Ya-Sin

Ya. Sin.

يس

By the Recitation full of wisdom, you are surely among the envoys, upon a straight path,

والقرءان الحكيم انك لمن المرسلين على صرط مستقيم

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.

تنزيل العزيز الرحيم لتنذر قوما ما انذر ءاباوهم فهم غفلون

The saying has proven true against most of them: they do not believe.

لقد حق القول على اكثرهم فهم لا يومنون

We have indeed placed shackles on their necks, reaching up to their chins, so that their heads are held back.

انا جعلنا في اعنقهم اغللا فهي الى الاذقان فهم مقمحون

And We have placed a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, and We have covered them over, so they do not see clearly.

وجعلنا من بين ايديهم سدا ومن خلفهم سدا فاغشينهم فهم لا يبصرون

It is the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them: they do not believe.

وسواء عليهم ءانذرتهم ام لم تنذرهم لا يومنون

You only warn one who follows the Reminder and dreads the All-Benevolent even though He escapes his senses: give him good news of forgiveness and a generous reward.

انما تنذر من اتبع الذكر وخشي الرحمن بالغيب فبشره بمغفرة واجر كريم

And everything, We have enumerated it in a clear reference.

وكل شىء احصينه في امام مبين

Multiply for them, as an example, the companions of the city: when the envoys came to it, when We sent two to them, and they denied them; so We made them mighty with a third, and they said: "We are indeed sent to you."

واضرب لهم مثلا اصحب القرية اذ جاءها المرسلون اذ ارسلنا اليهم اثنين فكذبوهما فعززنا بثالث فقالوا انا اليكم مرسلون

They said: "You are nothing but humans like us; the All-Benevolent has sent nothing down; you are only lying."

قالوا ما انتم الا بشر مثلنا وما انزل الرحمن من شىء ان انتم الا تكذبون

They said: "Our Guardian knows that we are surely sent to you; and only the clear transmission is incumbent upon us."

قالوا ربنا يعلم انا اليكم لمرسلون وما علينا الا البلغ المبين

They said: "We see in you an ill omen. If you do not stop, we will surely banish you, and a painful punishment from us will touch you."

قالوا انا تطيرنا بكم لين لم تنتهوا لنرجمنكم وليمسنكم منا عذاب اليم

Rather, you are a people of the excessive."

بل انتم قوم مسرفون

And a man came hurrying from the farthest end of the Capital.

وجاء من اقصا المدينة رجل يسعى

He said: "O my people, follow the envoys; follow those who ask no reward of you, and who let themselves be guided.

قال يقوم اتبعوا المرسلين اتبعوا من لا يسلكم اجرا وهم مهتدون

And why should I not obey the One who originated me, and to whom you will be returned?

وما لي لا اعبد الذي فطرني واليه ترجعون

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.

ءاتخذ من دونه ءالهة ان يردن الرحمن بضر لا تغن عني شفعتهم شيا ولا ينقذون

I would then surely be in manifest error.

اني اذا لفي ضلل مبين

I have believed in your Guardian: so listen to me."

اني ءامنت بربكم فاسمعون

It was said: "Enter the Garden."

قيل ادخل الجنة

He said: "If only my people knew for what my Guardian has forgiven me, and made me one of the honored ones!"

قال يليت قومي يعلمون بما غفر لي ربي وجعلني من المكرمين

And We did not send down upon his people, after him, any army from the sky, nor did We need to send one down.

وما انزلنا على قومه من بعده من جند من السماء وما كنا منزلين

It was but a single cry, and there they were, extinguished.

ان كانت الا صيحة وحدة فاذا هم خمدون

No messenger ever came to them but they mocked him.

ما ياتيهم من رسول الا كانوا به يستهزءون

Do they not see how many generations We annihilated before them, and that they will not return to them?

الم يروا كم اهلكنا قبلهم من القرون انهم اليهم لا يرجعون

All of them, every single one, will be brought together before Us.

وان كل لما جميع لدينا محضرون

A sign for them: the dead earth, which We have brought back to life, and from which We have brought forth grain, and it is from it that they eat.

وءاية لهم الارض الميتة احيينها واخرجنا منها حبا فمنه ياكلون

Will they not then be grateful?

افلا يشكرون

Glory be to the One who created all the pairs, from what the earth grows, from themselves, and from what they do not know.

سبحن الذي خلق الازوج كلها مما تنبت الارض ومن انفسهم ومما لا يعلمون

A sign for them: the night, from which We strip away the day, and there they are, plunged into darkness.

وءاية لهم اليل نسلخ منه النهار فاذا هم مظلمون

That is the measure set by the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing.

ذلك تقدير العزيز العليم

And the moon, We have set for it stations, until it returns like an old curved palm-stalk.

والقمر قدرنه منازل حتى عاد كالعرجون القديم

Each swims in an orbit.

وكل في فلك يسبحون

A sign for them: We carried their descendants in the laden vessel, and We created for them, similar to it, what they ride.

