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in 622 · 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "titles": [ "The Criterion and a universal warning", "Creation, measure and undivided sovereignty", "Can the created command life?", "A charge of fabrication", "A dismissive explanation", "Knowledge, forgiveness and revelation", "A messenger in the marketplace", "Demands for treasure and privilege", "Descriptions that lose their way", "Beyond the demanded palaces", "The denied Hour", "The sound of a severe warning", "Confinement and desperate regret", "No escape through a final cry", "A better destination", "The promise of lasting fulfillment", "Questioning the imagined protectors", "Comfort and forgotten remembrance", "When the claims are contradicted", "Human messengers and mutual tests", "A demand made in pride", "The requested sight at judgment", "Works become scattered motes", "A dwelling of rest", "The opening of the sky", "Sovereignty belongs to the Merciful", "The path that could have been chosen", "Regret about a friendship", "Influence that abandons its follower", "The Quran treated as abandoned", "Guidance amid opposition", "Revelation that strengthens through time", "Truth and a clearer explanation", "The final reversal of confidence", "Moses supported by Aaron", "A shared mission and a rejected warning", "Noah's people become a sign", "Earlier generations recalled", "Warning before consequence", "A passing view without reflection", "Ridicule instead of an answer", "Persistence examined by its outcome", "When desire becomes a god", "Hearing without willing attention", "The sign of spreading shade", "A gradual withdrawal", "Night, rest and renewed activity", "Winds before the rain", "Water restores shared life", "A repeated sign, an ungrateful response", "The choice of a warner", "Striving with the revelation", "Fresh and salt waters", "Human origin and bonds of kinship", "Devotion to powerless substitutes", "Good news and warning", "No personal price for guidance", "Trust in the Living One", "Creation and the Merciful", "Mercy met with aversion", "The sky's lamps and stations", "Time for remembrance and gratitude", "Gentleness on the earth", "Devotion beyond public view", "A prayer against lasting harm", "Recognizing a terrible destination", "A balanced way of spending", "Devotion, life and integrity", "A warning read with repentance", "Mercy and transformed conduct", "Turning back through good action", "Passing falsehood with dignity", "An attentive response to reminders", "Joy in family and a worthy example", "Patience answered with peace", "A lasting home of welcome", "Prayer, response and final consequence" ], "notes": [ "The Criterion is revealed to a servant who warns beyond one narrow circle. The opening joins divine blessing with responsibility for communication. Revelation is presented as a means of distinguishing right from wrong, not as a possession that confers personal grandeur.", "Sovereignty, creation and measure belong to Allah without offspring or partner. The verse gives the Surah's arguments a foundation in unique divine authority. Human beings encounter an ordered world whose existence they receive rather than originate or control completely.", "The objects taken as gods are themselves created and cannot command life, death or resurrection. The verse tests devotion against actual capacity. It asks whether a trusted power can provide what its worshippers attribute to it, rather than merely receiving inherited allegiance.", "The accusation of fabrication attempts to explain away the revelation through unnamed human collaborators. The verse rejects that account as wrongdoing and falsehood. Its focus is the truth of this message, not a permission to dismiss every sincere question about religious claims.", "The further charge calls the revelation old stories copied and dictated repeatedly. The opponents offer a dismissive account without engaging its guidance. The verse makes visible how a label can substitute for careful attention to what a message actually says.", "The reply identifies the revelation's source as the One who knows hidden realities throughout creation. Forgiveness and mercy accompany that declaration. The answer therefore does more than defend authority; it keeps open the possibility of a changed response from its hearers.", "Ordinary eating and movement through markets become objections to the messenger. The verse exposes an expectation that guidance must arrive outside human need. Shared daily life can instead make a messenger's example intelligible within the conditions experienced by the people addressed.", "Treasure and a productive garden are demanded as signs of authority, while an insulting label targets the messenger himself. The verse questions a standard that equates truth with material privilege. Wealth and spectacle are poor substitutes for considering a message's substance.", "The opponents' changing descriptions leave them without a coherent path. Contradictory labels can reveal determination to reject rather than a stable explanation. The verse invites the reader to notice when argument becomes an effort to protect a conclusion already chosen.", "Allah could grant gardens and palaces better than the demanded comforts. Their absence therefore does not establish a defect in the message. The verse redirects attention from a messenger's possessions toward the One whose ability exceeds the audience's preferred display.", "Denial of the Hour is identified beneath the preceding objections. The warning shifts attention from arguments about status toward ultimate responsibility. What a person believes about final accountability can shape the criteria by which they assess a demanding message now.", "The approaching fire is described through sound and force. This is an image of the Hereafter, not an earthly site available to photograph. Its purpose is to make consequence serious while the listener still has an opportunity to consider guidance.", "Confinement and the wish for destruction intensify the warning. The scene portrays desperation rather than a response available for repair. The present reader is invited to take responsibility before that finality, not to take pleasure in imagining another person's suffering.", "The repeated cry for destruction cannot release those in the scene. The verse makes the limits of belated escape starkly visible. Its severity belongs within the Surah's wider invitation, which will later give repentance and transformed conduct an explicit place.", "The promised garden is set beside the warned outcome as a better destination. Reverence receives a lasting horizon beyond immediate comfort. The comparison asks readers to consider where a chosen course leads, rather than judging its value only through present appearance.", "Abiding fulfillment is presented as a promise from the Lord. The verse gives hope a firm place after severe warning. Its description belongs to the unseen Hereafter, so any accompanying garden remains an imaginative evocation rather than a literal geographic reconstruction.", "The gathering