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refuge · Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/23:50/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)", "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" }, { "title": "The Hijrah in 622 · 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "titles": [ "Success begins with a way of living", "Humility in prayer", "Turning away from empty talk", "A share for those in need", "Integrity in intimate life", "The historical setting of the stated relationships", "Desire within responsibility", "Trusts and promises carefully tended", "Steadiness in prayer", "Those who receive an inheritance", "A lasting welcome in Paradise", "An origin in earth", "A small beginning in a protected place", "Life develops into another form", "The certainty of mortality", "The promise of resurrection", "Creation never overlooked", "Water given in measure", "Gardens and the food we receive", "The olive of Sinai", "The lesson of livestock", "The gift of transport", "Noah's call to his people", "A message recast as ambition", "Dismissal through an accusation", "A prayer when words are rejected", "The vessel and the approaching event", "Praise after rescue", "A prayer for a blessed landing", "Signs that test their hearers", "A new generation", "The same call among another people", "Comfort and a closed response", "The claim that following would mean loss", "Dust, bones and the promised return", "An emphatic refusal", "Life confined to the present world", "The messenger accused of fabrication", "Help sought amid denial", "The approach of regret", "A consequence that overturns confidence", "Generations continue", "A term beyond a nation's control", "Messengers in succession", "Moses and Aaron with clear signs", "Scorn in the ruling court", "Oppression mistaken for superiority", "Denial and its outcome", "Scripture after deliverance", "Mary and Jesus given refuge", "Wholesome provision and righteous action", "One community beneath one Lord", "Satisfied within separate factions", "A time of confusion", "What do wealth and children signify?", "Prosperity is not a simple verdict", "Reverent attention", "Belief that receives the signs", "Undivided devotion", "Generosity with a mindful heart", "Hastening toward good", "Capacity, a truthful record and justice", "Activity that conceals inattention", "Luxury meets an unexpected consequence", "A late cry for help", "Turning away from the recited signs", "Conversation shaped by arrogance", "Pondering what has been heard", "A messenger already known", "Truth dismissed through a label", "Truth cannot follow every desire", "No tribute sought", "An invitation to a straight path", "The horizon of the Hereafter", "Relief without a changed response", "Hardship without humility", "A gate of severe consequence", "Hearing, sight and hearts as gifts", "Spread across the earth, gathered again", "Life, death and the turning day", "An old pattern repeated", "The question about resurrection", "A promise dismissed as an old tale", "Who owns the earth?", "Acknowledgment calls for remembrance", "Who is Lord of the heavens?", "Acknowledgment calls for reverence", "Who gives protection beyond all powers?", "A confession contradicted by allegiance", "Truth brought before its hearers", "The coherence of undivided sovereignty", "The unseen and visible are known", "A prayer about the promised outcome", "Do not place me among wrongdoers", "The ability to fulfill the warning", "Answer evil with what is better", "Refuge from harmful promptings", "Protection from their presence", "A wish to return at death", "An opportunity that cannot be reclaimed", "When kinship cannot supply security", "Weighty scales and success", "The loss of light scales", "The severity of the final scene", "The earlier opportunity recalled", "Acknowledgment after the outcome", "A late promise to change", "A decisive boundary", "A prayer once spoken by the faithful", "Mockery that erased remembrance", "Patience receives its answer", "How long was the earthly stay?", "Time perceived as a fleeting moment", "A brief stay within a larger horizon", "Created for purpose and return", "The true King", "A claim without warrant", "The closing prayer for mercy" ], "notes": [ "Success is announced before its qualities are described. The opening invites the reader to reconsider what a successful life looks like beyond possessions or prestige. The following verses will give the declaration a practical shape through devotion, integrity and care.", "Humility in prayer is the first quality named. The emphasis reaches beyond completing an outward movement to the disposition carried within it. Prayer becomes an opportunity to attend, acknowledge dependence and bring one's scattered concerns before a greater moral horizon.", "Empty or harmful talk does not receive their willing attention. The verse gives restraint a place in the portrait of faith. Choosing what to leave unsaid or unjoined can preserve time, dignity and a capacity to attend to what matters.", "Care for the poor accompanies private devotion. The verse prevents the opening portrait from becoming only an inward spiritual exercise. What a person receives must also become a responsibility toward others, giving material form to the faith they profess.", "Sexual integrity is named among the believers' qualities. The verse places desire within responsibility rather than treating every impulse as self-justifying. Its meaning unfolds with the following boundaries, asking that intimate conduct remain connected to trust, accountability and the dignity of others.", "The verse names marital relations alongside a category belonging to the historical institution of slavery. The translation is preserved as part of the text's setting. It does not authorize enslavement or sexual coercion, and the passage should never be used to excuse abuse.", "Seeking beyond the stated boundaries is described as transgression. Desire is not granted an unlimited authority over another person or over one's commitments. The verse completes this part of the portrait by connecting intimate conduct with the larger discipline of faithful responsibility.", "Trusts and covenants are carefully tended. The image extends belief into promises, entrusted possessions and duties that others rely upon. Integrity is tested where an obligation may be inconvenient or unseen, rather than only where keeping it brings visible praise.", "Attention to prayer returns at the end of the list. The repeated reference surrounds social and personal integrity with sustained devotion. The verse suggests a continuing practice that nourishes responsibility, rather than an isolated moment disconnected from the rest of one's conduct.", "The described believers are called heirs, preparing the promise in the next verse. Their qualities are gathered into a hopeful outcome. The word directs attention toward a received gift, not a possession won through social rank or claimed through ancestry alone.", "Paradise is promised as a lasting inheritance. The opening portrait now reaches beyond immediate circumstances to its final horizon. Its welcome belongs to the Hereafter, so any garden illustration remains symbolic and cannot claim to show an authenticated earthly location.", "Human origin is recalled through earth, placing strength and achievement within a humble beginning. The verse asks readers to notice dependence before considering their later capacities. Shared origin can challenge arrogance and the assumption that dignity belongs only to the powerful.", "The next stage is described through a small beginning in a protected lodging. Human life emerges within conditions it does not provide for itself. The verse invites gratitude and reflection without functioning as a complete modern account of reproductive biology.", "Successive forms of developing life lead into praise of the Creator. Pickthall's historical vocabulary is retained, while the passage is read for its theological purpose. It should not be forced into a precise modern embryological sequence or used as medical instruction.", "Mortality follows the account of creation. Whatever strength develops, human life remains subject to an end that possessions or status cannot remove. The brief verse gives proportion to ambition while preparing the larger horizon of return in the next statement.", "Resurrection is affirmed after death, completing the sequence of origin, development and return. The verse presents that future as part of divine power and purpose. Its point is accountability and hope, not a calendar date for the reader to calculate.", "Seven paths above humanity are named alongside divine attentiveness to creation. The description widens the scale beyond individual development. Its brief language is received without turning it into an invented map of physical space or a claim that creation escapes its Maker's knowledge.", "Rain arrives in measure and is lodged within the earth, yet its withdrawal remains possible. The verse makes dependence visible through an ordinary resource. What seems reliably available should still be received with gratitude and used with attention to shared need.", "Water produces gardens of dates, grapes and other fruit. Provision becomes something eaten and enjoyed in everyday life. The verse invites attention to the many conditions behind a familiar meal, rather than treating nourishment as an object disconnected from its source.", "The olive tree associated with Sinai provides oil and food. A named landscape enters the reflection through a practical gift. The verse does not identify one surviving ancient tree or require a claim that a modern orchard is the precise location intended.", "Livestock provide milk, food and other benefits, becoming a lesson in dependence. Their usefulness is presented within a created order humans receive. The verse encourages gratitude for provision without making animals' value reducible to careless consumption or neglect of their needs.", "Transport by animals and ships extends the list of gifts beyond food. Human movement depends upon living creatures, materials and conditions not created by travelers themselves. The verse invites gratitude within mobility, whether a journey feels ordinary or especially demanding.", "Noah's invitation begins with worship of Allah alone and reverence. The prophetic story follows the signs of creation as another form of guidance. Its address seeks a changed relationship with the true source of life rather than allegiance to a messenger's personal status.", "The chiefs frame Noah's message as an attempt at superiority and object to a human messenger. Their reply protects inherited authority without addressing the call itself. The verse asks how fear of losing status can shape the explanation assigned to another person's motives.", "A charge of madness is used to postpone engagement with Noah's message. The accusation functions as dismissal within the narrative. It should not be repeated as contempt toward mental illness; the passage concerns