Al-Furqan
The Obedient Ones of the All-Benevolent
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,
بسم ٱلله ٱلرحمن ٱلرحيم تبارك ٱلذي نزل ٱلفرقان على عبده ليكون للعلمين نذيراHe to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, who has taken no child and has no associate in the dominion,
ٱلذي له ملك ٱلسموت وٱلأرض ولم يتخذ ولدا ولم يكن له شريك في ٱلملكand who created everything and measured it with precision.
وخلق كل شىء فقدره تقديراYet 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.
وٱتخذوا من دونه ءالهة لا يخلقون شيا وهم يخلقون ولا يملكون لأنفسهم ضرا ولا نفعا ولا يملكون موتا ولا حيوة ولا نشوراThose who disown say: This is nothing but a fabrication he invented, and another group helped him with it.
وقال ٱلذين كفروا إن هذآ إلآ إفك ٱفترىه وأعانه عليه قوم ءاخرونThey 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.
فقد جآءو ظلما وزورا وقالوا أسطير ٱلأولين ٱكتتبها فهي تملى عليه بكرة وأصيلاSay: He who knows the secret of the heavens and the earth has sent it down.
قل أنزله ٱلذي يعلم ٱلسر في ٱلسموت وٱلأرضHe is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
إنه كان غفورا رحيماThey 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!
وقالوا مال هذا ٱلرسول يأكل ٱلطعام ويمشي في ٱلأسواق لولآ أنزل إليه ملك فيكون معه نذيرا أو يلقى إليه كنز أو تكون له جنة يأكل منهاAnd the wrongdoers say: You follow none but a man abused by illusion.
وقال ٱلظلمون إن تتبعون إلا رجلا مسحوراSee how they multiply examples about you: they have thus gone astray and can no longer find a way.
ٱنظر كيف ضربوا لك ٱلأمثل فضلوا فلا يستطيعون سبيلاBlessed is He who, if He willed, would give you better than that: gardens beneath which rivers flow, and He would give you palaces.
تبارك ٱلذي إن شآء جعل لك خيرا من ذلك جنت تجري من تحتها ٱلأنهر ويجعل لك قصوراBut rather they have denied the Hour.
بل كذبوا بٱلساعةAnd 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.
وأعتدنا لمن كذب بٱلساعة سعيرا إذا رأتهم من مكان بعيد سمعوا لها تغيظا وزفيراAnd when they are thrown into a narrow place therein, bound together, they will call there for their ruin.
وإذآ ألقوا منها مكانا ضيقا مقرنين دعوا هنالك ثبوراDo not call today for a single ruin, but call for many ruins.
لا تدعوا ٱليوم ثبورا وحدا وٱدعوا ثبورا كثيراSay: Is that better, or the garden of everlastingness promised to those who guard themselves?
قل أذلك خير أم جنة ٱلخلد ٱلتي وعد ٱلمتقونIt will be for them a recompense and a destination.
كانت لهم جزآء ومصيراThey will have therein whatever they desire, abiding therein eternally —
لهم فيها ما يشآءون خلدينthat is, on the part of your Guardian, a promise that will be called to account.
كان على ربك وعدا مسولاAnd 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 ٱلله فيقول ءأنتم أضللتم عبادي هؤلآء أم هم ضلوا ٱلسبيلThey will say: Glory be to You! It was not fitting for us to take, besides You, any allies;
قالوا سبحنك ما كان ينبغي لنآ أن نتخذ من دونك من أوليآءbut You granted them enjoyment, them and their ancestors, until they forgot the Reminder and became a ruined people.
ولكن متعتهم وءابآءهم حتى نسوا ٱلذكر وكانوا قوما بوراThey have thus denied you in what you say; they can neither avert [the punishment] nor [give you] help.
فقد كذبوكم بما تقولون فما تستطيعون صرفا ولا نصراWhoever among you commits injustice, We will make him taste a great punishment.
ومن يظلم منكم نذقه عذابا كبيراWe did not send before you any of the envoys who did not eat food and walk in the marketplaces.
ومآ أرسلنا قبلك من ٱلمرسلين إلآ إنهم ليأكلون ٱلطعام ويمشون في ٱلأسواقAnd We have made some of you a trial for others.
وجعلنا بعضكم لبعض فتنةWill you endure?
أتصبرونYour Guardian sees perfectly.
وكان ربك بصيراAnd 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!
وقال ٱلذين لا يرجون لقآءنا لولآ أنزل علينا ٱلملئكة أو نرى ربناThey have greatly swelled with pride within themselves and overstepped all bounds with immense insolence.
لقد ٱستكبروا في أنفسهم وعتو عتوا كبيراThe day they see the Agents, there will be, on that day, no good news for the severed,
يوم يرون ٱلملئكة لا بشرى يومئذ للمجرمينand they will say: 'A barrier
ويقولون حجراthat cannot be crossed!'
محجوراAnd We turned to every deed they had done, and We reduced it to scattered dust.
وقدمنآ إلى ما عملوا من عمل فجعلنه هبآء منثوراThe companions of the garden, that day, will have a better abode and a more beautiful resting place.
