Al-Anbiya
We Answered Him
بسم ٱلله ٱلرحمن ٱلرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
Mankind's reckoning has drawn near, while they are turned away in heedlessness.
ٱقترب للناس حسابهم وهم في غفلة معرضون
No recent reminder comes to them from their Guardian without their listening to it while playing, their core distracted.
ما يأتيهم من ذكر من ربهم محدث إلا ٱستمعوه وهم يلعبون لاهية قلوبهم
Those who did wrong kept their secret talk hidden: "Is this anything but a human like yourselves?
وأسروا ٱلنجوى ٱلذين ظلموا هل هذآ إلا بشر مثلكم
Will you then come to illusion, while you can see clearly?"
أفتأتون ٱلسحر وأنتم تبصرون
Say: "My Guardian knows what is said in the heaven and on the earth,
قال ربي يعلم ٱلقول في ٱلسمآء وٱلأرض
and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing."
وهو ٱلسميع ٱلعليم
They said instead: "A jumble of confused dreams! He has rather invented it! He is rather a seductive orator!
بل قالوا أضغث أحلم بل ٱفترىه بل هو شاعر
Let him then bring us a sign, just as the earlier ones were sent with."
فليأتنا باية كمآ أرسل ٱلأولون
No city that We annihilated before them had believed —
مآ ءامنت قبلهم من قرية أهلكنهآ
will they, then, believe?
أفهم يؤمنون
And We sent, before you, none but men to whom We revealed: so ask the keepers of the Reminder, if you do not know.
ومآ أرسلنا قبلك إلا رجالا نوحي إليهم فسلوا أهل ٱلذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمون
We did not make them bodies that ate no food,
وما جعلنهم جسدا لا يأكلون ٱلطعام
nor were they eternal.
وما كانوا خلدين
Then We fulfilled the promise for them: We saved them and whoever We willed, and We annihilated the excessive.
ثم صدقنهم ٱلوعد فأنجينهم ومن نشآء وأهلكنا ٱلمسرفين
We have sent down to you a Writ in which is your remembrance —
لقد أنزلنآ إليكم كتبا فيه ذكركم
will you not then reason?
أفلا تعقلون
How many a city, doing wrong, have We shattered, bringing into being after it another people!
وكم قصمنا من قرية كانت ظالمة وأنشأنا بعدها قوما ءاخرين
Then, when they perceived Our rigor, at once they ran off from it.
فلمآ أحسوا بأسنآ إذا هم منها يركضون
"Do not run off — return to the affluence you were given and to your dwellings, perhaps you will be questioned!"
لا تركضوا وٱرجعوا إلى مآ أترفتم فيه ومسكنكم لعلكم تسلون
They said: "Woe to us — we have indeed been wrongdoers!"
قالوا يويلنآ إنا كنا ظلمين
That cry did not cease until We made them a mown harvest, extinguished.
فما زالت تلك دعوىهم حتى جعلنهم حصيدا خمدين
We did not create the heaven and the earth, and what is between them, in play.
وما خلقنا ٱلسمآء وٱلأرض وما بينهما لعبين
Had We wished to take on a distraction, We would have taken it from within Ourself,
لو أردنآ أن نتخذ لهوا لٱتخذنه من لدنآ
had We been ones to do so.
إن كنا فعلين
We hurl truth against falsehood instead, so it crushes it, and at once it vanishes.
بل نقذف بٱلحق على ٱلبطل فيدمغه فإذا هو زاهق
Woe to you for what you describe!
ولكم ٱلويل مما تصفون
And to Him belongs whoever is in the heavens and the earth.
وله من في ٱلسموت وٱلأرض
Those who are with Him do not grow too proud to obey Him, nor do they grow breathless;
ومن عنده لا يستكبرون عن عبادته ولا يستحسرون
they glorify Him night and day, never flagging.
يسبحون ٱليل وٱلنهار لا يفترون
Or have they taken deities from the earth that themselves bring about the Deployment?
أم ٱتخذوا ءالهة من ٱلأرض هم ينشرون
Had there been in the heavens and the earth deities other than God, both would have become corrupt.
لو كان فيهمآ ءالهة إلا ٱلله لفسدتا
So glory be to God, Guardian of the Edifice, above what they describe!
فسبحن ٱلله رب ٱلعرش عما يصفون
He is not questioned about what He does,
لا يسل عما يفعل
while they will be questioned.
وهم يسلون
Or have they taken deities besides Him?
أم ٱتخذوا من دونه ءالهة
Say: "Bring your demonstration.
