{ "number": 30, "slug": "rum", "name": "Ar-Rum", "arabicName": "الروم", "meaning": "The Romans", "juz": 21, "period": "Makkan", "tagline": "HISTORY CHANGES; SIGNS SURROUND US", "overview": "Ar-Rum opens with Roman defeat and the promise of reversal, then widens its attention to creation, shared human origins, marriage, languages and colors. Gifts become responsibilities through generosity and concern about human corruption. Winds, rain and the stages of life return the reader to resurrection and patient trust.", "sources": [ { "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_30.json" }, { "title": "M. M. 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· Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/30:2/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Khosrow II · James Howard-Johnston, Encyclopaedia Iranica", "url": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/khosrow-ii/" }, { "title": "Byzantine–Iranian relations · Encyclopaedia Iranica", "url": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/byzantine-iranian-relations/" } ], "titles": [ "The opening letters", "An empire at a moment of defeat", "A promised reversal", "A few years and a wider command", "Help, might and mercy", "The promise beyond appearances", "Knowledge with a narrowed horizon", "Creation with truth and an end", "What earlier power could not preserve", "The cost of persistent mockery", "Creation, restoration and return", "When the Hour arrives", "The failure of imagined intercessors", "A separation of outcomes", "Joy for faith and good action", "The consequence of denying the meeting", "Praise at evening and morning", "Praise through the changing day", "Life emerging where death seemed final", "One humble origin, a spreading humanity", "Tranquility, affection and mercy", "Languages and colors as signs", "Rest and the search for provision", "Lightning, fear and hope", "The command that sustains and summons", "All belong to Him", "The Creator can restore", "A comparison about divided authority", "Desire without knowledge", "The human disposition and upright devotion", "Returning through daily practice", "When belonging becomes factional pride", "Prayer in distress, forgetfulness in ease", "Pleasure before a fuller knowledge", "Where is the warrant?", "Joy and despair follow circumstances", "Provision is not a ranking of worth", "The due of relatives, need and travel", "What truly increases?", "Who creates, sustains and restores?", "Human deeds on land and sea", "Let history teach humility", "Set your direction while there is time", "Preparing through present conduct", "A reward from bounty", "Winds that announce mercy", "Earlier messengers and promised help", "Clouds, rain and renewed joy", "Remember the despair before relief", "Look at the effects of mercy", "Gratitude tested by a changed wind", "The limits of compelled hearing", "Receptivity and guidance", "Weakness, strength and grey hair", "A mistaken sense of time", "The day is recognized", "The time for excuses has passed", "Evidence and determined refusal", "Guard the heart's capacity to learn", "Patient trust at the close" ], "notes": [ "The separate letters introduce a Surah that moves from public history to intimate human signs. Their recited form is preserved without an invented code. The message will connect political reversal, creation, relationships and resurrection within a call to patient trust.", "The Romans are described at a moment of defeat. Traditional commentary understands them as the Eastern Roman or Byzantine power facing Persia. The verse begins with a public reversal, showing that the apparent strength of an empire can change dramatically.", "A future reversal follows the reported defeat in a nearby land. The Quran gives a regional description rather than a named battlefield here. The historical context helps orient the reader without turning one proposed modern location into an established identification.", "Pickthall renders the interval as within ten years; traditional commentary explains the Arabic as a small number of years, commonly three to nine. The verse also centers divine command and believers' joy, rather than supplying a modern dated chronology.", "Victory is attributed to Allah's help, with might and mercy named together. The verse directs the believers' response beyond admiration for an army. Its theological reading of events should be distinguished from the historian's reconstruction of campaigns, rulers and diplomatic settlements.", "The promise is affirmed despite the limits of public understanding. Present appearances do not exhaust what can unfold. The verse invites trust without making the reader responsible for forcing every detail of a complex historical sequence into an unsupported calculation.", "People may understand the outward workings of worldly life while neglecting the Hereafter. The verse does not dismiss practical knowledge. It questions a narrowed horizon in which skill, news and advantage occupy all attention while ultimate responsibility receives none.", "Reflection begins within the self and expands to a creation made with truth and an appointed end. The verse joins inward examination with the world outside. Purpose and return become questions that technical knowledge or immediate experience alone cannot settle.", "Travel reveals people who cultivated and built more extensively than the current audience. Their strength did not make them exempt from consequence. The passage explicitly denies divine injustice and locates the warning in their conduct, rather than treating impressive remains as sufficient security.", "Persistent evil ends in a harmful outcome, joined here to denial and mockery of the signs. The verse warns against a pattern rather than a single passing doubt. Repeated contempt can make correction increasingly difficult even when evidence remains available.", "Originating creation and restoring it belong to the same Lord, and return is to Him. The verse gives resurrection a place within the larger account of dependence. What seems unprecedented from a human perspective is not beyond the One who first creates.", "The rising Hour leaves the guilty in despair. This brief scene interrupts confidence in present arrangements. Its purpose is to make accountability serious while the reader