	Indeed, God is the Strong, the All-Powerful.
57:26	And We certainly sent Nuh and Ibrahim and placed in their descendants prophecy and the Scripture.
57:26	Some of them let themselves be guided...
57:26	...and many of them are the oversteppers.
57:27	Then We caused Our messengers to follow in their footsteps, and We caused Issa son of Maryam to follow, and We gave him the Injil.
57:27	And We placed in the cores of those who followed him kindness and benevolence, and monasticism, which they invented — We did not prescribe it for them — except in seeking the pleasure of God.
57:27	But they did not observe it as it should have been observed.
57:27	So We gave those among them who believed their reward.
57:27	And many of them are the oversteppers.
57:28	O you who have believed! guard yourselves toward God and believe in His messenger; He will give you a double portion of His benevolence and make for you a light by which you will walk, and He will forgive you.
57:29	And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent — so that the People of the Scripture may know that they have no power over anything of the favor of God, and that [all] favor is in the hand of God, which He gives to whom He wills.
57:29	And God holds the immense favor.

Sura 58 — God Has Heard (Al-Mujadala)

58:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. God has certainly heard the words of the one who argues with you about her husband and complains to God; and God hears your exchange.
58:1	God is the All-Hearing, the One who sees perfectly.
58:2	Those among you who pronounce the exclusion formula against their wives — they are not their mothers.
58:2	Their mothers are none but those who bore them.
58:2	They are certainly uttering a disavowed and false word.
58:2	But God is the One who effaces, Most-Forgiving.
58:3	And those who pronounce the exclusion formula against their wives, then return to what they said, shall free a person from the weight of a heavy debt before they touch each other again.
58:3	This is what you are exhorted by.
58:3	And God is Informed of what you do.
58:4	Whoever finds no means shall abstain two consecutive months before they touch each other again.
58:4	And whoever cannot shall feed sixty destitute people.
58:4	This, so that you may believe in God and His messenger.
58:4	Those are the limits of God.
58:4	And for those who disown, a painful punishment.
58:5	Those who set themselves against God and His messenger will be brought low, as were those before them.
58:5	Yet We have sent down clear signs.
58:5	And for those who disown, a humiliating punishment.
58:6	The day God resurrects them all and informs them of what they did.
58:6	God has kept count of it, while they have forgotten it.
58:6	And God is witness over all things.
58:7	Have you not seen that God knows what is in the heavens and what is on the earth?
58:7	There is no secret talk among three but He is their fourth, nor among five but He is their sixth, nor fewer nor more than that but He is with them wherever they are.
58:7	Then He will inform them of what they did, on the Day of Appearance.
58:7	God is All-Knowing of all things.
58:8	Have you not seen those who were forbidden secret talk, then go back to what they were forbidden, and hold secret talk in transgression, hostility, and disobedience to the messenger?
58:8	And when they come to you, they greet you with a greeting God never greeted you with, and say among themselves: Why does God not punish us for what we say?
58:8	Jahannam suffices them.
58:8	They will burn in it.
58:8	What an evil destination!
58:9	O you who have believed! when you hold secret talk, do not hold it in transgression, hostility, and disobedience to the messenger.
58:9	But hold secret talk in virtue and guardedness.
58:9	And guard yourselves toward God, to whom you will be gathered.
58:10	Secret talk comes only from the Diverter, to grieve those who believe; but it cannot harm them in the least, except by God's leave.
58:10	And upon God let the believers rely.
58:11	O you who have believed! when you are told to make room in gatherings, make room; God will make room for you.
58:11	And when you are told to rise up, rise up; God will raise in rank those among you who believe and those given knowledge.
58:11	And God is Informed of what you do.
58:12	O you who have believed! when you consult the messenger privately, let your secret talk be preceded by alms.
58:12	That is better for you, and purer.
58:12	But if you find no means, then God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
58:13	Were you apprehensive about having your secret talks preceded by alms?
58:13	Since you did not do it, and God has turned toward you with clemency, maintain the Contact and give the purifying alms.
58:13	And obey God and His messenger.
58:13	And God is Informed of what you do.
58:14	Have you not seen those who ally themselves with a people with whom God is angry? They are neither of you nor of them, and they swear to falsehood knowingly.
58:15	God has prepared for them a severe punishment.
58:15	How evil is what they used to do!
58:16	They have taken their oaths as a shield and turned [people] away from the way of God; theirs is a humiliating punishment.
58:17	Neither their goods nor their children will avail them at all against God.
58:17	Those are the companions of the Fire, abiding there forever.
58:18	The day God resurrects them all, they will swear to Him as they swear to you, thinking they stand on something.
58:18	Indeed, they are the liars.
58:19	The Diverter has taken hold of them and made them forget the remembrance of God.
58:19	Those are the party of the Diverter.
58:19	Indeed, the party of the Diverter — they are the losers.
58:20	Those who set themselves against God and His messenger are among the most abased.
58:21	God has decreed: I shall surely prevail, I and My messengers.
58:21	God is the Strong, the All-Powerful.
58:22	You will not find a people who believe in God and the Last Day loving those who set themselves against God and His messenger, even if they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers, or their clan.
58:22	These are the ones in whose cores He has inscribed faith, and whom He has strengthened with an Influx from Him, and whom He will admit into gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding there forever.
58:22	God is satisfied with them, and they are satisfied with Him.
58:22	Those are the party of God.
58:22	Indeed, the party of God — they are the successful.

Sura 59 — The Vain Strongholds (Al-Hashr)

59:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. All that is in the heavens and on the earth has glorified God.
59:1	He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.
59:2	It is He who expelled from their homes those who, among the People of the Scripture, disowned, in the first gathering.
59:2	You did not think they would leave.
59:2	And they thought their strongholds would protect them from God.
59:2	But God came upon them from where they did not expect.
59:2	And He cast terror into their cores.
59:2	They destroyed their houses with their own hands and the hands of the believers.
59:2	So take heed, O possessors of sight.
59:3	And had God not decreed exile for them, He would have punished them in the present life.
59:3	And theirs, in the last life, is the punishment of the Fire.
59:4	That is because they set themselves in breach against God and His messenger.
59:4	And whoever sets himself in breach against God — God is severe in sanction.
59:5	Whatever act of kindness [toward them] you cut off, or left standing on its foundations, it is by God's leave, and so as to disgrace the oversteppers.
59:6	And whatever God restored to His messenger from them, you spurred neither horse nor mount for it.
59:6	But God gives His messengers power over whom He wills.
59:6	And God is capable of all things.
59:7	Whatever God restored to His messenger from the people of the towns belongs to God and the messenger, to relatives, orphans, the destitute, and the stranded traveler, so that it does not circulate among the wealthy among you.
59:7	And whatever the messenger gives you, take it.
59:7	And whatever he forbids you, abstain from it.
59:7	And guard yourselves toward God; God is severe in sanction.
59:8	[This is] for the poor emigrants who were expelled from their homes and goods, seeking favor from God and His pleasure, and who help God and His messenger.
59:8	Those are the truthful.
59:9	And those who had settled in the abode and in faith before them love those who have emigrated to them, and find in their chests no need for what they were given, and prefer them over themselves, even if they themselves suffer privation.
59:9	And whoever is protected from the avarice of his Self — those are the ones who succeed.
59:10	And those who came after them say: Our Guardian, forgive us and our brothers who preceded us in faith, and put no rancor in our cores toward those who believe.
59:10	Our Guardian, You are full of kindness, Benevolent.
59:11	Have you not seen those who practiced hypocrisy saying to their brothers who, among the People of the Scripture, disowned: If you are expelled, we will surely leave with you, and we will never obey anyone against you; and if you are fought, we will surely help you.
59:11	And God testifies that they are indeed liars.
59:12	If they are expelled, they will not leave with them.
59:12	And if they are fought, they will not help them.
59:12	And even if they helped them, they would surely turn their backs, then not be helped.
59:13	You inspire, in their chests, more reverence than God.
59:13	That is because they are a people who do not understand.
59:14	They will not fight you all together except entrenched in fortified towns or behind walls.
59:14	Their violence among themselves is severe.
59:14	You think them united, while their cores are divided.
59:14	That is because they are a people who do not reason.
59:15	They are like those shortly before them,
59:15	who tasted the evil consequence of their affair.
59:15	And theirs is a painful punishment.
59:16	They are like the Diverter when he says to the human being: Disown! Then when he has disowned, he says: I am clear of you, I fear God, Guardian of all beings.
59:17	And the end of both was that they were in the Fire, abiding there forever.
59:17	Such is the recompense of the wrongdoers.
59:18	O you who have believed! guard yourselves toward God, and let every Self consider what it has prepared for tomorrow.
59:18	And guard yourselves toward God.
59:18	God is Informed of what you do.
59:19	And do not be like those who forgot God, so He made them forget themselves.
59:19	Those are the oversteppers.
59:20	The companions of the Fire and the companions of the Garden are not equal.
59:20	The companions of the Garden are the triumphant.
59:21	Had We sent down this Recitation upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled, split apart out of fear of God.
59:21	These are the examples We multiply for the people, so that they may reflect.
59:22	He is God, there is no deity but Him.
59:22	Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is manifest.
59:22	He is the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
59:23	He is God, there is no deity but Him, the Sovereign, the Most Holy, the Peace, the Guarantor, the Prevailing, the All-Powerful, the Overpowering, the Supremely Great.
59:23	Glory be to God, above what they associate with Him.
59:24	He is God, the Creator, the Originator, the Fashioner of forms.
59:24	To Him belong the most beautiful attributes.
59:24	All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him.
59:24	He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.