questions the relationship between worshippers and those worshipped besides Allah. Responsibility cannot remain hidden inside a familiar religious arrangement. The scene asks who authorized the allegiance and whether it rested on truth or on claims made by its followers.", "The supposed protectors reject the attributed relationship and recall how comfort led people to forget the reminder. Prosperity appears as a possible test of attention. A life made easier can still become spiritually careless if gratitude and reflection gradually disappear.", "Claims of protection are contradicted when help is most needed. The warning relates consequence to wrongdoing rather than to prestige or inherited affiliation. It asks whether one's source of confidence can withstand honest examination before a final reckoning arrives.", "Earlier messengers also ate and walked through markets. Human relationships themselves become tests requiring patience. The verse brings guidance into ordinary life, where need, disagreement and dependence reveal character more clearly than an imagined existence free from every inconvenience.", "The demand to see angels or the Lord is described as arrogant within this confrontation. Its problem is the stance from which the demand is made. The verse distinguishes receptive inquiry from an attempt to dictate the terms on which guidance may be accepted.", "The requested sight of angels arrives as part of judgment rather than the reassurance the challengers expected. The verse overturns their assumed control over signs. This unseen scene is not assigned a date or portrayed through invented portraits of heavenly beings.", "Works become scattered motes when their hoped-for standing fails. The image challenges confidence in an outward record detached from its ultimate evaluation. It invites examination of purpose and response now, rather than certainty that every impressive achievement guarantees a favorable outcome.", "The garden's inhabitants receive a better dwelling and place of rest. The verse answers the preceding dispersal with stability and welcome. Its hope concerns the Hereafter, where an image of shelter can aid reflection without claiming to reproduce the promised reality.", "The sky opens and angels descend in a scene beyond ordinary experience. The imagery announces a decisive change in the order familiar to human beings. An illustration should remain symbolic, without pretending to document the event or invent the appearance of its unseen participants.", "True sovereignty is openly manifest as belonging to the Merciful. The day's difficulty for rejecters is set beneath that authority. The verse asks the reader to distinguish temporary human influence from the final command that no status or alliance can displace.", "A wrongdoer wishes he had followed the messenger's path. Regret reveals that a different response had once been possible. The verse directs attention toward present choices, when listening and changed conduct can still replace the course later mourned.", "An influential friendship becomes the subject of regret. The verse does not condemn companionship itself; it examines the direction companionship can encourage. A trusted relationship deserves attention when loyalty begins to pull someone away from what they recognize as right.", "The friend diverted him after the reminder had arrived, and Satan deserts at the moment of need. The verse tests influence by its eventual reliability. Encouragement toward a harmful course does not guarantee support when its consequences must be faced.", "The messenger laments that his people have treated the Quran as something abandoned. The verse asks readers to consider more than physical possession of a book. Attention, understanding and responsive conduct are ways a received message can remain meaningfully present.", "Opposition has accompanied earlier prophets as well, while Allah suffices as guide and helper. The verse gives the messenger perspective without promising an effortless task. It supports perseverance through difficulty rather than measuring truth by the absence of resistance.", "The gradual revelation is explained as strengthening the messenger's heart. Its ordered delivery meets the unfolding needs of the mission. The verse presents learning through time as purposeful, inviting patience with understanding that deepens through repeated encounters rather than one immediate accumulation.", "Challenges receive truth and a better explanation. The verse values an answer that clarifies rather than merely overwhelms an opponent. Within its claim about revelation, it invites attention to the quality and substance of explanation offered in response to a disputed assertion.", "The scene of gathering reverses the opponents' confidence about who has lost the way. Its judgment belongs to Allah, not to the reader's treatment of other people. The warning should lead to humility about one's own direction and accountability.", "Moses receives scripture and Aaron is placed beside him as a supporting brother. The verse honors a mission strengthened through companionship. Pickthall's older word for an assistant should be understood in that context, without importing its modern association with criminal service.", "The two brothers are sent to a people who rejected the signs, and their outcome is recalled briefly. The compressed account emphasizes response rather than supplying a complete chronology. No named modern population inherits the adversarial role described in this narrative.", "Noah's people reject the messengers and meet the flood, becoming a sign for later readers. The verse supplies neither a dated flood calendar nor an authenticated wreck. Its purpose is reflection on warning, refusal and consequence within the Quranic account.", "Ad, Thamud and the people of Ar-Rass appear among many earlier generations. The brief list does not explain every community's identity or precise location. This edition therefore leaves uncertain sites and biographies open rather than filling the silence with confident legend.", "Examples and warnings preceded the outcomes of those communities. The verse makes communication part of accountability rather than presenting consequence as arbitrary. Its compressed historical lesson invites present attention, not speculation about which modern disaster might repeat a particular ancient judgment.", "A ruined township lay along the audience's route, yet seeing it did not secure belief in resurrection. Observation can remain spiritually unexamined. The verse gives no coordinate here, so a landscape illustration should not be labeled as a conclusively identified site.", "The messenger is mocked through a question about his suitability. Familiarity becomes a reason to dismiss rather than to assess character and teaching. The verse exposes how ridicule can avoid the work of answering a message on its actual terms.", "The opponents congratulate themselves for resisting a change in worship. Their certainty will be tested by the outcome they deny. The verse asks whether persistence deserves praise simply because it is