أصحب ٱلجنة يومئذ خير مستقرا وأحسن مقيلاAnd the day when the sky will split apart with the clouds, and the Agents will be sent down, a complete descent,
ويوم تشقق ٱلسمآء بٱلغمم ونزل ٱلملئكة تنزيلاthe dominion, that day, in all truth, will belong to the All-Benevolent,
ٱلملك يومئذ ٱلحق للرحمنand it will be, for those who disown, a difficult day.
وكان يوما على ٱلكفرين عسيراAnd 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.
ويوم يعض ٱلظالم على يديه يقول يليتني ٱتخذت مع ٱلرسول سبيلا يويلتى ليتني لم أتخذ فلانا خليلا لقد أضلني عن ٱلذكر بعد إذ جآءنيThe Diverter is, for the human being, one who always abandons him [at the critical moment].
وكان ٱلشيطن للإنسن خذولاAnd the messenger will say: O my Guardian, my people have forsaken this Recitation.
وقال ٱلرسول يرب إن قومي ٱتخذوا هذا ٱلقرءان مهجوراThus have We given to every prophet an enemy from among the severed.
وكذلك جعلنا لكل نبي عدوا من ٱلمجرمينYour Guardian suffices as guide and as helper.
وكفى بربك هاديا ونصيراAnd those who disown say: Why was the Recitation not sent down upon him all at once!
وقال ٱلذين كفروا لولا نزل عليه ٱلقرءان جملة وحدةThus, so that We may steady your Conscience through it —
كذلك لنثبت به فؤادكand We conveyed it to you in measured order.
ورتلنه ترتيلاThey bring you no example without Our bringing you the truth and a better explanation.
ولا يأتونك بمثل إلا جئنك بٱلحق وأحسن تفسيراThose who will be gathered upon their faces toward Jahannam — those have the worst position and the most astray path.
ٱلذين يحشرون على وجوههم إلى جهنم أولئك شر مكانا وأضل سبيلاWe gave Moussa the Scripture, and We placed with him his brother Harun as support.
ولقد ءاتينا موسى ٱلكتب وجعلنا معه أخاه هرون وزيراWe said: Go, both of you, to the people who have denied Our signs.
فقلنا ٱذهبآ إلى ٱلقوم ٱلذين كذبوا بايتناAnd We destroyed them completely.
فدمرنهم تدميراAnd the people of Nuh, when they denied the messengers, We drowned them and made them a sign for the people.
وقوم نوح لما كذبوا ٱلرسل أغرقنهم وجعلنهم للناس ءايةAnd We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment.
وأعتدنا للظلمين عذابا أليماAnd the Recidivists [Aad], and the Depleters [Thamud], and the companions of the Rass, and many generations between those times,
وعادا وثمودا وأصحب ٱلرس وقرونا بين ذلك كثيراand to each We multiplied the examples,
وكلا ضربنا له ٱلأمثلand each one, We destroyed completely.
وكلا تبرنا تتبيراYet they passed by the city upon which had fallen a dreadful rain:
ولقد أتوا على ٱلقرية ٱلتي أمطرت مطر ٱلسوءshould they not have seen it?
أفلم يكونوا يرونهاBut they did not hope for any Awakening.
بل كانوا لا يرجون نشوراAnd when they see you, they take you only as an object of mockery:
وإذا رأوك إن يتخذونك إلا هزواIs 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!
أهذا ٱلذي بعث ٱلله رسولا إن كاد ليضلنا عن ءالهتنا لولآ أن صبرنا عليهاThey will know, when they see the punishment, who was most astray from the way.
وسوف يعلمون حين يرون ٱلعذاب من أضل سبيلاHave you seen him who has taken his emotion as his deity? Would you then be his trustee?
أرءيت من ٱتخذ إلهه هوىه أفأنت تكون عليه وكيلاOr do you think that most of them hear or reason?
أم تحسب أن أكثرهم يسمعون أو يعقلونThey are but like cattle — or even further astray from the way.
إن هم إلا كٱلأنعم بل هم أضل سبيلاHave you not seen your Guardian, how He extends the shadow?
ألم تر إلى ربك كيف مد ٱلظلHad He willed, He would have made it still.
ولو شآء لجعله ساكناThen We made the sun its indicator; then We drew it back to Us, an easy withdrawal.
ثم جعلنا ٱلشمس عليه دليلا ثم قبضنه إلينا قبضا يسيراIt is He who made for you the night a garment, sleep a rest, and the day a time of awakening.
وهو ٱلذي جعل لكم ٱليل لباسا وٱلنوم سباتا وجعل ٱلنهار نشوراIt is He who sends the winds, which disperse, before His benevolence,
وهو ٱلذي أرسل ٱلريح بشرا بين يدى رحمتهand 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 cattle and human beings We created.
وأنزلنا من ٱلسمآء مآء طهورا لنحي به بلدة ميتا ونسقيه مما خلقنآ أنعما وأناسي كثيراWe distributed it among them so that they might remember; but most people want nothing but profound disowning.
ولقد صرفنه بينهم ليذكروا فأبى أكثر ٱلناس إلا كفوراHad We willed, We would have sent into every city a warner.