the opponents' refusal to consider a messenger's call.", "Noah asks for help when his people reject him. The brief prayer acknowledges the limit of his own power over their response. Dependence remains distinct from coercion: the account turns toward divine judgment rather than offering listeners a method for forcing belief.", "Noah receives direction to build the vessel and prepare for the coming event. Household connection alone does not remove the stated exception. The verse does not provide dimensions, an exact landing coordinate or archaeological evidence for identifying a particular surviving wreck.", "Safety aboard the vessel is answered with praise. Deliverance is not treated as an occasion for self-congratulation or contemptuous celebration. The verse directs the rescued community toward recognition of the source of help, keeping gratitude present after immediate danger has passed.", "The prayer asks for a blessed landing, recognizing that arrival also requires care. A journey's end is more than escape from its beginning. The verse supplies a devotional response without naming the destination or certifying a modern claim about the vessel's resting place.", "The account contains signs and a test for its hearers. Its significance therefore reaches beyond following the sequence of events. The verse asks what response a remembered story produces: curiosity alone, or a willingness to examine trust, conduct and responsibility.", "Another generation follows the earlier people. The transition shows that history continues beyond one community's rise and fall. It also prepares a repeated moral question, while leaving this brief passage without the detailed dates and identities of a modern chronological register.", "A messenger from among the new community repeats the call to worship Allah alone. Shared humanity and language make the invitation local and intelligible. The verse emphasizes continuity of purpose across missions rather than treating each messenger as a rival source of ultimate authority.", "Comfortable chiefs again object to a messenger who eats and drinks like them. Their privilege does not make their judgment impartial. The narrative asks whether prosperity has narrowed their understanding of guidance to whatever preserves the social arrangement they already enjoy.", "They warn that following another human being would mean loss. The claim conceals their own exercise of human influence over the audience. The verse encourages readers to examine whose authority is accepted without question when all competing guidance is dismissed as merely human.", "The promise of resurrection is repeated in the opponents' incredulous question about dust and bones. The narrative identifies the point they resist. It invites consideration of divine power beyond the limits of present observation, without confusing honest uncertainty with the particular defiance being described.", "The promised return is brushed aside with emphatic dismissal. Repetition of rejection does not supply an argument for it. The verse portrays a closed response, asking whether intensity of tone has replaced the work of considering what the messenger actually claims.", "Worldly life is treated as the whole horizon, with no resurrection beyond dying and living. That outlook supports the refusal just described. The verse asks what happens to responsibility when present experience alone is allowed to define everything that can matter.", "The messenger is accused of inventing a statement about Allah. The charge closes the community's response without a serious consideration of his call. The verse makes visible the difference between challenging a claim thoughtfully and assigning dishonesty simply to avoid its demands.", "The unnamed messenger, like Noah before him, asks for help amid denial. The repeated prayer links the accounts through dependence and endurance. The passage does not give the reader authority to appoint a modern opponent to the role of that earlier rejecting community.", "An approaching time of regret is announced. The statement turns attention from present confidence toward an outcome the opponents cannot yet see. It does not offer an exact duration or authorize the reader to predict the date of another person's downfall.", "The cry overtakes the community and leaves it like debris. The account connects the consequence with wrongdoing rather than with arbitrary hostility. It should not become a formula for explaining the moral condition of people affected by later storms or disasters.", "Other generations follow again, widening the historical perspective. No single community's possessions or assumptions exhaust the human story. The verse invites humility about the temporary place one occupies, while preparing the reminder that a community cannot determine its entire span.", "A nation's appointed term cannot be advanced or postponed at will. Collective power shares the limits of individual life. The verse challenges confidence in permanent control without providing a timetable for the rise or collapse of any named contemporary society.", "Messengers arrive in succession and meet repeated denial, until communities become accounts told afterward. The pattern is offered as warning rather than as a complete history of every people. Its present purpose is attentive response, not the assignment of inherited blame.", "Moses and Aaron are sent together with signs and clear authority. Their shared commission returns the narrative to named figures. The verse gives no Egyptian dynasty or absolute ancient date, keeping the reader's attention on the purpose and reception of the mission.", "Pharaoh and his chiefs answer through scorn, grounded in their oppressive power. Political control becomes a barrier to hearing rather than evidence of wisdom. The verse asks how a position of command can make an equal moral claim feel intolerable.", "The rulers reject two human messengers whose people they hold in servitude. Their argument confuses domination with superiority in truth. The verse exposes the injustice of treating another group's oppressed condition as a reason to deny its members a hearing.", "The denial ends in destruction, overturning the rulers' assumed security. The passage gives the consequence briefly rather than reconstructing the event in detail. It does not identify a Pharaoh's mummy or transfer guilt from its narrative figures to modern Egyptians.", "Scripture is given to Moses for guidance. Deliverance and the fall of an oppressor are not the whole purpose of the story. A community also needs instruction through which freedom can become a more responsible and faithful way of living.", "Jesus and Mary are presented as a sign and given refuge in a place with stability and water. Commentary records differing location identifications. The verse itself does not name the site, so this reader avoids a falsely certain map pin or reconstructed portrait.", "The messengers are addressed through wholesome provision and righteous action. Ordinary eating belongs within their human lives and their moral responsibility. The verse connects received gifts with conduct, challenging any separation between spiritual vocation and the practical way a person lives.", "One community of faith stands beneath one Lord. The verse draws the prophetic accounts together through a shared direction of worship and reverence. Unity here begins with that foundation rather than with a demand that every historical difference be ignored.", "People divide into groups, each satisfied with what it possesses. The criticism concerns self-satisfied fragmentation after the shared call. The verse asks whether belonging strengthens truthful devotion or becomes a reason to stop listening, learning and examining one's own assumptions.", "The groups are left in their confusion for a time. The messenger cannot compel an inward response merely through continued argument. The verse recognizes a limit to persuasion while the surrounding warning keeps the consequences of self-satisfied refusal morally serious.", "Wealth and children are introduced as gifts whose meaning can be misunderstood. The sentence continues into the next verse, so it should not be treated as a complete independent conclusion. Material increase raises a question rather than automatically proving divine approval.", "The assumption that prosperity necessarily means hastened favor is rejected. A person's possessions cannot by themselves disclose their standing before Allah. The verse invites gratitude without complacency, and prevents hardship from becoming an equally simplistic verdict that someone lacks worth.", "Reverent awe begins a renewed portrait of believers. Their response differs from the complacency associated with wealth and faction. The verse describes attention to the Lord rather than confidence in a social label, a family connection or an impressive outward record.", "Belief in the Lord's signs accompanies that reverence. The portrait concerns what is received as guidance and allowed to shape a life. It asks whether acknowledgment remains active through attention and response, rather than becoming only a statement repeated by habit.", "They associate no partners with their Lord. Their devotion is gathered toward one source rather than divided among imagined powers. The verse connects the earlier prophetic call with the present portrait, showing continuity between theological conviction and the direction of everyday reliance.", "Those who give remain inwardly mindful of their return to Allah. Generosity does not produce a claim of entitlement or complete self-assurance. The verse invites good action carried with humility, rather than either complacency about one's record or paralysis through fear.", "These believers hasten toward good and take a leading place in it. Their reverence produces effort rather than withdrawal from responsibility. The verse gives aspiration a generous direction: competing in beneficial action instead of measuring oneself through possession, status or the defeat of others.", "No soul is burdened beyond its capacity, and the record speaks truth without injustice. The verse joins responsibility with fairness. It offers neither an excuse to abandon effort nor a demand to pretend that every person has identical abilities and circumstances.", "Hearts can remain distracted from the guidance while other activities occupy them. The verse questions a way of life that keeps important matters at a distance. Busyness is not itself condemned, but it can become an effective shelter from needed reflection.", "Those accustomed to luxury cry out when consequence reaches them. The scene exposes the fragility of comfort mistaken for security. The verse does not condemn every material ease; it challenges the assumption that such ease can prevent accountability or make a warning irrelevant.", "The late cry does not secure help in this scene of judgment. Its severity makes the present opportunity to respond more valuable. The reader should not treat it as a general instruction to ignore