قل هاتوا برهنكم
This is the remembrance of those with me, and the remembrance of those before me."
هذا ذكر من معي وذكر من قبلي
But most of them do not know the truth, so they turn away.
بل أكثرهم لا يعلمون ٱلحق فهم معرضون
We did not send any messenger before you without revealing to him that there is no deity but Me — so obey Me.
ومآ أرسلنا من قبلك من رسول إلا نوحي إليه أنه لآ إله إلآ أنا فٱعبدون
And they said: "The All-Benevolent has taken a child."
وقالوا ٱتخذ ٱلرحمن ولدا
Glory be to Him!
سبحنه
They are rather honored obedient ones,
بل عباد مكرمون
who do not precede Him in saying, and who act by His command.
لا يسبقونه بٱلقول وهم بأمره يعملون
He knows what is before them and what is behind them,
يعلم ما بين أيديهم وما خلفهم
and they intercede only for whom He approves, while they, dreading Him, are apprehensive.
ولا يشفعون إلا لمن ٱرتضى وهم من خشيته مشفقون
Whoever among them were to say, "I am a deity besides Him" — that one We would recompense with Jahannam:
ومن يقل منهم إني إله من دونه فذلك نجزيه جهنم
thus do We recompense the wrongdoers.
كذلك نجزي ٱلظلمين
Have those who disowned not seen that the heavens and the earth were a joined mass, and We split them apart?
أولم ير ٱلذين كفروا أن ٱلسموت وٱلأرض كانتا رتقا ففتقنهما
and We made every living thing from water —
وجعلنا من ٱلمآء كل شىء حى
will they not, then, believe?
أفلا يؤمنون
And We placed firm anchors on the earth, lest it sway with them,
وجعلنا في ٱلأرض روسي أن تميد بهم
and We made in it passes and ways, perhaps they will guide themselves.
وجعلنا فيها فجاجا سبلا لعلهم يهتدون
And We made the heaven a preserved roof,
وجعلنا ٱلسمآء سقفا محفوظا
while they turn away from its signs.
وهم عن ءايتها معرضون
It is He who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon —
وهو ٱلذي خلق ٱليل وٱلنهار وٱلشمس وٱلقمر
each swims in an orbit.
كل في فلك يسبحون
We did not grant eternity to any human before you —
وما جعلنا لبشر من قبلك ٱلخلد
so if you were to die, would they be eternal?
أفإين مت فهم ٱلخلدون
Every Self will taste death,
كل نفس ذآئقة ٱلموت
and We test you with ill and with good, as a trial;
ونبلوكم بٱلشر وٱلخير فتنة
and to Us you will be returned.
وإلينا ترجعون
When those who disowned see you, they take you as nothing but an object of mockery:
وإذا رءاك ٱلذين كفروا إن يتخذونك إلا هزوا
"Is this the one who mentions your deities?" — while they themselves disown the remembrance of the All-Benevolent.
أهذا ٱلذي يذكر ءالهتكم وهم بذكر ٱلرحمن هم كفرون
The human being was created out of haste.
خلق ٱلإنسن من عجل
I will show you My signs, so do not ask Me to hasten them.
سأوريكم ءايتي فلا تستعجلون
And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"
ويقولون متى هذا ٱلوعد إن كنتم صدقين
If only those who disowned knew — the moment when they will not be able to keep the Fire off their faces or their backs, and will not be helped...
لو يعلم ٱلذين كفروا حين لا يكفون عن وجوههم ٱلنار ولا عن ظهورهم ولا هم ينصرون
It will come to them instead, unexpectedly, and stun them, so that they will not be able to turn it back, nor will they be granted any respite.
بل تأتيهم بغتة فتبهتهم فلا يستطيعون ردها ولا هم ينظرون
Messengers before you were indeed mocked; then what they used to mock enveloped those among them who scoffed.
ولقد ٱستهزئ برسل من قبلك فحاق بٱلذين سخروا منهم ما كانوا به يستهزءون
Say: "Who watches over you, by night and by day, from the All-Benevolent?"
قل من يكلؤكم بٱليل وٱلنهار من ٱلرحمن
Rather, they turn away from the remembrance of their Guardian.
بل هم عن ذكر ربهم معرضون
Or do they have deities that shield them from Us?
أم لهم ءالهة تمنعهم من دوننا
They cannot help themselves, nor are they granted any aid from Us.
لا يستطيعون نصر أنفسهم ولا هم منا يصحبون
We rather gave enjoyment to these and to their ancestors, until life grew long for them.
بل متعنا هؤلآء وءابآءهم حتى طال عليهم ٱلعمر
Do they not see that We come to the earth, diminishing it from its extremities?