strong, or only when the commitment itself is worthy.", "Desire can take the place of an object of worship when it determines every decision. The messenger cannot guarantee guidance for someone governed in that way. The verse invites self-examination about the authority granted to preference, appetite and personal convenience.", "Hearing and understanding are questioned through a severe comparison with livestock. The criticism concerns willful disregard in this confrontation, not human worth or disability. It must not become a label used to dehumanize people or excuse mistreatment of another community.", "The movement of shade becomes a familiar sign worthy of attention. The sun marks its changing form, while the verse imagines how differently it could have been arranged. Ordinary observation can reopen gratitude for a world whose rhythms are easily overlooked.", "The shade's gradual withdrawal continues the reflection on change through time. The sign is quiet and familiar rather than spectacular. The verse invites sustained attention to a process that can reveal order and dependence precisely because it usually passes without notice.", "Night provides covering, sleep brings rest, and day opens renewed activity. The pattern joins vulnerability with restoration in daily experience. The verse asks the reader to receive both rest and work as gifts, rather than treating human energy as wholly self-generated.", "Winds announce coming mercy and water descends from the sky. The verse links expectation with provision before the land's revival is described. Rain is received as a gift that sustains life, while its purifying quality also connects it with human daily needs.", "Rain revives dry land and supplies animals and people with drink. Shared dependence reaches across species and communities. The verse encourages gratitude for provision that no individual owns by origin, and reflection on the responsibility attached to receiving it.", "The sign or reminder is repeatedly brought among people, yet ingratitude persists. Repetition alone cannot guarantee a receptive response. The verse asks what turns familiar experience into remembrance, and what habits allow an essential gift to become invisible through routine.", "A warner could have been raised in every settlement. The verse places the actual mission within divine choice rather than human prescriptions for how guidance must arrive. It prepares a call for sustained effort with the revelation already entrusted.", "The messenger is instructed to strive greatly with the revelation rather than surrender to rejection. The surrounding passage frames this effort through communication of the Quran. The verse should not be detached from that setting and recast as permission for private violence.", "Fresh and salt waters are presented as distinct gifts within an ordered world. Traditional commentary relates the fresh water to rivers and springs. The verse does not name a modern estuary or require the false claim that different waters never mix.", "Human creation from water leads into relationships of blood and marriage. The verse moves from natural provision to the bonds organizing social life. Those bonds become signs of power and dependence, inviting care rather than a claim that lineage determines personal worth.", "Worship is directed toward powers unable to benefit or harm their devotees. The verse returns to the question of misplaced allegiance after the signs of provision. It asks whether gratitude follows the actual Giver or remains attached to an inherited but unsupported claim.", "The messenger's role is described through good news and warning. He brings an invitation with consequences rather than control over another person's inward response. The verse keeps both hope and seriousness present in the purpose of conveying the message.", "No payment is sought for the message; the desired response is a path toward the Lord. The verse distinguishes guidance from personal enrichment. It asks whether an invitation serves the hearer's good or makes their dependence profitable for the speaker.", "Trust is placed in the Living One who does not die, joined with praise and acknowledgment of complete knowledge. The verse contrasts enduring reliance with fragile substitutes. It gives steadiness without making the messenger responsible for controlling every hidden motive or deed.", "Creation and divine sovereignty lead to the name of the Merciful and a call to informed understanding. The language is received reverently without a portrait of Allah or a speculative cosmic diagram. The verse's theological purpose is not a modern scientific chronology.", "An invitation to worship the Merciful meets scorn and increased aversion. Even a name expressing mercy is resisted when the hearer's stance is fixed against the messenger. The verse asks whether opposition has become habitual enough to prevent consideration of what is offered.", "The heavens contain stellar stations, a radiant lamp and a shining moon. The verse widens the reader's attention beyond immediate disputes. Its praise invites wonder and gratitude without turning the brief description into an exhaustive astronomical model or technical classification.", "Night and day succeed one another for remembrance and gratitude. Time becomes an opportunity to renew attention rather than merely a sequence to endure. A missed moment can be followed by another occasion to respond more thoughtfully to received life.", "The servants of the Merciful are introduced through modest movement and peaceful response to foolish provocation. Character becomes visible in ordinary encounters. The verse commends dignity and restraint without requiring approval of injustice or participation in an abusive exchange.", "Private night worship accompanies the public gentleness just described. Standing and prostration give devotion a bodily expression beyond social approval. The verse links inward orientation with outward character, preventing the final portrait from becoming only a code of pleasant manners.", "They ask protection from a lasting and grievous consequence. Reverence remains present even within their good qualities. The prayer discourages moral complacency, showing people who seek mercy rather than treating their own record as sufficient grounds for complete self-assurance.", "The harmful destination is recognized as a terrible dwelling and resting place. That recognition gives direction to the preceding prayer. The verse's warning belongs to the Hereafter and should deepen personal responsibility, rather than encourage enjoyment of another person's imagined punishment.", "Spending avoids both waste and constriction, finding a responsible middle course. The verse makes material conduct part of devotion. Generosity requires judgment about real needs and obligations, while restraint should not become an excuse for withholding care that one can provide.", "Undivided worship, respect for life and sexual integrity form part of the portrait. The reference to lawful justice does not authorize personal violence. These serious boundaries belong within