people who ask for help while change remains possible.", "The signs had been recited, but the hearers turned away. Their condition is connected to a response made over time, rather than a lack of access alone. The verse asks what habits of avoidance develop when a reminder feels inconvenient.", "Arrogant evening conversation accompanies the rejection. Shared talk can reinforce a group's confidence while excluding serious attention to what it mocks. The verse invites examination of the social setting in which an opinion becomes easier to repeat than to reconsider.", "The question asks whether the hearers have reflected on the message or treated it as wholly without precedent. It encourages thought rather than a reflexive answer. The point is to consider the content before inherited assumptions settle its reception.", "The audience knows its messenger, so his unfamiliarity cannot explain its rejection. Character already encountered becomes part of the challenge. The verse asks whether a dismissive judgment fits what people actually know, or merely protects a position they do not wish to change.", "The accusation of madness is rejected in favor of the truth he brings. The issue is the audience's resistance to that truth, not a medical judgment about mental illness. The verse should not be turned into contempt for people experiencing psychological distress.", "If truth followed every human desire, the order of creation would be corrupted. The verse denies appetite the authority to define reality. The reminder offers another orientation, asking people to receive correction rather than demanding a message shaped entirely around their preferences.", "The messenger seeks no tribute from the audience; provision from his Lord is better. The verse removes an alleged financial motive from the invitation. It asks readers to consider the guidance itself, rather than assuming that every call is a disguised personal transaction.", "The invitation leads toward a straight path. This brief reassurance gathers the preceding defense of the message into its practical purpose. Guidance is meant to direct a life, not merely provide material for argument or establish a speaker's social prestige.", "Disbelief in the Hereafter is connected with departure from that path. The verse presents ultimate accountability as relevant to present direction. Its warning should prompt reflection on one's own horizon, rather than become an excuse to mistreat those who hold different convictions.", "Relief from hardship would not necessarily change a settled pattern of resistance. The verse questions the assumption that better circumstances automatically create gratitude or understanding. A received mercy still calls for an active response rather than the restoration of an unchanged harmful course.", "An earlier experience of hardship did not bring humility or prayer. The verse describes the audience's response within this passage, not every sufferer's spiritual condition. It should not be used to tell a distressed person that their pain proves a moral failure.", "A more severe consequence leaves the opponents overwhelmed. The scene ends the examination of their repeated refusal. Its force directs the reader toward timely attention and change, without providing authority to identify a particular present-day crisis as the punishment described.", "Hearing, sight and hearts are received gifts, yet gratitude is limited. The verse returns from confrontation to capacities shared by ordinary people. It asks how those gifts are used: merely to accumulate impressions, or to listen, understand and respond responsibly.", "Humanity is spread across the earth and will be gathered back to Allah. Diversity of place does not remove a common origin or return. The verse gives movement and distance a larger horizon, challenging the illusion that geography can erase responsibility.", "Life, death and the alternation of night and day point toward one source of command. The question calls for understanding through familiar realities. It invites the reader to notice the limits of human control over the conditions within which every plan is made.", "The present objections repeat those of earlier people. Familiarity alone does not make an argument sound, just as novelty alone would not make it true. The verse places repeated resistance within a wider pattern that the audience is being asked to recognize.", "The question about resurrection returns to the image of dust and bones. Human difficulty in imagining restoration is made explicit. The passage answers within its larger account of creation and sovereignty, rather than claiming that current observation directly displays the future event.", "The promised return is dismissed as an inherited tale because earlier generations also heard it. Delay becomes an assumed disproof. The verse asks whether the lack of a personally witnessed fulfillment is enough to settle a claim about a future appointed beyond human control.", "The audience is asked who owns the earth and its inhabitants. The question begins from knowledge it already claims to possess. Rather than introducing a remote abstraction, the argument invites people to examine what follows from their own acknowledgment of a Creator.", "The expected answer attributes the earth to Allah, and remembrance is demanded as its consequence. A correct verbal response is not the end of understanding. The verse asks whether acknowledged dependence changes allegiance, gratitude and conduct in daily life.", "The questioning expands to the seven heavens and the tremendous throne. The language concerns divine sovereignty and is not an invitation to picture Allah in a physical seat. The verse asks whether the audience's recognized source of authority receives its actual devotion.", "Their acknowledgment is followed by a call to reverence. Again, a confession must have consequences beyond being the expected answer. The verse connects what someone says about the world's Lord with the care and responsibility shown in the way they live.", "The final question asks who holds all dominion and grants protection beyond any competing power. It tests the reliability of alternative refuges. The verse invites a reader to distinguish genuine dependence from the appearance of security provided by status, custom or influence.", "Their answer again names Allah, exposing the inconsistency of their divided response. The question about being bewitched challenges that disconnection. It should not be turned into a diagnosis of particular people; it belongs to the argument's demand for coherent belief and conduct.", "The text affirms that truth has been brought and rejects the opposing falsehood. The verse closes the sequence of questions with a clear position. Its firmness does not remove the reader's responsibility for fair speech, careful understanding and respectful treatment of others.", "Multiple rival gods would imply divided creation and contested supremacy, while Allah is exalted beyond those claims. The verse offers an argument for divine oneness. It asks readers to consider the coherence of sovereignty rather than relying solely on inherited descriptions of sacred power.", "Knowledge of both unseen and visible belongs to Allah, beyond the partners attributed to Him. The verse joins authority with complete knowledge. Human understanding remains partial, inviting humility about what is inferred, imagined or confidently claimed concerning realities outside direct observation.", "The messenger is taught to pray concerning the possibility of witnessing the promised consequence. The request continues in the next verse. Its form turns attention inward toward one's own standing rather than toward anticipation of an opponent's suffering.", "The prayer asks not to be placed among wrongdoers. The messenger's concern becomes a model of moral seriousness and dependence. Even while warning others, the response remains a request for protection rather than a self-satisfied declaration of immunity.", "Allah's ability to show the promised outcome is affirmed. The verse supplies assurance without entrusting the timing to the messenger or audience. It leaves the reader with responsibility for present response, rather than a calendar that can be used to predict punishment.", "Evil is to be answered with what is better, while Allah knows the allegations being made. The instruction gives the surrounding confrontation a practical ethical direction. Restraint does not require calling harm good; it seeks a response that does not merely reproduce it.", "The prayer seeks refuge from the promptings of evil. It recognizes that conflict can affect the responder's own thoughts and impulses. The verse turns moral vigilance inward, asking for protection from influences that could deform even an effort to answer wrongdoing.", "Protection is sought not only from harmful suggestions but also from their presence. The short continuation deepens the previous prayer. It invites a reader to care about the atmosphere and influences surrounding a response, rather than only the final visible action.", "At death, a person asks to be sent back. The request reveals the value of an opportunity previously left unused. The verse is meant to awaken the living reader, for whom repentance and beneficial action remain possible in the present.", "The wish to return and do good is refused, with a barrier until resurrection. The scene gives earthly choices an irreversible seriousness. It offers no detailed map of the intermediate state and should not be expanded into invented descriptions of unseen experiences.", "The trumpet announces a gathering where kinship cannot supply the protection once expected from it. The verse challenges reliance on family standing as a substitute for conduct. Its scene concerns final accountability rather than the removal of ordinary duties toward relatives now.", "Weighty scales mark success in the reckoning. The image gives moral action a significance beyond the audience or reward it receives during life. The verse invites seriousness about what is done while leaving the exact reality of the final weighing with Allah.", "Light scales portray a loss reaching the person themselves. The warning exposes the insufficiency of outward advantage when deeds are finally evaluated. It should direct the reader toward honest change, rather than become a means of assigning a certain destiny to a named individual.", "The fire's effect is described with painful severity. This belongs to the Surah's account of the Hereafter and is not an instruction for human action. The warning calls for responsibility and mercy in the present, not fascination with representations of suffering.", "The question recalls signs that were recited and then denied. Final accountability is linked to an earlier opportunity to hear and respond. The verse directs attention back toward the present encounter with guidance, where understanding can still become a changed course.", "The speakers acknowledge their error and the force of the course that overcame