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"title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=21&verse=107" }, { "title": "Surah introduction and revelation setting · Quran.com", "url": "https://quran.com/21/info" }, { "title": "Abraham and Lot's migration · Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/21:71/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Jonah's prayer and the meaning of constraint · Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/21:87/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Mary and Jesus · Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/21:91/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Return to the world and the final rising · Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/21:95/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "The inheritance of the righteous · Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/21:105/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Hijrah calendar boundary · Britannica 1911", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" }, { "title": "Pickthall transcription cross-check · Alim", "url": "https://www.alim.org/translation/picktal/21/" } ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 29, "title": "A distracted audience and the call to one God", "summary": "The approaching account meets play, secrecy, and changing accusations. The chapter answers objections to a human messenger and examines the claim that created beings could share God's divinity.", "reflection": "What turns hearing a reminder into allowing it to change your attention?" }, { "start": 30, "end": 47, "title": "Water, sky, mortality, and the smallest deed", "summary": "Creation and daily rhythms become signs of dependence. Every life faces death, while the just balance of the final account gives even a very small deed lasting significance.", "reflection": "Which ordinary sign of life would you notice differently if you paused today?" }, { "start": 48, "end": 70, "title": "Guidance, Abraham's questions, and rescue from the fire", "summary": "Moses and Aaron receive a criterion and light. Abraham's challenge exposes the limits of inherited idols, but the audience answers with a violent threat that fails to control the outcome.", "reflection": "Can you let a sound question change a belief you have inherited?" }, { "start": 71, "end": 82, "title": "Migration, leadership, judgment, and protective skill", "summary": "Abraham, Lot, Noah, David, and Solomon appear through gifts of rescue and responsibility. A disputed field, praise, armor, and extraordinary service connect guidance with the practical needs of life.", "reflection": "How can the abilities entrusted to you protect or serve another person?" }, { "start": 83, "end": 91, "title": "Prayers in adversity, darkness, and longing", "summary": "Job, Jonah, and Zechariah call upon God in need. Steadfast figures, John, Mary, and Jesus complete a sequence of mercy and extraordinary gifts without erasing the human vulnerability of those named.", "reflection": "What need can you acknowledge honestly while holding onto trust?" }, { "start": 92, "end": 104, "title": "One community and the promised return", "summary": "The varied prophetic lives share one direction of worship. Division, recorded effort, the final upheaval, and a welcome beyond fear lead to the image of the heavens rolled like a scroll.", "reflection": "What small good effort deserves your care even when nobody else notices it?" }, { "start": 105, "end": 112, "title": "Righteous inheritance and a mission of mercy", "summary": "The closing promise joins righteousness with a good outcome. The Prophet conveys the message equally, admits the limits of his knowledge of its timing, and asks the Merciful for truthful judgment.", "reflection": "How can a firm conviction also become a source of mercy in your dealings?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Noah's earlier prayer · no exact ancient date", "year": null, "body": "Verse 76 explicitly recalls Noah calling in an earlier time. The chapter's sequence is thematic: his account comes after other figures without claiming that he lived after them. No flood year or archaeological timetable is assigned.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm" }, { "title": "Abraham and Lot's migration · undated narrative", "year": null, "body": "Following Abraham's rescue, verse 71 describes deliverance with Lot to a blessed land. The journey is part of the scriptural narrative; the chapter supplies neither a calendar date nor the stages of an independently verified route.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm" }, { "title": "David and Solomon · responsibility across two lives", "year": null, "body": "The chapter pairs their judgment about a field and affirms knowledge granted to both. Armor making and other gifts follow. These accounts are not used to assign a precise ancient reign or date the invention of a surviving artifact.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm" }, { "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification", "year": 622, "body": "Al-Anbiya is generally classified as Makkan. The year shown is the Hijrah boundary for that period, not an asserted revelation year. The introduction also records a suggested exception for verse 44, which is not treated here as a settled redating.", "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · the general revelation setting", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "image": 0, "body": "The chapter introduction places Al-Anbiya in the Makkan period. This broad city marker gives the message's historical setting without identifying an exact room or street of revelation. The ancient prophetic narratives belong to earlier settings discussed within that message.", "source": "https://quran.com/21/info" }, { "id": "levant", "name": "The blessed land · traditionally the wider Levant", "image": 3, "body": "The Quran calls Abraham and Lot's destination a blessed land. Ibn Kathir interprets it as al-Sham, the broader Levant. This regional association does not identify an exact campsite, city, modern border, or proven route of their journey.", "source": "https://quran.com/21:71/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "id": "nineveh", "name": "Nineveh near Mosul · a traditional Jonah association", "image": 4, "body": "Ibn Kathir associates Jonah's mission with Nineveh near Mosul. Verse 87 itself names neither the city nor the stretch of sea. The regional context is attributed to commentary, and the illustrated great fish is not assigned a verified species.", "source": "https://quran.com/21:87/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "id": "field", "name": "The cultivated field · its location is unnamed", "image": 3, "body": "The damaged field in verses 78–79 gives a concrete setting for judgment by David and Solomon. No named farm or excavation is identified in the text. A field or armor workshop scene evokes the practical responsibilities described without claiming a discovered royal site.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm" } ], "people": [ { "id": "musa-harun", "title": "Moses and Aaron · discernment and light", "verse": 48, "label": "Messengers", "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm", "body": "Their gift is introduced as a criterion, light, and reminder. The account emphasizes guidance and the character of its recipients rather than a complete biography. It links the present Quranic reminder with an earlier history of revelation." }, { "id": "ibrahim-family", "title": "Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob · guidance across generations", "verse": 51, "label": "Messengers", "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm", "body": "Abraham questions inherited worship and is delivered from a violent plot. Isaac and Jacob extend the family account, while leadership is described through righteous work, prayer, and giving. The chapter provides no precise ancient calendar for these events." }, { "id": "lut-nuh", "title": "Lot and Noah · knowledge, prayer, and rescue", "verse": 74, "label": "Messengers", "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm", "body": "Lot receives judgment and knowledge; Noah's earlier prayer is answered with deliverance. Their brief portraits contribute to the chapter's recurring theme of care in distress. No securely identified town ruins, surviving vessel, or grave is asserted here." }, { "id": "dawud-sulayman", "title": "David and Solomon · judgment and skill", "verse": 78, "label": "Messengers and rulers", "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm", "body": "Solomon receives particular insight in the field dispute, while both figures are affirmed for knowledge and judgment. David's protective craft and Solomon's extraordinary gifts are responsibilities received from God. The reader does not identify an archaeological object as their personal possession." }, { "id": "ayyub", "title": "Job · suffering brought into prayer", "verse": 83, "label": "Messenger", "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm", "body": "Job names his adversity and appeals to mercy. The answer restores wellbeing and family blessing. The Quran's concise account is kept distinct from later details about the nature or duration of his illness, which are not given a medical reconstruction here." }, { "id": "steadfast", "title": "Ishmael, Idris, and Dhu al-Kifl · steadfast examples", "verse": 85, "label": "Figures praised for patience", "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm", "body": "These three names are grouped through patience and righteousness. The chapter does not provide full biographies or settle later proposals identifying Dhu al-Kifl with another named historical figure. Their shared quality, rather than a speculative grave or date, is the focus." }, { "id": "yunus", "title": "Jonah · the man of the fish", "verse": 87, "label": "Messenger", "url": "https://quran.com/21:87/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir", "body": "The title Dhu'n-Nun refers to Jonah. Ibn Kathir reads the difficult phrase about his expectation as not being constrained. The account centers on his acknowledgement of wrongdoing and answered prayer; it does not identify the fish's species or a verified landing place." }, { "id": "zakariyya-yahya", "title": "Zechariah and John · longing met with a gift", "verse": 89, "label": "Messengers", "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm", "body": "Zechariah asks for a child while recognizing God's enduring ownership. John is granted, and the household is described through eager good work, prayer, and humility. The passage gives no exact year or named domestic site for this family account." }, { "id": "maryam-isa", "title": "Mary and Jesus · a sign for peoples", "verse": 91, "label": "Mother and son", "url": "https://quran.com/21:91/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir", "body": "Ibn Kathir identifies the chaste woman and her son as Mary and Jesus. Their account follows Zechariah's family and emphasizes divine power to give life. The verse does not make Mary a goddess or Jesus a divine partner, and neither is depicted in the artwork." } ], "history": [ { "title": "A Makkan reminder with many earlier lives", "body": "The introduction describes Al-Anbiya as Makkan while recording a suggested exception for verse 44. Its many prophetic accounts are not a single chronological narrative, and the chapter is not assigned an exact revelation year in this reader.", "source": "https://quran.com/21/info" }, { "title": "Names do not establish complete biographies", "body": "The chapter selects events and qualities that serve its argument: prayer, patience, discernment, rescue, and worship. It does not give dates of birth, exhaustive succession lists, verified graves, or a named location for every scene.