Sura 60 — The Boundary of Alliance (Al-Mumtahana)

60:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O you who have believed! Do not take My enemy and your enemy as allies,
60:1	offering them affection, while they have disowned the truth that has come to you,
60:1	driving out the messenger and yourselves, because you believe in God, your Guardian.
60:1	If you went forth to strive in My way and seek My pleasure, [do not ally with them] confiding your affection to them secretly, while I know best what you have concealed and what you have revealed.
60:1	And whoever among you does this has strayed from the straight path.
60:2	If they overtake you, they will be enemies to you, and extend against you their hands and their tongues with evil,
60:2	and they would like you to disown.
60:3	Neither your kinship nor your children will benefit you,
60:3	on the Day of Appearance He will separate between you.
60:3	And God sees perfectly what you do.
60:4	You have had a good example in Ibrahim and those with him, when they said to their people: We are clear of you and of what you obey besides God; we disown you, and there has appeared between us and you enmity and hatred forever, until you believe in God alone — except the saying of Ibrahim to his father: I will surely ask forgiveness for you, and I possess nothing for you against God.
60:4	Our Guardian, upon You we rely, and to You we turn, and to You is the destination.
60:5	Our Guardian, do not make us a trial for those who disown,
60:5	and forgive us, our Guardian.
60:5	You, indeed, are the All-Powerful, the Wise.
60:6	You have indeed had in them a good example, for whoever hopes for [the meeting with] God and the Last Day.
60:6	And whoever turns away — indeed God is the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy.
60:7	It may be that God will place affection between you and those you have held as enemies among them,
60:7	and God is Capable,
60:7	and God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
60:8	God does not forbid you from being virtuous and equitable toward those who did not fight you concerning the Law and did not expel you from your homes.
60:8	God loves the equitable.
60:9	God only forbids you from taking as allies those who fought you concerning the Law, expelled you from your homes, and supported your expulsion.
60:9	And whoever allies with them — those are the wrongdoers.
60:10	O you who have believed! When believing women come to you as emigrants, examine them.
60:10	God knows best their faith.
60:10	If you know them to be believers, do not return them to those who disown.
60:10	They are not lawful for them, nor are they lawful for them.
60:10	And give them what they have spent.
60:10	There is no blame upon you in marrying them when you give them their rewards.
60:10	And do not hold to the [marriage] ties of those women who disown.
60:10	Ask for what you have spent, and let them ask for what they have spent.
60:10	That is the judgment of God; He judges between you.
60:10	And God is All-Knowing, Wise.
60:11	And if any of your wives escape from you to those who disown, and you then pay back in kind, then give those whose wives have gone the equivalent of what they had spent.
60:11	And guard yourselves toward God, in whom you believe.
60:12	O Prophet! When believing women come to you to pledge allegiance to you that they will not associate anything with God, not steal, not commit fornication, not kill their children, not bring forth slander they have invented between their hands and feet, and not disobey you in what is recognized, accept their pledge and ask God's forgiveness for them.
60:12	Indeed, God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
60:13	O you who have believed! Do not take as allies a people with whom God is angry, who have lost hope of the last life, just as those who disown have lost hope of the companions of the graves.

Sura 61 — Saying Without Doing (As-Saff)

61:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Whatever is in the heavens and on the earth has glorified God,
61:1	and He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.
61:2	O you who have believed! Why do you say what you do not do?
61:3	It is greatly abhorrent to God that you say what you do not do.
61:4	Indeed, God loves those who fight in His way in ranks, as if they were a compact structure.
61:5	And when Moussa said to his people: O my people, why do you trouble me, when you know that I am the messenger of God sent to you?
61:5	So when they deviated, God caused their cores to deviate.
61:5	And God does not guide the overstepping people.
61:6	And when Issa, son of Maryam, said: O sons of Israel! I am the messenger of God to you, confirming what came before me of the Tawrah, and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose attribute is: the most worthy of praise.
61:6	But when he brought them clear proofs, they said: This is manifest illusion.
61:7	And who is more unjust than one who invents a lie about God while he is being called to true adherence to God?
61:7	And God does not guide the unjust people.
61:8	They want to extinguish the light of God with their mouths, but God perfects His light, however much those who disown detest it.
61:9	It is He who sent His messenger with the guidance and the Law of truth, so as to make it prevail over every [other] law, however much the associators detest it.
61:12	O you who have believed! Shall I guide you to a trade that will save you from a painful punishment? You believe in God and His messenger, and strive in the way of God with your goods and your Selves — that is better for you, if you but knew. He will forgive you your offenses and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, and pleasant dwellings in gardens of permanent abode.
61:12	That is the immense triumph.
61:13	And another thing you love: help from God and a near victory.
61:13	So give good tidings to the believers.
61:14	O you who have believed! Be helpers of God, just as Issa, son of Maryam, said to the disciples: Who are my helpers toward God?
61:14	The disciples said: We are the helpers of God.
61:14	So a group of the sons of Israel believed, and a group disowned.
61:14	So We supported those who believed against their enemy, and they became dominant.

Sura 62 — The Donkey Carrying Books (Al-Jumu'a)

62:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Whatever is in the heavens and on the earth glorifies God, the Sovereign, the Most Holy, the All-Powerful, the Wise.
62:3	It is He who raised among the people without Scripture a messenger from among themselves, reciting to them His signs, purifying them, and teaching them the Scripture and wisdom, although they were before in manifest error — and others among them who have not yet joined them.
62:3	And He is the All-Powerful, the Wise.
62:4	That is the favor of God, which He gives to whom He wills.
62:4	And God holds the immense favor.
62:5	The example of those who were entrusted with the Tawrah, and then did not carry it, is like the example of a donkey carrying books.
62:5	How evil is the example of a people who deny the signs of God!
62:5	And God does not guide the unjust people.
62:6	Say: O you, the Reoriented! if you claim that you are the allies of God, excluding other people, then wish for death, if you are truthful.
62:7	But they will never wish for it, because of what their hands have prepared.
62:7	And God is All-Knowing of the unjust.
62:8	Say: Indeed, the death from which you flee will surely meet you. Then you will be returned to the Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is manifest, and He will inform you of what you used to do.
62:9	O you who have believed! When the call is made for the Contact, on this day of gathering, hasten to the remembrance of God and leave off selling.
62:9	That is better for you, if you but knew.
62:10	Then when the Contact is concluded, disperse within the land and seek from the favor of God, and remember God often, that you may succeed.
62:11	But when they saw a trade or a distraction, they dispersed toward it and left you standing.
62:11	Say: What is with God is better than distraction and than trade.
62:11	And God is the best of providers.

Sura 63 — Oaths as a Shield (Al-Munafiqun)

63:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. When the hypocrites come to you, they say: We testify that you are indeed the messenger of God.
63:1	And God knows that you are indeed His messenger.
63:1	And God testifies that the hypocrites are surely liars.
63:2	They have taken their oaths as a shield and turned [people] away from the way of God.
63:2	How evil is what they used to do!
63:3	That is because they believed, then disowned; so a seal was set upon their cores, and they do not understand.
63:4	And when you see them, their appearance pleases you,
63:4	and if they speak, you listen to their speech; they are like propped-up pieces of wood.
63:4	They think every shout is against them.
63:4	They are the enemy.
63:4	So beware of them.
63:4	May God combat them!
63:4	How are they deluded!
63:5	And when it is said to them: Come, that the messenger of God may ask forgiveness for you, they turn their heads aside, and you see them withdrawing while they are arrogant.
63:6	It is the same for them whether you ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness for them.
63:6	God will never forgive them.
63:6	Indeed, God does not guide the overstepping people.
63:7	They are the ones who say: Do not spend on those who are with the messenger of God until they disperse.
63:7	But to God belong the treasures of the heavens and the earth,
63:7	but the hypocrites do not understand.
63:8	They say: If we return to the Capital, the mightier will surely expel the more abased therefrom.
63:8	But to God belongs might, and to His messenger, and to the believers,
63:8	but the hypocrites do not know.
63:9	O you who have believed! Let not your goods or your children distract you from the remembrance of God.
63:9	And whoever does that — those are the losers.
63:10	And spend from what We have provided you before death comes to one of you, and he says: My Guardian, if only You would delay me for a short term, that I might give charity and be among the righteous.
63:11	But God will never delay a Self when its term has come.
63:11	And God is Informed of what you do.

Sura 64 — Who Was Deceived? (At-Taghabun)

64:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Whatever is in the heavens and on the earth glorifies God.
64:1	To Him belongs the dominion, and to Him belongs the praise,
64:1	and He is capable of all things.
64:2	It is He who created you, and among you is one who disowns, and among you is a believer.
64:2	And God sees perfectly what you do.
64:3	He created the heavens and the earth in truth, and formed you, and made your forms excellent,
64:3	and to Him is the destination.
64:4	He knows what is in the heavens and the earth, and He knows what you conceal and what you reveal.
64:4	And God is All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
64:5	Has the news not come to you of those who disowned before, and tasted the evil consequence of their affair, and for them is a painful punishment?
64:6	That is because their messengers used to come to them with clear proofs, but they said: Shall humans guide us?
64:6	So they disowned and turned away, but God is Self-Sufficient,
64:6	and God is Self-Sufficient, Praiseworthy.
64:7	Those who disown claim that they will never be resurrected.
64:7	Say: Yes, by my Guardian, you will surely be resurrected; then you will surely be informed of what you did.
64:7	And that is easy for God.
64:8	So believe in God and His messenger, and the light which We have sent down.
64:8	And God is Informed of what you do.
64:9	The Day He will gather you for the Day of Gathering — that is the Day of Mutual Deception.
64:9	And whoever believes in God and does a righteous deed, He will cover for him his misdeeds and admit him into gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein forever.
64:9	That is the immense triumph.
64:10	But those who have disowned and denied Our signs — those are the companions of the Fire, abiding therein forever,
64:10	and what an evil destination!
64:11	No calamity strikes except by the permission of God.
64:11	And whoever believes in God — He guides his core,
64:11	and God is All-Knowing of all things.
64:12	And obey God, and obey the messenger.
64:12	But if you turn away, then upon Our messenger is only the clear transmission.
64:13	God — there is no deity except Him.
64:13	And upon God let the believers rely.
64:14	O you who have believed! Indeed, among your spouses and your children is an enemy to you, so beware of them.
64:14	But if you efface, overlook, and forgive — then indeed God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
64:15	Your goods and your children are but a trial,
64:15	and with God is a great reward.
64:16	So guard yourselves toward God as much as you are able, and listen, and obey, and spend — it will be good for your own Selves.
64:16	And whoever is protected from the avarice of his Self — those are the ones who succeed.
64:17	If you lend God a good loan, He will multiply it for you and forgive you,
64:17	and God is Appreciative, full of patience.
64:18	He is the Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is manifest,
64:18	the All-Powerful, the Wise.