accountable communal and legal responsibility, rather than individual claims to punish perceived wrongdoing.", "The warning emphasizes the seriousness of violating the boundaries just named. It is immediately followed by an opening for repentance, which must remain part of the reading. Severity should not be isolated into a claim that a person can never change.", "Repentance, faith and righteous action receive a remarkable promise of transformed wrongs and forgiveness. The verse refuses despair while taking change seriously. Mercy is not presented as indifference to conduct; it opens a new direction expressed through what the person does.", "Turning back is confirmed through doing good. Repentance is therefore more than a regretful statement made while preserving the same harmful course. The verse gives the movement a destination in Allah, joining inward acknowledgment with an outwardly changed way of living.", "They avoid falsehood and pass empty conduct with dignity. The verse describes integrity in both participation and withdrawal. Refusing to join something harmful can be done without making the refusal into another opportunity for contempt, performance or needless conflict.", "Reminders do not meet a deliberately unresponsive hearing or sight. The praise concerns thoughtful reception, not unexamined habit. The verse asks believers to engage what they hear, allowing guidance to question and shape conduct instead of merely marking a familiar religious moment.", "They pray for family life that brings joy and for an example worthy of the reverent. The aspiration joins intimate care with public responsibility. Being an example means embodying goodness, rather than seeking superiority or control over other people's lives.", "Patience receives a high dwelling and a welcome of peace. The portrait's many qualities are gathered under steadfastness rather than momentary enthusiasm. The promise connects ordinary restraint and devotion with a lasting outcome beyond the recognition available in present life.", "The promised dwelling is lasting and good as both home and resting place. It answers the earlier image of a terrible destination with welcome. The description remains a hope concerning the Hereafter, not an architectural plan or a mapped earthly location.", "The ending returns to prayer, rejection and consequence. Human worth before Allah is not secured by wealth or the demands made of a messenger. The Surah closes by asking whether the hearer will respond to the guidance whose truth has been presented." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 20, "title": "Revelation in the midst of ordinary life", "summary": "The Criterion answers charges of fabrication and objections to a messenger who eats and walks in markets. The warning of return tests the supposed protection of worldly status and invented partners.", "reflection": "What assumptions shape the kind of truth you are willing to hear?" }, { "start": 21, "end": 34, "title": "Response, companionship and a strengthened heart", "summary": "Demands for signs give way to scenes of regret. Misleading friendship and an abandoned Quran are contrasted with revelation that arrives through time to strengthen the messenger.", "reflection": "Which influences help you respond honestly to a reminder?" }, { "start": 35, "end": 44, "title": "Earlier peoples and repeated refusal", "summary": "Moses, Aaron, Noah and other communities supply precedents for warning and rejection. Ridicule and desire can prevent people from learning even when signs remain before them.", "reflection": "How can a familiar conviction remain open to honest examination?" }, { "start": 45, "end": 62, "title": "Shade, rain, waters and the changing sky", "summary": "Ordinary natural rhythms invite gratitude and reliance on the Living One. The messenger's task is renewed through revelation, with no material reward sought from those who hear it.", "reflection": "Which ordinary gift deserves your attention today?" }, { "start": 63, "end": 77, "title": "The servants of the Merciful", "summary": "Humility, night prayer, balanced spending, respect for life and sincere repentance form a practical portrait. Dignity in speech, attentive hearing and care for family end in a promise of peace.", "reflection": "Which quality can you practice in one concrete encounter?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · the Makkan period", "year": 622, "body": "The large majority classify Al-Furqan as Makkan. The year marks the Hijrah boundary rather than an exact revelation date, keeping the chronology appropriately broad.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-furqan/info" }, { "title": "Revelation through time", "year": null, "body": "Verse 32 explains the Quran's gradual delivery as a means of strengthening the messenger's heart. The verse supplies a purpose for that unfolding process, not a dated schedule for this Surah.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm" }, { "title": "Earlier peoples · no exact ancient calendar", "year": null, "body": "Verses 35–40 recall messengers and communities as moral precedents. Their appearance here does not establish exact lifespans, dynasties or dates for archaeological identification.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · the setting of the first audience", "body": "The Makkan classification places the objections and responses within the early mission. The city marker gives broad orientation; it does not identify a precise location where these verses were delivered.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/al-furqan/info", "image": 0 }, { "id": "market", "name": "The market · ordinary human life", "body": "Verses 7 and 20 place messengers among people who eat and use markets. An imagined marketplace illustrates that shared humanity without depicting a prophet or claiming a surviving stall as a sacred site.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm", "image": 0 }, { "id": "rass", "name": "Ar-Rass and the earlier settlements", "body": "Verse 38 names the people of Ar-Rass alongside other communities without describing an exact site. This edition does not attach a speculative well, ruin or grave to that brief reference.