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm" }, { "title": "A careful reading of Jonah's expectation", "body": "Pickthall's phrase about divine power in 21:87 is preserved as his translation. Ibn Kathir instead explains the underlying expression in terms of constraining or restricting Jonah. This interpretation is stated openly rather than silently rewriting the translation.", "source": "https://quran.com/21:87/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Return to worldly life and resurrection", "body": "Ibn Kathir understands 21:95 as barring destroyed communities from resuming their former worldly life before resurrection. That explanation distinguishes this passage from denial of the final rising, which the chapter repeatedly affirms.", "source": "https://quran.com/21:95/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Inheritance interpreted beyond immediate territory", "body": "Ibn Kathir discusses 21:105 through the good end of the righteous in the world and the Hereafter. The reader keeps this as a promise of divine outcome, rather than identifying a current population's borders as its certain fulfillment.", "source": "https://quran.com/21:105/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "The signs of creation invite reflection", "body": "Water, mountains, routes, sky, night, day, sun, and moon form a connected argument about dependence and order. Their concise scriptural descriptions are not presented as a complete modern scientific model or used to assign a technical date to creation.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/021.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Al-Anbiya is generally Makkan; a suggested Madinan exception for verse 44 is recorded in the chapter introduction. The calendar uses the 622 CE Hijrah boundary without assigning an exact revelation date. All 112 verses are in Juz 17. The prophetic accounts are arranged thematically, and uncertain ancient routes, sites, and dates remain qualified.", "translationNote": "Pickthall's 1930 wording is retained, including his rendering of 21:87; the verse note explains Ibn Kathir's different interpretive gloss concerning constraint. At 21:59 the transcription's broken word 'evil- doer' is joined as 'evil-doer', confirmed against Alim's Pickthall text.", "titles": [ "Nearness met with distraction", "Hearing while at play", "A secret conversation of dismissal", "No speech beyond divine hearing", "Changing accusations and a demand", "Would another sign change the response?", "Human messengers before this messenger", "Food and mortality", "The promise to the messengers", "A reminder addressed to you", "Communities that could not remain", "Flight when power is encountered", "Return to the life that absorbed you", "Wrongdoing finally admitted", "Like a field after harvest", "Creation has a serious purpose", "The imagined pastime rejected", "Truth against falsehood", "Worship without pride or exhaustion", "Praise without interruption", "Can the claimed gods restore life?", "One sovereignty and an ordered world", "The direction of accountability", "Bring a reason for the claim", "The shared call of the messengers", "Honored servants, not divine offspring", "Speech and action under command", "Knowledge and permitted intercession", "A claim that would be rejected", "A beginning and the gift of water", "Firm land and paths through it", "The sky as a guarded roof", "Night, day, sun, and moon", "No human exception to death", "Tested by difficulty and ease", "Mockery with a double standard", "The impatience of human beings", "Demanding a date for the promise", "A moment without the imagined defense", "Surprise without a reprieve", "Earlier messengers were mocked too", "Who protects through night and day?", "Protectors unable to protect themselves", "Long comfort does not ensure victory", "The warning comes through revelation", "Even a trace would change the words", "A balance that misses nothing", "A criterion, light, and reminder", "Reverence beyond public view", "A blessed reminder before you", "Abraham's earlier guidance", "A question about devoted images", "The answer of ancestry", "A challenge across generations", "Is the challenge serious?", "The Creator as the true Lord", "A challenge to the idols is announced", "Fragments and one remaining image", "The community looks for a culprit", "A youth remembered for his questions", "A public confrontation", "The accusation put directly", "Ask the one left standing", "A moment of inward recognition", "They know the idols cannot speak", "What can the worshipped object do?", "A rebuke that calls for reason", "The answer becomes a threat", "Safety within the fire", "The plot defeats its makers", "A journey toward the blessed land", "A family extended through righteousness", "Leaders who practice what they guide toward", "Lot receives knowledge and deliverance", "Included within mercy", "Noah's earlier cry is answered", "Deliverance from persistent rejection", "A damaged field and a judgment", "Understanding with honor for both", "Craft that protects life", "The wind and the blessed land", "Work performed under divine oversight", "Job names his suffering", "Relief as mercy and remembrance", "Examples of steadfastness", "Righteousness within mercy", "Jonah's prayer in the darkness", "A rescue from anguish", "Zechariah asks without claiming ownership", "A family gift and an active response", "Mary and her son as a sign", "One calling across the accounts", "Fragmentation does not end the return", "No faithful effort is lost", "No return to the former life", "Gog and Magog released", "The promise no longer ignored", "The failure of false worship", "The test of the claimed divinity", "A scene of lament", "Those already promised good", "Peace beyond the sound of suffering", "A welcome on the promised day", "The heavens rolled like a scroll", "An inheritance for the righteous", "A message sufficient to reach its hearers", "A mercy reaching beyond one people", "The central invitation restated", "A warning shared without a timetable", "Open words and concealed thoughts", "Time as a possible trial", "A prayer for truthful judgment" ], "notes": [ "The chapter opens with humanity's approaching account and a contrasting habit of turning away. Urgency and heedlessness stand side by side. The verse asks readers to notice the gap between acknowledging mortality in principle and allowing that knowledge to shape attention.", "A fresh reminder reaches people who listen without becoming attentive. Physical hearing does not guarantee serious engagement. The verse begins a portrait of resistance in which the message is present, yet treated as background to more immediately absorbing concerns.", "The opponents question the messenger's humanity and describe the revelation as magic. Their discussion reveals a heart already preoccupied with refusal. The text records these accusations as their words, not as conclusions readers should accept about the message itself.", "The reply places knowledge of every word with the Lord of heaven and earth. Secret discussion does not escape that hearing. The verse answers the hidden accusation by widening the setting beyond the immediate audience and affirming complete divine awareness.", "Dreams, invention, and poetry are offered as competing explanations before a demand for a sign. The shifting labels reveal no settled account of the message. The verse invites readers to distinguish a serious request for evidence from repeatedly changing grounds for dismissal.", "The argument recalls earlier towns that did not believe despite receiving signs. It questions the assumption that one more spectacle would resolve a resistant attitude. The chapter turns attention from the proposed evidence alone toward the character of the hearers' response.", "Earlier messengers were human recipients of revelation. Those uncertain about that history are directed to people familiar with the reminder. The verse answers an objection about ordinary humanity, rather than suggesting that a messenger must possess a body unlike everyone else's.", "The previous messengers needed food and were not immortal. Their bodily dependence did not disqualify them from carrying revelation. The statement prepares the chapter's later insistence that death belongs to all human life, including the lives of those entrusted with exceptional responsibilities.", "The account recalls fulfillment of the promise through deliverance and judgment. The messengers' humanity did not place them outside divine care. This brief survey introduces the longer stories later in the chapter, where need, prayer, and rescue repeatedly appear together.", "The scripture is brought close to its audience as a reminder concerning them. The question about understanding challenges detached observation. Revelation is not presented merely as information about distant people; its claims ask the present hearer to think and respond.", "The disappearance of unjust communities is set beside the rise of others after them. Human societies do not possess permanent tenure over the world. The verse connects historical succession with moral reflection, without identifying every change of population as a specific divine punishment.", "The threatened people try to flee when the consequence becomes real to them. The action contrasts with their earlier security and dismissal. The narrative asks readers to consider how quickly confident indifference can change when what seemed remote is suddenly present.", "The people are ironically told to return to their comfort and homes to be questioned. The familiar setting cannot now provide escape. Pickthall's archaic wording points toward a life softened by luxury, exposing the limits of the security they had assumed.", "The speakers acknowledge that they were wrongdoers. Their statement answers the moral description already given of the community. Recognition is important, but the sequence emphasizes how different its value is when delayed until the consequences can no longer be avoided.", "Their repeated cry continues until they are compared with cut grain and extinguished life. The image marks the end of their resistance. It is a severe narrative conclusion, not an invitation for readers to celebrate suffering or reproduce the described destruction.", "Heaven, earth, and everything between are not described as a game. The statement connects the world's existence with the seriousness of the approaching account. Human conduct matters within a creation whose meaning is not exhausted by temporary amusement or distraction.", "The verse continues the rejection of creation as divine amusement through a hypothetical statement. Its force belongs to the surrounding affirmation of purpose. It should not be expanded into an invented account of a divine household, needs, or humanlike entertainment.", "Truth is pictured striking falsehood until it vanishes. The forceful image describes the exposure of what cannot stand, rather than a command for personal violence. The warning returns to the responsibility involved in making unfounded claims about God.", "Everything belongs to God, while those in His presence worship without arrogance or weariness. Honor does not become independence from the Creator. The verse contrasts willing service with the pride that can prevent human beings from acknowledging their own dependence.", "Glorification continues by night and day without flagging. The brief description gives constancy to the worship mentioned in the preceding verse. It stands opposite the distracted hearing at the chapter's opening, inviting the reader to consider the steadiness of devoted attention.", "The question tests earthly objects of worship against the power to raise the dead. The issue is what the proposed gods can actually do. The argument connects resurrection with worship, asking whether the authority attributed to these objects has any real foundation.", "The verse argues that competing divine powers would disorder heaven and earth. Their observed order supports its affirmation of God's oneness. The argument is theological, not a complete scientific model of every mechanism through which the natural world functions.", "God is not placed before a higher tribunal, while created beings remain answerable for their actions. The statement distinguishes divine sovereignty from creaturely responsibility. It does not grant human rulers a similar exemption from scrutiny simply because they hold authority.", "Those proposing other gods are asked for proof, while the reminder is linked with present and earlier believers. The argument challenges unsupported worship. A widely repeated claim still requires examination; its familiarity does not provide the evidence the verse demands.", "Every messenger is connected with the same foundational revelation of God's oneness and the duty to worship Him. This prepares the chapter's many prophetic