أفلا يرون أنا نأتي ٱلأرض ننقصها من أطرافهآ
Are they, then, the victors?
أفهم ٱلغلبون
Say: "I only warn you by the revelation" —
قل إنمآ أنذركم بٱلوحي
but the deaf do not hear the call when they are warned.
ولا يسمع ٱلصم ٱلدعآء إذا ما ينذرون
And if a whiff of your Guardian's punishment were to touch them, they would surely say: "Woe to us — we have indeed been wrongdoers!"
ولئن مستهم نفحة من عذاب ربك ليقولن يويلنآ إنا كنا ظلمين
And We shall set up the balances of equity for the Day of Appearance, so that no Self will be wronged in the least;
ونضع ٱلموزين ٱلقسط ليوم ٱلقيمة فلا تظلم نفس شيا
and even if it be the weight of a mustard seed, We shall bring it forth — and We suffice as reckoners.
وإن كان مثقال حبة من خردل أتينا بها وكفى بنا حسبين
We certainly gave Moussa and Harun the Discernment, a brightness, and a remembrance for those who guard themselves, who dread their Guardian even though He escapes their senses, and are apprehensive of the Hour.
ولقد ءاتينا موسى وهرون ٱلفرقان وضيآء وذكرا للمتقين ٱلذين يخشون ربهم بٱلغيب وهم من ٱلساعة مشفقون
And this is a blessed remembrance that We have sent down —
وهذا ذكر مبارك أنزلنه
will you, then, disavow it?
أفأنتم له منكرون
We certainly gave Ibrahim his rectitude before, and We knew him well.
ولقد ءاتينآ إبرهيم رشده من قبل وكنا به علمين
When he said to his father and his people: "What are these statues before which you remain posted?"
إذ قال لأبيه وقومه ما هذه ٱلتماثيل ٱلتي أنتم لها عكفون
They said: "We found our ancestors obeying them."
قالوا وجدنآ ءابآءنا لها عبدين
He said: "You and your ancestors were indeed in manifest error."
قال لقد كنتم أنتم وءابآؤكم في ضلل مبين
They said: "Have you come to us with the truth, or are you one of those who play?"
قالوا أجئتنا بٱلحق أم أنت من ٱللعبين
He said: "Your Guardian is rather the Guardian of the heavens and the earth, who originated them,
قال بل ربكم رب ٱلسموت وٱلأرض ٱلذي فطرهن
and of that, I am among the witnesses."
وأنا على ذلكم من ٱلشهدين
And by God, I will surely devise something against your idols after you have turned your backs and gone.
وتٱلله لأكيدن أصنمكم بعد أن تولوا مدبرين
So he made them into debris, except a great one of theirs, perhaps they would return to it.
فجعلهم جذذا إلا كبيرا لهم لعلهم إليه يرجعون
They said: "Who has done this to our deities? He is surely one of the wrongdoers!"
قالوا من فعل هذا بالهتنآ إنه لمن ٱلظلمين
They said: "We heard a young man mention them; he is called Ibrahim."
قالوا سمعنا فتى يذكرهم يقال له إبرهيم
They said: "Bring him, then, before the eyes of men, perhaps they will witness."
قالوا فأتوا به على أعين ٱلناس لعلهم يشهدون
They said: "Is it you who did this to our deities, Ibrahim?"
قالوا ءأنت فعلت هذا بالهتنا يإبرهيم
He said: "It was rather this, their great one, who did it — ask them, if they can utter anything."
قال بل فعله كبيرهم هذا فسلوهم إن كانوا ينطقون
So they returned to themselves and said: "It is you, indeed, who are the wrongdoers."
فرجعوا إلى أنفسهم فقالوا إنكم أنتم ٱلظلمون
Then they were turned back upon their heads:
ثم نكسوا على رءوسهم
"You know well that these utter nothing!"
لقد علمت ما هؤلآء ينطقون
He said: "Do you, then, obey besides God what neither benefits nor harms you in anything?
قال أفتعبدون من دون ٱلله ما لا ينفعكم شيا ولا يضركم
Fie upon you, and upon what you obey besides God!
أف لكم ولما تعبدون من دون ٱلله
Will you not then reason?"
أفلا تعقلون
They said: "Burn him, and help your deities, if you must act!"
قالوا حرقوه وٱنصروا ءالهتكم إن كنتم فعلين
We said: "O fire, be coolness and peace upon Ibrahim."
قلنا ينار كوني بردا وسلما على إبرهيم
They intended a scheme against him, but We made them the greatest losers.