Sura 65 — Whoever Guards Himself (At-Talaq)

65:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O Prophet! When you divorce women, divorce them with regard to their prescribed waiting period, and count that period precisely.
65:1	And guard yourselves toward God, your Guardian.
65:1	Do not make them leave their homes,
65:1	nor should they leave, unless they commit a flagrant indecency.
65:1	Those are the limits of God.
65:1	And whoever crosses the limits of God has wronged his own Self.
65:1	You do not know: perhaps God will bring about, after that, a new turn of events.
65:2	Then, when they reach their term, retain them in a recognized manner or part from them in a recognized manner,
65:2	and take as witnesses two just persons among you,
65:2	and maintain the testimony for God.
65:2	This is what whoever believes in God and the Last Day is exhorted by.
65:3	And whoever guards himself toward God, He grants him a way out, and provides for him from where he does not expect.
65:3	And whoever relies upon God, He is sufficient for him.
65:3	God accomplishes His purpose.
65:3	God has set a measure for everything.
65:4	As for those of your women who no longer expect menstruation, if you are in doubt, their waiting period is three months, and likewise for those who have not had their menstruation.
65:4	And for pregnant women, their term is when they deliver.
65:4	And whoever guards himself toward God, He makes his affair easy for him.
65:5	That is God's command, which He has sent down to you.
65:5	And whoever guards himself toward God, He covers his misdeeds and increases his reward.
65:6	House them where you yourselves dwell, according to your means,
65:6	and do not harass them so as to distress them.
65:6	And if they are pregnant, provide for them until they deliver.
65:6	Then, if they take charge of the child for you, give them their rewards, and consult together in a recognized manner.
65:6	And if you have difficulty, then another woman will take charge of the child for him.
65:7	Let the affluent spend according to his affluence,
65:7	and let whoever's provision is restricted spend from what God has given him.
65:7	God does not burden a Self beyond what He has given it.
65:7	God will bring ease after hardship.
65:9	How many a town defied with insolence the command of its Guardian and His messengers! We called it to a strict account and punished it with a horrible punishment, and it tasted the grave consequence of its conduct.
65:9	And the outcome of its conduct was ruin.
65:10	God has prepared for them a severe punishment.
65:10	So guard yourselves toward God, O possessors of intelligence,
65:10	you who believe; God has sent down to you a Reminder,
65:11	a messenger who recites to you God's clarifying signs, so as to bring those who have believed and done righteous deeds out of the darknesses into the light.
65:11	And whoever believes in God and does righteous deeds, He will admit him into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide there forever; God has indeed granted him a goodly provision.
65:12	God is the One who created seven heavens, and of the earth their like.
65:12	The command descends among them, so that you may know that God is capable of all things, and that God encompasses all things in knowledge.

Sura 66 — Four Women as Examples (At-Tahrim)

66:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O Prophet! Why do you forbid what God has made lawful for you, seeking the approval of your wives?
66:1	And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
66:2	God has prescribed for you the release from your oaths,
66:2	and God is your nearest Guarantor.
66:2	And He is the All-Knowing, the Wise.
66:3	And when the Prophet confided a matter in secret to one of his wives,
66:3	and she disclosed it, and God made it known to him, he made known part of it and passed over another part.
66:3	Then, when he told her of it, she said: 'Who informed you of this?' He said: 'The All-Knowing, the Informed informed me.'
66:4	If you two turn to God in repentance — for your cores have indeed swerved —
66:4	but if you support one another against him, then God is his nearest Guarantor, and Gabriel, and the righteous among the believers,
66:4	and the Agents, moreover, are his support.
66:5	It may be that his Guardian, if he divorces you, will give him in exchange wives better than you: true to God alone, believing, devoted, repentant, obedient, free in their movement, previously married or virgins.
66:6	O you who have believed! Guard your Selves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones, over which are Agents, harsh and severe, who do not disobey God in what He commands them, and who do what they are commanded.
66:7	O you who disowned! Do not make excuses today: you are only being recompensed for what you used to do.
66:8	O you who have believed! Turn to God in sincere repentance. It may be that your Guardian will cover your misdeeds and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow, on the day when God will not disgrace the Prophet nor those who believed with him; their light will run before them and on their right.
66:8	They will say: 'Our Guardian, complete our light for us and forgive us.'
66:8	You are capable of all things.
66:9	O Prophet! Strive against those who disown and the hypocrites, and be firm with them.
66:9	Their refuge is Jahannam,
66:9	and what an evil destination!
66:10	God multiplies examples for those who disowned: the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut.
66:10	they were under two of Our righteous obedient ones, yet they betrayed them, so those two were of no avail to them against God,
66:10	and it was said: 'Enter, both of you, the Fire with those who enter.'
66:11	And God multiplies examples for those who believe: the wife of Fir'awn, when she said: 'My Guardian, build for me, near You, a home in the Garden, and save me from Fir'awn and his doing, and save me from the wrongdoing people.'
66:12	And Maryam, daughter of Imran, who protected her intimacy; We breathed into it of Our Influx. She declared true the words of her Guardian and His scriptures, and was among the devoted.

Sura 67 — Return Your Gaze (Al-Mulk)

67:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Blessed is He in whose hand is the dominion, and He is capable of all things,
67:2	who created death and life to test you: which of you acts best.
67:2	And He is the All-Powerful, the Most-Forgiving.
67:3	He who created seven heavens in layers.
67:3	You do not see in the creation of the All-Benevolent any disharmony.
67:3	Return your gaze: do you see any fissure?
67:4	Then return your gaze twice more: your gaze will return to you humbled and exhausted.
67:5	We have indeed adorned the nearest heaven with lamps, and made them missiles against the Diverters, and We have prepared for them the punishment of the Inferno.
67:6	And for those who disowned their Guardian is the punishment of Jahannam,
67:6	and what an evil destination!
67:8	When they are thrown into it, they will hear it roaring as it boils, almost bursting with fury.
67:8	Every time a crowd is thrown into it, its keepers will ask them: 'Did no warner come to you?'
67:9	They will say: 'Yes, a warner did come to us, but we denied him and said: God has not sent down anything, you are only in great error.'
67:10	And they will say: 'If we had listened or reasoned, we would not be among the companions of the Inferno.'
67:11	So they will acknowledge their offense:
67:11	so away with the companions of the Inferno!
67:12	Those who fear their Guardian without seeing Him will have forgiveness and a great reward.
67:13	Whether you keep your speech secret or proclaim it,
67:13	He is certainly All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
67:14	Would He who created not know, while He is the Subtle, the Informed?
67:15	It is He who made the earth manageable for you; so walk through its expanses and eat from His provision.
67:15	And to Him is the Awakening.
67:16	Do you feel secure that He who is in the heaven will not cause the earth to swallow you, whereupon it sways?
67:17	Or do you feel secure that He who is in the heaven will not send against you a storm of stones?
67:17	Then you will know how My warning was.
67:18	Those before them certainly denied,
67:18	and how was My disavowal!
67:19	Have they not observed the birds above them, spreading and folding their wings?
67:19	Nothing holds them up except the All-Benevolent.
67:19	He sees perfectly all things.
67:20	Or who is it that would be an army for you and help you, besides the All-Benevolent?
67:20	Those who disown are only in delusion.
67:21	Or who is it that would provide for you, if He withheld His provision?
67:21	Yet they persist in insolence and aversion.
67:22	Is he who walks fallen on his face better guided, or he who walks upright on a straight path?
67:23	Say: 'It is He who brought you into being and gave you hearing, sight, and Consciences.'
67:23	How little you are grateful!
67:24	Say: 'It is He who scattered you upon the earth, and to Him you will be gathered.'
67:25	And they say: 'When will this promise be, if you are truthful?'
67:26	Say: 'The knowledge is only with God; I am only a clear warner.'
67:27	Then, when they see it near, the faces of those who disowned will be grieved, and it will be said: 'This is what you used to call for.'
67:28	Say: 'Consider: whether God annihilates me and those with me, or has benevolence on us, who will shield those who disown from a painful punishment?'
67:29	Say: 'He is the All-Benevolent; we believe in Him and upon Him we rely.'
67:29	You will soon know who is in manifest error.
67:30	Say: "Consider: if your water were to sink into the ground, who then would bring you spring water?"