portraits. Their different circumstances are held together by a common direction rather than treated as competing divine allegiances.", "The claim that the Merciful has offspring is rejected, and those so described are identified as honored servants. The distinction preserves both their dignity and their dependence. Reverence for a created being does not make that being a part of the divine.", "The honored servants do not precede God in speech and act by His command. Their distinction is expressed through faithful service. The verse continues the preceding correction, preventing closeness or honor from being mistaken for a rival source of authority.", "God knows what lies before and behind these servants, whose intercession depends on His approval. They remain in awe of Him. The verse removes the assumption that a revered intermediary possesses an independent power to bypass divine knowledge or judgment.", "Even among the honored servants, a claim to be another god would bring condemnation. The hypothetical draws a firm boundary around worship. Status cannot transform wrongdoing into truth, and proximity to the sacred does not create an exception to God's oneness.", "The heavens and earth are described as joined and then separated, while water is connected with living things. The verse invites belief through creation. It is not presented here as a technical specification of one modern cosmological or biological theory.", "Mountains and traversable routes appear together as features of an earth people inhabit. The verse joins stability with the possibility of finding a way. Its purpose is reflection on provision and guidance, rather than an exhaustive geological explanation of mountain formation.", "The sky is described through the familiar image of a protected roof, yet its signs are overlooked. The metaphor directs attention upward to received shelter and order. The passage does not require a literal building structure or a mapped boundary of the heavens.", "The created rhythms of darkness, daylight, and celestial motion are gathered into a single sign. Each heavenly body moves in its course. The verse encourages attentive observation without turning its concise language into a complete astronomical chart or calendar system.", "The Prophet's mortality is placed beside the mortality of everyone before and after him. His death would not make his opponents immortal. The question exposes the error of treating a messenger's human limits as proof against the truth he communicates.", "Every soul faces death, while both painful and pleasant circumstances can be a trial. The verse prevents comfort from becoming automatic evidence of approval or hardship from becoming automatic evidence of rejection. All lives return to the same ultimate account.", "The opponents mock the Prophet for speaking about their gods while rejecting mention of the Merciful. The verse exposes an uneven demand for respect. Their own sensitivity does not produce an equivalent willingness to consider the message they are ridiculing.", "Human haste is named as a recurring tendency, and the audience is told not to demand that signs be hurried. The warning challenges attempts to make truth obey a preferred schedule. Patience becomes part of responsible attention to the message.", "The opponents ask when the promise will occur if the messengers speak truth. Their challenge makes immediate timing the test of credibility. The following verses answer through the seriousness of the encounter rather than supplying a date for calculation.", "The warning imagines a time when the rejecters cannot shield themselves or obtain help. Their confident demand would look different if they understood that condition. The scene emphasizes vulnerability at the final account, not an earthly punishment readers are told to impose.", "The consequence arrives unexpectedly and leaves its recipients unable to repel it or secure delay. The verse answers the demand to hasten the promise. It challenges confidence in controlling the terms of an encounter that lies beyond ordinary human power.", "The Prophet's experience is set within an earlier pattern of ridicule and its reversal. What people dismissed eventually surrounded them. The verse gives perspective on present opposition while keeping attention on the danger of treating a serious warning as entertainment.", "The question asks who could protect people from the Merciful, while noting their avoidance of His remembrance. Daily security is no longer taken for granted. The argument turns attention from the demand for signs toward the care on which ordinary life already depends.", "The supposed gods cannot defend their own condition, much less shelter their followers from God. The verse tests the logic of misplaced dependence. A relationship of worship cannot create protective power simply because the worshipper urgently wants such power to exist.", "The opponents and their ancestors have enjoyed a long respite, yet the reach of human power can diminish. The question challenges their expectation of guaranteed success. The verse should not be reduced to a single unsupported claim about modern borders or physical geography.", "The Prophet defines the source of his warning as revelation. The image of deafness then describes refusal to receive the call within the argument. It does not assign moral inferiority to people with a physical hearing disability or erase their capacity for faith.", "A mere touch of punishment would make the opponents acknowledge their wrongdoing. The contrast exposes how circumstances can break a confident posture of denial. The reader is asked to consider the worth of honest admission before a crisis makes evasion impossible.", "The final account is pictured through just scales, with even the weight of a mustard seed brought forward. No person is wronged. The image gives moral significance to small actions that may escape public notice but are not absent from divine reckoning.", "Moses and Aaron receive guidance described through discernment, light, and remembrance. These qualities connect earlier revelation with the message currently being addressed to the audience. The chapter's prophetic portraits begin with the purpose of guidance rather than detailed biographies or dates.", "The recipients of that guidance revere their Lord unseen and take the Hour seriously. Their response does not depend on an audience watching them. The verse joins inward sincerity with awareness of accountability, preparing a question about the present reminder.", "The Quran is now described as a blessed reminder, and its rejection is questioned directly. The transition connects the audience's own situation with the earlier gift to Moses and Aaron. History becomes an invitation to respond rather than a distant subject of admiration.", "Abraham is introduced as already granted sound direction and known to God. The account turns to his challenge of inherited worship. His placement after Moses and Aaron follows the chapter's argument, not a claim that these figures lived in that narrative order.", "Abraham asks his father and people about the images to which they remain attached. The question makes an inherited practice available for examination. It begins a conversation about worship by asking the community to identify what has claimed its sustained devotion.", "The people explain their worship through the example of their fathers. This describes the practice's inheritance without establishing its truth. The exchange asks readers to distinguish understanding how a belief was received from giving a reason why it should continue unchanged.", "Abraham says that both his listeners and their fathers were in error. The force of the statement removes ancestry as a final protection against examination. Within the story, the claim will be supported by questions about what the idols can actually do.", "The people ask whether Abraham has brought truth or is joking. His words are difficult to fit within their established assumptions. The question reveals how a deeply familiar practice can make a serious challenge seem almost unimaginable before its grounds are considered.", "Abraham identifies the Lord through the creation of heaven and earth and declares his own witness to that truth. His argument moves beyond the local images to the source of the whole world. Conviction becomes a stated allegiance with reasons attached.", "Abraham declares that he will act against the idols after the people leave. The statement introduces the particular confrontation that follows. It belongs to this prophetic narrative, rather than providing readers with a general permission to damage other communities' sacred places.", "The idols are broken, with the largest left standing so the people may turn to it. The arrangement becomes part of Abraham's argument about their supposed powers. The story's emphasis is the contradiction exposed, not instructions for reproducing the act.", "The people ask who has done this to their gods and condemn the act. Their reaction assumes the objects deserve defense, even though those objects could not defend themselves. That tension will become central when Abraham is brought before them.", "Someone recalls a young man named Abraham speaking about the idols. His earlier challenge now draws public attention. The verse identifies him through youth and speech without giving an exact age, a dated episode, or a securely located temple complex.", "The people demand that Abraham be brought before witnesses. The dispute moves into a collective setting where his answer can be heard. Public exposure is intended to establish guilt, but the narrative will use the same occasion to expose the weakness of their claim.", "Abraham is asked whether he caused the damage. The question gives the confrontation a clear focus before his rhetorical reply. The story invites the reader to attend to the reasoning that follows, rather than treating the exchange as an isolated legal formula.", "Abraham points to the largest idol and tells the people to question the images if they can speak. The answer forces their own claims into view. Its conditional challenge is part of the argument, not a declaration that the statue actually acted.", "The people turn upon themselves and acknowledge wrongdoing. For a moment, Abraham's challenge exposes a contradiction they can see. The scene distinguishes an opening of recognition from a settled change, preparing the reversal that comes immediately afterward in their response.", "The people answer that Abraham already knows the images are unable to talk. Their protest concedes the limitation his challenge was designed to reveal. The exchange asks whether admitting a fact will be allowed to change the beliefs built around it.", "Abraham asks why they worship what can neither benefit nor harm them. The argument returns from the damaged objects to the nature of their dependence. He challenges the powers assigned to the idols rather than accepting devotion itself as evidence of those powers.", "The rebuke expresses Abraham's rejection of the worship he has questioned and asks whether his hearers will reason. The strong language follows a connected argument. Its place in the story does not make contempt or abuse a substitute for thoughtful engagement by readers.", "The opponents call for Abraham to be burned and describe this as defending their gods. Unable to answer his challenge, they turn toward violence. The account portrays their threatened act as wrongdoing; it does not authorize persecution in defense of religious identity.", "The divine command makes the fire cool and safe for Abraham. The rescue reverses the opponents' intended outcome. It is presented as an extraordinary act of protection, without requiring a human figure in the artwork or inventing a visible form for God.", "The people intend harm, but the account describes them as the greatest losers in the encounter. Their apparent control does not determine its end. The verse completes the contrast between a community defending powerless idols and the protection granted to Abraham.", "Abraham and Lot are delivered to a land described as blessed for peoples. Ibn Kathir identifies the region as al-Sham, the broader Levant. This is an attributed geographical interpretation; the verse does not give an exact route, arrival year, or modern border.", "Isaac and Jacob are given to Abraham, and each is described