وأرادوا به كيدا فجعلنهم ٱلأخسرين
And We saved him, and Lut, to the land that We blessed for all beings.
ونجينه ولوطا إلى ٱلأرض ٱلتي بركنا فيها للعلمين
And We bestowed on him Ishaq,
ووهبنا له إسحق
and Yaacoub, as an addition.
ويعقوب نافلة
And all of them We made sound.
وكلا جعلنا صلحين
And We made them leaders who guide by Our command,
وجعلنهم أئمة يهدون بأمرنا
and We revealed to them to do good deeds, to maintain the Contact, and to give pure liberality;
وأوحينآ إليهم فعل ٱلخيرت وإقام ٱلصلوة وإيتآء ٱلزكوة
and to Us they were obedient ones.
وكانوا لنا عبدين
And to Lut We gave judgment and knowledge,
ولوطا ءاتينه حكما وعلما
and We saved him from the city that used to commit vile practices —
ونجينه من ٱلقرية ٱلتي كانت تعمل ٱلخبئث
they were an evil people, oversteppers.
إنهم كانوا قوم سوء فسقين
And We admitted him into Our benevolence,
وأدخلنه في رحمتنآ
for he was among those who are sound.
إنه من ٱلصلحين
And Nuh, when he called out earlier: We answered him, and saved him and his family from the immense distress.
ونوحا إذ نادى من قبل فٱستجبنا له فنجينه وأهله من ٱلكرب ٱلعظيم
And We helped him against the people who denied Our signs;
ونصرنه من ٱلقوم ٱلذين كذبوا بايتنآ
they were an evil people, so We drowned them all together.
إنهم كانوا قوم سوء فأغرقنهم أجمعين
And Dawud and Sulayman, when they judged concerning the tilth into which the people's sheep had trespassed by night,
وداود وسليمن إذ يحكمان في ٱلحرث إذ نفشت فيه غنم ٱلقوم
and We were witnesses to their judgment.
وكنا لحكمهم شهدين
We granted Sulayman the understanding of it,
ففهمنها سليمن
and to each of them We gave judgment and knowledge.
وكلا ءاتينا حكما وعلما
And We subjected the mountains to glorify with Dawud, and the birds as well;
وسخرنا مع داود ٱلجبال يسبحن وٱلطير
and it was We who did it.
وكنا فعلين
And We taught him the making of coats of mail for you, so that it might protect you from your own violence —
وعلمنه صنعة لبوس لكم لتحصنكم من بأسكم
will you, then, be grateful?
فهل أنتم شكرون
And to Sulayman, the raging wind, running by his command to the land that We blessed,
ولسليمن ٱلريح عاصفة تجري بأمره إلى ٱلأرض ٱلتي بركنا فيها
and We had knowledge of all things.
وكنا بكل شىء علمين
And among the Diverters were some who dived for him and performed other tasks besides that;
ومن ٱلشيطين من يغوصون له ويعملون عملا دون ذلك
and We were their preserver.
وكنا لهم حفظين
And Ayyub, when he called out to his Guardian: "Harm has touched me, and You are the most benevolent of the benevolent!"
وأيوب إذ نادى ربه أني مسني ٱلضر وأنت أرحم ٱلرحمين
So We answered him and removed the harm that was upon him,
فٱستجبنا له فكشفنا ما به من ضر
and We restored his family to him, and as many again with them, as a benevolence from Us, and a remembrance for the obedient ones.
وءاتينه أهله ومثلهم معهم رحمة من عندنا وذكرى للعبدين
And Isma'il, and Idris, and Dhul-Kifl:
وإسمعيل وإدريس وذا ٱلكفل
each was among the patient.
كل من ٱلصبرين
And We admitted them into Our benevolence,
وأدخلنهم في رحمتنآ
for they were among those who are sound.
إنهم من ٱلصلحين
And Dhu'n-Nun, when he went off in anger and presumed that We would have no power over him: he called out in the darknesses: "There is no deity but You! Glory be to You! I have indeed been among the wrongdoers!"
وذا ٱلنون إذ ذهب مغضبا فظن أن لن نقدر عليه فنادى في ٱلظلمت أن لآ إله إلآ أنت سبحنك إني كنت من ٱلظلمين
So We answered him and saved him from anguish;
فٱستجبنا له ونجينه من ٱلغم
and thus do We save the believers.
وكذلك نجي ٱلمؤمنين
And Zakariya, when he called out to his Guardian: "My Guardian, do not forsake me, alone, though You are the best of inheritors!"