them. Their explanation cannot undo the result. The verse asks readers to recognize destructive patterns while they can still be challenged, rather than wait until acknowledgment has lost its practical opening.", "They ask to be released and promise not to return to wrongdoing. The scene contrasts late assurance with earlier opportunity. It encourages a present commitment expressed through action, because an intention postponed indefinitely may never receive another chance to become real.", "The plea is refused in the final scene. The verse gives the warning its decisive boundary rather than teaching people to reject present repentance. Its severity should be read beside the closing prayer for forgiveness and mercy while life still permits a response.", "A group of servants had prayed with faith, seeking forgiveness and mercy. Their words introduce a contrast with the mockery that follows. The verse honors a dependent and hopeful posture rather than a claim that righteousness makes a person self-sufficient.", "The faithful were made objects of laughter until the mockers neglected remembrance. Contempt harmed the people targeted and also distorted the speakers' own attention. The verse asks what is lost when another person's devotion becomes material for group entertainment.", "Their patience is rewarded as success, overturning the earlier social judgment. Those once mocked are not defined by the mockery they endured. The verse restores a larger measure of worth, encouraging steadfastness without requiring a person to accept ongoing abuse without seeking protection.", "The question asks how long earthly life lasted when counted in years. The scene reopens the matter of proportion after the final outcomes. What occupied nearly all attention can appear different when seen within a horizon larger than its own duration.", "The answer reduces the stay to a day or part of one and refers counting elsewhere. Perception of time has changed radically. The verse's scene is not a formula for converting earthly years into an exact mathematical duration in the Hereafter.", "The stay was indeed brief compared with what followed. The statement asks the present reader to understand that proportion before the final reckoning. Limited time can become more meaningful when used for good rather than treated as an excuse for indifference.", "Human beings were not created without purpose or without return. The question gathers the Surah's portraits, signs and warnings into one claim about life. It invites a response in daily conduct, where purpose becomes more than an abstract statement about existence.", "Allah is exalted as the true King, with no deity beside Him. The throne language declares sovereign majesty and is received without a divine portrait. The verse places the preceding account beneath an authority that does not depend on human recognition.", "Calling upon another god lacks the warrant claimed for it, and reckoning belongs with the Lord. The verse keeps final judgment in divine hands. It calls for coherent devotion without granting people permission to punish others for a difference of belief.", "The Surah ends in a prayer for forgiveness and mercy. After its portraits of success and severe warnings, the fitting response remains humble dependence. The reader is given words for turning toward the One whose mercy is greater than human self-assurance." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 22, "title": "The qualities of faith and the gifts of life", "summary": "Prayer, restraint, generosity and trustworthiness define success. Human origin, rain, fruit, livestock and transport then reveal the dependence within ordinary life and point toward resurrection.", "reflection": "Which received gift can become a more faithful responsibility?" }, { "start": 23, "end": 44, "title": "Noah and the repeated call to listen", "summary": "Noah's mission and the accounts of later generations reveal recurring objections to human messengers. Rescue, gratitude and the limits of a community's term invite attention before regret.", "reflection": "When does familiarity become an excuse not to listen?" }, { "start": 45, "end": 61, "title": "Messengers, one community and humble action", "summary": "Moses and Aaron confront power, while Jesus and Mary receive refuge. One shared call is contrasted with factional pride, and prosperity is distinguished from the humble effort of those who hasten toward good.", "reflection": "How can belonging strengthen humility instead of self-satisfaction?" }, { "start": 62, "end": 77, "title": "A truthful account and the responsibility to respond", "summary": "No soul is burdened beyond its capacity. A truthful record frames questions about neglected revelation, selective attention and the assumption that relief or privilege can replace a changed response.", "reflection": "What reminder deserves action before it becomes a regret?" }, { "start": 78, "end": 92, "title": "Received gifts and undivided sovereignty", "summary": "Human faculties, life and the changing day lead to questions about the earth, heavens and protection. The audience's own acknowledgments expose the gap between stated belief and actual allegiance.", "reflection": "What follows from the truths you already acknowledge?" }, { "start": 93, "end": 118, "title": "Return, purpose and the prayer for mercy", "summary": "The messenger is taught to answer evil well and seek protection. Scenes of death and reckoning reveal the value of present opportunity, while the ending gathers life's purpose into a humble prayer.", "reflection": "What good can be done while the opportunity is still here?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · the Makkan period", "year": 622, "body": "Al-Mu’minun is classified as Makkan. The date marks the Hijrah boundary for that classification, not an asserted year when all 118 verses were revealed.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-muminun/info" }, { "title": "Earlier missions · an undated moral sequence", "year": null, "body": "Noah, an unnamed later messenger, Moses, Aaron, Jesus and Mary appear within a sequence of guidance and response. This passage does not supply an absolute ancient calendar for their lives.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/023.htm" }, { "title": "Origin, mortality and return", "year": null, "body": "Verses 12–16 connect human creation with death and resurrection. These are stages in the Surah's theological account, not a dated forecast or a modern medical timeline.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/023.htm" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · the first hearers", "body": "The Makkan setting frames the Surah's questions about truth, sovereignty and resurrection. This city marker offers broad orientation without identifying a precise revelation address.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/al-muminun/info", "image": 0 }, { "id": "sinai", "name": "Sinai · the olive and its provision", "body": "Verse 20 names Sinai through the tree that provides oil and food. The illustration evokes that regional association; it does not label a particular living tree or mountain summit as authenticated by this verse.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/023.htm", "image": 0 }, { "id": "vessel", "name": "The vessel and the hoped-for landing", "body": "Noah's account includes building, boarding and a prayer for a blessed landing. No exact construction site, route or modern wreck identification is given in this passage.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/023.htm", "image": 1 }, { "id": "refuge", "name": "A height with water · the refuge remains unlocated", "body": "Ibn Kathir records differing identifications for the refuge of Jesus and Mary. The Quran's description gives a protected elevated setting and water, while this reader leaves the precise modern location unresolved.", "source": "https://quran.com/23:50/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir", "image": 2 } ], "people": [ { "id": "believers", "title": "The believers · character before status", "body": "The opening identifies success through qualities that can be practiced: humble prayer, careful speech, generosity, intimate integrity and fulfilled trusts. It offers a portrait of responsibility rather than a ranking by wealth or ancestry.", "verse": 1 }, { "id": "noah", "title": "Noah · warning, rescue and gratitude", "body": "His account connects persistent invitation with the vessel and prayers of thanks. The Surah supplies neither a securely dated flood chronology nor an authenticated vessel, portrait or grave.", "verse": 23 }, { "id": "unnamed", "title": "The later messenger · identity not stated here", "body": "After Noah, the passage introduces another generation and a messenger without naming him. This reader preserves that wording rather than resolving the identity through an unqualified addition from later interpretation.", "verse": 32 }, { "id": "moses-aaron", "title": "Moses and Aaron · truth before political power", "body": "The brothers face chiefs who use the servitude of their people as a reason to reject them. The narrative gives no Pharaoh dynasty, verified mummy or ancient date.", "verse": 45 }, { "id": "mary-jesus", "title": "Mary and Jesus · a sign and a refuge", "body": "Verse 50 names their relationship and protected setting. Differing geographical interpretations remain explicit; no invented portrait or burial site is attached to this account.", "verse": 50 } ], "history": [ { "title": "A Makkan portrait of success", "body": "Quran.com's introduction places the Surah in the Makkan period and connects its opening ethics with creation, prophetic histories and resurrection. Detailed verse dating is not inferred from that broad classification.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-muminun/info" }, { "title": "The unnamed generation remains unnamed", "body": "Verses 31–41 repeat the call to worship and the resistance to a human messenger. Their lesson can be read without supplying an identity, dynasty or location that the passage itself does not state.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/023.htm" }, { "title": "A refuge with more than one interpretation", "body": "The commentary on verse 50 transmits differing geographical suggestions, including Damascus and Ramlah. These reports are presented as interpretation, not evidence establishing one uniquely identified archaeological site.", "source": "https://quran.com/23:50/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Creation is read within the argument for return", "body": "The sequence of origin and development moves directly to mortality and resurrection. Its purpose here is theological reflection; the preserved historical translation is not offered as a clinical description or medical guide.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/023.htm" }, { "title": "Historical vocabulary and present responsibility", "body": "The mention of enslaved persons belongs to the social institution addressed by the passage. Preserving that wording does not authorize enslavement or coercion; the surrounding portrait emphasizes accountable conduct, trusts and boundaries.