can still respond, rather than encourage speculation about a date or another person's final destination.", "Supposed partners cannot provide the intercession expected from them. Their worshippers then disown the former allegiance. The scene tests a claim through its failure at the moment of need, asking whether trust was grounded in reality or only in habit.", "The gathering brings separation according to outcome. The verse prepares a contrast between faithful good action and rejected guidance. Its distinction belongs to divine judgment, not to human attempts to sort every living person into an assured eternal category.", "Belief accompanied by good deeds is answered with joy in a garden. The promise gives the passage a hopeful horizon alongside its warnings. It is a description of the Hereafter, so an accompanying landscape remains symbolic rather than geographically recoverable.", "Denial of the signs and the future meeting leads into the contrasting outcome. The verse keeps accountability attached to a person's response to guidance. Its warning should prompt self-examination, rather than becoming a convenient instrument for judging named contemporary individuals.", "Praise marks the arrival of evening and morning. The passage turns from future scenes toward a rhythm available in daily life. Remembering Allah at these transitions can place ordinary time within a wider awareness of dependence, gratitude and eventual return.", "Praise belongs throughout heaven and earth, including the changing hours of human activity. The verse expands the previous call beyond two moments. A day filled with work and movement can still be received within remembrance rather than experienced as wholly self-contained.", "Life emerges from death, death from life, and barren earth revives. These observed reversals become signs pointing toward resurrection. The verse invites reflection on renewal without claiming that an ordinary seasonal process exhausts the reality of the promised human return.", "Human beings spread across the earth despite an origin in dust. The contrast joins shared humility with extraordinary diversity of life. The verse invites recognition that every person's strength and movement begin within a dependence no later achievement can erase.", "Spouses, tranquility, affection and mercy are described as signs. The relationship's meaning includes care and rest, not merely social arrangement. The verse invites reflection on the qualities that make companionship sustaining, while offering no permission to excuse harm within a household.", "Differences of language and color stand among the signs of creation. Diversity is therefore an occasion for knowledge and reflection, not a basis for contempt. The verse joins humanity's shared origin to the varied forms through which people live and communicate.", "Sleep and seeking provision both reveal dependence. Rest is not treated as meaningless inactivity, nor work as wholly self-sufficient achievement. The verse asks those who listen to notice the gifts and limits present within the ordinary pattern of a day.", "Lightning brings fear and hope, while rain restores the earth. The same natural world can evoke vulnerability and expectation together. The verse invites understanding through this relationship between need, provision and renewed life rather than only through abstract argument.", "The stability of heaven and earth rests on divine command, and the future call brings people forth. Order and resurrection are joined in one sign. The passage asks readers to consider the source that sustains what currently seems fixed.", "All within heaven and earth belongs to Allah and remains subject to Him. Human claims of independence sit within that comprehensive sovereignty. The verse broadens the horizon beyond individual preference, inviting humility before a created order that does not originate from ourselves.", "The One who originates creation can restore it; the comparison speaks to human difficulty in imagining return. Divine excellence, might and wisdom close the verse. It should not be read as assigning exhaustion or limited capacity to the Creator.", "A comparison drawn from the first audience's institution of slavery exposes inconsistency in assigning partners to Allah. It uses a familiar social arrangement to question their reasoning. The image is not offered here as a model for owning people today.", "Desire without knowledge can drive wrongdoing and obstruct guidance. The verse challenges the source of conviction: whether it follows evidence or merely protects what one wants. Its warning calls for humility before the tendency to give appetite the appearance of principle.", "The summons turns toward upright devotion and the God-given human disposition. The verse presents faith as aligned with the Creator's purpose. This reflection does not convert the concept into a simplistic claim that every human inclination automatically deserves religious approval.", "Returning to Allah is expressed through reverence, prayer and refusal of associated partners. The verse makes the previous direction practical. A chosen orientation requires repeated acts that sustain it, rather than remaining a declaration made once and never examined again.", "Religious division becomes a source of self-congratulation for rival groups. The warning concerns joy in factional identity that displaces responsiveness to truth. It asks readers whether belonging helps them act wisely or makes criticism of their own group impossible to hear.", "Distress produces sincere appeal, but relief can be followed by divided allegiance. The verse describes an unstable pattern in human response. It invites gratitude that survives the return of safety, rather than devotion that appears only while a crisis remains intense.", "Temporary enjoyment accompanies ingratitude, but eventual knowledge will expose its cost. The warning does not deny that a harmful course can feel rewarding for a time. It asks whether present pleasure has become the only measure used to choose a direction.", "The claims made for partners are challenged to produce revealed authority. Assumption is not treated as sufficient evidence merely because it is religious. The verse encourages care about attributing divine approval to practices or loyalties