An-Naml

These are the signs of the Recitation and an explicit Scripture,

تلك ايت القران وكتاب مبين

guidance and good tidings for the believers, those who maintain the Contact and give pure liberality, and who, as for the last life, are certain of it.

هدي وبشري للمومنين الذين يقيمون الصلوه ويوتون الزكوه وهم بالاخره هم يوقنون

Those who do not believe in the last life, We have embellished their works for them, and they go about blindly.

ان الذين لا يومنون بالاخره زينا لهم اعملهم فهم يعمهون

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.

اوليك الذين لهم سو العذاب وهم في الاخره هم الاخسرون

And you, you surely receive the Recitation from a Wise, an All-Knowing.

وانك لتلقي القران من لدن حكيم عليم

When Moussa said to his family: "I have made out a fire; I will bring you news of it, or bring you a burning firebrand, perhaps you can warm yourselves."

اذ قال موسي لاهله اني انست نارا ساتيكم منها بخبر او اتيكم بشهاب قبس لعلكم تصطلون

Glory be to God, Guardian of all beings!

وسبحن الله رب العلمين

as for Me, the envoys do not fear in My presence,

اني لا يخاف لدي المرسلون

except one who has done wrong, then replaced evil with good; then, indeed, I am Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

الا من ظلم ثم بدل حسنا بعد سو فاني غفور رحيم

they were a people of oversteppers."

انهم كانوا قوما فسقين

When Our signs came to them, plainly visible, they said: "This is a manifest illusion."

فلما جاتهم ايتنا مبصره قالوا هذا سحر مبين

So look at what was the end of the corrupters.

فانظر كيف كان عقبه المفسدين

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."

ولقد اتينا داود وسليمن علما وقالا الحمد لله الذي فضلنا علي كثير من عباده المومنين

this is surely the explicit favor."

ان هذا لهو الفضل المبين

And Sulayman's armies were gathered for him, among the Occulted, humans and birds, and they were arranged in columns.

وحشر لسليمن جنوده من الجن والانس والطير فهم يوزعون

Until, when they came to the valley of the ants, an ant said: "O ants, enter your dwellings, lest Sulayman and his armies crush you without sensing it."

حتي اذا اتوا علي واد النمل قالت نمله يايها النمل ادخلوا مسكنكم لا يحطمنكم سليمن وجنوده وهم لا يشعرون

He smiled, amused at her saying, and said: "My Guardian, inspire me to be grateful for Your blessing which You have granted me and my parents, and to do sound work that pleases You, and admit me, by Your benevolence, among Your sound obedient ones."

فتبسم ضاحكا من قولها وقال رب اوزعني ان اشكر نعمتك التي انعمت علي وعلي ولدي وان اعمل صلحا ترضيه وادخلني برحمتك في عبادك الصلحين

He reviewed the birds, and said: "Why do I not see the hoopoe? Or is she among the absent?

وتفقد الطير فقال ما لي لا اري الهدهد ام كان من الغايبين

I will certainly punish her with a severe punishment, or I will slaughter her, unless she brings me a manifest authority."

لاعذبنه عذابا شديدا او لااذبحنه او لياتيني بسلطن مبين

and said: "I have encompassed what you have not encompassed, and I bring you from Saba' a certain piece of information.

فقال احطت بما لم تحط به وجيتك من سبا بنبا يقين

And she has an immense edifice.

ولها عرش عظيم

I found her and her people prostrating before the sun, besides God; and the Diverter has embellished their works for them, and thus barred them from the way, so that they do not let themselves be 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 hide and what they disclose.

وجدتها وقومها يسجدون للشمس من دون الله وزين لهم الشيطن اعملهم فصدهم عن السبيل فهم لا يهتدون الا يسجدوا لله الذي يخرج الخب في السموت والارض ويعلم ما تخفون وما تعلنون

God, there is no deity but Him, the Guardian of the immense Edifice.

الله لا اله الا هو رب العرش العظيم

He said: "We shall look whether you have spoken truly, or are among the liars.

قال سننظر اصدقت ام كنت من الكذبين

Go with this letter of mine, cast it to them, then move away from them, and see what they return."

اذهب بكتبي هذا فالقه اليهم ثم تول عنهم فانظر ماذا يرجعون

She said: "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."

قالت يايها الملوا اني القي الي كتب كريم انه من سليمن وانه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الا تعلوا علي واتوني مسلمين

She said: "O court, enlighten me about my affair; I issue no ordinance without you bearing witness to it."

قالت يايها الملوا افتوني في امري ما كنت قاطعه امرا حتي تشهدون

They said: "We are possessors of strength and possessors of severe rigor, but the affair is yours to decide; so consider what you command."

قالوا نحن اولوا قوه واولوا باس شديد والامر اليك فانظري ماذا تامرين

and thus they act.

وكذلك يفعلون

Now, I am going to send them a gift, and look at what the envoys return with."

واني مرسله اليهم بهديه فناظره بم يرجع المرسلون

When it came to Sulayman, he said: "Do you wish to provide 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.

فلما جا سليمن قال اتمدونن بمال فما اتين الله خير مما اتيكم بل انتم بهديتكم تفرحون

Return to them: we shall certainly come to them with armies they cannot withstand, and we shall certainly drive them out from it, humiliated and diminished."

ارجع اليهم فلناتينهم بجنود لا قبل لهم بها ولنخرجنهم منها اذله وهم صغرون

He said: "O court, which of you will bring me her edifice before they come to me true to God alone?"

قال يايها الملوا ايكم ياتيني بعرشها قبل ان ياتوني مسلمين

An ifrit among the Occulted said: "I will bring it to you before you rise from your place; and I am surely strong for it, and trustworthy."

قال عفريت من الجن انا اتيك به قبل ان تقوم من مقامك واني عليه لقوي امين

and whoever disowns, my Guardian is indeed Self-Sufficient, Generous."

ومن كفر فان ربي غني كريم

He said: "Make her edifice unrecognizable to her; we shall look into whether she lets herself be guided, or is among those who do not let themselves be guided."

قال نكروا لها عرشها ننظر اتهتدي ام تكون من الذين لا يهتدون

And knowledge had been given to us before her, and we were true to God alone."

واوتينا العلم من قبلها وكنا مسلمين

she belonged to a people who disown.

انها كانت من قوم كفرين

She said: "My Guardian, I have indeed wronged myself, and I am true, with Sulayman, to God, Guardian of all beings."

قالت رب اني ظلمت نفسي واسلمت مع سليمن لله رب العلمين

And We certainly sent to the Thamud their brother Salih: "Obey God"; and behold, two fractions quarreling.

ولقد ارسلنا الي ثمود اخاهم صلحا ان اعبدوا الله فاذا هم فريقان يختصمون

He said: "O my people, why do you seek to hasten evil before good? Will you not seek God's forgiveness, in the hope that He may show you benevolence?"

قال يقوم لم تستعجلون بالسييه قبل الحسنه لولا تستغفرون الله لعلكم ترحمون

you are rather a people being tried."

بل انتم قوم تفتنون

And there were in the Capital nine individuals who sowed corruption on the earth and made nothing sound.

وكان في المدينه تسعه رهط يفسدون في الارض ولا يصلحون

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 surely veracious."

قالوا تقاسموا بالله لنبيتنه واهله ثم لنقولن لوليه ما شهدنا مهلك اهله وانا لصدقون

They plotted a plot, and We plotted a plot, without their sensing it.

ومكروا مكرا ومكرنا مكرا وهم لا يشعرون

We destroyed them, and their people, all together.

انا دمرنهم وقومهم اجمعين

There is surely in that a sign for a people who know.

ان في ذلك لايه لقوم يعلمون

And We saved those who had believed and guarded themselves.

وانجينا الذين امنوا وكانوا يتقون

And Lut, when he said to his people: "Do you commit indecency while you see clearly?

ولوطا اذ قال لقومه اتاتون الفحشه وانتم تبصرون

You are rather an ignorant people."