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/023.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Classified as Makkan. The 622 CE calendar marker describes a period boundary only. Ancient missions and the refuge in verse 50 are not assigned speculative dates, graves or a uniquely certain modern location.", "translationNote": "English translation: Sahih International, via AlQuran Cloud. Original source wording is preserved.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "قَدْ أَفْلَحَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "Certainly will the believers have succeeded:" }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ فِى صَلَاتِهِمْ خَٰشِعُونَ", "translation": "They who are during their prayer humbly submissive" }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَنِ ٱللَّغْوِ مُعْرِضُونَ", "translation": "And they who turn away from ill speech" }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِلزَّكَوٰةِ فَٰعِلُونَ", "translation": "And they who are observant of zakah" }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَٰفِظُونَ", "translation": "And they who guard their private parts" }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ", "translation": "Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed -" }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ", "translation": "But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors -" }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَٰنَٰتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَٰعُونَ", "translation": "And they who are to their trusts and their promises attentive" }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَوَٰتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ", "translation": "And they who carefully maintain their prayers -" }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْوَٰرِثُونَ", "translation": "Those are the inheritors" }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ يَرِثُونَ ٱلْفِرْدَوْسَ هُمْ فِيهَا خَٰلِدُونَ", "translation": "Who will inherit al-Firdaus. They will abide therein eternally." }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن سُلَٰلَةٍۢ مِّن طِينٍۢ", "translation": "And certainly did We create man from an extract of clay." }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَٰهُ نُطْفَةًۭ فِى قَرَارٍۢ مَّكِينٍۢ", "translation": "Then We placed him as a sperm-drop in a firm lodging." }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "ثُمَّ خَلَقْنَا ٱلنُّطْفَةَ عَلَقَةًۭ فَخَلَقْنَا ٱلْعَلَقَةَ مُضْغَةًۭ فَخَلَقْنَا ٱلْمُضْغَةَ عِظَٰمًۭا فَكَسَوْنَا ٱلْعِظَٰمَ لَحْمًۭا ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَٰهُ خَلْقًا ءَاخَرَ ۚ فَتَبَارَكَ ٱللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ ٱلْخَٰلِقِينَ", "translation": "Then We made the sperm-drop into a clinging clot, and We made the clot into a lump [of flesh], and We made [from] the lump, bones, and We covered the bones with flesh; then We developed him into another creation. So blessed is Allah, the best of creators." }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "ثُمَّ إِنَّكُم بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ لَمَيِّتُونَ", "translation": "Then indeed, after that you are to die." }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ تُبْعَثُونَ", "translation": "Then indeed you, on the Day of Resurrection, will be resurrected." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعَ طَرَآئِقَ وَمَا كُنَّا عَنِ ٱلْخَلْقِ غَٰفِلِينَ", "translation": "And We have created above you seven layered heavens, and never have We been of [Our] creation unaware." }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۢ بِقَدَرٍۢ فَأَسْكَنَّٰهُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ وَإِنَّا عَلَىٰ ذَهَابٍۭ بِهِۦ لَقَٰدِرُونَ", "translation": "And We have sent down rain from the sky in a measured amount and settled it in the earth. And indeed, We are Able to take it away." }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "فَأَنشَأْنَا لَكُم بِهِۦ جَنَّٰتٍۢ مِّن نَّخِيلٍۢ وَأَعْنَٰبٍۢ لَّكُمْ فِيهَا فَوَٰكِهُ كَثِيرَةٌۭ وَمِنْهَا تَأْكُلُونَ", "translation": "And We brought forth for you thereby gardens of palm trees and grapevines in which for you are abundant fruits and from which you eat." }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَشَجَرَةًۭ تَخْرُجُ مِن طُورِ سَيْنَآءَ تَنۢبُتُ بِٱلدُّهْنِ وَصِبْغٍۢ لِّلْءَاكِلِينَ", "translation": "And [We brought forth] a tree issuing from Mount Sinai which produces oil and food for those who eat." }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ لَعِبْرَةًۭ ۖ نُّسْقِيكُم مِّمَّا فِى بُطُونِهَا وَلَكُمْ فِيهَا مَنَٰفِعُ كَثِيرَةٌۭ وَمِنْهَا تَأْكُلُونَ", "translation": "And indeed, for you in livestock is a lesson. We give you drink from that which is in their bellies, and for you in them are numerous benefits, and from them you eat." }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "وَعَلَيْهَا وَعَلَى ٱلْفُلْكِ تُحْمَلُونَ", "translation": "And upon them and on ships you are carried." }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ فَقَالَ يَٰقَوْمِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرُهُۥٓ ۖ أَفَلَا تَتَّقُونَ", "translation": "And We had certainly sent Noah to his people, and he said, \"O my people, worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him; then will you not fear Him?\"" }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "فَقَالَ ٱلْمَلَؤُا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِن قَوْمِهِۦ مَا هَٰذَآ إِلَّا بَشَرٌۭ مِّثْلُكُمْ يُرِيدُ أَن يَتَفَضَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَلَوْ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ لَأَنزَلَ مَلَٰٓئِكَةًۭ مَّا سَمِعْنَا بِهَٰذَا فِىٓ ءَابَآئِنَا ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ", "translation": "But the eminent among those who disbelieved from his people said, \"This is not but a man like yourselves who wishes to take precedence over you; and if Allah had willed [to send a messenger], He would have sent down angels. We have not heard of this among our forefathers." }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا رَجُلٌۢ بِهِۦ جِنَّةٌۭ فَتَرَبَّصُوا۟ بِهِۦ حَتَّىٰ حِينٍۢ", "translation": "He is not but a man possessed with madness, so wait concerning him for a time.\"" }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "قَالَ رَبِّ ٱنصُرْنِى بِمَا كَذَّبُونِ", "translation": "[Noah] said, \"My Lord, support me because they have denied me.\"" }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "فَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَيْهِ أَنِ ٱصْنَعِ ٱلْفُلْكَ بِأَعْيُنِنَا وَوَحْيِنَا فَإِذَا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا وَفَارَ ٱلتَّنُّورُ ۙ فَٱسْلُكْ فِيهَا مِن كُلٍّۢ زَوْجَيْنِ ٱثْنَيْنِ وَأَهْلَكَ إِلَّا مَن سَبَقَ عَلَيْهِ ٱلْقَوْلُ مِنْهُمْ ۖ وَلَا تُخَٰطِبْنِى فِى ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوٓا۟ ۖ إِنَّهُم مُّغْرَقُونَ", "translation": "So We inspired to him, \"Construct the ship under Our observation, and Our inspiration, and when Our command comes and the oven overflows, put into the ship from each [creature] two mates and your family, except those for whom the decree [of destruction] has proceeded. And do not address Me concerning those who have wronged; indeed, they are to be drowned." }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "فَإِذَا ٱسْتَوَيْتَ أَنتَ وَمَن مَّعَكَ عَلَى ٱلْفُلْكِ فَقُلِ ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ٱلَّذِى نَجَّىٰنَا مِنَ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "And when you have boarded the ship, you and those with you, then say, 'Praise to Allah who has saved us from the wrongdoing people.'" }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "وَقُل رَّبِّ أَنزِلْنِى مُنزَلًۭا مُّبَارَكًۭا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ ٱلْمُنزِلِينَ", "translation": "And say, 'My Lord, let me land at a blessed landing place, and You are the best to accommodate [us].' \"" }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَٰتٍۢ وَإِن كُنَّا لَمُبْتَلِينَ", "translation": "Indeed in that are signs, and indeed, We are ever testing [Our servants]." }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَا مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ قَرْنًا ءَاخَرِينَ", "translation": "Then We produced after them a generation of others." }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "فَأَرْسَلْنَا فِيهِمْ رَسُولًۭا مِّنْهُمْ أَنِ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرُهُۥٓ ۖ أَفَلَا تَتَّقُونَ", "translation": "And We sent among them a messenger from themselves, [saying], \"Worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him; then will you not fear Him?\"" }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلْمَلَأُ مِن قَوْمِهِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِلِقَآءِ ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ وَأَتْرَفْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا مَا هَٰذَآ إِلَّا بَشَرٌۭ مِّثْلُكُمْ يَأْكُلُ مِمَّا تَأْكُلُونَ مِنْهُ وَيَشْرَبُ مِمَّا تَشْرَبُونَ", "translation": "And the eminent among his people who disbelieved and denied the meeting of the Hereafter while We had given them luxury in the worldly life said, \"This is not but a man like yourselves. He eats of that from which you eat and drinks of what you drink." }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "وَلَئِنْ أَطَعْتُم بَشَرًۭا مِّثْلَكُمْ إِنَّكُمْ إِذًۭا لَّخَٰسِرُونَ", "translation": "And if you should obey a man like yourselves, indeed, you would then be losers." }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "أَيَعِدُكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ إِذَا مِتُّمْ وَكُنتُمْ تُرَابًۭا وَعِظَٰمًا أَنَّكُم مُّخْرَجُونَ", "translation": "Does he promise you that when you have died and become dust and bones that you will be brought forth [once more]?" }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "۞ هَيْهَاتَ هَيْهَاتَ لِمَا تُوعَدُونَ", "translation": "How far, how far, is that which you are promised." }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "إِنْ هِىَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا ٱلدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَبْعُوثِينَ", "translation": "Life is not but our worldly life - we die and live, but we will not be resurrected." }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا رَجُلٌ ٱفْتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًۭا وَمَا نَحْنُ لَهُۥ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ", "translation": "He is not but a man who has invented a lie about Allah, and we will not believe him.\"" }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "قَالَ رَبِّ ٱنصُرْنِى بِمَا كَذَّبُونِ", "translation": "He said, \"My Lord, support me because they have denied me.