as righteous. The gift extends across generations without reducing their importance to descent alone. The next verse explains leadership through guidance, good action, prayer, and generosity rather than genealogy by itself.", "The chosen figures guide by divine command and are inspired toward good works, prayer, and giving. Their leadership is inseparable from their own worship. The verse invites readers to assess spiritual authority through lived responsibility, not only inherited honor or a respected name.", "Lot is given judgment and knowledge and rescued from a community characterized by grave wrongdoing. The account is brief and does not name its town here. Its emphasis falls on guidance and deliverance, rather than supplying a complete geographical or personal biography.", "Lot is brought into divine mercy and counted among the righteous. The short conclusion makes mercy the frame for the preceding rescue. The reader is invited to remember the positive outcome of faithful response, not only the wrongdoing from which he was delivered.", "Noah's prayer and the rescue of his household are recalled concisely. His need is not hidden by his role as a messenger. The account places calling upon God within a history of answered distress, without identifying a surviving vessel or exact flood date.", "The account describes rescue from a people who denied the signs, followed by their drowning. The moral contrast concerns the community addressed in the story. The verse does not by itself supply a scientific reconstruction of the flood's geographical extent.", "David and Solomon judge a case involving sheep entering a cultivated field at night. Divine witness surrounds their decision. The account brings prophetic responsibility into a practical dispute over damaged property, while leaving many procedural details unstated in this verse.", "Solomon receives understanding of the case, while both he and David are affirmed as possessing judgment and knowledge. The verse distinguishes insight without stripping the other figure of honor. It then recalls hills and birds joining David's praise as a further gift.", "David is taught the making of protective armor, followed by a question about gratitude. Skill becomes a gift through which others benefit. The verse does not establish a modern archaeological date for the invention of mail or claim that a surviving object belonged to him.", "The wind serves Solomon's command toward the blessed land. Extraordinary authority is enclosed within God's complete knowledge. The passage describes a prophetic gift without providing a mechanism for human imitation or a precise map of the journeys involved.", "Some of the unseen beings assigned to Solomon dive and perform other work. Their activity remains under God's keeping. The verse supplies roles rather than physical appearances, so a workshop or maritime illustration can suggest the setting without inventing bodies for these beings.", "Job brings his adversity to the Most Merciful. His prayer is brief, direct, and trusting without pretending that pain is absent. The verse provides no medical diagnosis or full chronology, keeping the focus on the relationship expressed through the appeal.", "Job's prayer is answered through the removal of adversity and restored family blessing. The outcome is described as mercy and a reminder for worshippers. The concise account should not be expanded into certainty about every disputed detail of his illness or household's history.", "Ishmael, Idris, and Dhu al-Kifl are named together for their patience. The verse offers a shared moral quality rather than complete biographies. It does not identify Dhu al-Kifl with a particular later historical proposal or establish graves for the named figures.", "The steadfast figures are brought into divine mercy and described as righteous. This short conclusion connects endurance with a favorable reception. The passage honors patient commitment without suggesting that their lives contained no difficulty, uncertainty, or need for help.", "The man of the fish calls upon God with an admission of wrongdoing. Ibn Kathir explains the disputed expression as expecting not to be constrained, rather than denying divine power. Pickthall's wording remains visible, with that interpretive distinction made explicit here.", "The prayer is answered and the distress removed, followed by a wider assurance concerning believers. The movement is from acknowledged wrongdoing toward mercy. The verse invites trustful return in difficulty without giving readers a fixed timetable for how every personal trial will end.", "Zechariah asks not to be left without a child while acknowledging God as the best inheritor. Personal longing is expressed within trust rather than entitlement. The prayer shows that a deeply desired family gift can be requested without making it the limit of divine worth.", "John is granted and Zechariah's wife enabled to bear a child. The account then describes eagerness for good works, hopeful and reverent prayer, and humility. The family blessing is placed within a life of devotion rather than presented as an isolated marvel.", "The woman who guarded her chastity and her son are described as a sign for peoples. Commentary identifies them as Mary and Jesus. The passage affirms an extraordinary gift of life without making either figure divine or supplying an image of the divine Spirit.", "After the many named lives, the chapter affirms one community of faith under one Lord. The distinct stories are brought into a shared direction of worship. Their varied needs and gifts do not turn the foundational prophetic message into rival objects of allegiance.", "People divide their religious affairs, yet all return to God. Human disagreement does not create separate final authorities. The verse asks readers to recognize the seriousness of division while remembering that ultimate accountability exceeds the boundaries each group draws around itself.", "Good work joined with belief is not rejected, and the effort is recorded. The assurance gives significance to actions that may receive little notice. The chapter answers anxiety about the account with a promise that sincere effort is not simply forgotten.", "Ibn Kathir explains this verse as denying a return to worldly life for the destroyed communities before resurrection. That distinction matters within a chapter affirming the final rising. The statement is not a denial that they will face the ultimate account.", "The scene describes Gog and Magog moving out when the barrier to their emergence is removed. It belongs to the approach of the promised end. The verse does not identify a contemporary ethnicity or justify mapping its warning onto a present population.", "As the true promise approaches, those who dismissed it recognize their heedlessness and wrongdoing. Their astonished gaze contrasts with the chapter's opening distraction. The narrative returns to its initial concern: whether people will attend to the account before its arrival removes every excuse.", "The warning places the idolaters and their objects of worship within a shared destructive outcome. The supposed source of rescue offers no escape. The passage exposes misplaced dependence and should be read with the following distinction concerning those already promised divine good.", "If the worshipped objects had possessed the godhood attributed to them, they would not share this helpless condition. The argument tests a claim through its consequence. It is a final form of the question about what an object of worship can actually do.", "Wailing and the loss of hearing intensify the description of punishment. The verse belongs to the final account, not an earthly location or a practice to imitate. Its severity prepares the sharp contrast with the protected and welcomed people described next.", "The account distinguishes people for whom divine favor has gone before, keeping them far from the preceding punishment. The contrast prevents a careless reading that erases the righteous within a sweeping warning. Mercy remains integral to the chapter's account of the final outcome.", "Those granted favor do not hear the disturbance of punishment and remain in what their souls desire. The promise describes security and lasting satisfaction. It offers a contrast to terror without turning the unseen Garden into a place whose architecture can be verified.", "The greatest terror does not grieve them, and angels receive them with reassurance. The once distant promise becomes a welcome. The verse can be accompanied by symbolic light or landscape without inventing visible angelic bodies or claiming an eyewitness view of the scene.", "The sky is compared with a written scroll being rolled up, followed by the promise to repeat creation. The image overturns apparent permanence. Its argument rests on the power that began existence, rather than a technical forecast of one physical cosmological process.", "The scripture's promise connects inheritance of the earth with righteousness. Ibn Kathir discusses its good outcome in this life and the Hereafter. The verse is presented as divine promise, not a license for a group to seize particular present day territories.", "The chapter describes what it has set out as a communication for people devoted to worship. Its arguments and prophetic accounts are meant to lead somewhere. Reading becomes fruitful when the reminder is allowed to shape attention, trust, and action.", "The Prophet's sending is described through mercy for the worlds, rendered by Pickthall as peoples. The statement gathers the chapter's warnings and rescues into a generous purpose. Mercy is not an incidental addition to the mission but part of its defining meaning.", "The closing call returns to God's oneness and asks whether the hearers will surrender. After the many stories, the foundational message remains clear. A multitude of examples has led back to one direction of worship rather than a complicated hierarchy of competing powers.", "If the listeners turn away, the Prophet declares that the warning has been conveyed equally. He does not claim to know whether its fulfillment is near or far. Faithful communication is distinguished from possessing the hidden schedule opponents demand.", "God knows both public speech and what people keep hidden. The statement supports the warning without requiring the messenger to know every concealed intention. It reminds readers that managing appearances cannot place the inward life outside the final account.", "The interval of enjoyment may itself be a test. The Prophet does not claim certainty about all its purposes. The verse asks readers to treat available time as a responsibility rather than assume that continued comfort proves their present course beyond question.", "The chapter ends by asking for judgment in truth and seeking the Merciful's help against false descriptions. The final posture is reliance rather than control of the outcome. After warnings, signs, and answered prayers, trust remains joined with the demand for truth." ], "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "ٱقْتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ حِسَابُهُمْ وَهُمْ فِى غَفْلَةٍۢ مُّعْرِضُونَ", "translation": "Their reckoning draweth nigh for mankind, while they turn away in heedlessness." }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "مَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن ذِكْرٍۢ مِّن رَّبِّهِم مُّحْدَثٍ إِلَّا ٱسْتَمَعُوهُ وَهُمْ يَلْعَبُونَ", "translation": "Never cometh there unto them a new reminder from their Lord but they listen to it while they play," }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "لَاهِيَةًۭ قُلُوبُهُمْ ۗ وَأَسَرُّوا۟ ٱلنَّجْوَى ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ هَلْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا بَشَرٌۭ مِّثْلُكُمْ ۖ أَفَتَأْتُونَ ٱلسِّحْرَ وَأَنتُمْ تُبْصِرُونَ", "translation": "With hearts preoccupied. And they confer in secret. The wrong-doers say: Is this other than a mortal like you ? Will ye then succumb to magic when ye see (it) ?" }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "قَالَ رَبِّى يَعْلَمُ ٱلْقَوْلَ فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ", "translation": "He saith: My Lord knoweth what is spoken in the heaven and the earth. He is the Hearer, the Knower." }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "بَلْ قَالُوٓا۟ أَضْغَٰثُ أَحْلَٰمٍۭ بَلِ ٱفْتَرَىٰهُ بَلْ هُوَ شَاعِرٌۭ فَلْيَأْتِنَا بِـَٔايَةٍۢ كَمَآ أُرْسِلَ ٱلْأَوَّلُونَ", "translation": "Nay, say they, (these are but) muddled dreams; nay, he hath but invented it; nay, he is but a poet. Let him bring us a portent even as those of old (who were God's messengers) were sent (with portents)." }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "مَآ ءَامَنَتْ قَبْلَهُم مِّن قَرْيَةٍ أَهْلَكْنَٰهَآ ۖ أَفَهُمْ يُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "Not a township believed of those which We destroyed before them (though We sent them portents): would they then believe ?" }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَا قَبْلَكَ إِلَّا رِجَالًۭا نُّوحِىٓ إِلَيْهِمْ ۖ فَسْـَٔلُوٓا۟ أَهْلَ ٱلذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "And We sent not (as Our messengers) before thee other than men, whom We inspired. Ask the followers of the Reminder if ye know not ?" }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "وَمَا جَعَلْنَٰهُمْ جَسَدًۭا لَّا يَأْكُلُونَ ٱلطَّعَامَ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ خَٰلِدِينَ", "translation": "We gave them not bodies that would not eat food, nor were they immortals." }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "ثُمَّ صَدَقْنَٰهُمُ ٱلْوَعْدَ فَأَنجَيْنَٰهُمْ وَمَن نَّشَآءُ وَأَهْلَكْنَا ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ", "translation": "Then we fulfilled the promise unto them. So we delivered them and whom We would, and We destroyed the prodigals." