Sad

By the Recitation charged with the Reminder,

والقرءان ذي الذكر

no! Those who disown are steeped in might and rupture.

بل الذين كفروا في عزة وشقاق

How many generations did We annihilate before them! They cried out, but it was no longer the time for a way out.

كم اهلكنا من قبلهم من قرن فنادوا ولات حين مناص

And they marveled that a warner should come to them from among themselves,

وعجبوا ان جاءهم منذر منهم

and those who disown said: "This is a worker of illusion, a great liar. Has he made the deities a single deity? This is surely an astonishing thing!"

وقال الكفرون هذا سحر كذاب اجعل الءالهة الها وحدا ان هذا لشىء عجاب

No, they are in doubt about My Reminder; no, they have not yet tasted My punishment.

بل هم في شك من ذكري بل لما يذوقوا عذاب

Or do they hold the treasuries of the benevolence of your Guardian, the All-Powerful, the Bestower?

ام عندهم خزاين رحمة ربك العزيز الوهاب

Then let them ascend by the means!

فليرتقوا في الاسبب

It is but an army among the parties, doomed to defeat.

جند ما هنالك مهزوم من الاحزاب

Those are the parties.

اوليك الاحزاب

Each of them did nothing but deny the messengers, and so My sanction proved true.

ان كل الا كذب الرسل فحق عقاب

And these await nothing but a single cry, with no respite.

وما ينظر هولاء الا صيحة وحدة ما لها من فواق

And they said: "Our Guardian, hasten for us our share, before the Day of Reckoning."

وقالوا ربنا عجل لنا قطنا قبل يوم الحساب

he was ever-returning.

انه اواب

each of them was ever-returning to Him.

كل له اواب

And We strengthened his dominion and gave him wisdom and the address that separates.

وشددنا ملكه وءاتينه الحكمة وفصل الخطاب

and guide us to the middle of the path."

واهدنا الى سواء الصرط

"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 address."

ان هذا اخي له تسع وتسعون نعجة ولي نعجة وحدة فقال اكفلنيها وعزني في الخطاب

And Dawud presumed that We had tried him; he sought his Guardian's forgiveness, fell down kneeling, and had recourse to Him.

وظن داود انما فتنه فاستغفر ربه وخر راكعا واناب

and he surely has, with Us, closeness and a fine place of resort.

وان له عندنا لزلفى وحسن ماب

Indeed, those who stray from the way of God will have a severe punishment, for having forgotten the Day of Reckoning."

ان الذين يضلون عن سبيل الله لهم عذاب شديد بما نسوا يوم الحساب

so woe to those who disown, because of the Fire!

فويل للذين كفروا من النار

Or should We treat those who guard themselves like the depraved?

ام نجعل المتقين كالفجار

Here is a blessed Scripture that We sent down to you, so that they may ponder its signs, and so that the possessors of intelligence may remember.

كتب انزلنه اليك مبرك ليدبروا ءايته وليتذكر اولوا الالبب

He was ever-returning.

انه اواب

When there were displayed to him, in the evening, the standing, well-bred horses, he said: "I have indeed loved the love of the good more than the remembrance of my Guardian," until they were concealed behind the veil.

اذ عرض عليه بالعشي الصفنت الجياد فقال اني احببت حب الخير عن ذكر ربي حتى توارت بالحجاب

"Bring them back to me!" And he set about stroking their legs and necks.

ردوها على فطفق مسحا بالسوق والاعناق

And We certainly tried Sulayman: We cast upon his throne-seat a body; then he had recourse to Us.

ولقد فتنا سليمن والقينا على كرسيه جسدا ثم اناب

You, indeed, are the Bestower."

انك انت الوهاب

So We subjected the wind to him, running at his command, gently, wherever he aimed; and the Diverters, every builder and diver, and others bound together in fetters.

فسخرنا له الريح تجري بامره رخاء حيث اصاب والشيطين كل بناء وغواص وءاخرين مقرنين في الاصفاد

"This is Our endowment: grace others with it or retain it, without account to render."

هذا عطاونا فامنن او امسك بغير حساب

And he surely has, with Us, closeness and a fine place of resort.

وان له عندنا لزلفى وحسن ماب

And remember Our obedient one Ayyub, when he called upon his Guardian: "The Diverter has touched me with fatigue and suffering."

واذكر عبدنا ايوب اذ نادى ربه اني مسني الشيطن بنصب وعذاب

here is cool water for washing and for drinking."

هذا مغتسل بارد وشراب

And We bestowed on him his family, and as many again with them, as a benevolence from Us, and as a reminder for the possessors of intelligence.