\"" }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "قَالَ عَمَّا قَلِيلٍۢ لَّيُصْبِحُنَّ نَٰدِمِينَ", "translation": "[Allah] said, \"After a little, they will surely become regretful.\"" }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ بِٱلْحَقِّ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ غُثَآءًۭ ۚ فَبُعْدًۭا لِّلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "So the shriek seized them in truth, and We made them as [plant] stubble. Then away with the wrongdoing people." }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَا مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ قُرُونًا ءَاخَرِينَ", "translation": "Then We produced after them other generations." }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَـْٔخِرُونَ", "translation": "No nation will precede its time [of termination], nor will they remain [thereafter]." }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "ثُمَّ أَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلَنَا تَتْرَا ۖ كُلَّ مَا جَآءَ أُمَّةًۭ رَّسُولُهَا كَذَّبُوهُ ۚ فَأَتْبَعْنَا بَعْضَهُم بَعْضًۭا وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ أَحَادِيثَ ۚ فَبُعْدًۭا لِّقَوْمٍۢ لَّا يُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "Then We sent Our messengers in succession. Every time there came to a nation its messenger, they denied him, so We made them follow one another [to destruction], and We made them narrations. So away with a people who do not believe." }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "ثُمَّ أَرْسَلْنَا مُوسَىٰ وَأَخَاهُ هَٰرُونَ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَسُلْطَٰنٍۢ مُّبِينٍ", "translation": "Then We sent Moses and his brother Aaron with Our signs and a clear authority" }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَإِي۟هِۦ فَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ وَكَانُوا۟ قَوْمًا عَالِينَ", "translation": "To Pharaoh and his establishment, but they were arrogant and were a haughty people." }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "فَقَالُوٓا۟ أَنُؤْمِنُ لِبَشَرَيْنِ مِثْلِنَا وَقَوْمُهُمَا لَنَا عَٰبِدُونَ", "translation": "They said, \"Should we believe two men like ourselves while their people are for us in servitude?\"" }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "فَكَذَّبُوهُمَا فَكَانُوا۟ مِنَ ٱلْمُهْلَكِينَ", "translation": "So they denied them and were of those destroyed." }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَى ٱلْكِتَٰبَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَهْتَدُونَ", "translation": "And We certainly gave Moses the Scripture that perhaps they would be guided." }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَا ٱبْنَ مَرْيَمَ وَأُمَّهُۥٓ ءَايَةًۭ وَءَاوَيْنَٰهُمَآ إِلَىٰ رَبْوَةٍۢ ذَاتِ قَرَارٍۢ وَمَعِينٍۢ", "translation": "And We made the son of Mary and his mother a sign and sheltered them within a high ground having level [areas] and flowing water." }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلرُّسُلُ كُلُوا۟ مِنَ ٱلطَّيِّبَٰتِ وَٱعْمَلُوا۟ صَٰلِحًا ۖ إِنِّى بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ عَلِيمٌۭ", "translation": "[Allah said], \"O messengers, eat from the good foods and work righteousness. Indeed, I, of what you do, am Knowing." }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "وَإِنَّ هَٰذِهِۦٓ أُمَّتُكُمْ أُمَّةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ وَأَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمْ فَٱتَّقُونِ", "translation": "And indeed this, your religion, is one religion, and I am your Lord, so fear Me.\"" }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "فَتَقَطَّعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَهُم بَيْنَهُمْ زُبُرًۭا ۖ كُلُّ حِزْبٍۭ بِمَا لَدَيْهِمْ فَرِحُونَ", "translation": "But the people divided their religion among them into sects - each faction, in what it has, rejoicing." }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "فَذَرْهُمْ فِى غَمْرَتِهِمْ حَتَّىٰ حِينٍ", "translation": "So leave them in their confusion for a time." }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "أَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّمَا نُمِدُّهُم بِهِۦ مِن مَّالٍۢ وَبَنِينَ", "translation": "Do they think that what We extend to them of wealth and children" }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "نُسَارِعُ لَهُمْ فِى ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ ۚ بَل لَّا يَشْعُرُونَ", "translation": "Is [because] We hasten for them good things? Rather, they do not perceive." }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ هُم مِّنْ خَشْيَةِ رَبِّهِم مُّشْفِقُونَ", "translation": "Indeed, they who are apprehensive from fear of their Lord" }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِمْ يُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "And they who believe in the signs of their Lord" }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِرَبِّهِمْ لَا يُشْرِكُونَ", "translation": "And they who do not associate anything with their Lord" }, { "n": 60, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ يُؤْتُونَ مَآ ءَاتَوا۟ وَّقُلُوبُهُمْ وَجِلَةٌ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ رَٰجِعُونَ", "translation": "And they who give what they give while their hearts are fearful because they will be returning to their Lord -" }, { "n": 61, "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ يُسَٰرِعُونَ فِى ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ وَهُمْ لَهَا سَٰبِقُونَ", "translation": "It is those who hasten to good deeds, and they outstrip [others] therein." }, { "n": 62, "arabic": "وَلَا نُكَلِّفُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا ۖ وَلَدَيْنَا كِتَٰبٌۭ يَنطِقُ بِٱلْحَقِّ ۚ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ", "translation": "And We charge no soul except [with that within] its capacity, and with Us is a record which speaks with truth; and they will not be wronged." }, { "n": 63, "arabic": "بَلْ قُلُوبُهُمْ فِى غَمْرَةٍۢ مِّنْ هَٰذَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْمَٰلٌۭ مِّن دُونِ ذَٰلِكَ هُمْ لَهَا عَٰمِلُونَ", "translation": "But their hearts are covered with confusion over this, and they have [evil] deeds besides disbelief which they are doing," }, { "n": 64, "arabic": "حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَخَذْنَا مُتْرَفِيهِم بِٱلْعَذَابِ إِذَا هُمْ يَجْـَٔرُونَ", "translation": "Until when We seize their affluent ones with punishment, at once they are crying [to Allah] for help." }, { "n": 65, "arabic": "لَا تَجْـَٔرُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ ۖ إِنَّكُم مِّنَّا لَا تُنصَرُونَ", "translation": "Do not cry out today. Indeed, by Us you will not be helped." }, { "n": 66, "arabic": "قَدْ كَانَتْ ءَايَٰتِى تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ فَكُنتُمْ عَلَىٰٓ أَعْقَٰبِكُمْ تَنكِصُونَ", "translation": "My verses had already been recited to you, but you were turning back on your heels" }, { "n": 67, "arabic": "مُسْتَكْبِرِينَ بِهِۦ سَٰمِرًۭا تَهْجُرُونَ", "translation": "In arrogance regarding it, conversing by night, speaking evil." }, { "n": 68, "arabic": "أَفَلَمْ يَدَّبَّرُوا۟ ٱلْقَوْلَ أَمْ جَآءَهُم مَّا لَمْ يَأْتِ ءَابَآءَهُمُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ", "translation": "Then have they not reflected over the Qur'an, or has there come to them that which had not come to their forefathers?" }, { "n": 69, "arabic": "أَمْ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوا۟ رَسُولَهُمْ فَهُمْ لَهُۥ مُنكِرُونَ", "translation": "Or did they not know their Messenger, so they are toward him disacknowledging?" }, { "n": 70, "arabic": "أَمْ يَقُولُونَ بِهِۦ جِنَّةٌۢ ۚ بَلْ جَآءَهُم بِٱلْحَقِّ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ لِلْحَقِّ كَٰرِهُونَ", "translation": "Or do they say, \"In him is madness?\" Rather, he brought them the truth, but most of them, to the truth, are averse." }, { "n": 71, "arabic": "وَلَوِ ٱتَّبَعَ ٱلْحَقُّ أَهْوَآءَهُمْ لَفَسَدَتِ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهِنَّ ۚ بَلْ أَتَيْنَٰهُم بِذِكْرِهِمْ فَهُمْ عَن ذِكْرِهِم مُّعْرِضُونَ", "translation": "But if the Truth had followed their inclinations, the heavens and the earth and whoever is in them would have been ruined. Rather, We have brought them their message, but they, from their message, are turning away." }, { "n": 72, "arabic": "أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ خَرْجًۭا فَخَرَاجُ رَبِّكَ خَيْرٌۭ ۖ وَهُوَ خَيْرُ ٱلرَّٰزِقِينَ", "translation": "Or do you, [O Muhammad], ask them for payment? But the reward of your Lord is best, and He is the best of providers." }, { "n": 73, "arabic": "وَإِنَّكَ لَتَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَىٰ صِرَٰطٍۢ مُّسْتَقِيمٍۢ", "translation": "And indeed, you invite them to a straight path." }, { "n": 74, "arabic": "وَإِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْءَاخِرَةِ عَنِ ٱلصِّرَٰطِ لَنَٰكِبُونَ", "translation": "But indeed, those who do not believe in the Hereafter are deviating from the path." }, { "n": 75, "arabic": "۞ وَلَوْ رَحِمْنَٰهُمْ وَكَشَفْنَا مَا بِهِم مِّن ضُرٍّۢ لَّلَجُّوا۟ فِى طُغْيَٰنِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ", "translation": "And even if We gave them mercy and removed what was upon them of affliction, they would persist in their transgression, wandering blindly." }, { "n": 76, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ أَخَذْنَٰهُم بِٱلْعَذَابِ فَمَا ٱسْتَكَانُوا۟ لِرَبِّهِمْ وَمَا يَتَضَرَّعُونَ", "translation": "And We had gripped them with suffering [as a warning], but they did not yield to their Lord, nor did they humbly supplicate, [and will continue thus]" }, { "n": 77, "arabic": "حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَابًۭا ذَا عَذَابٍۢ شَدِيدٍ إِذَا هُمْ فِيهِ مُبْلِسُونَ", "translation": "Until when We have opened before them a door of severe punishment, immediately they will be therein in despair." }, { "n": 78, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنشَأَ لَكُمُ ٱلسَّمْعَ وَٱلْأَبْصَٰرَ وَٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةَ ۚ قَلِيلًۭا مَّا تَشْكُرُونَ", "translation": "And it is He who produced for you hearing and vision and hearts; little are you grateful." }, { "n": 79, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى ذَرَأَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَإِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ", "translation": "And it is He who has multiplied you throughout the earth, and to Him you will be gathered." }, { "n": 80, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ وَلَهُ ٱخْتِلَٰفُ ٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ ۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ", "translation": "And it is He who gives life and causes death, and His is the alternation of the night and the day. Then will you not reason?" }, { "n": 81, "arabic": "بَلْ قَالُوا۟ مِثْلَ مَا قَالَ ٱلْأَوَّلُونَ", "translation": "Rather, they say like what the former peoples said." }, { "n": 82, "arabic": "قَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًۭا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ", "translation": "They said, \"When we have died and become dust and bones, are we indeed to be resurrected?" }, { "n": 83, "arabic": "لَقَدْ وُعِدْنَا نَحْنُ وَءَابَآؤُنَا هَٰذَا مِن قَبْلُ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ", "translation": "We have been promised this, we and our forefathers, before; this is not but legends of the former peoples.