Sura 68 — The Scorched Garden (Al-Qalam)

68:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Nun.
68:4	By the pen and what they inscribe in lines! You are not, by the blessing of your Guardian, deranged. And you shall have a reward never interrupted. And you are indeed of an immense character.
68:6	You will see, and they will see, which of you is the one put to trial.
68:7	Your Guardian indeed knows best who has strayed from His path,
68:7	and He knows best those who let themselves be guided.
68:8	So do not obey the deniers.
68:9	They would like you to be complaisant: then they would be complaisant.
68:15	And do not obey every contemptible swearer of oaths, stinging slanderer, spreader of slander, hinderer of good, crosser of limits, transgressor, coarse and, moreover, a social parasite — because he has goods and sons. When Our signs are recited to him, he says: "Legends of the ancients!"
68:16	We will brand him on the snout.
68:18	We tested them as We tested the companions of the garden, when they swore they would harvest it in the morning, without exception,
68:20	and a round from your Guardian went over it while they slept, so that it became like scorched land.
68:22	They called one another in the morning: 'Go out early to your crop, if you mean to harvest it.'
68:24	So they set out, whispering to one another: 'Let no destitute person enter it upon you today.'
68:25	And they went early, determined, [deeming themselves] capable.
68:27	But when they saw it, they said: "We are surely astray; rather, we are deprived!"
68:28	The most just among them said: 'Did I not tell you: why do you not glorify [God]?'
68:29	They said: 'Glory be to our Guardian! We have indeed been wrongdoers.'
68:30	And they turned to one another, blaming each other.
68:32	They said: "Woe to us! We have indeed exceeded all measure. It may be that our Guardian will give us a better one in exchange; to our Guardian we turn in desire."
68:33	Such is the punishment [of this world].
68:33	But the punishment of the last life is greater, if only they knew.
68:34	For those who guard themselves [before God], there are, with their Guardian, the gardens of bliss.
68:35	Shall We then treat those true to God alone like the severed?
68:36	What is the matter with you?
68:36	How do you judge?
68:38	Or do you have a scripture in which you study, wherein you would find whatever you choose?
68:39	Or do you have oaths upon Us, reaching to the Day of Appearance: that you shall have whatever you judge?
68:40	Ask them which of them stands guarantor for that.
68:41	Or do they have partners? Then let them bring their partners, if they are truthful.
68:42	On the day when a shin is uncovered, and they are called to prostrate, they will not be able,
68:43	their eyes humble, humiliation covering them,
68:43	though they used to be called to prostrate while they were sound [and fully able].
68:44	So leave Me with whoever denies this discourse.
68:45	We will gradually lead them [to ruin], from where they do not know, and I grant them a delay.
68:45	My scheme is indeed solid.
68:46	Or do you ask them for a reward, so that they are weighed down by debt?
68:47	Or do they possess what escapes the senses, so that they write it down?
68:48	So be patient with the judgment of your Guardian, and do not be like the companion of the fish, when he called out while suppressing [his sorrow].
68:49	Had a blessing from his Guardian not reached him, he would have been cast onto bare ground, blamed.
68:50	But his Guardian chose him and made him one of the righteous.
68:51	Those who disown would almost make you slip with their glances when they hear the Reminder, and they say: 'He is certainly deranged.'
68:52	Yet it is nothing but a reminder for all beings.

Sura 69 — Read My Record (Al-Haqqa)

69:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. That which establishes the real! What is that which establishes the real?
69:3	And what will make you know what that which establishes the real is?
69:4	the Depleters [Thamud] and the Recidivists [Aad] denied the Crash.
69:5	As for the Depleters [Thamud], they were annihilated by the excessive [cry].
69:7	And as for the Recidivists [Aad], they were annihilated by an icy, insolent wind, which He subjected against them for seven nights and eight days in succession,
69:7	so that you would have seen the people lying prostrate, as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.
69:8	Do you see any remnant of them?
69:10	And Fir'awn, and those before him, and the overturned cities committed the offense; they disobeyed the messenger of their Guardian, so He seized them with an ever-intensifying seizure.
69:12	When the water overflowed, We carried you on the vessel, so as to make it a reminder for you, and so that a retaining ear might retain it.
69:17	When the Horn is blown with a single blast, and the earth and the mountains are lifted and crushed with a single blow, on that day the Event will occur, and the heaven will split apart and be, on that day, frail, with the Agent at its edge,
69:18	and eight [of them] will bear, on that day, the Edifice of your Guardian above them. On that day you will be exposed, and nothing about you will remain hidden.
69:19	As for the one who is given his record in his right hand, he will say: 'Here, read my record!
69:20	I thought that I would meet my reckoning.'
69:23	He will be in a satisfying life, in an elevated garden, whose fruit clusters are within reach.
69:24	'Eat and drink
69:24	pleasantly, for what you sent forth in the days gone by.'
69:25	But as for the one who is given his record in his left hand, he will say: 'Oh, would that I had not been given my record,
69:26	and that I had not known what my reckoning was!
69:28	Would that it had been the final end! My goods have not availed me,
69:29	my authority has vanished from me.'
69:32	'Seize him, then bind him, then expose him to the Blaze, then insert him into a chain seventy cubits in length.
69:34	He did not believe in God, the Immense, nor did he urge the feeding of the destitute.
69:37	So today he has here no warm friend, nor any food except a foul discharge, which only those at fault eat.'
69:42	No! I swear by what you see and what you do not see: this is indeed the word of a noble messenger, and it is not the word of a beguiling rhetorician — little do you believe — nor the word of a soothsayer.
69:42	Little do you take heed.
69:43	A revealed descent from the Guardian of all beings.
69:47	And had he attributed to Us some fabricated sayings, We would have seized him by the right hand, then severed his aorta, and not one of you could have shielded him from Us.
69:48	And this is indeed a reminder for those who guard themselves [before God].
69:49	And We indeed know that among you are deniers.
69:50	And this is indeed a bitter regret for those who disown.
69:51	And this is indeed the truth of certainty.
69:52	So glorify in the name of your Guardian, the Immense.

Sura 70 — Created Anxious, and the Exception (Al-Ma'arij)

70:3	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. A petitioner asked for a punishment bound to fall upon those who disown — none can prevent it — coming from God, Holder of the Ascending Ways.
70:4	The Agents and the Influx ascend to Him in a Day whose measure is fifty thousand years.
70:5	So be patient, with a beautiful patience.
70:7	They see it as distant, while We see it as near.
70:11	The Day the sky will be like molten metal, and the mountains will be like carded wool, and no warm friend will ask after a warm friend, though they are made to see one another.
70:15	The severed one would wish to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day with his sons, his consort, his brother, the kin who sheltered him, and everyone on earth, if that would then save him. By no means!
70:18	It is indeed the blazing Flame, stripping away the scalp, calling him who turned his back and went away, and gathered and locked away.
70:23	Indeed, the human being was created anxious: when evil touches him, he panics; and when good touches him, he withholds it — except those who make contact, constant in their Contact,
70:25	and those in whose goods there is a known right for the petitioner and the deprived,
70:26	and those who affirm the Day of Retribution,
70:28	and those who are fearful of the punishment of their Guardian — indeed, the punishment of their Guardian is not that from which one is secure —
70:30	and those who guard their private parts, except with their spouses or those bound by pledge — for then they are not blameworthy;
70:31	but whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the ones who cross the limits;
70:32	and those who are watchful over their trusts and their covenant,
70:33	and those who maintain their testimonies,
70:35	and those who carefully maintain their Contact: those will be in gardens, honored.
70:37	So what is with those who disown, hastening toward you, right and left, in separate groups?
70:39	Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of bliss? By no means!
70:39	Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
70:41	No! I swear by the Guardian of the risings and the settings that indeed We are able to replace them with better than them, and nothing can outrun Us.
70:44	So leave them to plunge and play until they meet their Day which they are promised — the Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if racing toward an erected marker, their eyes humble, humiliation covering them.
70:44	That is the Day which they had been promised.

Sura 71 — The More He Calls, the More They Flee (Nuh)

71:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Indeed, We sent Nuh to his people, [saying], "Warn your people before there comes to them a painful punishment."
71:4	He said, "O my people, indeed I am to you a clear warner: obey God, guard yourselves before Him, and obey me. He will forgive you some of your offenses and delay you for a specified term.
71:4	Indeed, the term of God, when it comes, cannot be delayed, if you only knew."
71:6	He said, "My Guardian, indeed I have called my people night and day, but my call has only increased them in flight.
71:7	And indeed, every time I called them, that You might forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant with great arrogance."
71:8	"Then I called them openly.
71:12	Then I announced to them publicly and confided to them privately, and said: Ask forgiveness of your Guardian; indeed, He is ever a Great Forgiver. He will send rain from the sky upon you in abundance, and provide you with goods and sons, and give you gardens, and give you rivers.
71:14	What is with you, that you do not attribute to God due majesty, when He has created you in successive stages?
71:16	Do you not see how God has created seven heavens in layers, and made the moon therein a light, and made the sun a torch?
71:18	And God has caused you to grow from the earth as a growth. Then He will return you into it and bring you out a new emergence.
71:20	And God has made for you the earth an expanse, that you may follow therein wide roads.
71:22	Nuh said, "My Guardian, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose goods and children increased him not except in loss, and they have plotted a great plot,
71:23	and said: Never leave your deities, nor leave Wadd, nor Suwa', nor Yaghuth, nor Ya'uq, nor Nasr."
71:24	And they have already led many astray.
71:24	And do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."
71:25	Because of their sins they were drowned and put into a fire, and they found none besides God to help them.
71:26	And Nuh said, "My Guardian, leave not upon the earth, among the disowners, any dweller.
71:27	If You leave them, they will mislead Your obedient ones and will not beget except wicked ones, great disowners."
71:28	"My Guardian, forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house a believer, and the believing men and believing women,
71:28	and do not increase the wrongdoers except in destruction."

