Al-Furqan

Blessed is He who sent down the Discernment upon His obedient one, that he may be a warner to all beings,

تبارك الذي نزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعلمين نذيرا

and who created everything and measured it with precision.

وخلق كل شىء فقدره تقديرا

Yet they have taken, besides Him, deities that create nothing and are themselves created, that possess for themselves neither harm nor benefit, and that possess neither death, nor life, nor Deployment.

واتخذوا من دونه ءالهة لا يخلقون شيا وهم يخلقون ولا يملكون لانفسهم ضرا ولا نفعا ولا يملكون موتا ولا حيوة ولا نشورا

And those who disown say: "This is nothing but a distortion he invented, and another group helped him with it."

وقال الذين كفروا ان هذا الا افك افترىه واعانه عليه قوم ءاخرون

They have thus come with wrongdoing and falsification, saying: "These are legends of the ancients that he has transcribed himself, dictated to him morning and evening."

فقد جاءو ظلما وزورا وقالوا اسطير الاولين اكتتبها فهي تملى عليه بكرة واصيلا

for He is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."

انه كان غفورا رحيما

And the wrongdoers say: "You follow none but a man abused by illusion."

وقال الظلمون ان تتبعون الا رجلا مسحورا

Look how they have multiplied examples about you, and so gone astray: so they cannot find a way.

انظر كيف ضربوا لك الامثل فضلوا فلا يستطيعون سبيلا

Blessed is He who, if He willed, would make for you better than that: gardens beneath which rivers flow, and He would make for you palaces.

تبارك الذي ان شاء جعل لك خيرا من ذلك جنت تجري من تحتها الانهر ويجعل لك قصورا

But rather they have denied the Hour.

بل كذبوا بالساعة

And We have made ready, for whoever denies the Hour, the Inferno. When it sees them from a distant place, they will hear its fury and a rattle.

واعتدنا لمن كذب بالساعة سعيرا اذا راتهم من مكان بعيد سمعوا لها تغيظا وزفيرا

And when they are thrown into a narrow place therein, bound together, they will call there for their ruin.

واذا القوا منها مكانا ضيقا مقرنين دعوا هنالك ثبورا

Do not call today for a single ruin, but call for many ruins.

لا تدعوا اليوم ثبورا وحدا وادعوا ثبورا كثيرا

It will be for them a recompense and a destination."

كانت لهم جزاء ومصيرا

that is, on the part of your Guardian, a promise that is demanded.

كان على ربك وعدا مسولا

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?"

ويوم يحشرهم وما يعبدون من دون الله فيقول ءانتم اضللتم عبادي هولاء ام هم ضلوا السبيل

but You granted them enjoyment, them and their ancestors, until they forgot the Reminder and became a blighted people."

ولكن متعتهم وءاباءهم حتى نسوا الذكر وكانوا قوما بورا

And whoever among you does wrong, We will make him taste a great punishment.

ومن يظلم منكم نذقه عذابا كبيرا

Your Guardian is All-Seeing.

وكان ربك بصيرا

They have indeed grown greatly proud within themselves and behaved with immense insolence.

لقد استكبروا في انفسهم وعتو عتوا كبيرا

that cannot be crossed!"

محجورا

And We advanced upon every deed they had done, and We reduced it to scattered dust.

وقدمنا الى ما عملوا من عمل فجعلنه هباء منثورا

The companions of the Garden, that day, will have a better haven and a more beautiful place of midday rest.

اصحب الجنة يوميذ خير مستقرا واحسن مقيلا

And the day when the sky will split apart with the clouds, and the Agents will be sent down, a complete descent,

ويوم تشقق السماء بالغمم ونزل المليكة تنزيلا

and it will be, for those who disown, a difficult day.

وكان يوما على الكفرين عسيرا

The Diverter is, for the human being, one who always abandons him.

وكان الشيطن للانسن خذولا

And the messenger said: "O my Guardian, my people have indeed deserted this Recitation."

وقال الرسول يرب ان قومي اتخذوا هذا القرءان مهجورا

And your Guardian suffices as guide and as help.

وكفى بربك هاديا ونصيرا

and We have set it out in measured order.

ورتلنه ترتيلا

And they bring you no example without Our bringing you the truth and a more beautiful explanation.

ولا ياتونك بمثل الا جينك بالحق واحسن تفسيرا

Those who will be gathered upon their faces toward Jahannam — those have the worst place and the most astray way.

الذين يحشرون على وجوههم الى جهنم اوليك شر مكانا واضل سبيلا

We certainly gave Moussa the Scripture, and We placed with him his brother Harun as an assistant.

ولقد ءاتينا موسى الكتب وجعلنا معه اخاه هرون وزيرا

And We destroyed them utterly.

فدمرنهم تدميرا

And We have made ready for the wrongdoers a painful punishment.

واعتدنا للظلمين عذابا اليما

And the Aad, and the Thamud, and the companions of ar-Rass, and many generations between those times,

وعادا وثمودا واصحب الرس وقرونا بين ذلك كثيرا

and each one, We devastated utterly.