\"" }, { "n": 84, "arabic": "قُل لِّمَنِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهَآ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "Say, [O Muhammad], \"To whom belongs the earth and whoever is in it, if you should know?\"" }, { "n": 85, "arabic": "سَيَقُولُونَ لِلَّهِ ۚ قُلْ أَفَلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ", "translation": "They will say, \"To Allah.\" Say, \"Then will you not remember?\"" }, { "n": 86, "arabic": "قُلْ مَن رَّبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ ٱلسَّبْعِ وَرَبُّ ٱلْعَرْشِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ", "translation": "Say, \"Who is Lord of the seven heavens and Lord of the Great Throne?\"" }, { "n": 87, "arabic": "سَيَقُولُونَ لِلَّهِ ۚ قُلْ أَفَلَا تَتَّقُونَ", "translation": "They will say, \"[They belong] to Allah.\" Say, \"Then will you not fear Him?\"" }, { "n": 88, "arabic": "قُلْ مَنۢ بِيَدِهِۦ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ وَهُوَ يُجِيرُ وَلَا يُجَارُ عَلَيْهِ إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "Say, \"In whose hand is the realm of all things - and He protects while none can protect against Him - if you should know?\"" }, { "n": 89, "arabic": "سَيَقُولُونَ لِلَّهِ ۚ قُلْ فَأَنَّىٰ تُسْحَرُونَ", "translation": "They will say, \"[All belongs] to Allah.\" Say, \"Then how are you deluded?\"" }, { "n": 90, "arabic": "بَلْ أَتَيْنَٰهُم بِٱلْحَقِّ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَكَٰذِبُونَ", "translation": "Rather, We have brought them the truth, and indeed they are liars." }, { "n": 91, "arabic": "مَا ٱتَّخَذَ ٱللَّهُ مِن وَلَدٍۢ وَمَا كَانَ مَعَهُۥ مِنْ إِلَٰهٍ ۚ إِذًۭا لَّذَهَبَ كُلُّ إِلَٰهٍۭ بِمَا خَلَقَ وَلَعَلَا بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍۢ ۚ سُبْحَٰنَ ٱللَّهِ عَمَّا يَصِفُونَ", "translation": "Allah has not taken any son, nor has there ever been with Him any deity. [If there had been], then each deity would have taken what it created, and some of them would have sought to overcome others. Exalted is Allah above what they describe [concerning Him]." }, { "n": 92, "arabic": "عَٰلِمِ ٱلْغَيْبِ وَٱلشَّهَٰدَةِ فَتَعَٰلَىٰ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ", "translation": "[He is] Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, so high is He above what they associate [with Him]." }, { "n": 93, "arabic": "قُل رَّبِّ إِمَّا تُرِيَنِّى مَا يُوعَدُونَ", "translation": "Say, [O Muhammad], \"My Lord, if You should show me that which they are promised," }, { "n": 94, "arabic": "رَبِّ فَلَا تَجْعَلْنِى فِى ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "My Lord, then do not place me among the wrongdoing people.\"" }, { "n": 95, "arabic": "وَإِنَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّرِيَكَ مَا نَعِدُهُمْ لَقَٰدِرُونَ", "translation": "And indeed, We are able to show you what We have promised them." }, { "n": 96, "arabic": "ٱدْفَعْ بِٱلَّتِى هِىَ أَحْسَنُ ٱلسَّيِّئَةَ ۚ نَحْنُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَصِفُونَ", "translation": "Repel, by [means of] what is best, [their] evil. We are most knowing of what they describe." }, { "n": 97, "arabic": "وَقُل رَّبِّ أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ هَمَزَٰتِ ٱلشَّيَٰطِينِ", "translation": "And say, \"My Lord, I seek refuge in You from the incitements of the devils," }, { "n": 98, "arabic": "وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ رَبِّ أَن يَحْضُرُونِ", "translation": "And I seek refuge in You, my Lord, lest they be present with me.\"" }, { "n": 99, "arabic": "حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءَ أَحَدَهُمُ ٱلْمَوْتُ قَالَ رَبِّ ٱرْجِعُونِ", "translation": "[For such is the state of the disbelievers], until, when death comes to one of them, he says, \"My Lord, send me back" }, { "n": 100, "arabic": "لَعَلِّىٓ أَعْمَلُ صَٰلِحًۭا فِيمَا تَرَكْتُ ۚ كَلَّآ ۚ إِنَّهَا كَلِمَةٌ هُوَ قَآئِلُهَا ۖ وَمِن وَرَآئِهِم بَرْزَخٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ", "translation": "That I might do righteousness in that which I left behind.\" No! It is only a word he is saying; and behind them is a barrier until the Day they are resurrected." }, { "n": 101, "arabic": "فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَلَآ أَنسَابَ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ وَلَا يَتَسَآءَلُونَ", "translation": "So when the Horn is blown, no relationship will there be among them that Day, nor will they ask about one another." }, { "n": 102, "arabic": "فَمَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ", "translation": "And those whose scales are heavy [with good deeds] - it is they who are the successful." }, { "n": 103, "arabic": "وَمَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ فِى جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدُونَ", "translation": "But those whose scales are light - those are the ones who have lost their souls, [being] in Hell, abiding eternally." }, { "n": 104, "arabic": "تَلْفَحُ وُجُوهَهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ وَهُمْ فِيهَا كَٰلِحُونَ", "translation": "The Fire will sear their faces, and they therein will have taut smiles." }, { "n": 105, "arabic": "أَلَمْ تَكُنْ ءَايَٰتِى تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ فَكُنتُم بِهَا تُكَذِّبُونَ", "translation": "[It will be said]. \"Were not My verses recited to you and you used to deny them?\"" }, { "n": 106, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ رَبَّنَا غَلَبَتْ عَلَيْنَا شِقْوَتُنَا وَكُنَّا قَوْمًۭا ضَآلِّينَ", "translation": "They will say, \"Our Lord, our wretchedness overcame us, and we were a people astray." }, { "n": 107, "arabic": "رَبَّنَآ أَخْرِجْنَا مِنْهَا فَإِنْ عُدْنَا فَإِنَّا ظَٰلِمُونَ", "translation": "Our Lord, remove us from it, and if we were to return [to evil], we would indeed be wrongdoers.\"" }, { "n": 108, "arabic": "قَالَ ٱخْسَـُٔوا۟ فِيهَا وَلَا تُكَلِّمُونِ", "translation": "He will say, \"Remain despised therein and do not speak to Me." }, { "n": 109, "arabic": "إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فَرِيقٌۭ مِّنْ عِبَادِى يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَآ ءَامَنَّا فَٱغْفِرْ لَنَا وَٱرْحَمْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ ٱلرَّٰحِمِينَ", "translation": "Indeed, there was a party of My servants who said, 'Our Lord, we have believed, so forgive us and have mercy upon us, and You are the best of the merciful.'" }, { "n": 110, "arabic": "فَٱتَّخَذْتُمُوهُمْ سِخْرِيًّا حَتَّىٰٓ أَنسَوْكُمْ ذِكْرِى وَكُنتُم مِّنْهُمْ تَضْحَكُونَ", "translation": "But you took them in mockery to the point that they made you forget My remembrance, and you used to laugh at them." }, { "n": 111, "arabic": "إِنِّى جَزَيْتُهُمُ ٱلْيَوْمَ بِمَا صَبَرُوٓا۟ أَنَّهُمْ هُمُ ٱلْفَآئِزُونَ", "translation": "Indeed, I have rewarded them this Day for their patient endurance - that they are the attainers [of success].\"" }, { "n": 112, "arabic": "قَٰلَ كَمْ لَبِثْتُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ عَدَدَ سِنِينَ", "translation": "[Allah] will say, \"How long did you remain on earth in number of years?\"" }, { "n": 113, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ لَبِثْنَا يَوْمًا أَوْ بَعْضَ يَوْمٍۢ فَسْـَٔلِ ٱلْعَآدِّينَ", "translation": "They will say, \"We remained a day or part of a day; ask those who enumerate.\"" }, { "n": 114, "arabic": "قَٰلَ إِن لَّبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًۭا ۖ لَّوْ أَنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "He will say, \"You stayed not but a little - if only you had known." }, { "n": 115, "arabic": "أَفَحَسِبْتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقْنَٰكُمْ عَبَثًۭا وَأَنَّكُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا تُرْجَعُونَ", "translation": "Then did you think that We created you uselessly and that to Us you would not be returned?\"" }, { "n": 116, "arabic": "فَتَعَٰلَى ٱللَّهُ ٱلْمَلِكُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۖ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ رَبُّ ٱلْعَرْشِ ٱلْكَرِيمِ", "translation": "So exalted is Allah, the Sovereign, the Truth; there is no deity except Him, Lord of the Noble Throne." }, { "n": 117, "arabic": "وَمَن يَدْعُ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ لَا بُرْهَٰنَ لَهُۥ بِهِۦ فَإِنَّمَا حِسَابُهُۥ عِندَ رَبِّهِۦٓ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُفْلِحُ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ", "translation": "And whoever invokes besides Allah another deity for which he has no proof - then his account is only with his Lord. 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"disbelieved", "among", "his people,", "not", "this", "but", "a man", "like you,", "he wishes", "to", "assert (his) superiority", "over you,", "and if", "had willed", "Allah", "surely He (would have) sent down", "Angels.", "Not", "we heard", "of this", "from", "our fathers", "the earlier ones" ], [ "Not", "he", "(is) but", "a man", "in him", "(is) madness,", "so wait", "concerning him", "until", "a time.\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"My Lord!", "Help me", "because", "they deny me.\"" ], [ "So We inspired", "to him,", "\"That", "construct", "the ship", "under Our eyes,", "and Our inspiration,", "then when", "comes", "Our Command", "and gushes forth", "the oven,", "then put", "into it", "of", "every (kind)", "(of) mates", "two", "and your family,", "except", "those", "(has) preceded", "against whom", "the Word", "thereof.", "And (do) not", "address Me", "concerning", "those who", "wronged,", "indeed, they", "(are) the ones to be drowned." ], [ "And when", "you (have) boarded", "you,", "and whoever", "(is) with you", "[on]", "the ship", "then say,", "\"Praise", "(be) to Allah,", "Who", "(has) saved us", "from", "the people", "the wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "And say,", "\"My Lord,", "cause me to land", "(at) a landing place", "blessed,", "and You", "(are) the Best", "(of) those who cause to land.'\"" ], [ "Indeed,", "in", "that", "surely (are) Signs,", "and indeed,", "We are", "surely testing." ], [ "Then", "We produced", "[from]", "after them", "a generation", "another." ], [ "And We sent", "among them", "a Messenger", "from themselves", "[that]", "\"Worship", "Allah;", "not", "for you", "(is) any", "god", "other than Him.", "Then will not", "you fear?