وزكريآ إذ نادى ربه رب لا تذرني فردا وأنت خير ٱلورثين
So We answered him, and bestowed on him Yahya, and made his wife sound for him;
فٱستجبنا له ووهبنا له يحيى وأصلحنا له زوجه
they used to speed toward good deeds, and call upon Us in yearning and in reverence, and were humble before Us.
إنهم كانوا يسرعون في ٱلخيرت ويدعوننا رغبا ورهبا وكانوا لنا خشعين
And Maryam, who protected her intimacy: We breathed into her of Our Influx, and made her and her son a sign for all beings.
وٱلتي أحصنت فرجها فنفخنا فيها من روحنا وجعلنها وٱبنهآ ءاية للعلمين
This community of yours is indeed a single community, and I am your Guardian — obey Me, then.
إن هذه أمتكم أمة وحدة وأنا ربكم فٱعبدون
But they split their affair among themselves;
وتقطعوا أمرهم بينهم
all will return to Us.
كل إلينا رجعون
So whoever does sound deeds, being a believer, his effort will never be disowned —
فمن يعمل من ٱلصلحت وهو مؤمن فلا كفران لسعيه
and We are indeed recording it for him.
وإنا له كتبون
And it is prohibited, for a city that We have annihilated, that they should not return —
وحرم على قرية أهلكنهآ أنهم لا يرجعون
until Yajuj and Majuj are opened, and they come swarming down from every height, and the true promise draws near — then at once the sights of those who disowned are fixed: "Woe to us! We were heedless of this — we have rather been wrongdoers!"
حتى إذا فتحت يأجوج ومأجوج وهم من كل حدب ينسلون وٱقترب ٱلوعد ٱلحق فإذا هي شخصة أبصر ٱلذين كفروا يويلنا قد كنا في غفلة من هذا بل كنا ظلمين
You, and what you obey besides God, are indeed the fuel of Jahannam — you will arrive at it.
إنكم وما تعبدون من دون ٱلله حصب جهنم أنتم لها وردون
Had these been deities, they would not have arrived at it;
لو كان هؤلآء ءالهة ما وردوها
and all will abide in it eternally.
وكل فيها خلدون
In it they will have rattling, and in it they will hear nothing.
لهم فيها زفير وهم فيها لا يسمعون
As for those to whom We have already granted the best part, those will indeed be kept far from it:
إن ٱلذين سبقت لهم منا ٱلحسنى أولئك عنها مبعدون
they will not hear its faintest sound, and they will abide eternally in what their Self desires.
لا يسمعون حسيسها وهم في ما ٱشتهت أنفسهم خلدون
The greatest fright will not grieve them,
لا يحزنهم ٱلفزع ٱلأكبر
and the Agents will receive them: "This is your day, the one you were promised."
وتتلقىهم ٱلملئكة هذا يومكم ٱلذي كنتم توعدون
The day We fold up the heaven as a binder closes over the writings it holds,
يوم نطوي ٱلسمآء كطى ٱلسجل للكتب
just as We began the first creation, We shall remake it —
كما بدأنآ أول خلق نعيده
a promise incumbent upon Us:
وعدا علينآ
We shall indeed do it.
إنا كنا فعلين
We have certainly written in the Formulary, after the Remembrance, that the earth will be inherited by My sound obedient ones.
ولقد كتبنا في ٱلزبور من بعد ٱلذكر أن ٱلأرض يرثها عبادي ٱلصلحون
In this there is surely a transmission for a people of obedient ones.
إن في هذا لبلغا لقوم عبدين
And We did not send you except as a benevolence for all beings.
ومآ أرسلنك إلا رحمة للعلمين
Say: "It is only revealed to me that your deity is a single deity —
قل إنما يوحى إلى أنمآ إلهكم إله وحد
will you, then, be true to Him alone?"
فهل أنتم مسلمون
If they turn their backs, then say: "I have informed you all equally,
فإن تولوا فقل ءاذنتكم على سوآء
and I have no idea whether what you are promised is near or far.
وإن أدري أقريب أم بعيد ما توعدون
He indeed knows what is said aloud, and He knows what you withhold.
إنه يعلم ٱلجهر من ٱلقول ويعلم ما تكتمون
And I have no idea: perhaps it is a trial for you, and an enjoyment for a time."
وإن أدري لعله فتنة لكم ومتع إلى حين
Say: "My Guardian, judge with truth;
قل رب ٱحكم بٱلحق
and our Guardian is the All-Benevolent, whose help is sought against what you describe."
وربنا ٱلرحمن ٱلمستعان على ما تصفون