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm", "image": 2 }, { "id": "waters", "name": "Fresh and salt waters · a general landscape", "body": "The fresh and salt waters of verse 53 are illustrated through an imagined coastal scene. NOAA explains that estuaries contain a mixture of fresh and salt water; the image makes no claim that waters never mix.", "source": "https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/estuary.html", "image": 3 } ], "people": [ { "id": "messenger", "title": "Muhammad · a messenger sharing ordinary needs", "body": "The objections focus on eating, markets and the lack of demanded treasure. The reply places him within the human pattern of earlier messengers, without treating material privilege as the proof of guidance.", "verse": 20 }, { "id": "brothers", "title": "Moses and Aaron · a supported mission", "body": "Scripture and shared service appear together in verse 35. Aaron is a helper to his brother; the text gives no absolute chronology, authenticated portrait or tomb identification.", "verse": 35 }, { "id": "noah", "title": "Noah and the earlier communities", "body": "The flood account stands among brief reminders of refusal and consequence. The Surah does not give a flood date or identify the remains of a particular vessel.", "verse": 37 }, { "id": "servants", "title": "The servants of the Merciful · a portrait of character", "body": "The closing passage describes qualities rather than one named biography. Its prayerful, generous and restrained people provide a model to practice, not a claim of superiority over contemporary communities.", "verse": 63 } ], "history": [ { "title": "The title and the task of discernment", "body": "The opening names the Quran as the Criterion and addresses its warning widely. Quran.com's introduction identifies revelation, resurrection and divine oneness as connected concerns within the Makkan setting.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-furqan/info" }, { "title": "Humanity is part of the messenger's setting", "body": "Food and markets recur because opponents expected a different kind of authority. Verse 20 answers with the shared human lives of earlier messengers, making ordinary circumstances relevant to guidance.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm" }, { "title": "Waters as a sign, not an invented location", "body": "Ibn Kathir relates the fresh water to sources such as rivers and springs. The verse names no modern estuary; identifying one photograph as its uniquely intended scientific proof goes beyond the text.", "source": "https://quran.com/25:53/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "The ending keeps repentance beside warning", "body": "Verses 68–71 name serious wrongs and then explicitly offer repentance, faith and righteous work. Reading them together preserves the passage's combination of accountability, hope and practical change.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Makkan according to the large majority. The calendar uses 622 CE only as a period boundary. Earlier narratives and Ar-Rass remain undated and unlocated where this passage supplies no secure detail.", "translationNote": "Pickthall's public-domain wording is retained, with one Sacred Texts transcription repair corroborated against Alim: in 25:75, 'the ward of peace' becomes 'the word of peace'.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "تَبَارَكَ ٱلَّذِى نَزَّلَ ٱلْفُرْقَانَ عَلَىٰ عَبْدِهِۦ لِيَكُونَ لِلْعَٰلَمِينَ نَذِيرًا", "translation": "Blessed is He Who hath revealed unto His slave the Criterion (of right and wrong), that he may be a warner to the peoples." }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِى لَهُۥ مُلْكُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَمْ يَتَّخِذْ وَلَدًۭا وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُۥ شَرِيكٌۭ فِى ٱلْمُلْكِ وَخَلَقَ كُلَّ شَىْءٍۢ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ تَقْدِيرًۭا", "translation": "He unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, He hath chosen no son nor hath He any partner in the Sovereignty. He hath created everything and hath meted out for it a measure." }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ ءَالِهَةًۭ لَّا يَخْلُقُونَ شَيْـًۭٔا وَهُمْ يُخْلَقُونَ وَلَا يَمْلِكُونَ لِأَنفُسِهِمْ ضَرًّۭا وَلَا نَفْعًۭا وَلَا يَمْلِكُونَ مَوْتًۭا وَلَا حَيَوٰةًۭ وَلَا نُشُورًۭا", "translation": "Yet they choose beside Him other gods who create naught but are themselves created, and possess not hurt nor profit for themselves, and possess not death nor life, nor power to raise the dead." }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ إِفْكٌ ٱفْتَرَىٰهُ وَأَعَانَهُۥ عَلَيْهِ قَوْمٌ ءَاخَرُونَ ۖ فَقَدْ جَآءُو ظُلْمًۭا وَزُورًۭا", "translation": "Those who disbelieve say: This is naught but a lie that he hath invented, and other folk have helped him with it, so that they have produced a slander and a lie." }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ٱكْتَتَبَهَا فَهِىَ تُمْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ بُكْرَةًۭ وَأَصِيلًۭا", "translation": "And they say: Fables of the men of old which he hath had written down so that they are dictated to him morn and evening." }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "قُلْ أَنزَلَهُ ٱلَّذِى يَعْلَمُ ٱلسِّرَّ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفُورًۭا رَّحِيمًۭا", "translation": "Say (unto them, O Muhammad): He who knoweth the secret of the heavens and the earth hath revealed it. Lo! He ever is Forgiving, Merciful." }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "وَقَالُوا۟ مَالِ هَٰذَا ٱلرَّسُولِ يَأْكُلُ ٱلطَّعَامَ وَيَمْشِى فِى ٱلْأَسْوَاقِ ۙ لَوْلَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مَلَكٌۭ فَيَكُونَ مَعَهُۥ نَذِيرًا", "translation": "And they say: What aileth this messenger (of Allah) that he eateth food and walketh in the markets ? Why is not an angel sent down unto him, to be a warner with him." }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "أَوْ يُلْقَىٰٓ إِلَيْهِ كَنزٌ أَوْ تَكُونُ لَهُۥ جَنَّةٌۭ يَأْكُلُ مِنْهَا ۚ وَقَالَ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا رَجُلًۭا مَّسْحُورًا", "translation": "Or (why is not) treasure thrown down unto him, or why hath he not a paradise from whence to eat ? And the evil-doers say: Ye are but following a man bewitched." }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "ٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ ضَرَبُوا۟ لَكَ ٱلْأَمْثَٰلَ فَضَلُّوا۟ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَبِيلًۭا", "translation": "See how they coin similitudes for thee, so that they are all astray and cannot find a road!" }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "تَبَارَكَ ٱلَّذِىٓ إِن شَآءَ جَعَلَ لَكَ خَيْرًۭا مِّن ذَٰلِكَ جَنَّٰتٍۢ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ وَيَجْعَل لَّكَ قُصُورًۢا", "translation": "Blessed is He Who, if He will, will assign thee better than (all) that - Gardens underneath which rivers flow - and will assign thee mansions." }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "بَلْ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِٱلسَّاعَةِ ۖ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِمَن كَذَّبَ بِٱلسَّاعَةِ سَعِيرًا", "translation": "Nay, but they deny (the coming of) the Hour, and for those who deny (the coming of) the Hour We have prepared a flame." }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "إِذَا رَأَتْهُم مِّن مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِيدٍۢ سَمِعُوا۟ لَهَا تَغَيُّظًۭا وَزَفِيرًۭا", "translation": "When it seeth them from afar, they hear the crackling and the roar thereof." }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "وَإِذَآ أُلْقُوا۟ مِنْهَا مَكَانًۭا ضَيِّقًۭا مُّقَرَّنِينَ دَعَوْا۟ هُنَالِكَ ثُبُورًۭا", "translation": "And when they are flung into a narrow place thereof, chained together, they pray for destruction there." }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "لَّا تَدْعُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ ثُبُورًۭا وَٰحِدًۭا وَٱدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًۭا كَثِيرًۭا", "translation": "Pray not that day for one destruction, but pray for many destructions!" }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "قُلْ أَذَٰلِكَ خَيْرٌ أَمْ جَنَّةُ ٱلْخُلْدِ ٱلَّتِى وُعِدَ ٱلْمُتَّقُونَ ۚ كَانَتْ لَهُمْ جَزَآءًۭ وَمَصِيرًۭا", "translation": "Say: Is that (doom) better or the Garden of Immortality which is promised unto those who ward off (evil) ? It will be their reward and journey's end." }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "لَّهُمْ فِيهَا مَا يَشَآءُونَ خَٰلِدِينَ ۚ كَانَ عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ وَعْدًۭا مَّسْـُٔولًۭا", "translation": "Therein abiding, they have all that they desire. It is for thy Lord a promise that must be fulfilled." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يَحْشُرُهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ فَيَقُولُ ءَأَنتُمْ أَضْلَلْتُمْ عِبَادِى هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ أَمْ هُمْ ضَلُّوا۟ ٱلسَّبِيلَ", "translation": "And on the day when He will assemble them and that which they worship instead of Allah and will say: Was it ye who misled these my slaves or did they (themselves) wander from the way ?" }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ سُبْحَٰنَكَ مَا كَانَ يَنۢبَغِى لَنَآ أَن نَّتَّخِذَ مِن دُونِكَ مِنْ أَوْلِيَآءَ وَلَٰكِن مَّتَّعْتَهُمْ وَءَابَآءَهُمْ حَتَّىٰ نَسُوا۟ ٱلذِّكْرَ وَكَانُوا۟ قَوْمًۢا بُورًۭا", "translation": "They will say: Be Thou Glorified! it was not for us to choose any protecting friends beside thee; but Thou didst give them and their fathers ease till they forgot the warning and became lost folk." }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "فَقَدْ كَذَّبُوكُم بِمَا تَقُولُونَ فَمَا تَسْتَطِيعُونَ صَرْفًۭا وَلَا نَصْرًۭا ۚ وَمَن يَظْلِم مِّنكُمْ نُذِقْهُ عَذَابًۭا كَبِيرًۭا", "translation": "Thus they will give you the lie regarding what ye say, then ye can neither avert (the doom) nor obtain help. And whoso among you doeth wrong, We shall make him taste great torment." }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَا قَبْلَكَ مِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّآ إِنَّهُمْ لَيَأْكُلُونَ ٱلطَّعَامَ وَيَمْشُونَ فِى ٱلْأَسْوَاقِ ۗ وَجَعَلْنَا بَعْضَكُمْ لِبَعْضٍۢ فِتْنَةً أَتَصْبِرُونَ ۗ وَكَانَ رَبُّكَ بَصِيرًۭا", "translation": "We never sent before thee any messengers but lo! they verily ate food and walked in the markets. And We have appointed some of you a test for others: Will ye be steadfast ? And thy Lord is ever Seer." }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "۞ وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَرْجُونَ لِقَآءَنَا لَوْلَآ أُنزِلَ عَلَيْنَا ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ أَوْ نَرَىٰ رَبَّنَا ۗ لَقَدِ ٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ فِىٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَعَتَوْ عُتُوًّۭا كَبِيرًۭا", "translation": "And those who look not for a meeting with Us say: Why are angels not sent down unto us and (Why) do we not see our Lord! Assuredly they think too highly of themselves and are scornful with great pride." }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ لَا بُشْرَىٰ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ لِّلْمُجْرِمِينَ وَيَقُولُونَ حِجْرًۭا مَّحْجُورًۭا", "translation": "On the day when they behold the angels, on that day there will be no good tidings for the guilty; and they will cry: A forbidding ban!" }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "وَقَدِمْنَآ إِلَىٰ مَا عَمِلُوا۟ مِنْ عَمَلٍۢ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُ هَبَآءًۭ مَّنثُورًا", "translation": "And We shall turn unto the work they did and make it scattered motes." }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَيْرٌۭ مُّسْتَقَرًّۭا وَأَحْسَنُ مَقِيلًۭا", "translation": "Those who have earned the Garden on that day will be better in their home and happier in their place of noonday rest;" }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ تَشَقَّقُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِٱلْغَمَٰمِ وَنُزِّلَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ تَنزِيلًا", "translation": "A day when the heaven with the clouds will be rent asunder and the angels will be sent down, a grand descent." }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "ٱلْمُلْكُ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْحَقُّ لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ ۚ وَكَانَ يَوْمًا عَلَى ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ عَسِيرًۭا", "translation": "The Sovereignty on that day will be the True (Sovereignty) belonging to the Beneficent One, and it will be a hard day for disbelievers." }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ ٱلظَّالِمُ عَلَىٰ يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى ٱتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ ٱلرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًۭا", "translation": "On the day when the wrong-doer gnaweth his hands, he will say: Ah, would that I had chosen a way together with the messenger (of Allah)!" }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰ لَيْتَنِى لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًۭا", "translation": "Alas for me! Ah, would that I had never taken such an one for friend!" }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "لَّقَدْ أَضَلَّنِى عَنِ ٱلذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ إِذْ جَآءَنِى ۗ وَكَانَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ لِلْإِنسَٰنِ خَذُولًۭا", "translation": "He verily led me astray from the Reminder after it had reached me. Satan was ever man's deserter in the hour of need." }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلرَّسُولُ يَٰرَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِى ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ مَهْجُورًۭا", "translation": "And the messenger saith: O my Lord! Lo! mine own folk make this Qur'an of no account." }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "وَكَذَٰلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِىٍّ عَدُوًّۭا مِّنَ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ ۗ وَكَفَىٰ بِرَبِّكَ هَادِيًۭا وَنَصِيرًۭا", "translation": "Even so have We appointed unto every prophet an opponent from among the guilty; but Allah sufficeth for a Guide and Helper." }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ جُمْلَةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ لِنُثَبِّتَ بِهِۦ فُؤَادَكَ ۖ وَرَتَّلْنَٰهُ تَرْتِيلًۭا", "translation": "And those who disbelieve say: Why is the Qur'an not revealed unto him all at once ? (It is revealed) thus that We may strengthen thy heart therewith; and We have arranged it in right order." }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "وَلَا يَأْتُونَكَ بِمَثَلٍ إِلَّا جِئْنَٰكَ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَأَحْسَنَ تَفْسِيرًا", "translation": "And they bring thee no similitude but We bring thee the Truth (as against it), and better (than their similitude) as argument." }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ يُحْشَرُونَ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ شَرٌّۭ مَّكَانًۭا وَأَضَلُّ سَبِيلًۭا", "translation": "Those who will be gathered on their faces unto hell: such are worse in plight and further from the right road." }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَى ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَجَعَلْنَا مَعَهُۥٓ أَخَاهُ هَٰرُونَ وَزِيرًۭا", "translation": "We verily gave Moses the Scripture and placed with him his brother Aaron as henchman." }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "فَقُلْنَا ٱذْهَبَآ إِلَى ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا فَدَمَّرْنَٰهُمْ تَدْمِيرًۭا", "translation": "Then We said: Go together unto the folk who have denied Our revelations. Then We destroyed them, a complete destruction." }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍۢ لَّمَّا كَذَّبُوا۟ ٱلرُّسُلَ أَغْرَقْنَٰهُمْ وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ لِلنَّاسِ ءَايَةًۭ ۖ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِلظَّٰلِمِينَ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًۭا", "translation": "And Noah's folk, when they denied the messengers, We drowned them and made of them a portent for mankind. We have prepared a painful doom for evil-doers." }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "وَعَادًۭا وَثَمُودَا۟ وَأَصْحَٰبَ ٱلرَّسِّ وَقُرُونًۢا بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ كَثِيرًۭا", "translation": "And (the tribes of) A'ad and Thamud, and the dwellers in Ar-Rass, and many generations in between." }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "وَكُلًّۭا ضَرَبْنَا لَهُ ٱلْأَمْثَٰلَ ۖ وَكُلًّۭا تَبَّرْنَا تَتْبِيرًۭا", "translation": "Each (of them) We warned by examples, and each (of them) We brought to utter ruin." }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ أَتَوْا۟ عَلَى ٱلْقَرْيَةِ ٱلَّتِىٓ أُمْطِرَتْ مَطَرَ ٱلسَّوْءِ ۚ أَفَلَمْ يَكُونُوا۟ يَرَوْنَهَا ۚ بَلْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَرْجُونَ نُشُورًۭا", "translation": "And indeed they have passed by the township whereon was rained the fatal rain. Can it be that they have not seen it ? Nay, but they hope for no resurrection." }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "وَإِذَا رَأَوْكَ إِن يَتَّخِذُونَكَ إِلَّا هُزُوًا أَهَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى بَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ رَسُولًا", "translation": "And when they see thee (O Muhammad) they treat thee only as a jest (saying): Is this he whom Allah sendeth as a messenger ?" }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "إِن كَادَ لَيُضِلُّنَا عَنْ ءَالِهَتِنَا لَوْلَآ أَن صَبَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا ۚ وَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ حِينَ يَرَوْنَ ٱلْعَذَابَ مَنْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا", "translation": "He would have led us far away from our gods if we had not been staunch to them. They will know, when they behold the doom, who is more astray as to the road." }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "أَرَءَيْتَ مَنِ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَٰهَهُۥ هَوَىٰهُ أَفَأَنتَ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ وَكِيلًا", "translation": "Hast thou seen him who chooseth for his god his own lust ? Wouldst thou then be guardian over him ?" }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "أَمْ تَحْسَبُ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ أَوْ يَعْقِلُونَ ۚ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا كَٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ ۖ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا", "translation": "Or deemest thou that most of them hear or understand ? They are but as the cattle - nay, but they are farther astray ?" }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَيْفَ مَدَّ ٱلظِّلَّ وَلَوْ شَآءَ لَجَعَلَهُۥ سَاكِنًۭا ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا ٱلشَّمْسَ عَلَيْهِ دَلِيلًۭا", "translation": "Hast thou not seen how thy Lord hath spread the shade - And if He willed He could have made it still - then We have made the sun its pilot;" }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "ثُمَّ قَبَضْنَٰهُ إِلَيْنَا قَبْضًۭا يَسِيرًۭا", "translation": "Then We withdraw it unto Us, a gradual withdrawal ?" }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًۭا وَٱلنَّوْمَ سُبَاتًۭا وَجَعَلَ ٱلنَّهَارَ نُشُورًۭا", "translation": "And He it is Who maketh night a covering for you, and sleep repose, and maketh day a resurrection." }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَرْسَلَ ٱلرِّيَٰحَ بُشْرًۢا بَيْنَ يَدَىْ رَحْمَتِهِۦ ۚ وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ طَهُورًۭا", "translation": "And He it is Who sendeth the winds, glad tidings heralding His mercy, and We send down purifying water from the sky," }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "لِّنُحْۦِىَ بِهِۦ بَلْدَةًۭ مَّيْتًۭا وَنُسْقِيَهُۥ مِمَّا خَلَقْنَآ أَنْعَٰمًۭا وَأَنَاسِىَّ كَثِيرًۭا", "translation": "That We may give life thereby to a dead land, and We give many beasts and men that We have created to drink thereof." }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَٰهُ بَيْنَهُمْ لِيَذَّكَّرُوا۟ فَأَبَىٰٓ أَكْثَرُ ٱلنَّاسِ إِلَّا كُفُورًۭا", "translation": "And verily We have repeated it among them that they may remember, but most of mankind begrudge aught save ingratitude." }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "وَلَوْ شِئْنَا لَبَعَثْنَا فِى كُلِّ قَرْيَةٍۢ نَّذِيرًۭا", "translation": "If We willed, We could raise up a warner in every village." }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ وَجَٰهِدْهُم بِهِۦ جِهَادًۭا كَبِيرًۭا", "translation": "So obey not the disbelievers, but strive against them herewith with a great endeavour." }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "۞ وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى مَرَجَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ هَٰذَا عَذْبٌۭ فُرَاتٌۭ وَهَٰذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌۭ وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخًۭا وَحِجْرًۭا مَّحْجُورًۭا", "translation": "And He it is Who hath given independence to the two seas (though they meet); one palatable, sweet, and the other saltish, bitter; and hath set a bar and a forbidding ban between them." }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ مِنَ ٱلْمَآءِ بَشَرًۭا فَجَعَلَهُۥ نَسَبًۭا وَصِهْرًۭا ۗ وَكَانَ رَبُّكَ قَدِيرًۭا", "translation": "And He it is Who hath created man from water, and hath appointed for him kindred by blood and kindred by marriage; for thy Lord is ever Powerful." }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "وَيَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَنفَعُهُمْ وَلَا يَضُرُّهُمْ ۗ وَكَانَ ٱلْكَافِرُ عَلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ ظَهِيرًۭا", "translation": "Yet they worship instead of Allah that which can neither benefit them nor hurt them. The