بل انتم قوم تجهلون

they are men who want to purify themselves."

انهم اناس يتطهرون

So We saved him, and his family, except his wife; We had determined that she would be among those who linger behind.

فانجينه واهله الا امراته قدرنها من الغبرين

how evil was the rain of those who had been warned!

فسا مطر المنذرين

Is God better, or what you associate?"

الله خير اما يشركون

They are rather a people who set up equals.

بل هم قوم يعدلون

But most of them do not know.

بل اكثرهم لا يعلمون

How little you remember!

قليلا ما تذكرون

God is far above what they associate with Him!

تعلي الله عما يشركون

Say: "Bring your demonstration, if you are veracious."

قل هاتوا برهنكم ان كنتم صدقين

and they do not sense when they will be raised.

وما يشعرون ايان يبعثون

they are rather in doubt about it, they are rather blind to it.

بل هم في شك منها بل هم منها عمون

And those who disown said: "When we are earth, we and our ancestors, will we really be brought out?

وقال الذين كفروا اذا كنا تربا واباونا اينا لمخرجون

these are nothing but legends of the ancients."

ان هذا الا اسطير الاولين

Say: "Travel the earth, and see what was the end of the severed."

قل سيروا في الارض فانظروا كيف كان عقبه المجرمين

And do not grieve over them, and do not be constrained because of what they plot.

ولا تحزن عليهم ولا تكن في ضيق مما يمكرون

And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"

ويقولون متي هذا الوعد ان كنتم صدقين

Say: "It may be that some of what you seek to hasten is very close behind you."

قل عسي ان يكون ردف لكم بعض الذي تستعجلون

but most of them are not grateful.

ولكن اكثرهم لا يشكرون

And your Guardian surely knows what their chests shelter and what they disclose.

وان ربك ليعلم ما تكن صدورهم وما يعلنون

And there is nothing, in the sky and the earth, that escapes the senses without being in an explicit register.

وما من غايبه في السما والارض الا في كتب مبين

This Recitation relates to the Sons of Israel most of what they differ about.

ان هذا القران يقص علي بني اسريل اكثر الذي هم فيه يختلفون

And it is surely guidance and benevolence for the believers.

وانه لهدي ورحمه للمومنين

and it is He, the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing.

وهو العزيز العليم

for you are upon the explicit truth.

انك علي الحق المبين

You do not make the dead hear, nor do you make the deaf hear the call, when they turn their backs in retreat.

انك لا تسمع الموتي ولا تسمع الصم الدعا اذا ولوا مدبرين

you make hear only him who believes in Our signs, and those are true to God alone.

ان تسمع الا من يومن بايتنا فهم مسلمون

because men had no certainty regarding Our signs.

ان الناس كانوا بايتنا لا يوقنون

And the day when We gather, from every community, a crowd among those who deny Our signs, they will be marshaled in columns,

ويوم نحشر من كل امه فوجا ممن يكذب بايتنا فهم يوزعون

Or what were you doing?"

اماذا كنتم تعملون

And the saying will be fulfilled against them because of their wrongdoing, and they will utter nothing.

ووقع القول عليهم بما ظلموا فهم لا ينطقون

There are surely in that signs for a people who believe.

ان في ذلك لايت لقوم يومنون

and all will come to Him, abased.

وكل اتوه دخرين

He is Intimately Acquainted with what you do.

انه خبير بما تفعلون

Whoever comes with good will have better than it, and those will be, that day, safe from fright.

من جا بالحسنه فله خير منها وهم من فزع يوميذ امنون

Will you be recompensed otherwise than according to what you used to do?

هل تجزون الا ما كنتم تعملون

"I have only been ordered to obey the Guardian of this land, which He has made inviolable, and to whom belongs everything;

انما امرت ان اعبد رب هذه البلده الذي حرمها وله كل شي

and whoever goes astray, say then: "I am only one of the warners."

ومن ضل فقل انما انا من المنذرين

And your Guardian is not heedless of what you do.

وما ربك بغفل عما تعملون