Sura 72 — An Amazing Recitation (Al-Jinn)

72:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Say, "It has been revealed to me that a group of the Occulted listened, and they said: Indeed, we have heard an amazing recitation, that guides to rectitude, so we have believed in it, and we will never associate anyone with our Guardian.
72:3	And exalted is the majesty of our Guardian; He has not taken a consort nor a child.
72:4	And the foolish among us used to speak, against God, excessive words.
72:5	And we thought that mankind and the Occulted would never speak against God a lie.
72:6	And there were men among mankind who took refuge in men among the Occulted, and they only increased them in burden.
72:7	And they thought, as you thought, that God would never raise anyone up.
72:8	And we touched the sky and found it filled with mighty guards and burning stars.
72:9	And we used to sit in stations for listening, but whoever listens now will find a burning star lying in wait for him.
72:10	And we do not know whether evil is intended for those on earth, or whether their Guardian intends for them rectitude.
72:11	And among us are the righteous, and among us are others not so:
72:11	we were of divided ways.
72:12	And we thought that we would never cause failure to God upon earth, nor by fleeing could we cause Him failure.
72:13	And when we heard the guidance, we believed in it,
72:13	and whoever believes in his Guardian will fear neither loss nor burden.
72:14	And among us are those true to God alone, and among us are the deviant:
72:14	and whoever is true to God alone, those have sought rectitude,
72:15	but as for the deviant, they became firewood for Jahannam.
72:17	And that, if they had remained straight on the path, We would have given them abundant water to drink, that We might try them thereby.
72:17	And whoever turns away from the remembrance of his Guardian, He will put him into an ever-mounting punishment.
72:18	And that the places of prostration belong to God, so do not invoke besides God anyone.
72:19	And that when the obedient one of God stood up calling upon Him, they almost crowded him in dense multitude.
72:20	Say, "I only invoke my Guardian and do not associate with Him anyone."
72:21	Say, "I hold for you neither harm nor rectitude."
72:23	Say, "No one can protect me from God, and I will never find besides Him a refuge — except a transmission from God and His messages."
72:23	And whoever disobeys God and His messenger, indeed, for him is the fire of Jahannam, abiding therein forever.
72:24	Until, when they see that which they are promised, they will know who is weaker in helpers and less in number.
72:25	Say, "I do not know whether what you are promised is near, or whether my Guardian will set for it a term."
72:28	[He is] Knower of what escapes the senses, and He discloses none of it to anyone, except a messenger He has approved of. He then sends before him and behind him a watch, so that He may know that they have conveyed the messages of their Guardian; and He encompasses whatever is with them and enumerates all things with exactness.

Sura 73 — The Night and the Heavy Word (Al-Muzzammil)

73:4	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O you who are wrapped up! Stand the night, except a little — half of it, or subtract from it a little, or add to it — and recite the Recitation with measured, distinct recitation.
73:5	Indeed, We will cast upon you a heavy word.
73:6	Indeed, the rising of the night is firmer in impact and more upright in speech.
73:7	Indeed, you have during the day a long sailing [to and fro].
73:8	And remember the name of your Guardian and devote yourself to Him with complete devotion.
73:9	Guardian of the East and the West;
73:9	there is no deity except Him;
73:9	so take Him as a trustee.
73:10	And be patient over what they say
73:10	and avoid them with gracious avoidance.
73:11	And leave Me with the deniers, those of ease, and allow them respite a little.
73:14	Indeed, with Us are shackles and a Blaze, and food that chokes, and a painful punishment — on the Day the earth and the mountains will convulse, and the mountains will become a heap of poured-out sand.
73:16	Indeed, We have sent to you a messenger as a witness upon you, just as We sent to Fir'awn a messenger. But Fir'awn disobeyed the messenger, so We seized him with a ruinous seizure.
73:18	Then how, if you disown, will you guard yourselves on a Day that will turn children gray-haired, a Day the heaven will break apart therefrom?
73:18	His promise is ever bound to be fulfilled.
73:19	Indeed, this is a reminder.
73:19	So whoever wills may take, toward his Guardian, a way.
73:20	Indeed, your Guardian knows that you stand a little less than two-thirds of the night, and of half of it, and of a third of it, as do a group of those with you.
73:20	And God determines the night and the day.
73:20	He knows that you will never count it, so He has turned toward you with clemency.
73:20	So recite what is feasible of the Recitation.
73:20	He knows that there will be among you sick, and others traveling throughout the land seeking of the favor of God, and others fighting in the cause of God.
73:20	So recite what is feasible from it,
73:20	and maintain the Contact and give the purifying alms,
73:20	and lend to God a goodly loan.
73:20	And whatever good you put forth for yourselves, you will find it with God, better and greater in reward.
73:20	And seek forgiveness of God;
73:20	indeed, God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Sura 74 — Arise and Warn (Al-Muddaththir)

74:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O you who are covered in a cloak! Arise and warn,
74:3	and your Guardian, proclaim His greatness,
74:4	and your garments, purify,
74:5	and defilement, avoid,
74:6	and do not confer favor seeking more in return,
74:7	and for your Guardian, be patient.
74:10	Then, when the trumpet is sounded, that Day will be a difficult day, not easy for the disowners.
74:16	Leave Me with the one I created alone, and gave him extensive goods, and sons present with him, and spread everything before him, easing his life — then he desires that I should add more. By no means!
74:16	Indeed, he has been, toward Our signs, obstinate.
74:17	I will overburden him with a steep ascent.
74:25	Indeed, he thought and determined. So may he perish, how he determined! Again, may he perish, how he determined! Then he considered; then he frowned and scowled; then he turned back and was arrogant, and said, "This is nothing but illusion passed down; this is nothing but the word of a human."
74:26	I will make him burn in Saqar.
74:27	And what will make you know what Saqar is?
74:28	It leaves nothing and spares nothing,
74:29	visibly altering the skin of humans.
74:30	Over it are nineteen.
74:31	And We have not made the companions of the Fire except Agents,
74:31	and We have not made their number except as a trial for those who disown — that those given the Writ may be certain, and those who believe may increase in faith, and those given the Writ and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose cores is a sickness and the disowners may say, "What did God intend by this image?"
74:31	Thus does God leave astray whom He wills and guide whom He wills.
74:31	And none knows the soldiers of your Guardian except Him.
74:31	And it is not but a reminder to humans.
74:37	By no means! By the moon, and the night as it departs, and the dawn as it shines forth — indeed, it is one of the greatest [things], a warning to humans, to whoever among you wills to advance or to remain behind.
74:39	Every Self is a pledge for what it has earned, except the companions of the right,
74:42	in gardens, they will ask one another about the severed: "What has led you into Saqar?"
74:47	They will say, "We were not of those who made contact, nor did we use to feed the destitute, and we used to indulge with those who indulged, and we used to deny the Day of Retribution, until certainty came to us."
74:48	So there will not benefit them the intercession of any intercessors.
74:51	So what is with them that they turn away from the reminder, as if they were terrified donkeys, fleeing from a lion?
74:52	Rather, every one of them desires that he would be given scrolls unrolled.
74:53	By no means! But they do not fear the last life.
74:54	By no means! Truly, this is a reminder;
74:55	so whoever wills may remember it.
74:56	And they will not remember except that God wills.
74:56	He is worthy that one guard oneself before Him, and He is worthy to forgive.

Sura 75 — Clear-Sighted About Himself (Al-Qiyama)

75:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. No! I swear by the Day of Appearance; and no! I swear by the self-reproaching Self.
75:4	Does the human being think that We will not assemble his bones? Yes indeed!
75:4	We are able to proportion even his phalanges.
75:5	But the human being desires to persist in depravity before him.
75:6	He asks, "When is the Day of Appearance?"
75:10	So when the sight is dazzled, and the moon eclipses, and the sun and the moon are joined together, the human being will say on that Day, "Where is the escape?"
75:11	By no means! There is no refuge.
75:12	To your Guardian, that Day, will be the place of settlement.
75:13	The human being will be informed, that Day, of what he put forward and kept back.
75:15	Rather, the human being is, over himself, clear-sighted, even if he presents his excuses.
75:16	Do not move your tongue with it to hasten it;
75:17	upon Us is its assembling and its recitation.
75:19	then, when We have recited it, follow its recitation; then, indeed, upon Us is its explanation.
75:21	By no means! But you love the immediate life, and leave behind the last life.
75:23	Some faces, that Day, will be radiant, looking toward their Guardian.
75:25	And some faces, that Day, will be gloomy, thinking that a great calamity is about to befall them.
75:30	By no means! When [the Self] reaches the collarbones, and it is said, "Who will make [him] ascend?" and he thinks that it is the parting, and the leg is wound about the leg — to your Guardian, that Day, will be the drive.
75:31	For he neither affirmed, nor made contact,
75:32	but he denied and turned away,
75:33	then he went to his people, walking in vain pride.
75:35	Closer to you, and closer! Then closer to you, and closer!
75:36	Does the human being think that he will be left neglected?
75:39	Was he not a drop of ejected semen? Then he was a clinging thing; then He created and proportioned him, and made of him two mates, the male and the female.
75:40	Is that One not able to give life to the dead?

Sura 76 — Feeding Without Expecting (Al-Insan)

76:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Has there come upon the human being a period of time when he was not a thing worth mentioning?
76:2	Indeed, We created the human being from a mingled drop, to test him; and We made him hearing and seeing.
76:3	Indeed, We guided him along the way, be he grateful or be he disowning.
76:4	Indeed, We have prepared for the disowners chains, shackles, and an inferno.
76:6	Indeed, the virtuous will drink from a cup mixed with camphor, a spring from which the obedient ones of God drink, making it gush forth abundantly.
76:7	They fulfill their vows, and they fear a Day whose evil spreads far and wide.
76:9	And they give food, despite their love for it, to the destitute, the orphan, and the captive: "We feed you only for the direction of God;
76:9	we desire from you neither recompense nor gratitude.
76:10	Indeed, we fear from our Guardian a Day, austere and dreadful."
76:11	So God has protected them from the evil of that Day and has granted them radiance and joy.
76:14	And He has recompensed them, for what they patiently endured, with a garden and silk, reclining therein upon adorned couches, seeing therein neither sun nor bitter cold; its shades will hang close over them, and its clusters of fruit will be brought low, within easy reach.
76:15	There will circulate among them vessels of silver and goblets that were as clear as crystal,
76:16	crystal of silver, whose measure they have determined precisely.
76:18	And they will be given to drink there a cup mixed with ginger, from a spring therein called Salsabil.
76:19	There will circulate among them children made eternal; when you see them, you would think them scattered pearls.
76:21	And when you look there, you will see bliss and a vast dominion: upon them will be garments of fine green silk and brocade.
76:21	And they have been adorned with bracelets of silver.
76:21	And their Guardian has given them to drink a purely purifying drink.
76:22	Indeed, this has been for you a recompense, and your effort has been met with gratitude.
76:23	Indeed, it is We who have sent down to you the Recitation, a gradual sending down.
76:24	So be patient with the judgment of your Guardian, and do not obey among them a transgressor or a disowner.
76:25	And remember the name of your Guardian morning and evening.
76:26	And during a part of the night prostrate to Him, and glorify Him a long portion of the night.
76:27	Indeed, these love the immediate life, and leave behind them a heavy Day.
76:28	It is We who created them and strengthened their frame; and when We will it, We will replace them entirely with their likenesses.
76:29	Indeed, this is a reminder.
76:29	So whoever wills may take, toward his Guardian, a way.
76:30	And you will not, unless God wills.
76:30	Indeed, God is ever All-Knowing, Wise.
76:31	He admits whom He wills into His benevolence.
76:31	And for the wrongdoers, He has prepared a painful punishment.