whose basis has not been examined.", "Joy in mercy can turn rapidly into despair under adversity. The verse connects some consequences with human action while exposing emotional instability. It invites a steadier response and self-examination, not confident explanations of the hidden reason for every other person's suffering.", "Provision widens and narrows within divine knowledge and will. The variation becomes a sign for reflection rather than a simple ranking of worth. Neither prosperity nor scarcity should be treated as a complete account of a person's standing before Allah.", "Relatives, people in need and travelers are owed practical care. Giving is described as a due, not merely a chance to display generosity. Seeking Allah's pleasure directs wealth outward, linking devotion with responsibility toward people whose needs one can help meet.", "Increase sought through others' wealth is contrasted with giving that seeks Allah's pleasure. Pickthall uses the term usury, while the verse's central comparison concerns what truly grows in divine regard. The note reflects that moral contrast rather than issuing financial advice.", "Creation, provision, death and renewed life are placed together as acts of Allah. Rival objects of devotion are tested against those realities. The question asks whether gratitude and trust follow the actual source of life or an unsupported association.", "Corruption on land and sea is connected to human deeds, with consequences intended to invite return. The verse offers a broad moral lens for harm caused by people. It does not identify every particular natural disaster as a known punishment.", "Travel through the earth becomes an invitation to consider earlier outcomes. History is asked to teach rather than merely impress. The verse encourages humility before the limits of past power, without supplying a complete archaeological identification for every community remembered.", "A resolute orientation toward the right path is urged before the unavoidable day. The warning puts action in the present and final separation in the future. It offers no date; its urgency comes from the uncertainty of one's remaining opportunity.", "The consequences of rejection belong to the rejecter, while righteous action prepares a good destination. Responsibility is personal even within shared communities. The verse asks readers to consider the future they are preparing through habits that may appear small today.", "Reward comes through divine bounty for faith joined to good works. The language combines responsibility with generosity rather than reducing the outcome to a commercial exchange. The verse closes the passage by making response to guidance morally meaningful.", "Winds announce mercy, enable sailing and support the search for provision. Natural movement and human enterprise belong within one picture of dependence. Gratitude is the intended response, joining appreciation of useful skills with awareness of conditions no traveler commands alone.", "Earlier messengers brought clear signs, and the guilty faced consequence while help was promised to believers. The comparison reassures Muhammad within opposition. It does not imply that every faithful life avoids hardship or that every earthly confrontation ends immediately in visible victory.", "Wind raises and spreads clouds, and rain emerges to the joy of those receiving it. The verse slows attention around a familiar event. What might be dismissed as ordinary weather becomes a scene of dependence, expectation and renewed gratitude.", "Their earlier despair is recalled at the very moment relief arrives. The short verse highlights how quickly circumstances and emotions can change. Remembering that transition can soften both the certainty of hopelessness and the forgetfulness that sometimes follows renewed ease.", "The reader is asked to look at mercy's effects in the revived earth. The visible sign points again toward resurrection. Attention to growth becomes a form of reflection, while the full restoration of the dead remains an act of divine power.", "A damaging wind and yellowing growth can reverse the grateful mood just described. The verse challenges dependence on favorable conditions for faithfulness. It asks whether gratitude has become a response only to benefit, rather than a more enduring recognition.", "The messenger cannot force hearing where the hearer turns away. Images of death and deafness describe resistant response in the passage, not lesser human worth through disability. Conveying guidance does not confer control over another person's inward acceptance.", "Guidance is received through a willingness to hear and respond. The image of blindness continues the contrast between openness and refusal. The verse sets limits on the messenger's control while preserving the importance of faithful communication and a receptive audience.", "Human life moves from weakness to strength and back toward weakness and grey hair. The sequence invites humility in every stage. Strength is a passing trust, while vulnerability remains part of the shared human condition rather than a failure of personal worth.", "At the Hour, the guilty misjudge the span of their waiting. The verse exposes the unreliability of their former perception. Time that seemed vast or sufficient can appear radically different when the promised reckoning becomes the immediate reality.", "Those given knowledge and faith correct that estimate by naming the day of resurrection. The contrast concerns recognition shaped by guidance. The verse asks what one trusts when appearances or impressions conflict with the larger horizon already announced.", "Excuses and belated attempts to secure favor no longer benefit wrongdoers in the final scene. The warning makes the present opportunity to acknowledge harm precious. Repair and repentance should not be postponed on the assumption that every deadline can be renegotiated.", "Many comparisons have been offered, yet even an additional sign can be dismissed as trickery by a determined opponent. The verse distinguishes a shortage of evidence from a settled refusal. It asks whether the conditions for acceptance keep moving.", "The sealing of hearts follows the picture of persistent unknowing refusal. The verse presents the seriousness of that hardened direction rather than a reason to stop learning. It encourages readers to protect their capacity for attention, humility and honest correction.", "The closing instruction is patience grounded in the truth of Allah's promise. The uncertainty of others should not unsettle the messenger's purpose. The Surah returns from empire and creation to the steady work of responding well in the present." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 19, "title": "An imperial reversal and a larger horizon", "summary": "The Roman defeat and promised recovery introduce the limits of outward appearances. Earlier peoples, creation and the future meeting place public history within a call to remembrance.", "reflection": "What looks permanent today but may be less secure than it appears?" }, { "start": 20, "end": 32, "title": "The signs within human life", "summary": "Shared origin, spouses, languages, colors, rest and work become signs. Creation's order leads into sincere devotion and a warning against self-satisfied religious factions.", "reflection": "How can difference become an invitation to knowledge rather than comparison?" }, { "start": 33, "end": 45, "title": "Gifts, responsibilities and the harm we cause", "summary": "Human responses shift with comfort and adversity. Provision calls for care of relatives, the needy and travelers, while corruption on land and sea calls people back to responsibility.", "reflection": "Which gift can become a practical act of care?" }, { "start": 46, "end": 60, "title": "Winds, renewed earth and patient trust", "summary": "Winds and clouds bring rain to the despairing, and human strength gives way to age. These signs point toward resurrection and a final instruction to remain patient.", "reflection": "What helps you remain grateful and steady when conditions change?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "614 CE · Jerusalem in the imperial war", "year": 614, "body": "James Howard-Johnston's historical account places the Persian intervention and takeover in Jerusalem in 614. This is a background milestone, not an asserted exact date for the Surah's revelation.", "source": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/khosrow-ii/" }, { "title": "622 CE · Heraclius's counteroffensive", "year": 622, "body": "Encyclopaedia Iranica dates the beginning of Heraclius's renewed campaigns to 622. The military turn helps explain the period's changing fortunes; it is not presented as the uniquely proven fulfillment date.", "source": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/byzantine-iranian-relations/" }, { "title": "628 CE · Persian political collapse and peace", "year": 628, "body": "Iranica records Khosrow II's overthrow and a peace agreement under his successor in 628. This later settlement completes a broad historical picture rather than supplying the Quran's unstated calendar.", "source": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/byzantine-iranian-relations/" }, { "title": "The opening verses · Makkan, exact occasion uncertain", "year": null, "body": "The Surah is classified as Makkan. Traditional commentary reads the opening as a prediction of Roman recovery; the particular defeat and victory used to calculate an interval should not be treated as universally settled.", "source": "https://quran.com/30:2/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · the first audience", "body": "Quran.com's introduction places the Surah in the Makkan period and describes the Roman–Persian news as meaningful to that audience. The city marker is broad context.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/ar-rum/info", "image": 0 }, { "id": "jerusalem", "name": "Jerusalem · one historical war milestone", "body": "The Persian action in Jerusalem in 614 belongs to the independently documented imperial conflict. This broad city point does not claim that Quran 30:3 names a particular battlefield here.", "lat": 31.78, "lon": 35.23, "source": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/khosrow-ii/", "image": 0 }, { "id": "constantinople", "name": "Constantinople · the Roman capital", "body": "The Byzantine–Persian conflict reached the approaches to Constantinople. The marker shows the historical capital at present-day Istanbul broadly, rather than a precisely reconstructed campaign scene.", "lat": 41.01, "lon": 28.98, "source": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/byzantine-iranian-relations/", "image": 0 }, { "id": "land-sea", "name": "Land, sea and the signs of provision", "body": "The later verses turn from imperial news to human harm, ships, winds and rain. Their landscapes are general signs, not named modern environmental disasters or a specific voyage.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/030.htm", "image": 3 } ], "people": [ { "id": "romans", "title": "The Romans · Eastern Roman or Byzantine power", "body": "The Surah's opening names the Romans at defeat and anticipates recovery. The traditional explanation relates this to their war with Persia, while the verse itself does not name an emperor or battlefield.", "verse": 2 }, { "id": "heraclius", "title": "Heraclius · an independently documented ruler", "body": "Iranica describes the Roman emperor's renewed campaigns from 622 and the peace of 628. These facts orient the historical background without making every proposed correspondence with the Surah certain.", "url": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/byzantine-iranian-relations/", "label": "Read the historical account" }, { "id": "khosrow", "title": "Khosrow II · the Persian ruler", "body": "James Howard-Johnston's article identifies Khosrow II as the Sasanian king of this conflict. His reign and campaigns belong to external historical context; the Quranic verses do not name him.", "url": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/khosrow-ii/", "label": "Read the scholarly biography" }, { "id": "humanity", "title": "Humanity in shared origin and difference", "body": "Verses 20–23 describe origin, companionship, languages, colors, sleep and work as signs. Their diversity invites reflection and knowledge, rather than a hierarchy of human dignity.", "verse": 22 } ], "history": [ { "title": "Prediction and historical reconstruction are distinct", "body": "Ibn Kathir preserves the