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "لَقَدْ أَنزَلْنَآ إِلَيْكُمْ كِتَٰبًۭا فِيهِ ذِكْرُكُمْ ۖ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ", "translation": "Now We have revealed unto you a Scripture wherein is your Reminder. Have ye then no sense ?" }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "وَكَمْ قَصَمْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍۢ كَانَتْ ظَالِمَةًۭ وَأَنشَأْنَا بَعْدَهَا قَوْمًا ءَاخَرِينَ", "translation": "How many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and raised up after them another folk!" }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "فَلَمَّآ أَحَسُّوا۟ بَأْسَنَآ إِذَا هُم مِّنْهَا يَرْكُضُونَ", "translation": "And, when they felt Our might, behold them fleeing from it!" }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "لَا تَرْكُضُوا۟ وَٱرْجِعُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰ مَآ أُتْرِفْتُمْ فِيهِ وَمَسَٰكِنِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُسْـَٔلُونَ", "translation": "(But it was said unto them): Flee not, but return to that (existence) which emasculated you and to your dwellings, that ye may be questioned." }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "They cried: Alas for us! we were wrong-doers." }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "فَمَا زَالَت تِّلْكَ دَعْوَىٰهُمْ حَتَّىٰ جَعَلْنَٰهُمْ حَصِيدًا خَٰمِدِينَ", "translation": "And this their crying ceased not till We made them as reaped corn, extinct." }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "وَمَا خَلَقْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَٰعِبِينَ", "translation": "We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in play." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "لَوْ أَرَدْنَآ أَن نَّتَّخِذَ لَهْوًۭا لَّٱتَّخَذْنَٰهُ مِن لَّدُنَّآ إِن كُنَّا فَٰعِلِينَ", "translation": "If We had wished to find a pastime, We could have found it in Our presence - if We ever did." }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "بَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِٱلْحَقِّ عَلَى ٱلْبَٰطِلِ فَيَدْمَغُهُۥ فَإِذَا هُوَ زَاهِقٌۭ ۚ وَلَكُمُ ٱلْوَيْلُ مِمَّا تَصِفُونَ", "translation": "Nay, but We hurl the true against the false, and it doth break its head and lo! it vanisheth. And yours will be woe for that which ye ascribe (unto Him)." }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "وَلَهُۥ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ وَمَنْ عِندَهُۥ لَا يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِهِۦ وَلَا يَسْتَحْسِرُونَ", "translation": "Unto Him belongeth whosoever is in the heavens and the earth. And those who dwell in His presence are not too proud to worship Him, nor do they weary;" }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "يُسَبِّحُونَ ٱلَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ لَا يَفْتُرُونَ", "translation": "They glorify (Him) night and day; they flag not." }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "أَمِ ٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟ ءَالِهَةًۭ مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ هُمْ يُنشِرُونَ", "translation": "Or have they chosen gods from the earth who raise the dead ?" }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "لَوْ كَانَ فِيهِمَآ ءَالِهَةٌ إِلَّا ٱللَّهُ لَفَسَدَتَا ۚ فَسُبْحَٰنَ ٱللَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَرْشِ عَمَّا يَصِفُونَ", "translation": "If there were therein gods beside Allah, then verily both (the heavens and the earth) had been disordered. Glorified be Allah, the Lord of the Throne, from all that they ascribe (unto Him)." }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "لَا يُسْـَٔلُ عَمَّا يَفْعَلُ وَهُمْ يُسْـَٔلُونَ", "translation": "He will not be questioned as to that which He doeth, but they will be questioned." }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "أَمِ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ ءَالِهَةًۭ ۖ قُلْ هَاتُوا۟ بُرْهَٰنَكُمْ ۖ هَٰذَا ذِكْرُ مَن مَّعِىَ وَذِكْرُ مَن قَبْلِى ۗ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ٱلْحَقَّ ۖ فَهُم مُّعْرِضُونَ", "translation": "Or have they chosen other gods beside Him ? say: Bring your proof (of their godhead). This is the Reminder of those with me and those before me, but most of them know not the Truth and so they are averse." }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَا مِن قَبْلِكَ مِن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا نُوحِىٓ إِلَيْهِ أَنَّهُۥ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنَا۠ فَٱعْبُدُونِ", "translation": "And We sent no messenger before thee but We inspired him, (saying): There is no God save Me (Allah), so worship Me." }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "وَقَالُوا۟ ٱتَّخَذَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَلَدًۭا ۗ سُبْحَٰنَهُۥ ۚ بَلْ عِبَادٌۭ مُّكْرَمُونَ", "translation": "And they say: The Beneficent hath taken unto Himself a son. Be He Glorified! Nay, but (those whom they call sons) are honoured slaves;" }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "لَا يَسْبِقُونَهُۥ بِٱلْقَوْلِ وَهُم بِأَمْرِهِۦ يَعْمَلُونَ", "translation": "They speak not until He hath spoken, and they act by His command." }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ وَلَا يَشْفَعُونَ إِلَّا لِمَنِ ٱرْتَضَىٰ وَهُم مِّنْ خَشْيَتِهِۦ مُشْفِقُونَ", "translation": "He knoweth what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot intercede except for him whom He accepteth, and they quake for awe of Him." }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "۞ وَمَن يَقُلْ مِنْهُمْ إِنِّىٓ إِلَٰهٌۭ مِّن دُونِهِۦ فَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِيهِ جَهَنَّمَ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "And one of them who should say: Lo! I am a god beside Him, that one We should repay with hell. Thus We Repay wrong-doers." }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "أَوَلَمْ يَرَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ كَانَتَا رَتْقًۭا فَفَتَقْنَٰهُمَا ۖ وَجَعَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمَآءِ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ حَىٍّ ۖ أَفَلَا يُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them, and we made every living thing of water ? Will they not then believe ?" }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ رَوَٰسِىَ أَن تَمِيدَ بِهِمْ وَجَعَلْنَا فِيهَا فِجَاجًۭا سُبُلًۭا لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَهْتَدُونَ", "translation": "And We have placed in the earth firm hills lest it quake with them, and We have placed therein ravines as roads that haply they may find their way." }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ سَقْفًۭا مَّحْفُوظًۭا ۖ وَهُمْ عَنْ ءَايَٰتِهَا مُعْرِضُونَ", "translation": "And we have made the sky a roof withheld (from them). Yet they turn away from its portents." }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ وَٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ ۖ كُلٌّۭ فِى فَلَكٍۢ يَسْبَحُونَ", "translation": "And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They float, each in an orbit." }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "وَمَا جَعَلْنَا لِبَشَرٍۢ مِّن قَبْلِكَ ٱلْخُلْدَ ۖ أَفَإِي۟ن مِّتَّ فَهُمُ ٱلْخَٰلِدُونَ", "translation": "We appointed immortality for no mortal before thee. What! if thou diest, can they be immortal!" }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ ذَآئِقَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۗ وَنَبْلُوكُم بِٱلشَّرِّ وَٱلْخَيْرِ فِتْنَةًۭ ۖ وَإِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ", "translation": "Every soul must taste of death, and We try you with evil and with good, for ordeal. And unto Us ye will be returned." }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "وَإِذَا رَءَاكَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ إِن يَتَّخِذُونَكَ إِلَّا هُزُوًا أَهَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى يَذْكُرُ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ وَهُم بِذِكْرِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ هُمْ كَٰفِرُونَ", "translation": "And when those who disbelieve behold thee, they but choose thee out for mockery, (saying): Is this he who maketh mention of your gods ? And they would deny all mention of the Beneficent." }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "خُلِقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مِنْ عَجَلٍۢ ۚ سَأُو۟رِيكُمْ ءَايَٰتِى فَلَا تَسْتَعْجِلُونِ", "translation": "Man is made of haste. I shall show you My portents, but ask Me not to hasten." }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَىٰ هَٰذَا ٱلْوَعْدُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ", "translation": "And they say: When will this promise (be fulfilled), if ye are truthful ?" }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "لَوْ يَعْلَمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ حِينَ لَا يَكُفُّونَ عَن وُجُوهِهِمُ ٱلنَّارَ وَلَا عَن ظُهُورِهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ", "translation": "If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not be able to drive off the fire from their faces and from their backs, and they will not be helped!" }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "بَلْ تَأْتِيهِم بَغْتَةًۭ فَتَبْهَتُهُمْ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ رَدَّهَا وَلَا هُمْ يُنظَرُونَ", "translation": "Nay, but it will come upon them unawares so that it will stupefy them, and they will be unable to repel it, neither will they be reprieved." }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "وَلَقَدِ ٱسْتُهْزِئَ بِرُسُلٍۢ مِّن قَبْلِكَ فَحَاقَ بِٱلَّذِينَ سَخِرُوا۟ مِنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ", "translation": "Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked, but that whereat they mocked surrounded those who scoffed at them." }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "قُلْ مَن يَكْلَؤُكُم بِٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ مِنَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ۗ بَلْ هُمْ عَن ذِكْرِ رَبِّهِم مُّعْرِضُونَ", "translation": "Say: Who guardeth you in the night or in the day from the Beneficent ? Nay, but they turn away from mention of their Lord!" }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "أَمْ لَهُمْ ءَالِهَةٌۭ تَمْنَعُهُم مِّن دُونِنَا ۚ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ نَصْرَ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَلَا هُم مِّنَّا يُصْحَبُونَ", "translation": "Or have they gods who can shield them from Us ? They cannot help themselves nor can they be defended from Us." }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "بَلْ مَتَّعْنَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَءَابَآءَهُمْ حَتَّىٰ طَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْعُمُرُ ۗ أَفَلَا يَرَوْنَ أَنَّا نَأْتِى ٱلْأَرْضَ نَنقُصُهَا مِنْ أَطْرَافِهَآ ۚ أَفَهُمُ ٱلْغَٰلِبُونَ", "translation": "Nay, but We gave these and their fathers ease until life grew long for them. See they not how we aim to the land, reducing it of its outlying parts ? Can they then be the victors ?" }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "قُلْ إِنَّمَآ أُنذِرُكُم بِٱلْوَحْىِ ۚ وَلَا يَسْمَعُ ٱلصُّمُّ ٱلدُّعَآءَ إِذَا مَا يُنذَرُونَ", "translation": "Say (O Muhammad, unto mankind): I warn you only by the Inspiration. But the deaf hear not the call when they are warned." }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "وَلَئِن مَّسَّتْهُمْ نَفْحَةٌۭ مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّكَ لَيَقُولُنَّ يَٰوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "And if a breath of thy Lord's punishment were to touch them, they assuredly would say: Alas for us! Lo! we were wrong-doers." }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "وَنَضَعُ ٱلْمَوَٰزِينَ ٱلْقِسْطَ لِيَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ فَلَا تُظْلَمُ نَفْسٌۭ شَيْـًۭٔا ۖ وَإِن كَانَ مِثْقَالَ حَبَّةٍۢ مِّنْ خَرْدَلٍ أَتَيْنَا بِهَا ۗ وَكَفَىٰ بِنَا حَٰسِبِينَ", "translation": "And We set a just balance for the Day of Resurrection so that no soul is wronged in aught. Though it be of the weight of a grain of mustard seed, We bring it. And We suffice for reckoners." }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَىٰ وَهَٰرُونَ ٱلْفُرْقَانَ وَضِيَآءًۭ وَذِكْرًۭا لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ", "translation": "And We verily gave Moses and Aaron the Criterion (of right and wrong) and a light and a Reminder for those who keep from evil," }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ يَخْشَوْنَ رَبَّهُم بِٱلْغَيْبِ وَهُم مِّنَ ٱلسَّاعَةِ مُشْفِقُونَ", "translation": "Those who fear their Lord in secret and who dread the Hour (of doom)." }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "وَهَٰذَا ذِكْرٌۭ مُّبَارَكٌ أَنزَلْنَٰهُ ۚ أَفَأَنتُمْ لَهُۥ مُنكِرُونَ", "translation": "This is a blessed Reminder that we have revealed: Will ye then reject it ?" }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "۞ وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَآ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ رُشْدَهُۥ مِن قَبْلُ وَكُنَّا بِهِۦ عَٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "And We verily gave Abraham of old his proper course, and We were Aware of him," }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِۦ مَا هَٰذِهِ ٱلتَّمَاثِيلُ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنتُمْ لَهَا عَٰكِفُونَ", "translation": "When he said unto his father and his folk: What are these images unto which ye pay devotion ?" }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ وَجَدْنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا لَهَا عَٰبِدِينَ", "translation": "They said: We found our fathers worshippers of them." }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "قَالَ لَقَدْ كُنتُمْ أَنتُمْ وَءَابَآؤُكُمْ فِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ", "translation": "He said: Verily ye and your fathers were in plain error." }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "قَالُوٓا۟ أَجِئْتَنَا بِٱلْحَقِّ أَمْ أَنتَ مِنَ ٱللَّٰعِبِينَ", "translation": "They said: Bringest thou unto us the truth, or art thou some jester ?" }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "قَالَ بَل رَّبُّكُمْ رَبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّذِى فَطَرَهُنَّ وَأَنَا۠ عَلَىٰ ذَٰلِكُم مِّنَ ٱلشَّٰهِدِينَ", "translation": "He said: Nay, but your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, Who created them; and I am of those who testify unto that." }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "وَتَٱللَّهِ لَأَكِيدَنَّ أَصْنَٰمَكُم بَعْدَ أَن تُوَلُّوا۟ مُدْبِرِينَ", "translation": "And, by Allah, I shall circumvent your idols after ye have gone away and turned your backs." }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "فَجَعَلَهُمْ جُذَٰذًا إِلَّا كَبِيرًۭا لَّهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ يَرْجِعُونَ", "translation": "Then he reduced them to fragments, all save the chief of them, that haply they might have recourse to it." }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ مَن فَعَلَ هَٰذَا بِـَٔالِهَتِنَآ إِنَّهُۥ لَمِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "They said: Who hath done this to our gods ? Surely it must be some evil-doer." }, { "n": 60, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ سَمِعْنَا فَتًۭى يَذْكُرُهُمْ يُقَالُ لَهُۥٓ إِبْرَٰهِيمُ", "translation": "They said: We heard a youth make mention of them, who is called Abraham." }, { "n": 61, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ فَأْتُوا۟ بِهِۦ عَلَىٰٓ أَعْيُنِ ٱلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَشْهَدُونَ", "translation": "They said: Then bring him (hither) before the people's eyes that they may testify." }, { "n": 62, "arabic": "قَالُوٓا۟ ءَأَنتَ فَعَلْتَ هَٰذَا بِـَٔالِهَتِنَا يَٰٓإِبْرَٰهِيمُ", "translation": "They said: Is it thou who hast done this to our gods, O Abraham ?" }, { "n": 63, "arabic": "قَالَ بَلْ فَعَلَهُۥ كَبِيرُهُمْ هَٰذَا فَسْـَٔلُوهُمْ إِن كَانُوا۟ يَنطِقُونَ", "translation": "He said: But this, their chief hath done it. So question them, if they can speak." }, { "n": 64, "arabic": "فَرَجَعُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ فَقَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّكُمْ أَنتُمُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ", "translation": "Then gathered they apart and said: Lo! ye yourselves are the wrong-doers." }, { "n": 65, "arabic": "ثُمَّ نُكِسُوا۟ عَلَىٰ رُءُوسِهِمْ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ يَنطِقُونَ", "translation": "And they were utterly confounded, and they said: Well thou knowest that these speak not." }, { "n": 66, "arabic": "قَالَ أَفَتَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَنفَعُكُمْ شَيْـًۭٔا وَلَا يَضُرُّكُمْ", "translation": "He said: Worship ye then instead of Allah that which cannot profit you at all, nor harm you ?" }, { "n": 67, "arabic": "أُفٍّۢ لَّكُمْ وَلِمَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ ۖ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ", "translation": "Fie on you and all that ye worship instead of Allah! Have ye then no sense ?" }, { "n": 68, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ حَرِّقُوهُ وَٱنصُرُوٓا۟ ءَالِهَتَكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ فَٰعِلِينَ", "translation": "They cried: Burn him and stand by your gods, if ye will be doing." }, { "n": 69, "arabic": "قُلْنَا يَٰنَارُ كُونِى بَرْدًۭا وَسَلَٰمًا عَلَىٰٓ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ", "translation": "We said: O fire, be coolness and peace for Abraham," }, { "n": 70, "arabic": "وَأَرَادُوا۟ بِهِۦ كَيْدًۭا فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمُ ٱلْأَخْسَرِينَ", "translation": "And they wished to set a snare for him, but We made them the greater losers." }, { "n": 71, "arabic": "وَنَجَّيْنَٰهُ وَلُوطًا إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِى بَٰرَكْنَا فِيهَا لِلْعَٰلَمِينَ", "translation": "And We rescued him and Lot (and brought them) to the land which We have blessed for (all) peoples." }, { "n": 72, "arabic": "وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُۥٓ إِسْحَٰقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ نَافِلَةًۭ ۖ وَكُلًّۭا جَعَلْنَا صَٰلِحِينَ", "translation": "And We bestowed upon him Isaac, and Jacob as a grandson. Each of them We made righteous." }, { "n": 73, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ أَئِمَّةًۭ يَهْدُونَ بِأَمْرِنَا وَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَيْهِمْ فِعْلَ ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ وَإِقَامَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ وَإِيتَآءَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةِ ۖ وَكَانُوا۟ لَنَا عَٰبِدِينَ", "translation": "And We made them chiefs who guide by Our command, and We inspired in them the doing of good deeds and the right establishment of worship and the giving of alms, and they were worshippers of Us (alone)." }, { "n": 74, "arabic": "وَلُوطًا ءَاتَيْنَٰهُ حُكْمًۭا وَعِلْمًۭا وَنَجَّيْنَٰهُ مِنَ ٱلْقَرْيَةِ ٱلَّتِى كَانَت تَّعْمَلُ ٱلْخَبَٰٓئِثَ ۗ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَوْمَ سَوْءٍۢ فَٰسِقِينَ", "translation": "And unto Lot we gave judgment and knowledge, and We delivered him from the community that did abominations. Lo! they were folk of evil, lewd." }, { "n": 75, "arabic": "وَأَدْخَلْنَٰهُ فِى رَحْمَتِنَآ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ", "translation": "And We brought him in unto Our mercy. Lo! he was of the righteous." }, { "n": 76, "arabic": "وَنُوحًا إِذْ نَادَىٰ مِن قَبْلُ فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُۥ فَنَجَّيْنَٰهُ وَأَهْلَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلْكَرْبِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ", "translation": "And Noah, when he cried of old, We heard his prayer and saved him and his household from the great affliction." }, { "n": 77, "arabic": "وَنَصَرْنَٰهُ مِنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَآ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَوْمَ سَوْءٍۢ فَأَغْرَقْنَٰهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ", "translation": "And delivered him from the people who denied Our revelations. Lo! they were folk of evil, therefor did We drown them all." }, { "n": 78, "arabic": "وَدَاوُۥدَ وَسُلَيْمَٰنَ إِذْ يَحْكُمَانِ فِى ٱلْحَرْثِ إِذْ نَفَشَتْ فِيهِ غَنَمُ ٱلْقَوْمِ وَكُنَّا لِحُكْمِهِمْ شَٰهِدِينَ", "translation": "And David and Solomon, when they gave judgment concerning the field, when people's sheep had strayed and browsed therein by night; and We were witnesses to their judgment." }, { "n": 79, "arabic": "فَفَهَّمْنَٰهَا سُلَيْمَٰنَ ۚ وَكُلًّا ءَاتَيْنَا حُكْمًۭا وَعِلْمًۭا ۚ وَسَخَّرْنَا مَعَ دَاوُۥدَ ٱلْجِبَالَ يُسَبِّحْنَ وَٱلطَّيْرَ ۚ وَكُنَّا فَٰعِلِينَ", "translation": "And We made Solomon to understand (the case); and unto each of them We gave judgment and knowledge. And we subdued the hills and the birds to hymn (His) praise along with David. We were the doers (thereof)." }, { "n": 80, "arabic": "وَعَلَّمْنَٰهُ صَنْعَةَ لَبُوسٍۢ لَّكُمْ لِتُحْصِنَكُم مِّنۢ بَأْسِكُمْ ۖ فَهَلْ أَنتُمْ شَٰكِرُونَ", "translation": "And We taught him the art of making garments (of mail) to protect you in your daring. Are ye then thankful ?" }, { "n": 81, "arabic": "وَلِسُلَيْمَٰنَ ٱلرِّيحَ عَاصِفَةًۭ تَجْرِى بِأَمْرِهِۦٓ إِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِى بَٰرَكْنَا فِيهَا ۚ وَكُنَّا بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عَٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "And unto Solomon (We subdued) the wind in its raging. It set by his command toward the land which We had blessed. And of everything We are Aware." }, { "n": 82, "arabic": "وَمِنَ ٱلشَّيَٰطِينِ مَن يَغُوصُونَ لَهُۥ وَيَعْمَلُونَ عَمَلًۭا دُونَ ذَٰلِكَ ۖ وَكُنَّا لَهُمْ حَٰفِظِينَ", "translation": "And of the evil ones (subdued We unto him) some who dived (for pearls) for him and did other work, and We were warders unto them." }, { "n": 83, "arabic": "۞ وَأَيُّوبَ إِذْ نَادَىٰ رَبَّهُۥٓ أَنِّى مَسَّنِىَ ٱلضُّرُّ وَأَنتَ أَرْحَمُ ٱلرَّٰحِمِينَ", "translation": "And Job, when he cried unto his Lord, (saying): Lo! adversity afflicteth me, and Thou art Most Merciful of all who show mercy." }, { "n": 84, "arabic": "فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُۥ فَكَشَفْنَا مَا بِهِۦ مِن ضُرٍّۢ ۖ وَءَاتَيْنَٰهُ أَهْلَهُۥ وَمِثْلَهُم مَّعَهُمْ رَحْمَةًۭ مِّنْ عِندِنَا وَذِكْرَىٰ لِلْعَٰبِدِينَ", "translation": "Then We heard his prayer and removed that adversity from which he suffered, and We gave him his household (that he had lost) and the like thereof along with them, a mercy from Our store, and a remembrance for the worshippers;" }, { "n": 85, "arabic": "وَإِسْمَٰعِيلَ وَإِدْرِيسَ وَذَا ٱلْكِفْلِ ۖ كُلٌّۭ مِّنَ ٱلصَّٰبِرِينَ", "translation": "And (mention) Ishmael, and Idris, and Dhu'l-Kifl. All were of the steadfast." }, { "n": 86, "arabic": "وَأَدْخَلْنَٰهُمْ فِى رَحْمَتِنَآ ۖ إِنَّهُم مِّنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ", "translation": "And We brought them in unto Our mercy. Lo! they are among the righteous." }, { "n": 87, "arabic": "وَذَا ٱلنُّونِ إِذ ذَّهَبَ مُغَٰضِبًۭا فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ فَنَادَىٰ فِى ٱلظُّلُمَٰتِ أَن لَّآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبْحَٰنَكَ إِنِّى كُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "And (mention) Dhu'n-Nun, when he went off in anger and deemed that We had no power over him, but he cried out in the darkness, saying: There is no God save Thee. Be Thou Glorified! Lo! I have been a wrong-doer." }, { "n": 88, "arabic": "فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُۥ وَنَجَّيْنَٰهُ مِنَ ٱلْغَمِّ ۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُۨجِى ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ", "translation": "Then we heard his prayer and saved him from the anguish. Thus we save believers." }, { "n": 89, "arabic": "وَزَكَرِيَّآ إِذْ نَادَىٰ رَبَّهُۥ رَبِّ لَا تَذَرْنِى فَرْدًۭا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ ٱلْوَٰرِثِينَ", "translation": "And Zachariah, when he cried unto his Lord: My Lord! Leave me not childless, though Thou art the Best of inheritors." }, { "n": 90, "arabic": "فَٱسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُۥ وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُۥ يَحْيَىٰ وَأَصْلَحْنَا لَهُۥ زَوْجَهُۥٓ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ يُسَٰرِعُونَ فِى ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ وَيَدْعُونَنَا رَغَبًۭا وَرَهَبًۭا ۖ وَكَانُوا۟ لَنَا خَٰشِعِينَ", "translation": "Then We heard his prayer, and bestowed upon him John, and adjusted his wife (to bear a child) for him. Lo! they used to vie one with the other in good deeds, and they cried unto Us in longing and in fear, and were submissive unto Us." }, { "n": 91, "arabic": "وَٱلَّتِىٓ أَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا فَنَفَخْنَا فِيهَا مِن رُّوحِنَا وَجَعَلْنَٰهَا وَٱبْنَهَآ ءَايَةًۭ لِّلْعَٰلَمِينَ", "translation": "And she who was chaste, therefor We breathed into her (something) of Our Spirit and made her and her son a token for (all) peoples." }, { "n": 92, "arabic": "إِنَّ هَٰذِهِۦٓ أُمَّتُكُمْ أُمَّةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ وَأَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمْ فَٱعْبُدُونِ", "translation": "Lo! this, your religion, is one religion, and I am your Lord, so worship Me." }, { "n": 93, "arabic": "وَتَقَطَّعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَهُم بَيْنَهُمْ ۖ كُلٌّ إِلَيْنَا رَٰجِعُونَ", "translation": "And they have broken their religion (into fragments) among them, (yet) all are returning unto Us." }, { "n": 94, "arabic": "فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌۭ فَلَا كُفْرَانَ لِسَعْيِهِۦ وَإِنَّا لَهُۥ كَٰتِبُونَ", "translation": "Then whoso doeth some good works and is a believer, there will be no rejection of his effort. Lo! We record (it) for him." }, { "n": 95, "arabic": "وَحَرَٰمٌ عَلَىٰ قَرْيَةٍ أَهْلَكْنَٰهَآ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ", "translation": "And there is a ban upon any community which We have destroyed: that they shall not return." }, { "n": 96, "arabic": "حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا فُتِحَتْ يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ وَهُم مِّن كُلِّ حَدَبٍۢ يَنسِلُونَ", "translation": "Until, when Gog and Magog are let loose, and they hasten out of every mound," }, { "n": 97, "arabic": "وَٱقْتَرَبَ ٱلْوَعْدُ ٱلْحَقُّ فَإِذَا هِىَ شَٰخِصَةٌ أَبْصَٰرُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَا قَدْ كُنَّا فِى غَفْلَةٍۢ مِّنْ هَٰذَا بَلْ كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "And the True Promise draweth nigh; then behold them, staring wide (in terror), the eyes of those who disbelieve! (They say): Alas for us! We (lived) in forgetfulness of this. Ah, but we were wrong-doers!" }, { "n": 98, "arabic": "إِنَّكُمْ وَمَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ حَصَبُ جَهَنَّمَ أَنتُمْ لَهَا وَٰرِدُونَ", "translation": "Lo! ye (idolaters) and that which ye worship beside Allah are fuel of hell. Thereunto ye will come." }, { "n": 99, "arabic": "لَوْ كَانَ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ ءَالِهَةًۭ مَّا وَرَدُوهَا ۖ وَكُلٌّۭ فِيهَا خَٰلِدُونَ", "translation": "If these had been gods they would not have come thither, but all will abide therein." }, { "n": 100, "arabic": "لَهُمْ فِيهَا زَفِيرٌۭ وَهُمْ فِيهَا لَا يَسْمَعُونَ", "translation": "Therein wailing is their portion, and therein they hear not." }, { "n": 101, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ سَبَقَتْ لَهُم مِّنَّا ٱلْحُسْنَىٰٓ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ عَنْهَا مُبْعَدُونَ", "translation": "Lo! those unto whom kindness hath gone forth before from Us, they will be far removed from thence." }, { "n": 102, "arabic": "لَا يَسْمَعُونَ حَسِيسَهَا ۖ وَهُمْ فِى مَا ٱشْتَهَتْ أَنفُسُهُمْ خَٰلِدُونَ", "translation": "They will not hear the slightest sound thereof, while they abide in that which their souls desire." }, { "n": 103, "arabic": "لَا يَحْزُنُهُمُ ٱلْفَزَعُ ٱلْأَكْبَرُ وَتَتَلَقَّىٰهُمُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ هَٰذَا يَوْمُكُمُ ٱلَّذِى كُنتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ", "translation": "The Supreme Horror will not grieve them, and the angels will welcome them, (saying): This is your Day which ye were promised;" }, { "n": 104, "arabic": "يَوْمَ نَطْوِى ٱلسَّمَآءَ كَطَىِّ ٱلسِّجِلِّ لِلْكُتُبِ ۚ كَمَا بَدَأْنَآ أَوَّلَ خَلْقٍۢ نُّعِيدُهُۥ ۚ وَعْدًا عَلَيْنَآ ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا فَٰعِلِينَ", "translation": "The Day when We shall roll up the heavens as a recorder rolleth up a written scroll. As We began the first creation, We shall repeat it. (It is) a promise (binding) upon Us. Lo! We are to perform it." }, { "n": 105, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ كَتَبْنَا فِى ٱلزَّبُورِ مِنۢ بَعْدِ ٱلذِّكْرِ أَنَّ ٱلْأَرْضَ يَرِثُهَا عِبَادِىَ ٱلصَّٰلِحُونَ", "translation": "And verily we have written in the Scripture, after the Reminder: My righteous slaves will inherit the earth:" }, { "n": 106, "arabic": "إِنَّ فِى هَٰذَا لَبَلَٰغًۭا لِّقَوْمٍ عَٰبِدِينَ", "translation": "Lo! there is a plain statement for folk who are devout." }, { "n": 107, "arabic": "وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَٰكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةًۭ لِّلْعَٰلَمِينَ", "translation": "We sent thee not save as a mercy for the peoples." }, { "n": 108, "arabic": "قُلْ إِنَّمَا يُوحَىٰٓ إِلَىَّ أَنَّمَآ إِلَٰهُكُمْ إِلَٰهٌۭ وَٰحِدٌۭ ۖ فَهَلْ أَنتُم مُّسْلِمُونَ", "translation": "Say: It is only inspired in me that your God is One God. Will ye then surrender (unto Him) ?" }, { "n": 109, "arabic": "فَإِن تَوَلَّوْا۟ فَقُلْ ءَاذَنتُكُمْ عَلَىٰ سَوَآءٍۢ ۖ وَإِنْ أَدْرِىٓ أَقَرِيبٌ أَم بَعِيدٌۭ مَّا تُوعَدُونَ", "translation": "But if they are averse, then say: I have warned you all alike, although I know not whether nigh or far is that which ye are promised." }, { "n": 110, "arabic": "إِنَّهُۥ يَعْلَمُ ٱلْجَهْرَ مِنَ ٱلْقَوْلِ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا تَكْتُمُونَ", "translation": "Lo! He knoweth that which is said openly, and that which ye conceal." }, { "n": 111, "arabic": "وَإِنْ أَدْرِى لَعَلَّهُۥ فِتْنَةٌۭ لَّكُمْ وَمَتَٰعٌ إِلَىٰ حِينٍۢ", "translation": "And I know not but that this may be a trial for you, and enjoyment for a while." }, { "n": 112, "arabic": "قَٰلَ رَبِّ ٱحْكُم بِٱلْحَقِّ ۗ وَرَبُّنَا ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ ٱلْمُسْتَعَانُ عَلَىٰ مَا تَصِفُونَ", "translation": "He saith: My Lord! Judge Thou with truth. Our Lord is the Beneficent, Whose help is to be implored against that which ye ascribe (unto Him)." } ], "glosses": [ [ "(Has) approached", "for [the] mankind", "their account,", "while they", "(are) in", "heedlessness", "turning away." ], [ "Not", "comes to them", "of", "a Reminder", "from", "their Lord,", "anew", "except", "they listen to it", "while they", "(are at) play" ], [ "Distracted", "their hearts.", "And they conceal", "the private conversation,", "those who", "[they] wronged,", "\"Is", "this", "except", "a human being", "like you?", "So would you approach", "the magic", "while you", "see (it)?\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"My Lord", "knows", "the word", "in", "the heavens", "and the earth.", "And He", "(is) the All-Hearer,", "the All-Knower.\"" ], [ "Nay,", "they say,", "\"Muddled", "dreams;", "nay,", "he (has) invented it;", "nay,", "he", "(is) a poet.", "So let him bring us", "a sign", "like what", "was sent", "(to) the former.\"" ], [ "Not", "believed", "before them", "any", "town", "which We destroyed,", "so will they", "believe?" ], [ "And not", "We sent", "before you", "except", "men,", "We revealed", "to them.", "So ask", "(the) people", "(of) the Reminder,", "if", "you", "(do) not", "know." ], [ "And not", "We made them", "bodies", "not", "eating", "the food,", "and not", "they were", "immortals." ], [ "Then", "We fulfilled (for) them", "the promise,", "and We saved them", "and whom", "We willed,", "and We destroyed", "the transgressors." ], [ "Indeed,", "We (have) sent down", "to you", "a Book", "in it", "(is) your mention.", "Then will not", "you use reason?" ], [ "And how many", "We (have) shattered", "of", "a town", "(that) was", "unjust,", "and We produced", "after them", "a people", "other." ], [ "Then when", "they perceived", "Our torment,", "behold,", "they", "from it", "were fleeing." ], [ "Do not", "flee,", "but return", "to", "what", "you were given luxury", "in it", "and to your homes,", "so that you may", "be questioned." ], [ "They said,", "\"O woe to us!", "Indeed, [we]", "we were", "wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "Then not", "ceased", "[this]", "their cry", "until", "We made them", "reaped", "extinct." ], [ "And not", "We created", "the heavens", "and the earth", "and what", "(is) between them", "(for) playing." ], [ "If", "We intended", "that", "We take", "a pastime,", "surely We (could have) taken it", "from", "Us,", "if", "We were", "doers." ], [ "Nay,", "We hurl", "the truth", "against", "[the] falsehood,", "and it breaks its head,", "behold,", "it (is)", "vanishing.", "And for you", "(is) destruction", "for what", "you ascribe." ], [ "And to Him (belongs)", "whoever", "(is) in", "the heavens", "and the earth.", "And (those) who", "(are) near Him", "not", "they are arrogant", "to", "worship Him", "and not", "they tire." ], [ "They glorify (Him)", "[the] night", "and [the] day,", "not", "they slacken." ], [ "Or", "(have) they taken", "gods", "from", "the earth,", "they", "raise (the dead)?" ], [ "If", "(there) were", "in both of them", "gods", "besides", "Allah,", "surely they (would) have been ruined.", "So glorified", "(is) Allah,", "Lord", "(of) the Throne", "(above) what", "they attribute." ], [ "Not", "He (can) be questioned", "about what", "He does,", "but they", "will be questioned." ], [ "Or", "(have) they taken", "instead", "of Him", "gods?", "Say,", "\"Bring", "your proof.", "This", "(is) a Reminder", "(for those) who", "(are) with me,", "and a Reminder", "(for those) who", "(were) before me.\"", "But", "most of them", "(do) not", "know", "the truth", "so they", "(are) averse." ], [ "And not", "We sent", "from", "before you", "any", "Messenger", "but", "We reveal(ed)", "to him", "that [He],", "\"(There is) no", "god", "except", "Me", "so worship Me.\"" ], [ "And they say,", "\"Has taken", "the Most Gracious", "a son.\"", "Glorified is He!", "Nay,", "(they are) slaves", "honored." ], [ "Not", "they (can) precede Him", "in word,", "and they", "by His command", "act." ], [ "He knows", "what", "before", "them,", "and what", "(is) behind them,", "and not", "they (can) intercede", "except", "for whom", "He approves.", "And they,", "from", "fear of Him,", "stand in awe." ], [ "And whoever", "says", "of them,", "\"Indeed, I am", "a god", "instead", "of Him.", "Then that", "We will recompense", "(with) Hell.", "Thus", "We recompense", "the wrongdoers." ], [ "Do not", "see", "those who", "disbelieved", "that", "the heavens", "and the earth", "were", "a joined entity,", "then We parted them", "and We made", "from", "[the] water", "every", "thing", "living?", "Then will not", "they believe?" ], [ "And We (have) placed", "in", "the earth", "firmly set mountains,", "lest", "it (should) shake", "with them,", "and We made", "therein", "broad passes", "(as) ways,", "so that they may", "(be) guided." ], [ "And We made", "the sky", "a roof", "protected.", "But they,", "from", "its Signs,", "turn away." ], [ "And He", "(is) the One Who", "created", "the night", "and the day,", "and the sun", "and the moon;", "each", "in", "an orbit", "floating." ], [ "And not", "We made", "for any man", "from", "before you", "[the] immortality;", "so if", "you die,", "then (would) they", "live forever?" ], [ "Every", "soul", "(will) taste", "[the] death.", "And We test you", "with [the] bad", "and [the] good", "(as) a trial;", "and to Us", "you will be returned." ], [ "And when", "they see you,", "those who", "disbelieve", "not", "they take you", "except", "(in) ridicule,", "\"Is this", "the one who", "mentions", "your gods?\"", "And they", "at (the) mention", "(of) the Most Gracious", "[they]", "(are) disbelievers." ], [ "Is created", "the man", "of", "haste.", "I will show you", "My Signs", "so (do) not", "ask Me to hasten." ], [ "And they say,", "\"When (will be fulfilled)", "this", "promise,", "if", "you are", "truthful?\"" ], [ "If", "knew", "those who", "disbelieved", "(the) time", "(when) not", "they will avert", "from", "their faces", "the Fire", "and not", "from", "their backs", "and not", "they", "will be helped!" ], [ "Nay,", "it will come to them", "unexpectedly", "and bewilder them,", "then not", "they will be able", "to repel it,", "and not", "they", "will be given respite." ], [ "And verily,", "were mocked", "Messengers", "from", "before you", "then surrounded", "those who", "mocked", "from them", "what", "they used", "at it", "(to) mock." ], [ "Say,", "\"Who", "(can) protect you", "in the night", "and the day", "from", "the Most Gracious?\"", "Yet,", "they", "from", "(the) remembrance", "(of) their Lord", "turn away." ], [ "Or", "have they", "gods", "(to) defend them", "from", "Us?", "Not", "they are able", "(to) help", "themselves", "and not", "they", "from Us", "can be protected." ], [ "Nay,", "We gave provision", "(to) these", "and their fathers", "until", "grew long", "for them,", "the life.", "Then do not", "they see", "that We", "We come", "(to) the land,", "We reduce it", "from", "its borders?", "So is (it) they", "(who will be) overcoming?" ], [ "Say,", "\"Only", "I warn you", "by the revelation.\"", "But not", "hear", "the deaf", "the call", "when", "[indeed]", "they are warned." ], [ "And if", "touches them", "a whiff", "of", "(the) punishment", "(of) your Lord,", "surely they will say,", "\"O woe to us!", "Indeed, we", "[we] were", "wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "And We set", "the scales", "(of) the justice", "for (the) Day", "(of) the Resurrection,", "so not", "will be wronged", "any soul", "(in) anything.", "And if", "(there) be", "weight", "(of) a seed", "of", "a mustard", "We will bring", "[with] it.", "And sufficient", "(are) We", "(as) Reckoners." ], [ "And verily,", "We gave", "Musa", "and Harun", "the Criterion", "and a light", "and a Reminder", "for the righteous." ], [ "Those who", "fear", "their Lord", "in the unseen,", "and they", "of", "the Hour", "(are) afraid." ], [ "And this", "(is) a Reminder", "blessed,", "which We (have) revealed.", "Then are you", "of it", "rejecters?" ], [ "And verily,", "We gave", "Ibrahim", "his guidance", "from", "before,", "and We were", "about him", "Well-Knowing." ], [ "When", "he said", "to his father", "and his people,", "\"What", "(are) these", "[the] statues", "which", "you", "to it", "(are) devoted?\"" ], [ "They said,", "\"We found", "our forefathers", "of them", "worshippers.\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"Verily,", "you are", "[you]", "and your forefathers", "(were) in", "an error", "manifest.\"" ], [ "They said,", "\"Have you come to us", "with the truth,", "or", "you", "(are) of", "those who play?\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"Nay,", "your Lord", "(is the) Lord", "(of) the heavens", "and the earth,", "the One Who", "created them", "and I am", "to", "that", "of", "the witnesses." ], [ "And by Allah", "surely, I will plan", "(against) your idols", "after", "[that]", "you go away", "turning (your) backs.\"" ], [ "So he made them", "(into) pieces", "except", "a large (one)", "of them,", "so that they may", "to it", "return." ], [ "They said,", "\"Who", "(has) done", "this", "to our gods?", "Indeed, he", "(is) of", "the wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "They said,", "\"We heard", "a youth", "mention them", "is said", "of him", "Ibrahim.\"" ], [ "They said,", "\"Then bring", "him", "before", "(the) eyes", "(of) the people", "so that they may", "bear witness.\"" ], [ "They said,", "\"Have you", "done", "this", "to our gods", "O Ibrahim?\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"Nay,", "(some doer) did it.", "Their chief", "(is) this.", "So ask them", "if", "they (can)", "speak.\"" ], [ "So they returned", "to", "themselves", "and said,", "\"Indeed, you", "[you]", "(are) the wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "Then", "they were turned", "on", "their heads,", "\"Verily,", "you know", "not", "these", "(can) speak!\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"Then do you worship", "instead", "of", "Allah", "what", "(does) not", "benefit you", "(in) anything", "and not", "harms you?" ], [ "Uff", "to you", "and to what", "you worship", "instead", "of", "Allah.", "Then will not", "you use reason?\"" ], [ "They said,", "\"Burn him", "and support", "your gods,", "if", "you are", "doers.\"" ], [ "We said,", "\"O fire!", "Be", "cool[ness]", "and safe[ty]", "for", "Ibrahim.\"" ], [ "And they intended", "for him,", "a plan", "but We made them", "the greatest losers." ], [ "And We delivered him", "and Lut", "to", "the land", "which", "We (had) blessed", "[in it]", "for the worlds." ], [ "And We bestowed", "on him", "Isaac", "and Yaqub", "(in) addition,", "and all", "We made", "righteous." ], [ "And We made them", "leaders,", "they guide", "by Our Command.", "And We inspired", "to them", "(the) doing", "(of) good deeds,", "and establishment", "(of) the prayer", "and giving", "(of) zakah;", "and they were", "of Us", "worshippers." ], [ "And (to) Lut", "We gave him", "judgment", "and knowledge,", "and We saved him", "from", "the town", "which", "was", "doing", "wicked deeds.", "Indeed, they", "were", "a people", "evil,", "defiantly disobedient." ], [ "And We admitted him", "into", "Our Mercy.", "Indeed, he", "(was) of", "the righteous." ], [ "And Nuh,", "when", "he called", "from", "before,", "so We responded", "to him", "and We saved him", "and his family", "from", "the affliction,", "[the] great." ], [ "And We helped him", "from", "the people", "who", "denied", "Our Signs.", "Indeed, they", "were", "a people", "evil,", "so We drowned them", "all." ], [ "And Dawud", "and Sulaiman,", "when", "they judged", "concerning", "the field,", "when", "pastured", "in it", "sheep", "(of) a people,", "and We were", "to their judgment", "witness." ], [ "And We gave understanding of it", "(to) Sulaiman,", "and (to) each", "We gave", "judgment", "and knowledge.", "And We subjected", "with", "Dawud", "the mountains", "(to) glorify Our praises", "and the birds.", "And We were", "the Doers." ], [ "And We taught him", "(the) making", "(of) coats of armor", "for you", "to protect you", "from", "your battle.", "Then will", "you", "(be) grateful?" ], [ "And to Sulaiman,", "the wind", "forcefully", "blowing", "by his command", "to", "the land", "which", "We blessed", "[in it].", "And We are", "of every", "thing", "Knowers." ], [ "And of", "the devils", "(were some) who", "would dive", "for him", "and would do", "work", "other than", "that.", "And We were", "of them", "Guardians." ], [ "And Ayub,", "when", "he called", "(to) his Lord,", "\"Indeed, [I]", "has touched me", "the adversity,", "and You", "(are) Most Merciful", "(of) the Merciful.\"" ], [ "So We responded", "to him", "and We removed", "what", "(was) on him", "of", "(the) adversity.", "And We gave him", "his family", "and (the) like thereof", "with them", "(as) Mercy", "from", "Our presence,", "and a reminder", "for the worshippers." ], [ "And Ishmael", "and Idris", "and Dhu", "al-Kifl;", "all", "(were) of", "the patient ones." ], [ "And We admitted them", "in", "Our Mercy.", "Indeed, they", "(were) of", "the righteous." ], [ "And the man", "of the fish", "when", "he went", "(while) angry", "and thought", "that", "never", "We would decree", "upon him.", "Then he called", "in", "the darkness(es)", "that,", "\"(There is) no", "god", "except", "You,", "Glory be to You!", "Indeed, [I]", "I am", "of", "the wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "So We responded", "to him,", "and We saved him", "from", "the distress.", "And thus", "We save", "the believers." ], [ "And Zakariya,", "when", "he called", "(to) his Lord,", "\"My Lord!", "(Do) not", "leave me", "alone,", "while You", "(are) [the] Best", "(of) the inheritors.\"" ], [ "So We responded", "to him,", "and We bestowed", "on him", "Yahya,", "and We cured", "for him", "his wife.", "Indeed, they", "used (to)", "hasten", "in", "good deeds,", "and they supplicate to Us", "(in) hope", "and fear,", "and they were", "to Us", "humbly submissive." ], [ "And she who", "guarded", "her chastity,", "so We breathed", "into her", "of", "Our Spirit,", "and We made her", "and her son", "a sign", "for the worlds." ], [ "Indeed,", "this", "(is) your religion -", "religion", "one,", "and I Am", "your Lord,", "so worship Me." ], [ "But they cut off", "their affair", "among themselves,", "all", "to Us", "(will) return." ], [ "Then whoever", "does", "[of]", "[the] righteous deeds", "while he", "(is) a believer", "then not", "(will be) rejected", "[of] his effort.", "And indeed, We", "of it", "(are) Recorders." ], [ "And (there is) prohibition", "upon", "a city", "which We have destroyed,", "that they", "not", "will return." ], [ "Until", "when", "has been opened", "(for) the Yajuj", "and Majuj,", "and they", "from", "every", "elevation", "descend." ], [ "And has approached", "the promise", "[the] true", "then behold,", "[it]", "(are) staring", "(the) eyes", "(of) those who", "disbelieved,", "\"O woe to us!", "Verily,", "we had been", "in", "heedlessness", "of", "this;", "nay,", "we were", "wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "Indeed, you", "and what", "you worship", "instead", "of", "Allah", "(are) firewood", "(of) Hell.", "You", "to it", "will come." ], [ "If", "were", "these", "gods,", "not", "they (would) have come to it.", "And all", "therein", "will abide forever." ], [ "For them", "therein", "(is) sighing,", "and they", "therein", "not", "will hear." ], [ "Indeed,", "those", "has gone forth", "for them", "from Us", "the good,", "those", "from it", "(will be) removed far." ], [ "Not", "they will hear", "(the) slightest sound of it", "and they", "in", "what", "desire", "their souls", "will abide forever." ], [ "Not", "will grieve them", "the terror", "[the] greatest,", "and will meet them", "the Angels,", "\"This", "(is) your Day", "which", "you were", "promised.\"" ], [ "(The) Day", "We will fold", "the heaven", "like (the) folding", "(of) a scroll", "for records.", "As", "We began", "(the) first", "creation", "We will repeat it,", "a promise", "upon Us.", "Indeed, We -", "We are", "(the) Doers." ], [ "And verily,", "We have written", "in", "the Scripture", "from", "after", "the mention,", "that", "the earth -", "will inherit it", "My slaves,", "the righteous." ], [ "Indeed,", "in", "this", "surely is a Message", "for a people,", "worshippers." ], [ "And not", "We have sent you", "but", "(as) a mercy", "for the worlds." ], [ "Say,", "\"Only", "it is revealed", "to me", "that", "your god", "(is) God", "One;", "so will", "you", "submit (to Him)?\"" ], [ "But if", "they turn away", "then say,", "\"I (have) announced to you", "on", "equal terms", "And not", "I know", "whether is near", "or", "far", "what", "you are promised." ], [ "Indeed, He", "knows", "the declared", "[of]", "[the] speech", "and He knows", "what", "you conceal." ], [ "And not", "I know,", "perhaps it may be", "a trial", "for you,", "and an enjoyment", "for", "a time.\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"My Lord!", "judge", "in truth.", "And our Lord", "(is) the Most Gracious,", "the One Whose help is sought", "against", "what", "you attribute.\"" ] ], "glossNote": "Word meanings follow the Quranic Arabic Corpus. Repeated phrase glosses are divided into individual word senses for the displayed Arabic; exact editorial adjustments are saved in the source audit. Stray Image labels introduced by source rendering are removed." }