disbeliever was ever a partisan against his Lord." }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَٰكَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرًۭا وَنَذِيرًۭا", "translation": "And We have sent thee (O Muhammad) only as a bearer of good tidings and a warner." }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "قُلْ مَآ أَسْـَٔلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَجْرٍ إِلَّا مَن شَآءَ أَن يَتَّخِذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ سَبِيلًۭا", "translation": "Say: I ask of you no reward for this, save that whoso will may choose a way unto his Lord." }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "وَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى ٱلْحَىِّ ٱلَّذِى لَا يَمُوتُ وَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِهِۦ ۚ وَكَفَىٰ بِهِۦ بِذُنُوبِ عِبَادِهِۦ خَبِيرًا", "translation": "And trust thou in the Living One Who dieth not, and hymn His praise. He sufficeth as the Knower of His bondmen's sins," }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فِى سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍۢ ثُمَّ ٱسْتَوَىٰ عَلَى ٱلْعَرْشِ ۚ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ فَسْـَٔلْ بِهِۦ خَبِيرًۭا", "translation": "Who created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six Days, then He mounted the Throne. The Beneficent! Ask anyone informed concerning Him!" }, { "n": 60, "arabic": "وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ٱسْجُدُوا۟ لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ قَالُوا۟ وَمَا ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ أَنَسْجُدُ لِمَا تَأْمُرُنَا وَزَادَهُمْ نُفُورًۭا ۩", "translation": "And when it is said unto them: Adore the Beneficent! they say: And what is the Beneficent ? Are we to adore whatever thou (Muhammad) biddest us ? And it increaseth aversion in them." }, { "n": 61, "arabic": "تَبَارَكَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ بُرُوجًۭا وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا سِرَٰجًۭا وَقَمَرًۭا مُّنِيرًۭا", "translation": "Blessed be He Who hath placed in the heaven mansions of the stars, and hath placed therein a great lamp and a moon giving light!" }, { "n": 62, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ ٱلَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ خِلْفَةًۭ لِّمَنْ أَرَادَ أَن يَذَّكَّرَ أَوْ أَرَادَ شُكُورًۭا", "translation": "And He it is Who hath appointed night and day in succession, for him who desireth to remember, or desireth thankfulness." }, { "n": 63, "arabic": "وَعِبَادُ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ هَوْنًۭا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ ٱلْجَٰهِلُونَ قَالُوا۟ سَلَٰمًۭا", "translation": "The (faithful) slaves of the Beneficent are they who walk upon the earth modestly, and when the foolish ones address them answer: Peace;" }, { "n": 64, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ يَبِيتُونَ لِرَبِّهِمْ سُجَّدًۭا وَقِيَٰمًۭا", "translation": "And who spend the night before their Lord, prostrate and standing," }, { "n": 65, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا ٱصْرِفْ عَنَّا عَذَابَ جَهَنَّمَ ۖ إِنَّ عَذَابَهَا كَانَ غَرَامًا", "translation": "And who say: Our Lord! Avert from us the doom of hell; lo! the doom thereof is anguish;" }, { "n": 66, "arabic": "إِنَّهَا سَآءَتْ مُسْتَقَرًّۭا وَمُقَامًۭا", "translation": "Lo! it is wretched as abode and station;" }, { "n": 67, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ إِذَآ أَنفَقُوا۟ لَمْ يُسْرِفُوا۟ وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا۟ وَكَانَ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ قَوَامًۭا", "translation": "And those who, when they spend, are neither prodigal nor grudging; and there is ever a firm station between the two;" }, { "n": 68, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَدْعُونَ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ وَلَا يَقْتُلُونَ ٱلنَّفْسَ ٱلَّتِى حَرَّمَ ٱللَّهُ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَلَا يَزْنُونَ ۚ وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَٰلِكَ يَلْقَ أَثَامًۭا", "translation": "And those who cry not unto any other god along with Allah, nor take the life which Allah hath forbidden save in (course of) justice, nor commit adultery - and whoso doeth this shall pay the penalty;" }, { "n": 69, "arabic": "يُضَٰعَفْ لَهُ ٱلْعَذَابُ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ وَيَخْلُدْ فِيهِۦ مُهَانًا", "translation": "The doom will be doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein disdained for ever;" }, { "n": 70, "arabic": "إِلَّا مَن تَابَ وَءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلًۭا صَٰلِحًۭا فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ ٱللَّهُ سَيِّـَٔاتِهِمْ حَسَنَٰتٍۢ ۗ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ غَفُورًۭا رَّحِيمًۭا", "translation": "Save him who repenteth and believeth and doth righteous work; as for such, Allah will change their evil deeds to good deeds. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful." }, { "n": 71, "arabic": "وَمَن تَابَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحًۭا فَإِنَّهُۥ يَتُوبُ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ مَتَابًۭا", "translation": "And whosoever repenteth and doeth good, he verily repenteth toward Allah with true repentance -" }, { "n": 72, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَشْهَدُونَ ٱلزُّورَ وَإِذَا مَرُّوا۟ بِٱللَّغْوِ مَرُّوا۟ كِرَامًۭا", "translation": "And those who will not witness vanity, but when they pass near senseless play, pass by with dignity." }, { "n": 73, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِّرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِمْ لَمْ يَخِرُّوا۟ عَلَيْهَا صُمًّۭا وَعُمْيَانًۭا", "translation": "And those who, when they are reminded of the revelations of their Lord, fall not deaf and blind thereat." }, { "n": 74, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَٰجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّٰتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍۢ وَٱجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا", "translation": "And who say: Our Lord! Vouchsafe us comfort of our wives and of our offspring, and make us patterns for (all) those who ward off (evil)." }, { "n": 75, "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ ٱلْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا۟ وَيُلَقَّوْنَ فِيهَا تَحِيَّةًۭ وَسَلَٰمًا", "translation": "They will be awarded the high place forasmuch as they were steadfast, and they will meet therein with welcome and the word of peace," }, { "n": 76, "arabic": "خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا ۚ حَسُنَتْ مُسْتَقَرًّۭا وَمُقَامًۭا", "translation": "Abiding there for ever. Happy is it as abode and station!" }, { "n": 77, "arabic": "قُلْ مَا يَعْبَؤُا۟ بِكُمْ رَبِّى لَوْلَا دُعَآؤُكُمْ ۖ فَقَدْ كَذَّبْتُمْ فَسَوْفَ يَكُونُ لِزَامًۢا", "translation": "Say (O Muhammad, unto the disbelievers): My Lord would not concern Himself with you but for your prayer. 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