traditional reading of Roman defeat followed by recovery and the believers' interest in that outcome. This reader keeps that interpretation distinct from selecting a precise modern chronology for the opening.", "source": "https://quran.com/30:2/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "The imperial conflict had several turning points", "body": "The Persian advance, Heraclius's renewed campaigns and the final peace did not occur on one day. The timeline gives selected documented events to show the wider setting, without claiming an exact revelation-to-victory calculation.", "source": "https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/byzantine-iranian-relations/" }, { "title": "Why the Surah moves beyond empire", "body": "From verse 7, outward knowledge is tested against remembrance of the Hereafter. The following signs include relationships, human diversity, sleep, work and rain, widening the message beyond the fortunes of rulers.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/030.htm" }, { "title": "A social response to received gifts", "body": "Verses 38–41 connect provision with giving and responsibility for corruption. The Surah's signs are therefore linked to conduct, rather than offered only as subjects for admiration.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/030.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Classified as Makkan; all verses are in Juz 21. The 614, 622 and 628 CE milestones are externally sourced historical background. The edition does not assert a uniquely established date of revelation, battlefield or fulfillment calculation. Traditional interpretation of the opening is explicitly attributed.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "الٓمٓ", "translation": "Alif. Lam. Mim." }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "غُلِبَتِ ٱلرُّومُ", "translation": "The Romans have been defeated" }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "فِىٓ أَدْنَى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَهُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ غَلَبِهِمْ سَيَغْلِبُونَ", "translation": "In the nearer land, and they, after their defeat will be victorious" }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "فِى بِضْعِ سِنِينَ ۗ لِلَّهِ ٱلْأَمْرُ مِن قَبْلُ وَمِنۢ بَعْدُ ۚ وَيَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَفْرَحُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "Within ten years - Allah's is the command in the former case and in the latter - and in that day believers will rejoice" }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "بِنَصْرِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ يَنصُرُ مَن يَشَآءُ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ", "translation": "In Allah's help to victory. He helpeth to victory whom He will. He is the Mighty, the Merciful." }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ لَا يُخْلِفُ ٱللَّهُ وَعْدَهُۥ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "It is a promise of Allah. Allah faileth not His promise, but most of mankind know not." }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "يَعْلَمُونَ ظَٰهِرًۭا مِّنَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَهُمْ عَنِ ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ هُمْ غَٰفِلُونَ", "translation": "They know only some appearance of the life of the world, and are heedless of the Hereafter." }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "أَوَلَمْ يَتَفَكَّرُوا۟ فِىٓ أَنفُسِهِم ۗ مَّا خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَآ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَأَجَلٍۢ مُّسَمًّۭى ۗ وَإِنَّ كَثِيرًۭا مِّنَ ٱلنَّاسِ بِلِقَآئِ رَبِّهِمْ لَكَٰفِرُونَ", "translation": "Have they not pondered upon themselves ? Allah created not the heavens and the earth, and that which is between them, save with truth and for a destined end. But truly many of mankind are disbelievers in the meeting with their Lord." }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "أَوَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرُوا۟ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ كَانُوٓا۟ أَشَدَّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةًۭ وَأَثَارُوا۟ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَعَمَرُوهَآ أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا عَمَرُوهَا وَجَآءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ ۖ فَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ لِيَظْلِمَهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ", "translation": "Have they not travelled in the land and seen the nature of the consequence for those who were before them ? They were stronger than these in power, and they dug the earth and built upon it more than these have built. Messengers of their own came unto them with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty). Surely Allah wronged them not, but they did wrong themselves." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "ثُمَّ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَسَٰٓـُٔوا۟ ٱلسُّوٓأَىٰٓ أَن كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ وَكَانُوا۟ بِهَا يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ", "translation": "Then evil was the consequence to those who dealt in evil, because they denied the revelations of Allah and made a mock of them." }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "ٱللَّهُ يَبْدَؤُا۟ ٱلْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُۥ ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ", "translation": "Allah produceth creation, then He reproduceth it, then unto Him ye will be returned." }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ ٱلسَّاعَةُ يُبْلِسُ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ", "translation": "And in the day when the Hour riseth the unrighteous will despair." }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُم مِّن شُرَكَآئِهِمْ شُفَعَٰٓؤُا۟ وَكَانُوا۟ بِشُرَكَآئِهِمْ كَٰفِرِينَ", "translation": "There will be none to intercede for them of those whom they made equal with Allah. And they will reject their partners (whom they ascribed unto Him)." }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ ٱلسَّاعَةُ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَتَفَرَّقُونَ", "translation": "In the day when the Hour cometh, in that day they will be sundered." }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "فَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ فَهُمْ فِى رَوْضَةٍۢ يُحْبَرُونَ", "translation": "As for those who believed and did good works, they will be made happy in a Garden." }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "وَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَلِقَآئِ ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى ٱلْعَذَابِ مُحْضَرُونَ", "translation": "But as for those who disbelieved and denied Our revelations, and denied the meeting of the Hereafter, such will be brought to doom." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "فَسُبْحَٰنَ ٱللَّهِ حِينَ تُمْسُونَ وَحِينَ تُصْبِحُونَ", "translation": "So glory be to Allah when ye enter the night and when ye enter the morning -" }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "وَلَهُ ٱلْحَمْدُ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَعَشِيًّۭا وَحِينَ تُظْهِرُونَ", "translation": "Unto Him be praise in the heavens and the earth! - and at the sun's decline and in the noonday." }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "يُخْرِجُ ٱلْحَىَّ مِنَ ٱلْمَيِّتِ وَيُخْرِجُ ٱلْمَيِّتَ مِنَ ٱلْحَىِّ وَيُحْىِ ٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا ۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ تُخْرَجُونَ", "translation": "He bringeth forth the living from the dead, and He bringeth forth the dead from the living, and He reviveth the earth after her death. And even so will ye be brought forth." }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَنْ خَلَقَكُم مِّن تُرَابٍۢ ثُمَّ إِذَآ أَنتُم بَشَرٌۭ تَنتَشِرُونَ", "translation": "And of His signs is this: He created you of dust, and behold you human beings, ranging widely!" }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُم مِّنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًۭا لِّتَسْكُنُوٓا۟ إِلَيْهَا وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَكُم مَّوَدَّةًۭ وَرَحْمَةً ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَٰتٍۢ لِّقَوْمٍۢ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ", "translation": "And of His signs is this: He created for you helpmeets from yourselves that ye might find rest in them, and He ordained between you love and mercy. Lo! herein indeed are portents for folk who reflect." }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ خَلْقُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَٱخْتِلَٰفُ أَلْسِنَتِكُمْ وَأَلْوَٰنِكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَٰتٍۢ لِّلْعَٰلِمِينَ", "translation": "And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. Lo! herein indeed are portents for men of knowledge." }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ مَنَامُكُم بِٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ وَٱبْتِغَآؤُكُم مِّن فَضْلِهِۦٓ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَٰتٍۢ لِّقَوْمٍۢ يَسْمَعُونَ", "translation": "And of His signs is your slumber by night and by day, and your seeking of His bounty. Lo! herein indeed are portents for folk who heed." }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ يُرِيكُمُ ٱلْبَرْقَ خَوْفًۭا وَطَمَعًۭا وَيُنَزِّلُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ فَيُحْىِۦ بِهِ ٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَآ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَٰتٍۢ لِّقَوْمٍۢ يَعْقِلُونَ", "translation": "And of His signs is this: He showeth you the lightning for a fear and for a hope, and sendeth down water from the sky, and thereby quickeneth the earth after her death. Lo! herein indeed are portents for folk who understand." }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَن تَقُومَ ٱلسَّمَآءُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ بِأَمْرِهِۦ ۚ ثُمَّ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ دَعْوَةًۭ مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ إِذَآ أَنتُمْ تَخْرُجُونَ", "translation": "And of His signs is this: The heavens and the earth stand fast by His command, and afterward, when He calleth you, lo! from the earth ye will emerge." }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "وَلَهُۥ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ كُلٌّۭ لَّهُۥ قَٰنِتُونَ", "translation": "Unto Him belongeth whosoever is in the heavens and the earth. All are obedient unto Him." }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى يَبْدَؤُا۟ ٱلْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُۥ وَهُوَ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيْهِ ۚ وَلَهُ ٱلْمَثَلُ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ", "translation": "He it is Who produceth creation, then reproduceth it, and it is easier for Him. His is the Sublime Similitude in the heavens and the earth. He is the Mighty, the Wise." }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "ضَرَبَ لَكُم مَّثَلًۭا مِّنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ ۖ هَل لَّكُم مِّن مَّا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُكُم مِّن شُرَكَآءَ فِى مَا رَزَقْنَٰكُمْ فَأَنتُمْ فِيهِ سَوَآءٌۭ تَخَافُونَهُمْ كَخِيفَتِكُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ ٱلْءَايَٰتِ لِقَوْمٍۢ يَعْقِلُونَ", "translation": "He coineth for you a similitude of yourselves. Have ye, from among those whom your right hands possess, partners in the wealth We have bestowed upon you, equal with you in respect thereof, so that ye fear them as ye fear each other (that ye ascribe unto Us partners out of that which We created) ? Thus We display the revelations for people who have sense." }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "بَلِ ٱتَّبَعَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوٓا۟ أَهْوَآءَهُم بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍۢ ۖ فَمَن يَهْدِى مَنْ أَضَلَّ ٱللَّهُ ۖ وَمَا لَهُم مِّن نَّٰصِرِينَ", "translation": "Nay, but those who do wrong follow their own lusts without knowledge. Who is able to guide him whom Allah hath sent astray ? For such there are no helpers." }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "فَأَقِمْ وَجْهَكَ لِلدِّينِ حَنِيفًۭا ۚ فِطْرَتَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلَّتِى فَطَرَ ٱلنَّاسَ عَلَيْهَا ۚ لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِخَلْقِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلدِّينُ ٱلْقَيِّمُ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "So set thy purpose (O Muhammad) for religion as a man by nature upright - the nature (framed) of Allah, in which He hath created man. There is no altering (the laws of) Allah's creation. That is the right religion, but most men know not -" }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "۞ مُنِيبِينَ إِلَيْهِ وَٱتَّقُوهُ وَأَقِيمُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَلَا تَكُونُوا۟ مِنَ ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ", "translation": "Turning unto Him (only); and be careful of your duty unto Him and establish worship, and be not of those who ascribe partners (unto Him);" }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ فَرَّقُوا۟ دِينَهُمْ وَكَانُوا۟ شِيَعًۭا ۖ كُلُّ حِزْبٍۭ بِمَا لَدَيْهِمْ فَرِحُونَ", "translation": "Of those who split up their religion and became schismatics, each sect exulting in its tenets." }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "وَإِذَا مَسَّ ٱلنَّاسَ ضُرٌّۭ دَعَوْا۟ رَبَّهُم مُّنِيبِينَ إِلَيْهِ ثُمَّ إِذَآ أَذَاقَهُم مِّنْهُ رَحْمَةً إِذَا فَرِيقٌۭ مِّنْهُم بِرَبِّهِمْ يُشْرِكُونَ", "translation": "And when harm toucheth men they cry unto their Lord, turning to Him in repentance; then, when they have tasted of His mercy, behold! some of them attribute partners to their Lord" }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "لِيَكْفُرُوا۟ بِمَآ ءَاتَيْنَٰهُمْ ۚ فَتَمَتَّعُوا۟ فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "So as to disbelieve in that which We have given them. (Unto such it is said): Enjoy yourselves awhile, but ye will come to know." }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "أَمْ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ سُلْطَٰنًۭا فَهُوَ يَتَكَلَّمُ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يُشْرِكُونَ", "translation": "Or have We revealed unto them any warrant which speaketh of that which they associate with Him ?" }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "وَإِذَآ أَذَقْنَا ٱلنَّاسَ رَحْمَةًۭ فَرِحُوا۟ بِهَا ۖ وَإِن تُصِبْهُمْ سَيِّئَةٌۢ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ إِذَا هُمْ يَقْنَطُونَ", "translation": "And when We cause mankind to taste of mercy they rejoice therein; but if an evil thing befall them as the consequence of their own deeds, lo! they are in despair!" }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَيَقْدِرُ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَٰتٍۢ لِّقَوْمٍۢ يُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "See they not that Allah enlargeth the provision for whom He will, and straiteneth (it for whom He will). Lo! herein indeed are portents for folk who believe." }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "فَـَٔاتِ ذَا ٱلْقُرْبَىٰ حَقَّهُۥ وَٱلْمِسْكِينَ وَٱبْنَ ٱلسَّبِيلِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ خَيْرٌۭ لِّلَّذِينَ يُرِيدُونَ وَجْهَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ وَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ", "translation": "So give to the kinsman his due, and to the needy, and to the wayfarer. That is best for those who seek Allah's Countenance. And such are they who are successful." }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "وَمَآ ءَاتَيْتُم مِّن رِّبًۭا لِّيَرْبُوَا۟ فِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِ ٱلنَّاسِ فَلَا يَرْبُوا۟ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ وَمَآ ءَاتَيْتُم مِّن زَكَوٰةٍۢ تُرِيدُونَ وَجْهَ ٱللَّهِ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُضْعِفُونَ", "translation": "That which ye give in usury in order that it may increase on (other) people's property hath no increase with Allah; but that which ye give in charity, seeking Allah's Countenance, hath increase manifold." }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُمْ ثُمَّ رَزَقَكُمْ ثُمَّ يُمِيتُكُمْ ثُمَّ يُحْيِيكُمْ ۖ هَلْ مِن شُرَكَآئِكُم مَّن يَفْعَلُ مِن ذَٰلِكُم مِّن شَىْءٍۢ ۚ سُبْحَٰنَهُۥ وَتَعَٰلَىٰ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ", "translation": "Allah is He Who created you and then sustained you, then causeth you to die, then giveth life to you again. Is there any of your (so-called) partners (of Allah) that doeth aught of that ? Praised and Exalted be He above what they associate (with Him)!" }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "ظَهَرَ ٱلْفَسَادُ فِى ٱلْبَرِّ وَٱلْبَحْرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِى ٱلنَّاسِ لِيُذِيقَهُم بَعْضَ ٱلَّذِى عَمِلُوا۟ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ", "translation": "Corruption doth appear on land and sea because of (the evil) which men's hands have done, that He may make them taste a part of that which they have done, in order that they may return." }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "قُلْ سِيرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَٱنظُرُوا۟ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلُ ۚ كَانَ أَكْثَرُهُم مُّشْرِكِينَ", "translation": "Say (O Muhammad, to the disbelievers): Travel in the land, and see the nature of the consequence for those who were before you! Most of them were idolaters." }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "فَأَقِمْ وَجْهَكَ لِلدِّينِ ٱلْقَيِّمِ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِىَ يَوْمٌۭ لَّا مَرَدَّ لَهُۥ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَصَّدَّعُونَ", "translation": "So set thy purpose resolutely for the right religion, before the inevitable day cometh from Allah. On that day mankind will be sundered-" }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "مَن كَفَرَ فَعَلَيْهِ كُفْرُهُۥ ۖ وَمَنْ عَمِلَ صَٰلِحًۭا فَلِأَنفُسِهِمْ يَمْهَدُونَ", "translation": "Whoso disbelieveth must (then) bear the consequences of his disbelief, while those who do right make provision for themselves -" }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "لِيَجْزِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ مِن فَضْلِهِۦٓ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ", "translation": "That He may reward out of His bounty those who believe and do good works. Lo! He loveth not the disbelievers (in His guidance)." }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَن يُرْسِلَ ٱلرِّيَاحَ مُبَشِّرَٰتٍۢ وَلِيُذِيقَكُم مِّن رَّحْمَتِهِۦ وَلِتَجْرِىَ ٱلْفُلْكُ بِأَمْرِهِۦ وَلِتَبْتَغُوا۟ مِن فَضْلِهِۦ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ", "translation": "And of His signs is this: He sendeth herald winds to make you taste His mercy, and that the ships may sail at His command, and that ye may seek his favour, and that haply ye may be thankful." }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا مِن قَبْلِكَ رُسُلًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِمْ فَجَآءُوهُم بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ فَٱنتَقَمْنَا مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَجْرَمُوا۟ ۖ وَكَانَ حَقًّا عَلَيْنَا نَصْرُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ", "translation": "Verily We sent before thee (Muhammad) messengers to their own folk. Then we took vengeance upon those who were guilty (in regard to them). To help believers is ever incumbent upon Us." }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى يُرْسِلُ ٱلرِّيَٰحَ فَتُثِيرُ سَحَابًۭا فَيَبْسُطُهُۥ فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ يَشَآءُ وَيَجْعَلُهُۥ كِسَفًۭا فَتَرَى ٱلْوَدْقَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ خِلَٰلِهِۦ ۖ فَإِذَآ أَصَابَ بِهِۦ مَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦٓ إِذَا هُمْ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ", "translation": "Allah is He Who sendeth the winds so that they raise clouds, and spreadeth them along the sky as pleaseth Him, and causeth them to break and thou seest the rain downpouring from within them. And when He maketh it to fall on whom He will of His bondmen, lo! they rejoice;" }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "وَإِن كَانُوا۟ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يُنَزَّلَ عَلَيْهِم مِّن قَبْلِهِۦ لَمُبْلِسِينَ", "translation": "Though before that, even before it was sent down upon them, they were in despair." }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "فَٱنظُرْ إِلَىٰٓ ءَاثَٰرِ رَحْمَتِ ٱللَّهِ كَيْفَ يُحْىِ ٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَآ ۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ لَمُحْىِ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ ۖ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدِيرٌۭ", "translation": "Look, therefore, at the prints of Allah's mercy (in creation): how He quickeneth the earth after her death. Lo! He verily is the Quickener of the Dead, and He is Able to do all things." }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "وَلَئِنْ أَرْسَلْنَا رِيحًۭا فَرَأَوْهُ مُصْفَرًّۭا لَّظَلُّوا۟ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ يَكْفُرُونَ", "translation": "And if We sent a wind and they beheld it yellow, they verily would still continue in their disbelief." }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "فَإِنَّكَ لَا تُسْمِعُ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ وَلَا تُسْمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ ٱلدُّعَآءَ إِذَا وَلَّوْا۟ مُدْبِرِينَ", "translation": "For verily thou (Muhammad) canst not make the dead to hear, nor canst thou make the deaf to hear the call when they have turned to flee." }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "وَمَآ أَنتَ بِهَٰدِ ٱلْعُمْىِ عَن ضَلَٰلَتِهِمْ ۖ إِن تُسْمِعُ إِلَّا مَن يُؤْمِنُ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا فَهُم مُّسْلِمُونَ", "translation": "Nor canst thou guide the blind out of their error. Thou canst make none to hear save those who believe in Our revelations so that they surrender (unto Him)." }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "۞ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُم مِّن ضَعْفٍۢ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ ضَعْفٍۢ قُوَّةًۭ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِ قُوَّةٍۢ ضَعْفًۭا وَشَيْبَةًۭ ۚ يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُ ۖ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَلِيمُ ٱلْقَدِيرُ", "translation": "Allah is He Who shaped you out of weakness, then appointed after weakness strength, then, after strength, appointed weakness and grey hair. He createth what He will. He is the Knower, the Mighty." }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ ٱلسَّاعَةُ يُقْسِمُ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ مَا لَبِثُوا۟ غَيْرَ سَاعَةٍۢ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ كَانُوا۟ يُؤْفَكُونَ", "translation": "And on the day when the Hour riseth the guilty will vow that they did tarry but an hour - thus were they ever deceived." }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْعِلْمَ وَٱلْإِيمَٰنَ لَقَدْ لَبِثْتُمْ فِى كِتَٰبِ ٱللَّهِ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْبَعْثِ ۖ فَهَٰذَا يَوْمُ ٱلْبَعْثِ وَلَٰكِنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "But those to whom knowledge and faith are given will say: The truth is, ye have tarried, by Allah's decree, until the Day of Resurrection. This is the Day of Resurrection, but ye used not to know." }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "فَيَوْمَئِذٍۢ لَّا يَنفَعُ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ مَعْذِرَتُهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُسْتَعْتَبُونَ", "translation": "In that day their excuses will not profit those who did injustice, nor will they be allowed to make amends." }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ ضَرَبْنَا لِلنَّاسِ فِى هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانِ مِن كُلِّ مَثَلٍۢ ۚ وَلَئِن جِئْتَهُم بِـَٔايَةٍۢ لَّيَقُولَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا مُبْطِلُونَ", "translation": "Verily We have coined for mankind in this Qur'an all kinds of similitudes; and indeed if thou camest unto them with a miracle, those who disbelieve would verily exclaim: Ye are but tricksters!" }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "كَذَٰلِكَ يَطْبَعُ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "Thus doth Allah seal the hearts of those who know not." }, { "n": 60, "arabic": "فَٱصْبِرْ إِنَّ وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ حَقٌّۭ ۖ وَلَا يَسْتَخِفَّنَّكَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُوقِنُونَ", "translation": "So have patience (O Muhammad)! 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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." }