وءاية لهم انا حملنا ذريتهم في الفلك المشحون وخلقنا لهم من مثله ما يركبون

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.

وان نشا نغرقهم فلا صريخ لهم ولا هم ينقذون الا رحمة منا ومتعا الى حين

And when it is said to them: "Guard yourselves against what is before you and what is behind you, perhaps benevolence will be shown to you,"

واذا قيل لهم اتقوا ما بين ايديكم وما خلفكم لعلكم ترحمون

no sign, among the signs of their Guardian, comes to them without their turning away from it.

وما تاتيهم من ءاية من ءايت ربهم الا كانوا عنها معرضين

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."

واذا قيل لهم انفقوا مما رزقكم الله قال الذين كفروا للذين ءامنوا انطعم من لو يشاء الله اطعمه ان انتم الا في ضلل مبين

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

ويقولون متى هذا الوعد ان كنتم صدقين

They await nothing but a single cry that will seize them while they are quarreling with one another.

ما ينظرون الا صيحة وحدة تاخذهم وهم يخصمون

Then they will not be able to make any bequest, nor will they return to their people.

فلا يستطيعون توصية ولا الى اهلهم يرجعون

And the Horn will be blown, and there they are, swarming from their sepulchres to their Guardian.

ونفخ في الصور فاذا هم من الاجداث الى ربهم ينسلون

This is what the All-Benevolent promised, and the envoys were veracious."

هذا ما وعد الرحمن وصدق المرسلون

It will be but a single cry, and there they are, all together, brought before Us.

ان كانت الا صيحة وحدة فاذا هم جميع لدينا محضرون

This day, no Self will be wronged in the least, and you will be recompensed only for what you used to do.

فاليوم لا تظلم نفس شيا ولا تجزون الا ما كنتم تعملون

The companions of the Garden will, this day, be occupied in delight, they and their spouses, in the shade, reclining upon adorned couches.

ان اصحب الجنة اليوم في شغل فكهون هم وازوجهم في ظلل على الارايك متكون

They will have savoury fruit therein.

لهم فيها فكهة

A saying from a Benevolent Guardian.

قولا من رب رحيم

"Stand apart today, O severed!

وامتزوا اليوم ايها المجرمون

This is a straight path.

هذا صرط مستقيم

Did you not then reason?

افلم تكونوا تعقلون

This is Jahannam, which you were promised. Burn in it today, for having disowned."

هذه جهنم التي كنتم توعدون اصلوها اليوم بما كنتم تكفرون

This day, We seal their mouths; their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will bear witness to what they used to earn.

اليوم نختم على افوههم وتكلمنا ايديهم وتشهد ارجلهم بما كانوا يكسبون

And if We willed, We would obliterate their eyes; then they would race toward the path, but how would they see clearly?

ولو نشاء لطمسنا على اعينهم فاستبقوا الصرط فانى يبصرون

And if We willed, We would freeze them in their places, and they would be able neither to go forward nor to return.

ولو نشاء لمسخنهم على مكانتهم فما استطعوا مضيا ولا يرجعون

Will they not then reason?

افلا يعقلون

We did not teach him the art of seduction; it does not befit him.

وما علمنه الشعر وما ينبغي له

It is nothing but a Reminder and a clear Recitation, so as to warn whoever is alive, and so that the saying may prove true against those who disown.

ان هو الا ذكر وقرءان مبين لينذر من كان حيا ويحق القول على الكفرين

Do they not see that We have created for them, from what Our hands have made, cattle which they own?

اولم يروا انا خلقنا لهم مما عملت ايدينا انعما فهم لها ملكون

We have made them docile for them: some serve as their mounts, and some they eat.

وذللنها لهم فمنها ركوبهم ومنها ياكلون

Will they not then be grateful?

افلا يشكرون

And they have taken, besides God, deities, hoping to be helped. They cannot help them, though they will be, for them, an army brought forth.

واتخذوا من دون الله ءالهة لعلهم ينصرون لا يستطيعون نصرهم وهم لهم جند محضرون

We indeed know what they keep secret and what they disclose.

انا نعلم ما يسرون وما يعلنون

Does the human being not see that We created him from a drop, and behold, he is a declared quarreler?

اولم ير الانسن انا خلقنه من نطفة فاذا هو خصيم مبين

He says: "Who will bring the bones back to life once they are dust?"

قال من يحي العظم وهي رميم

Say: "He who brought them into being the first time will bring them back to life; and He is All-Knowing of all creation."

قل يحييها الذي انشاها اول مرة وهو بكل خلق عليم

He who made for you fire out of the green tree, and see, you kindle from it.

الذي جعل لكم من الشجر الاخضر نارا فاذا انتم منه توقدون

Yes! And He is the Creator, the All-Knowing.

بلى وهو الخلق العليم

and it is.

فيكون

So glory be to the One in whose hand is the sovereign dominion of all things, and to whom you will be returned.

فسبحن الذي بيده ملكوت كل شىء واليه ترجعون