Sura 77 — Ten Times the Same Verdict (Al-Mursalat)

77:7	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those sent forth in succession, and those scattering violently, and those spreading far and wide, and those separating distinctly, and those delivering a reminder, as justification or as warning: indeed, what you are promised will surely occur.
77:13	So when the stars are obliterated, and when the sky is split open, and when the mountains are blasted away, and when the messengers' time is set — for what Day were they deferred? For the Day of Separation.
77:14	and what will make you know what the Day of Separation is?
77:15	Woe, that Day, to the deniers!
77:16	Did We not annihilate the former peoples?
77:17	Then We will make the later ones follow them.
77:18	Thus do We deal with the severed.
77:19	Woe, that Day, to the deniers!
77:23	Did We not create you from a lowly fluid? Then We placed it in a firm lodging, until a known measure; We determined —
77:23	and excellent are We at determining!
77:24	Woe, that Day, to the deniers!
77:27	Have We not made the earth a gathering place, for the living and the dead? And placed therein firmly anchored, lofty [mountains], and given you fresh water to drink?
77:28	Woe, that Day, to the deniers!
77:31	Depart to that which you used to deny! Depart to a shadow of three branches, neither shading nor availing against the flame.
77:33	It throws up sparks as huge as palaces, as though they were yellow camels.
77:34	Woe, that Day, to the deniers!
77:36	This is the Day they will not speak, nor will they be permitted to make excuses.
77:37	Woe, that Day, to the deniers!
77:39	This is the Day of Separation; We have gathered you and the former peoples. So if you have a scheme, then scheme against Me!
77:40	Woe, that Day, to the deniers!
77:42	Indeed, those who guarded themselves will be amid shades and springs, and fruits of whatever they desire:
77:43	"Eat and drink
77:43	pleasantly, for what you used to do."
77:44	Thus do We recompense those who do good.
77:45	Woe, that Day, to the deniers!
77:46	"Eat and enjoy yourselves a little; indeed, you are severed."
77:47	Woe, that Day, to the deniers!
77:48	And when it is said to them, "Bow down," they do not bow down.
77:49	Woe, that Day, to the deniers!
77:50	In what discourse, after this one, will they then believe?

Sura 78 — The Appointed Time (An-Naba)

78:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. About what?
78:3	They are asking one another about the great Information, over which they are in disagreement.
78:5	By no means! They will know. Then, by no means! They will know.
78:16	Have We not made the earth a resting place, and the mountains as pegs? Have We not created you in pairs, and made your sleep a rest? Have We not made the night a covering, and the day for livelihood? Have We not built above you seven strong [heavens], and placed therein a blazing torch? And sent down from the pressing clouds abundant water, that We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation, and intertwined gardens?
78:20	Indeed, the Day of Separation is an appointed time — the Day the Horn is blown, and you come in crowds, and the sky is opened and becomes gates, and the mountains are set moving and become a mirage.
78:23	Indeed, Jahannam is a lookout post — a place of return for those who exceed all measure, wherein they will remain for prolonged periods.
78:26	They will taste therein neither coolness nor drink, except scalding water and a foul, dark fluid — a fitting recompense.
78:28	Indeed, they were not expecting a reckoning, and they denied Our signs with emphatic denial.
78:29	But everything We have enumerated in a record.
78:30	So taste! We will only increase you in punishment.
78:35	Indeed, for those who guarded themselves is a triumph - enclosed gardens and vineyards, and companions full of vitality, fertile and of shared stock, and a brimming cup. They will hear therein neither idle talk nor lies -
78:36	a recompense from your Guardian, a gift, well accounted,
78:37	Guardian of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them,
78:37	the All-Benevolent; they possess no right to address Him,
78:38	the Day the Influx and the Agents will stand in ranks, none speaking except one to whom the All-Benevolent has given permission, and who will say what is right.
78:39	That is the True Day.
78:39	So whoever wills may take, toward his Guardian, a place of return.
78:40	Indeed, We have warned you of an imminent punishment — the Day when man will observe what his hands have prepared, and the one who disowns will say, "Oh, that I were earth!"

Sura 79 — The Usurped Title (An-Nazi'at)

79:7	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those who tear away, submerging, those who release gently, those who glide swiftly, those who race ahead, those who govern the affair — the Day the first quaking quakes, followed by the one that comes after,
79:9	cores, that Day, will tremble, their eyes humble.
79:11	They say, "Are we indeed to be returned to our former state, once we have become decayed bones?"
79:14	They say, "That, then, would be a losing return!" Yet it will be but a single rumbling blast, and there they are, upon the surface of the earth.
79:16	Has the story of Moussa reached you? When his Guardian called him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
79:19	"Go to Fir'awn; indeed, he has exceeded all measure. And say to him, 'Would you [be willing] to purify yourself, that I may guide you to your Guardian, so that you may hold Him in awe?'"
79:25	So he showed him the greatest sign; but he denied and disobeyed. Then he turned his back, striving, and gathered [his people], and called out, and said, "I am your master, the Most High." So God seized him with the exemplary punishment of the last and the first.
79:26	Indeed, in that is a lesson for whoever holds [Him] in awe.
79:27	Are you more difficult to create, or is the sky?
79:29	He built it, raised its vault, and balanced it; and He darkened its night and brought forth its morning light.
79:33	And the earth, after that, He made it hatch forth: He brought forth from it its water and its pasture, and the mountains, He anchored them — as provision for you and your livestock.
79:36	Then, when the greatest Overwhelming Event comes — the Day the human being will remember what he strove for, and the Blaze will be laid open for all to see,
79:39	as for him who exceeded all measure and preferred the present life, then the Blaze will be his refuge;
79:41	but as for him who feared standing before his Guardian, and forbade the Self emotion, then the Garden will be his refuge.
79:42	They ask you about the Hour: when will it drop anchor?
79:43	What have you to do with mentioning it?
79:44	To your Guardian is its final boundary.
79:45	You are only the warner of whoever holds it in awe.
79:46	It will seem to them, the Day they see it, as though they had remained no more than an evening, or its morning.

Sura 80 — The One Who Comes Striving (Abasa)

80:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. He frowned and turned away, because the blind man came to him.
80:3	And what would make you know?
80:4	Perhaps he might purify himself, or remember, and the reminder would benefit him.
80:7	As for him who considers himself self-sufficient, you give him your attention, and it is not upon you if he does not purify himself.
80:11	But as for him who came to you striving, and he fears, from him you are distracted. By no means!
80:11	Indeed, it is a reminder,
80:16	— so whoever wills, let him remember it —, in honored scrolls, elevated and purified, in the hands of envoys, noble and virtuous.
80:17	May the human being perish; how he disowns!
80:18	From what thing did He create him?
80:21	From a drop He created him and measured him, then He made the way easy for him, then He caused him to die and buried him.
80:22	Then, when He wills, He will awaken him.
80:23	By no means! He has not yet accomplished what He commanded him.
80:24	Then let the human being look at his food:
80:32	that We poured the water in abundance, then We split the earth in clefts, then We caused to grow within it grain, and grapes and fodder, and olives and date-palms, and dense enclosed gardens, and fruit and pasture, as a provision for you and your livestock.
80:36	But when the Deafening Blast comes, the Day a man will flee from his brother, and his mother and his father, and his companion and his sons.
80:37	For every person among them, that Day, is a matter that will suffice him.
80:39	Faces, that Day, will be radiant, laughing, rejoicing.
80:41	And faces, that Day, will have dust upon them, covered in blackness.
80:42	Those are the disowners, the depraved.

Sura 81 — A Self Will Know (At-Takwir)

81:14	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. When the sun is wrapped up, and when the stars scatter, and when the mountains are set in motion, and when the pregnant camels are neglected, and when the wild beasts are gathered, and when the seas are set aboil, and when the Selves are paired, and when the girl buried alive is asked for what offense she was killed, and when the scrolls are laid open, and when the sky is stripped away, and when the Blaze is stoked, and when the Garden is brought near, a Self will know what it has brought forward.
81:21	No! I swear by the retreating stars, those that run their courses and hide, and by the night when it darkens, and by the dawn when it breathes: indeed, it is the word of a noble messenger, endowed with power, secure with the Holder of the Edifice, obeyed there, trustworthy.
81:22	And your companion is not deranged.
81:23	And he certainly saw him on the clear horizon.
81:24	And he is not stingy with what escapes the senses.
81:26	And it is not the word of an outcast Diverter. So where are you going?
81:28	It is not but a reminder to all beings, for whoever wills among you to stand straight.
81:29	And you do not will except that God wills, Guardian of all beings.