ولو شئنا لبعثنا في كل قرية نذيراSo do not obey those who disown,
فلا تطع ٱلكفرينand strive against them through it with a great striving.
وجهدهم به جهادا كبيراIt is He who made the two seas meet: this one sweet, palatable, and that one salty, bitter.
وهو ٱلذي مرج ٱلبحرين هذا عذب فرات وهذا ملح أجاجand He placed between them a barrier and an impassable boundary.
وجعل بينهما برزخا وحجرا محجوراIt is He who, from water, created a human, and made of him lineage and kinship by marriage.
وهو ٱلذي خلق من ٱلمآء بشرا فجعله نسبا وصهراYour Guardian is capable of all things.
وكان ربك قديراAnd they obey, besides God, that which neither benefits nor harms them;
ويعبدون من دون ٱلله ما لا ينفعهم ولا يضرهمand he who disowns makes himself, against his Guardian, an ally [of the forces of error].
وكان ٱلكافر على ربه ظهيراWe have not sent you except as a bearer of good tidings and a warner.
ومآ أرسلنك إلا مبشرا ونذيراSay: I ask of you no payment for this, except that whoever wishes take a way to his Guardian.
قل مآ أسلكم عليه من أجر إلا من شآء أن يتخذ إلى ربه سبيلاRely upon the Living One who does not die,
وتوكل على ٱلحى ٱلذي لا يموتand glorify Him with praise.
وسبح بحمدهHe suffices, He, as Informed of the offenses of His obedient ones.
وكفى به بذنوب عباده خبيراHe who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days, then established Himself upon the Edifice —
ٱلذي خلق ٱلسموت وٱلأرض وما بينهما في ستة أيام ثم ٱستوى على ٱلعرشthe All-Benevolent.
ٱلرحمنSo ask about Him an Informed Knower.
فسل به خبيراAnd when it is said to them: Prostrate before the All-Benevolent, they say: What is the All-Benevolent?
وإذا قيل لهم ٱسجدوا للرحمن قالوا وما ٱلرحمنShall we prostrate before what you order us? And it only increases their aversion.
أنسجد لما تأمرنا وزادهم نفوراBlessed is He who placed in the sky constellations, and placed therein a torch and a shining moon.
تبارك ٱلذي جعل في ٱلسمآء بروجا وجعل فيها سرجا وقمرا منيراIt is He who made the night and the day a succession, for whoever wants to remember or wants to be grateful.
وهو ٱلذي جعل ٱليل وٱلنهار خلفة لمن أراد أن يذكر أو أراد شكوراAnd 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.
وعباد ٱلرحمن ٱلذين يمشون على ٱلأرض هونا وإذا خاطبهم ٱلجهلون قالوا سلماAnd those who spend the night prostrating and standing for their Guardian,
وٱلذين يبيتون لربهم سجدا وقيماand those who say: Our Guardian, turn away from us the punishment of Jahannam — for its punishment is a persistent torment;
وٱلذين يقولون ربنا ٱصرف عنا عذاب جهنم إن عذابها كان غراماit is indeed an evil abode and an evil dwelling —
إنها سآءت مستقرا ومقاماand those who, when they spend, neither waste nor withhold excessively, standing between the two with just measure,
وٱلذين إذآ أنفقوا لم يسرفوا ولم يقتروا وكان بين ذلك قواماand 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 —
وٱلذين لا يدعون مع ٱلله إلها ءاخر ولا يقتلون ٱلنفس ٱلتي حرم ٱلله إلا بٱلحق ولا يزنونand 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,
ومن يفعل ذلك يلق أثاما يضعف له ٱلعذاب يوم ٱلقيمة ويخلد فيه مهانا إلا من تاب وءامن وعمل عملا صلحا فأولئك يبدل ٱلله سياتهم حسنتfor God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
وكان ٱلله غفورا رحيماAnd whoever repents and acts righteously indeed returns to God, a sincere return.
ومن تاب وعمل صلحا فإنه يتوب إلى ٱلله متاباAnd those who do not bear witness to falsehood, and who, when they pass by idle talk, pass with dignity,
وٱلذين لا يشهدون ٱلزور وإذا مروا بٱللغو مروا كراماand those who, when reminded by the signs of their Guardian, do not collapse upon them as deaf and blind,
وٱلذين إذا ذكروا بايت ربهم لم يخروا عليها صما وعمياناand 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 —
وٱلذين يقولون ربنا هب لنا من أزوجنا وذريتنا قرة أعين وٱجعلنا للمتقين إماماthose will be recompensed with the high chamber for their endurance, and will be received therein with a greeting and a peace, abiding therein eternally.
أولئك يجزون ٱلغرفة بما صبروا ويلقون فيها تحية وسلما خلدين فيهاWhat an excellent abode and an excellent dwelling!
حسنت مستقرا ومقاماSay: My Guardian would care little for you, were it not for your invocation.
قل ما يعبؤا بكم ربي لولا دعآؤكمYou have thus denied, and it will become inescapable.
فقد كذبتم فسوف يكون لزاما