وكلا تبرنا تتبيرا

But they did not hope for any Deployment.

بل كانوا لا يرجون نشورا

And when they see you, they take you only as an object of mockery:

واذا راوك ان يتخذونك الا هزوا

And they will know, when they see the punishment, who was most astray from the way.

وسوف يعلمون حين يرون العذاب من اضل سبيلا

Have you seen him who has taken his emotion as his deity? Would you then be his trustee?

ارءيت من اتخذ الهه هوىه افانت تكون عليه وكيلا

They are but like cattle — no, they are even more astray from the way.

ان هم الا كالانعم بل هم اضل سبيلا

And had He willed, He would have made it still.

ولو شاء لجعله ساكنا

Then We made the sun its indicator; then We drew it back to Us, an easy drawing-back.

ثم جعلنا الشمس عليه دليلا ثم قبضنه الينا قبضا يسيرا

It is He who made for you the night a garment, sleep a rest, and the day a time of deployment.

وهو الذي جعل لكم اليل لباسا والنوم سباتا وجعل النهار نشورا

It is He who has sent the winds, as bearers of good tidings, before His benevolence,

وهو الذي ارسل الريح بشرا بين يدى رحمته

and We sent down from the sky a purifying water, to bring a dead land back to life through it, and to give drink from it to many of the cattle and human beings We created.

وانزلنا من السماء ماء طهورا لنحي به بلدة ميتا ونسقيه مما خلقنا انعما واناسي كثيرا

We indeed diversified it among them so that they might remember; but most men refused everything except disowning.

ولقد صرفنه بينهم ليذكروا فابى اكثر الناس الا كفورا

And had We willed, We would have raised up in every city a warner.

ولو شينا لبعثنا في كل قرية نذيرا

and strive against them through it with a great striving.

وجهدهم به جهادا كبيرا

And He placed between them a barrier and a boundary that cannot be crossed.

وجعل بينهما برزخا وحجرا محجورا

Your Guardian is Capable.

وكان ربك قديرا

and he who disowns becomes a support against his Guardian.

وكان الكافر على ربه ظهيرا

We have sent you only as a bearer of good tidings and a warner.

وما ارسلنك الا مبشرا ونذيرا

Say: "I ask of you no reward for this, except that whoever wills take a way to his Guardian."

قل ما اسلكم عليه من اجر الا من شاء ان يتخذ الى ربه سبيلا

And He suffices, He, as Intimately Acquainted with the offenses of His obedient ones.

وكفى به بذنوب عباده خبيرا

So ask about Him an Intimately Acquainted One.

فسل به خبيرا

Shall we prostrate before what you order us?" And it only increases their recoil.

انسجد لما تامرنا وزادهم نفورا

Blessed is He who placed in the sky constellations, and placed therein a torch and an illuminating moon.

تبارك الذي جعل في السماء بروجا وجعل فيها سرجا وقمرا منيرا

It is He who made the night and the day a succession, for whoever wants to remember or wants to be grateful.

وهو الذي جعل اليل والنهار خلفة لمن اراد ان يذكر او اراد شكورا

And the obedient ones of the All-Benevolent are those who walk upon the earth gently, and who, when the ignorant address them, say: "Peace."

وعباد الرحمن الذين يمشون على الارض هونا واذا خاطبهم الجهلون قالوا سلما

And those who spend the night prostrating and standing for their Guardian,

والذين يبيتون لربهم سجدا وقيما

and those who say: "Our Guardian, turn away from us the punishment of Jahannam — for its punishment is an unforeseen levy;

والذين يقولون ربنا اصرف عنا عذاب جهنم ان عذابها كان غراما

it is indeed an evil haven and an evil station" —

انها ساءت مستقرا ومقاما

and those who, when they spend, neither waste nor withhold excessively, standing between the two with just measure,

والذين اذا انفقوا لم يسرفوا ولم يقتروا وكان بين ذلك قواما

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 —

والذين لا يدعون مع الله الها ءاخر ولا يقتلون النفس التي حرم الله الا بالحق ولا يزنون

and God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

وكان الله غفورا رحيما

And whoever repents and does a sound deed indeed turns back to God, a full turning back.

ومن تاب وعمل صلحا فانه يتوب الى الله متابا

And those who do not bear witness to falsification, and who, when they pass by idle talk, pass with dignity,

والذين لا يشهدون الزور واذا مروا باللغو مروا كراما

and those who, when reminded by the signs of their Guardian, do not fall on them deaf and blind,

والذين اذا ذكروا بايت ربهم لم يخروا عليها صما وعميانا

and those who say: "Our Guardian, bestow on us, from our spouses and our descendants, a rest of the gaze, and make us a guide for those who guard themselves" —

والذين يقولون ربنا هب لنا من ازوجنا وذريتنا قرة اعين واجعلنا للمتقين اماما

What an excellent haven and an excellent station!

حسنت مستقرا ومقاما

You have thus denied, and it will become inevitable."

فقد كذبتم فسوف يكون لزاما