ووهبنا له اهله ومثلهم معهم رحمة منا وذكرى لاولي الالبب

He was ever-returning.

انه اواب

And remember Our obedient ones Ibrahim, Ishaq, and Yaacoub, endowed with strength and insight.

واذكر عبدنا ابرهيم واسحق ويعقوب اولي الايدي والابصر

We refined them with something refined: the remembrance of the Abode.

انا اخلصنهم بخالصة ذكرى الدار

And they are surely, with Us, among the chosen, the best.

وانهم عندنا لمن المصطفين الاخيار

and each among the best.

وكل من الاخيار

And those who guard themselves shall surely have a fine place of resort:

وان للمتقين لحسن ماب

Gardens of permanence, whose gates will be opened for them, reclining therein, calling for abundant savoury fruit and drink.

جنت عدن مفتحة لهم الابوب متكين فيها يدعون فيها بفكهة كثيرة وشراب

And beside them will be companions of reserved gaze, fertile and of shared stock.

وعندهم قصرت الطرف اتراب

This is what they are promised for the Day of Reckoning.

هذا ما توعدون ليوم الحساب

This is surely Our provision, which knows no end.

ان هذا لرزقنا ما له من نفاد

what an evil bed!

فبيس المهاد

This — let them taste it: boiling water, and a foul, dark fluid, and others of the same kind, in pairs.

هذا فليذوقوه حميم وغساق وءاخر من شكله ازوج

They will indeed burn in the Fire."

انهم صالوا النار

What a wretched haven!"

فبيس القرار

They will say: "Our Guardian, whoever prepared this for us, give him double punishment in the Fire."

قالوا ربنا من قدم لنا هذا فزده عذابا ضعفا في النار

And they will say: "Why do we not see men we used to number among the wicked?

وقالوا ما لنا لا نرى رجالا كنا نعدهم من الاشرار

Did we take them as objects of scoffing, or have our sights deviated from them?"

اتخذنهم سخريا ام زاغت عنهم الابصر

This is surely true: such is the quarrel of the people of the Fire.

ان ذلك لحق تخاصم اهل النار

and there is no deity but God, the One, the Subjugator,

وما من اله الا الله الوحد القهار

the All-Powerful, the Great Forgiver."

العزيز الغفر

Say: "This is immense Information, from which you turn away:

قل هو نبوا عظيم انتم عنه معرضون

I had no knowledge of the sublime court when it quarreled;

ما كان لي من علم بالملا الاعلى اذ يختصمون

nothing is revealed to me except that I am a clear warner."

ان يوحى الى الا انما انا نذير مبين

When your Guardian said to the Agents: "I am about to create a human of clay; when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My Influx, bow before him, prostrating."

اذ قال ربك للمليكة اني خلق بشرا من طين فاذا سويته ونفخت فيه من روحي فقعوا له سجدين

The Agents then prostrated, all together, except Iblis: he grew proud and was among those who disown.

فسجد المليكة كلهم اجمعون الا ابليس استكبر وكان من الكفرين

He said: "O Iblis, what prevented you from prostrating before what I created with My own two hands? Did you grow proud, or were you among the exalted?"

قال يابليس ما منعك ان تسجد لما خلقت بيدى استكبرت ام كنت من العالين

He said: "I am better than him: You created me from fire, and You created him from clay."

قال انا خير منه خلقتني من نار وخلقته من طين

He said: "Then get out of here, for you are banished, and My curse is indeed upon you until the Day of the Due."

قال فاخرج منها فانك رجيم وان عليك لعنتي الى يوم الدين

He said: "My Guardian, grant me then a delay until the day they are raised."

قال رب فانظرني الى يوم يبعثون

He said: "You are among those granted a delay, until the day of the known moment."

قال فانك من المنظرين الى يوم الوقت المعلوم

He said: "By Your might, I will surely make them all err, except Your refined obedient ones among them."

قال فبعزتك لاغوينهم اجمعين الا عبادك منهم المخلصين

He said: "Here then is the truth — and I speak the truth:

قال فالحق والحق اقول

I will surely fill Jahannam with you and with all of those among them who follow you."

لاملان جهنم منك وممن تبعك منهم اجمعين

Say: "I ask you no reward for this, and I am not one of those who pretend to be what they are not.

قل ما اسلكم عليه من اجر وما انا من المتكلفين

It is only a reminder for all beings,

ان هو الا ذكر للعلمين

and you will surely know its information after a time."

ولتعلمن نباه بعد حين