Sura 82 — What Deceived You? (Al-Infitar)

82:5	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. When the sky breaks apart, and when the stars scatter, and when the seas gush forth, and when the graves are overturned, a Self will know what it has put forward and kept back.
82:8	O human being! What has deceived you concerning your Guardian, the Generous, who created you, then proportioned you, then balanced you? In whatever form He willed, He assembled you.
82:12	By no means! Rather, you deny the Retribution, while indeed, over you are keepers, noble scribes, who know what you do.
82:13	Indeed, the virtuous will be in bliss.
82:16	And indeed, the depraved will be in a Blaze; they will burn in it on the Day of Retribution, and they will not be absent from it.
82:18	And what will make you know what the Day of Retribution is? Then, what will make you know what the Day of Retribution is?
82:19	The Day no Self will possess a thing for another Self.
82:19	And the command, that Day, is entirely God's.

Sura 83 — The Rigged Measure (Al-Mutaffifin)

83:3	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Woe to the defrauders, who, when they take a measure from people, exact full measure, and when they measure or weigh for them, cause loss.
83:6	Do they not think that they will be resurrected for a tremendous Day, the Day when mankind will stand before the Guardian of all beings?
83:7	By no means! Indeed, the record of the depraved is in Sijjin.
83:9	And what will make you know what Sijjin is? A written record.
83:11	Woe, that Day, to the deniers, those who deny the Day of Retribution.
83:13	And none denies it except every crosser of limits, a transgressor; when Our signs are read to him, he says, "Legends of the ancients!"
83:14	By no means! Rather, what they were earning has rusted their cores.
83:15	By no means! Indeed, from their Guardian, that Day, they will be veiled.
83:16	Then indeed, they will burn in the Blaze.
83:17	Then it will be said, "This is what you used to deny."
83:18	By no means! Indeed, the record of the virtuous is in 'Illiyyun.
83:21	And what will make you know what 'Illiyyun is? A written record, witnessed by those brought near.
83:26	Indeed, the virtuous will be in bliss, on adorned couches, observing; you will recognize in their faces the radiance of bliss; they will be given drink from a sealed nectar, whose seal is musk.
83:26	And for this let the competitors compete.
83:28	And its mixture is of Tasnim, a spring from which those brought near drink.
83:33	Indeed, those who cut themselves off used to laugh at those who believed, and when they passed by them, they winked at one another, and when they returned to their people, they returned delighting, and when they saw them, they said, "Indeed, these are truly astray" — while they had not been sent as guardians over them.
83:35	So today those who believed are laughing at the disowners, upon adorned couches.
83:36	Observing: have the disowners received the return of what they used to do?

Sura 84 — Toiling Toward the Guardian (Al-Inshiqaq)

84:5	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. When the sky splits open, and listens to its Guardian — and it is obligated to do so —, and when the earth is extended, and casts out what is within it and empties itself, and listens to its Guardian — and it is obligated to do so.
84:6	O human being! Indeed, you are laboring toward your Guardian with great exertion and will meet Him.
84:9	Then as for him who is given his record in his right hand, he will be reckoned an easy reckoning, and return to his people in joy.
84:12	But as for him who is given his record behind his back, he will cry out for destruction, and he will burn in an inferno.
84:13	Indeed, he had been joyful among his people.
84:15	Indeed, he thought he would never return. But yes!
84:15	Indeed, his Guardian was ever All-Seeing of him.
84:19	No! I swear by the twilight glow, and by the night and what it envelops, and by the moon when it becomes full! You will surely embark upon state after state.
84:21	So what is the matter with them that they do not believe? And when the Recitation is read to them, they do not prostrate?
84:23	Rather, those who have disowned deny, and God knows best what they keep within.
84:24	So give them the tidings of a painful punishment,
84:25	except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds; for them is a reward never interrupted.

Sura 85 — Their Only Fault: Belief (Al-Buruj)

85:7	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the sky containing constellations! And by the promised Day! And by a witness and what is witnessed! May the companions of the trench perish, of the fire richly fueled, when they sat around it, and were witnesses to what they were doing to the believers.
85:9	And they reproached them for nothing except that they believed in God, the All-Powerful, the Praiseworthy, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.
85:9	And God is Witness over all things.
85:10	Indeed, those who tormented the believing men and believing women and then did not repent will have the punishment of Jahannam, and they will have the punishment of the Burning Fire.
85:11	Indeed, those who believed and did righteous deeds will have Gardens beneath which rivers flow.
85:11	That is the great triumph.
85:12	Indeed, the strike of your Guardian is severe.
85:13	Indeed, it is He who originates and remakes.
85:15	And He is the Most-Forgiving, the Loving, Holder of the Edifice,
85:16	the Glorious, ever doing what He wills.
85:18	Has there reached you the account of the armies, of Fir'awn and the Depleters [Thamud]?
85:20	Yet those who have disowned [the truth] persist in denial, and God encompasses them from behind.
85:22	Rather, it is a glorious Recitation, upon a Preserved Tablet.

Sura 86 — Able to Bring Back (At-Tariq)

86:4	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the sky and the night comer! And what will make you know what the night comer is? It is the piercing star. There is no Self but has a guardian over it.
86:5	So let the human being observe from what he was created.
86:7	He was created from a gushing fluid, emerging from between the loins [of the man] and the bosom [of the woman].
86:10	Indeed, He is capable of his return, the Day when secrets will be put to the test; then he will have no power nor any helper.
86:14	By the sky which returns! And by the earth which cracks open! Indeed, it is a decisive word, and it is no frivolity.
86:16	Indeed, they scheme a scheme, and I scheme a scheme.
86:17	So concede a respite to the disowners [of the truth]; respite them a little.

Sura 87 — Create, Measure, Guide (Al-A'la)

87:5	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Glorify the name of your Guardian, the Most High, who created and harmonized, and who measured and guided, and who brought forth the pasture, and then made it dark stubble.
87:7	We will make you read so you shall not forget, except what God wills.
87:7	Indeed, He knows what is declared and what is hidden.
87:8	And We will ease you toward ease.
87:9	So remind, if the reminder should benefit.
87:13	He who fears will remember, and the most wretched will avoid it, who will burn in the greatest Fire, then neither dies therein nor lives.
87:15	He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself, and remembers the name of his Guardian, and makes contact.
87:17	But you prefer the present life, while the last life is better and more enduring.
87:19	Indeed, this is in the former scrolls, the scrolls of Ibrahim and Moussa.

Sura 88 — Effort and Its Fruit (Al-Ghashiya)

88:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Has there come to you the account of the Enveloping Event?
88:5	Some faces, that Day, will be downcast, toiling, exhausted. They will burn in a scorching fire, given drink from a boiling spring.
88:7	They will have no food except from a bitter thorny plant, which neither fattens nor avails against hunger.
88:11	Some faces, that Day, will be radiant, pleased with their effort, in an elevated garden, where they will hear no vain talk.
88:12	Therein is a flowing spring.
88:16	Therein are raised couches, and goblets set out, and cushions lined up, and carpets spread out.
88:20	Do they not look at the camels, how they were created? And at the sky, how it was raised? And at the mountains, how they were set up? And at the earth, how it was spread out?
88:21	So remind; you are only a reminder.
88:22	You have no power to compel them.
88:24	Except one who has turned away and disowned — God will punish him with the greatest punishment.
88:26	To Us is their return, then upon Us is their reckoning.

Sura 89 — The Trial Read Backwards (Al-Fajr)

89:5	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the dawn! By ten nights! By the even [the state in which intercession is permitted], and the odd [the state in which it is refused]! By the night when it passes! Is there in that an oath for one who has restraint?
89:13	Have you not seen how your Guardian dealt with the Recidivists [Aad], with Iram of the lofty pillars, the like of which had never been created in the lands? And with the Depleters [Thamud], who carved the rock in the valley? And with Fir'awn, holder of the stakes? Those who exceeded all measure in the lands and multiplied corruption therein — so your Guardian poured upon them a scourge of punishment.
89:14	Indeed, your Guardian is ever watchful.
89:15	As for the human being, when his Guardian tests him and honors him and blesses him, he says, "My Guardian has honored me."
89:17	But when He tests him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Guardian has humiliated me." By no means!
89:21	But rather, you do not honor the orphan, and you do not urge one another to feed the destitute, and you consume the inheritance with voracious greed, and you love goods with immense love. By no means!
89:23	When the earth is crushed and pulverized, and your Guardian comes, and the Agents, rank upon rank, and Jahannam is brought, that Day — that Day the human being will remember, but what good will remembrance be to him then?
89:24	He will say, "Oh, if only I had sent [something] ahead for my life!"
89:26	That Day, none will punish as He punishes, and none will bind as He binds.
89:30	O reassured Self! Return to your Guardian, well-pleased and pleasing. Enter among My obedient ones, and enter My Garden!

Sura 90 — The Steep Path (Al-Balad)

90:4	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. No! I swear by this city, and you are a resident in it, and by a father and what he begot! We have certainly created the human being in hardship.
90:6	Does he think that no one will ever have power over him? He says, "I have squandered vast goods!"
90:7	Does he think that no one has seen him?
90:10	Have We not assigned him two eyes, a tongue, and two lips, and guided him along the two paths?
90:11	But he has not plunged into the steep path.
90:12	And what will make you know what the steep path is?
90:16	It is freeing someone from a crushing debt, or feeding, on a day of hunger, an orphan near of kin, or a destitute person in privation.
90:17	Then, it is being of those who have believed and enjoined one another to patience, and enjoined one another to benevolence.
90:18	Those are the companions of the right side.
90:19	But those who disowned Our signs, they are the companions of the left side.
90:20	Over them, a fire locked shut.

Sura 91 — Purify or Bury (Ash-Shams)

91:10	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the sun and its morning brightness! By the moon when it follows it! By the day when it displays it! By the night when it covers it! By the sky and what built it! By the earth and what spread it! By a Self, and what proportioned it, then inspired it with its transgression and its guardedness! He has succeeded who purifies it, and he has failed who buries it.
91:14	The Depleters [Thamud] denied, in their excess, when the most wretched among them rose up. The messenger of God said to them, "[Leave] the she-camel of God, and her drink!" But they denied him and hamstrung her. So their Guardian brought their ruin for their offense and leveled it.
91:15	And He does not fear its consequence.

Sura 92 — Diverging Efforts (Al-Layl)

92:4	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the night when it envelops! By the day when it shines forth! By what created the male and the female! Your efforts are indeed diverse.
92:7	As for the one who gives, and guards himself, and affirms the best — We will ease him toward ease.
92:10	But as for the one who withholds, and considers himself self-sufficient, and denies the best - We will ease him toward hardship.
92:11	And his goods will not avail him when he falls.
92:13	Indeed, upon Us is the guidance, and indeed to Us belong the last and the first.
92:16	So I have warned you of a blazing fire, in which none will burn except the most wretched, who denied and turned away.
92:18	And it will be kept away from the most guarded, who gives his goods to purify himself,
92:20	and who seeks not, in any blessing he grants, except the direction of his Guardian, the Most High.
92:21	And he will surely soon be satisfied.

Sura 93 — What He Did for You (Ad-Duha)

93:3	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the morning brightness! By the night when it grows still! Your Guardian has not forsaken you, nor has He taken you in aversion.
93:4	And the last will surely be better for you than the first.
93:5	And your Guardian will surely give you, and you will be satisfied.
93:8	Did He not find you an orphan and give you shelter? Did He not find you astray and guide you? Did He not find you in need and enrich you?
93:9	So as for the orphan, do not oppress him.
93:10	And as for the seeker, do not rebuke him harshly.
93:11	And as for the blessing of your Guardian, proclaim it.

Sura 94 — With Hardship, Ease (Ash-Sharh)

94:4	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Did We not open your chest for you? Did We not remove your burden from you, which weighed upon your back? And did We not raise your renown for you?
94:6	So indeed, with hardship comes ease. Indeed, with hardship comes ease.
94:8	As soon as you are freed, direct your effort, and to your Guardian turn your longing.

Sura 95 — From the Best to the Lowest (At-Tin)

95:6	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By the fig and the olive! And by Mount Sinai! And by this secure city! We have certainly created the human being in the best of stature, then We reduced him to the lowest of the low, except those who have believed and done righteous deeds: for them is a reward never interrupted.
95:7	So what causes you to deny, after this, the Retribution?
95:8	Is not God the most just of judges?

Sura 96 — Read and Draw Near (Al-Alaq)

96:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Read, in the name of your Guardian who created,
96:2	who created the human being from a clinging thing.
96:5	Read! And your Guardian is the Most Noble, who taught by the pen, taught the human being what he did not know.
96:7	By no means! The human being truly exceeds all measure, as soon as he sees himself self-sufficient.
96:8	Indeed, to your Guardian is the return.
96:10	Have you seen the one who forbids an obedient one when he makes contact?
96:12	Have you seen if he is upon guidance, or enjoins guardedness?
96:14	Have you seen if he denies and turns away? Does he not know that God sees?
96:16	By no means! If he does not desist, We will seize him violently by the forelock, a lying forelock, at fault!
96:18	Then let him call his assembly; We will call the Zabaniya.
96:19	By no means! Do not obey him, but prostrate and draw near.

Sura 97 — Better Than a Thousand Months (Al-Qadr)

97:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. We sent it down during the Night of Measure.
97:2	And what will make you know what the Night of Measure is?
97:3	The Night of Measure is better than a thousand months.
97:4	During it descend the Agents and the Influx, by the permission of their Guardian, for every command.
97:5	It is peace, until the emergence of dawn.

Sura 98 — Divided After the Proof (Al-Bayyina)

98:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Those who disowned among the People of the Scripture and the associators were not to separate until the Clear Proof came to them:
98:3	a messenger from God, reciting purified pages, containing upright writings.
98:4	And those who were given the Scripture did not become divided except after the Clear Proof came to them.
98:5	And they were not commanded except to obey God, devoting to Him exclusively their Law, in true uprightness, and to maintain the Contact and give the purifying alms.
98:5	And that is the Law of the upright.
98:6	Those who disowned among the People of the Scripture and the associators will be in the fire of Jahannam, abiding therein forever. Those are the worst of creation.
98:7	Those who have believed and done righteous deeds, those are the best of creation.
98:8	Their recompense, with their Guardian, is the gardens of permanent abode beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein forever.
98:8	God is satisfied with them, and they are satisfied with Him.
98:8	That is for whoever fears his Guardian.

Sura 99 — A Grain's Weight (Az-Zalzala)

99:5	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. When the earth is shaken with its quaking, and the earth brings forth its burdens, and the human being says, "What is with it?" — that Day it will recount its news, for your Guardian will have inspired it.
99:6	That Day, the people will emerge separately, to be shown their deeds.
99:7	So whoever does a grain's weight of good will see it,
99:8	And whoever does a grain's weight of evil will see it.

Sura 100 — The Ungrateful, Witness Against Himself (Al-Adiyat)

100:8	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those that cross the limits, panting, that strike the spark through their clashes, that launch the assault at dawn, stirring up the dust, and plunging thereby into the heart of a gathering! The human being is, toward his Guardian, rebelliously ungrateful, and he is himself a witness to that, and for the love of the good he is fierce.
100:11	Does he not know that when what is in the graves is overturned, and what is in the breasts is drawn out, their Guardian, that Day, will be Informed about them?

Sura 101 — What Weighs (Al-Qari'a)

101:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. The Crash. What is the Crash?
101:3	And what will make you know what the Crash is?
101:5	The Day when people will be like scattered moths, and the mountains will be like carded wool.
101:7	As for the one whose weights are heavy, he will be in a satisfying life.
101:9	And as for the one whose weights are light, the Abyss will be his abode.
101:10	And what will make you know what it is?
101:11	A blazing fire.

Sura 102 — Distracted Until the Grave (At-Takathur)

102:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Rivalry in accumulation has distracted you, until you visited the graves.
102:4	By no means! You will soon know. Then, by no means! You will soon know.
102:5	By no means! If only you knew with certain knowledge.
102:8	You will most surely see the Blaze. Then you will most surely see it with the eye of certainty. Then you will surely be questioned, that Day, about the bliss.

Sura 103 — Out of Loss (Al-Asr)

103:3	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By Time! The human being is certainly in loss, except those who have believed, done righteous deeds, and enjoined one another to truth, and enjoined one another to patience.

Sura 104 — The Illusion of Eternity (Al-Humaza)

104:4	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Woe to every stinging slanderer, insinuating disparager, who gathers goods and counts them, thinking that his goods have made him eternal. By no means!
104:4	He will surely be cast away into the Crusher.
104:5	And what will make you know what the Crusher is?
104:7	The fire of God, ablaze, which rises up to the Consciences.
104:9	It is locked shut upon them, in extended pillars.

Sura 105 — The People Without Reason (Al-Fil)

105:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Have you not seen how your Guardian dealt with the companions of unreason?
105:5	Did He not lead their scheme astray? And did He not send upon them massive birds, which were hurling stones of hardened clay at them? And did He not reduce them to the state of eaten husk?

Sura 106 — Fed and Secured (Quraysh)

106:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. For the harmony of the Quraysh, their harmony of the journey of winter and summer,
106:4	let them obey the Guardian of this House, who fed them against hunger and secured them against fear.

Sura 107 — Denial in Deeds (Al-Ma'un)

107:3	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Have you seen the one who denies the Retribution? He is the one who harshly repels the orphan, and does not urge the feeding of the destitute.
107:7	So woe to those who make contact, yet are absent-minded about their Contact, who seek to be seen, and withhold assistance.

Sura 108 — The Gift and the Cutting-Off (Al-Kawthar)

108:2	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. We have granted you the Abundance. So make contact for your Guardian, and fulfil it completely.
108:3	Indeed, it is he who hates you who is himself the Cut-Off One.

Sura 109 — To Each His Law (Al-Kafirun)

109:3	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Say: O you who disown! I do not obey what you obey, nor are you ones who obey what I obey.
109:5	Nor am I one who obeys what you have obeyed, nor are you ones who obey what I obey.
109:6	To you your Law, and to me my Law.

Sura 110 — The Crowd That Enters (An-Nasr)

110:3	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. When the help of God comes, and the victory, and you see the people entering the Law of God in crowds, glorify, with praise, your Guardian, and seek His forgiveness,
110:3	He is, in truth, the Accepter of repentance.

Sura 111 — The Man Who Perishes (Al-Masad)

111:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Perish the hands of the Father of the Flame, and he himself has perished.
111:2	His goods and what he acquired have availed him nothing.
111:4	He will burn in a fire of flame, and his wife as well,
111:5	the one who ceaselessly carries the firewood, a rope of twisted fiber around her throat.

Sura 112 — The One Without Equal (Al-Ikhlas)

112:1	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Say: He is God, the Absolute Singularity.
112:2	God, the Impenetrable.
112:3	He begets not, and is not begotten.
112:4	And none is His counterpart.

Sura 113 — The Evils Without (Al-Falaq)

113:5	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Say: I take refuge in the Guardian of the Breakthrough, from the evil of what He has created, and from the evil of a darkness when it penetrates, and from the evil of those who blow insistently into the knots, and from the evil of an envier when he envies.

Sura 114 — The Evil Within (An-Nas)

114:6	In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Say: I take refuge in the Guardian of mankind, the Sovereign of mankind, the Deity of mankind, from the evil of the whisperer who withdraws, who whispers into the breasts of mankind, whether of the Occulted or of mankind.