\"" ], [ "And said", "the chiefs", "of", "his people", "who", "disbelieved", "and denied", "(the) meeting", "(of) the Hereafter,", "while We had given them luxury", "in", "the life", "(of) the world,", "\"Not", "(is) this", "but", "a man", "like you.", "He eats", "of what", "you eat", "[from it],", "and he drinks", "of what", "you drink." ], [ "And surely if", "you obey", "a man", "like you,", "indeed, you", "then", "surely (will be) losers." ], [ "Does he promise you", "that you", "when", "you are dead", "and you become", "dust", "and bones", "that you", "(will be) brought forth?" ], [ "Far-(fetched),", "far-(fetched)", "is what", "you are promised!" ], [ "Not", "it", "(is) but", "our life", "(of) the world,", "we die", "and we live,", "and not", "we", "(will be) resurrected." ], [ "Not", "(is) he", "but", "a man", "who (has) invented", "about", "Allah", "a lie,", "and not", "we", "(in) him", "(are) believers.\"" ], [ "He said,", "\"My Lord!", "Help me", "because", "they deny me.\"" ], [ "He said,", "after", "a little while", "surely they will become", "regretful.\"" ], [ "So seized them", "the awful cry", "in truth,", "and We made them", "(as) rubbish of dead leaves.", "So away", "with the people", "the wrongdoers." ], [ "Then", "We produced", "[from]", "after them", "a generation", "another." ], [ "Not", "can precede", "any", "nation", "its term,", "and not", "they (can) delay (it)." ], [ "Then", "We sent", "Our Messengers", "(in) succession.", "every", "time", "came", "(to) a nation", "its Messenger,", "they denied him,", "so We made (them) follow", "some of them", "others,", "and We made them", "narrations.", "So away", "with a people", "not", "they believe." ], [ "Then", "We sent", "Musa", "and his brother", "Harun", "with Our Signs", "and an authority", "clear" ], [ "To", "Firaun", "and his chiefs,", "but they behaved arrogantly", "and they were", "a people", "haughty." ], [ "Then they said,", "\"Shall we believe", "(in) two men", "like ourselves", "while their people", "for us", "(are) slaves.\"" ], [ "So they denied them", "and they became", "of", "those who were destroyed." ], [ "And verily,", "We gave", "Musa", "the Scripture", "so that they may", "be guided." ], [ "And We made", "(the) son", "(of) Maryam", "and his mother", "a Sign,", "and We sheltered them", "to", "a high ground,", "possessing", "stability", "and water springs." ], [ "O", "messengers", "Eat", "of", "the good things", "and do", "righteous (deeds).", "Indeed, I Am", "of what", "you do", "All-Knower." ], [ "And indeed", "this,", "your religion,", "(is) religion", "one.", "And I Am", "your Lord,", "so fear Me." ], [ "But they cut off", "their affair (of unity)", "between them", "(into) sects,", "each", "faction", "in what", "they have", "rejoicing." ], [ "So leave them", "in", "their confusion", "until", "a time." ], [ "Do they think", "that what", "We extend to them", "[with it]", "of", "wealth", "and children" ], [ "We hasten", "to them", "in", "the good?", "Nay,", "not", "they perceive." ], [ "Indeed,", "those who", "[they]", "from", "(the) fear", "(of) their Lord", "(are) cautious." ], [ "And those", "[they]", "in (the) Signs", "(of) their Lord", "believe" ], [ "And those", "[they]", "with their Lord", "(do) not", "associate partners." ], [ "And those who", "give", "what", "they give", "while their hearts", "(are) fearful,", "because they", "to", "their Lord", "(will) return" ], [ "(It is) those", "who hasten", "in", "the good (deeds)", "and they", "in them", "(are) foremost." ], [ "And not", "We burden", "any soul", "except", "(to) its capacity,", "and with Us", "(is) a Record", "(which) speaks", "with the truth;", "and they", "(will) not", "be wronged." ], [ "Nay,", "their hearts", "(are) in", "confusion", "over", "this,", "and for them", "(are) deeds", "[from]", "besides", "that,", "they", "for it", "(are) doers" ], [ "Until", "when", "We seize", "their affluent ones", "with the punishment,", "behold!", "They", "cry for help." ], [ "\"(Do) not", "cry for help", "today.", "Indeed, you", "from Us", "not", "will be helped." ], [ "Verily,", "were", "My Verses", "recited", "to you,", "but you used", "(to) on", "your heels", "turn back" ], [ "(Being) arrogant", "about it,", "conversing by night,", "speaking evil.\"" ], [ "Then, do not", "they ponder", "the Word", "or", "has come to them", "what", "not", "(had) come", "their fathers", "the earlier ones" ], [ "Or", "(do) not", "they recognize", "their Messenger,", "so they", "of him", "rejecting" ], [ "Or", "they say,", "\"In him", "(is) madness?\"", "Nay,", "he brought them", "the truth,", "but most of them", "to the truth,", "(are) averse." ], [ "But if", "(had) followed", "the truth", "their desires,", "surely (would) have been corrupted", "the heavens", "and the earth", "and whoever", "(is) therein.", "Nay,", "We have brought them", "their reminder,", "but they,", "from", "their reminder,", "(are) turning away." ], [ "Or", "you ask them", "(for) a payment?", "But the payment", "(of) your Lord", "(is) best,", "and He", "(is) the Best", "(of) the Providers." ], [ "And indeed, you", "certainly call them", "to", "(the) Path", "Straight." ], [ "And indeed,", "those who", "(do) not", "believe", "in the Hereafter", "from", "the path", "surely (are) deviating." ], [ "And if", "We had mercy on them", "and We removed", "what", "(was) on them", "of", "(the) hardship,", "surely they would persist", "in", "their transgression", "wandering blindly." ], [ "And verily", "We seized them", "with the punishment", "but not", "they submit", "to their Lord", "and not", "they supplicate humbly" ], [ "Until", "when", "We opened", "for them", "a gate", "possessing", "punishment", "severe,", "behold!", "They", "in it", "(will be in) despair." ], [ "And He", "(is) the One Who", "produced", "for you", "the hearing", "and the sight", "and the feeling;", "little", "(is) what", "you give thanks." ], [ "And He", "(is) the One Who", "multiplied you", "in", "the earth", "and to Him", "you will be gathered." ], [ "And He", "(is) the One Who", "gives life", "and causes death", "and for Him", "(is the) alternation", "(of) the night", "and the day.", "Then will not", "you reason?" ], [ "Nay,", "they say", "(the) like", "(of) what", "said", "the former (people)." ], [ "They said,", "\"What! When", "we are dead", "and become", "dust", "and bones,", "would we", "surely be resurrected?" ], [ "Verily,", "we have been promised", "[we]", "and our forefathers", "this", "[from]", "before", "not", "(is) this", "but", "(the) tales", "(of) the former (people).\"" ], [ "Say,", "\"To whom (belongs)", "the earth", "and whoever", "(is) in it,", "if", "you", "know?\"" ], [ "They will say,", "\"To Allah.\"", "Say,", "\"Then will not", "you remember?\"" ], [ "Say,", "\"Who", "(is the) Lord", "the heavens", "the seven", "and (the) Lord", "(of) the Throne", "the Great?\"" ], [ "They will say,", "\"Allah.\"", "Say,", "\"Then will not", "you fear (Him)?\"" ], [ "Say,", "Who is (it)", "in Whose Hand(s)", "(is the) dominion", "(of) all", "things,", "and He", "protects", "and no (one)", "(can) be protected", "against Him,", "If", "you", "know?\"" ], [ "They will say,", "\"Allah.\"", "Say,", "\"Then how", "are you deluded?\"" ], [ "Nay,", "We (have) brought them", "the truth,", "but indeed, they", "surely, (are) liars." ], [ "Not", "has taken", "Allah", "any", "son,", "and not", "is", "with Him", "any", "god.", "Then", "surely (would have) taken away", "each", "god", "what", "he created,", "and surely would have overpowered,", "some of them", "[on]", "others.", "Glory be", "(to) Allah", "above what", "they attribute!" ], [ "Knower", "(of) the unseen", "and the witnessed,", "exalted is He", "above what", "they associate." ], [ "Say,", "\"My Lord!", "If", "You should show me", "what", "they are promised" ], [ "My Lord,", "then (do) not", "place me", "among", "the people", "the wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "And indeed We", "on", "that", "We show you", "what", "We have promised them", "surely able." ], [ "Repel", "by that", "which", "(is) best", "the evil.", "We", "know best", "of what", "they attribute." ], [ "And say,", "\"My Lord!", "I seek refuge", "in You", "from", "(the) suggestions", "(of) the evil ones," ], [ "And I seek refuge", "in You,", "My Lord!", "Lest", "they be present with me.\"" ], [ "Until", "when", "comes", "(to) one of them", "the death", "he says,", "\"My Lord!", "Send me back" ], [ "That I may", "do", "righteous (deeds)", "in what", "I left behind.\"", "No!", "Indeed, it", "(is) a word", "he", "speaks it,", "and from", "beyond them", "(is) a barrier", "till", "(the) Day", "they are resurrected." ], [ "So when", "is blown", "in", "the trumpet", "then not", "(there) will be relationship", "among them", "that Day,", "and not", "will they ask each other." ], [ "Then (the one) whose", "(are) heavy", "his scales,", "then those", "they", "(are) the successful." ], [ "But (the one) whose", "(are) light", "his scales,", "then those", "they [who]", "have lost", "their souls,", "in", "Hell", "they (will) abide forever." ], [ "Will burn", "their faces", "the Fire,", "and they", "in it", "(will) grin with displaced lips." ], [ "Did not", "be", "My Verses", "recited", "to you,", "and you used (to)", "them", "you denied" ], [ "They (will) say,", "\"Our Lord!", "Overcame", "[on] us", "our wretchedness,", "and we were", "a people", "astray." ], [ "Our Lord!", "Bring us out", "from it,", "then if", "we return", "then indeed, we", "(would be) wrongdoers.\"" ], [ "He (will) say,", "\"Remain despised", "in it", "and (do) not", "speak to Me.\"" ], [ "Indeed,", "(there) was", "a party", "of", "My slaves", "(who) said,", "\"Our Lord!", "We believe,", "so forgive", "us", "and have mercy on us,", "and You", "(are) best", "(of) those who show mercy.\"" ], [ "But you took them", "(in) mockery", "until", "they made you forget", "My remembrance,", "and you used (to)", "at them", "laugh." ], [ "Indeed, I", "have rewarded them", "this Day", "because", "they were patient,", "indeed, they", "[they]", "(are) the successful ones." ], [ "He will say,", "\"How long", "did you remain", "in", "the earth,", "(in) number", "(of) years?\"" ], [ "They will say,", "\"We remained", "a day", "or", "a part", "(of) a day;", "but ask", "those who keep count.\"" ], [ "He will say,", "\"Not", "you stayed", "but", "a little,", "if", "only you", "[you]", "knew." ], [ "Then did you think", "that", "We created you", "uselessly", "and that you", "to Us", "not", "will be returned?\"" ], [ "So exalted is", "Allah,", "the King,", "the Truth.", "(There is) no", "god", "except", "Him,", "(the) Lord", "(of) the Throne", "Honorable." ], [ "And whoever", "invokes", "with", "Allah", "god", "other,", "no", "proof", "for him", "in it.", "Then only", "his account", "(is) with", "his Lord.", "Indeed, [he]", "not", "will succeed", "the disbelievers." ], [ "And say,", "\"My Lord!", "Forgive", "and have mercy,", "and You", "(are the) Best", "(of) those who show mercy.\"" ] ], "glossNote": "English word hints follow the Quranic Arabic Corpus. Where the Corpus repeats a phrase across adjacent Arabic words, it is divided into individual word meanings for hover and audio; these editorial splits are recorded in the source audit. Brackets identify connective or grammatical senses that English does not translate separately. Retrieved Image labels and trailing layout dashes are removed; every cleanup is recorded alongside the phrase adaptations." }