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Its closing argument answers doubt about resurrection through the power that first creates, while the promised Garden centers on peace.", "sources": [ { "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_36.json" }, { "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)", "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=36&verse=23" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=36&verse=27" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=36&verse=29" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=36&verse=46" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus 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"url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" } ], "titles": [ "The opening letters", "An oath by the wise Quran", "Among the messengers", "A straight direction", "Might joined to mercy", "A warning for the heedless", "A refusal that has become settled", "A constricted posture", "Barriers around perception", "Warning that meets no response", "A receptive heart in private", "Deeds and the traces they leave", "An unnamed town", "Two messengers reinforced by a third", "Humanity used as an objection", "A mission known to the Lord", "The duty of clear communication", "Threat replacing discussion", "The omen turned back", "A man comes from the city's edge", "No fee and a sound direction", "The Creator and the return", "The limits of imagined intercessors", "Recognizing the wrong direction", "A public declaration of faith", "A welcome and a continuing concern", "Forgiven and honored", "No heavenly army required", "A single cry and sudden stillness", "Sorrow over repeated mockery", "Earlier generations do not return here", "A gathering without exception", "Grain from the revived earth", "Gardens and springs", "Receiving more than human hands create", "Pairs and the unknown", "Night as a visible sign", "The sun's appointed course", "The moon's changing form", "Distinct courses within order", "The laden ship", "Other means of being carried", "Vulnerability upon the water", "Mercy and time for the journey", "A warning offered for mercy", "A pattern of turning away", "Using providence to refuse generosity", "Asking for the promised time", "The cry amid argument", "Ordinary plans interrupted", "From graves toward the Lord", "The promise recognized", "One cry gathers them", "No soul wronged", "Joyful occupation in the Garden", "Companionship in shelter", "Fruit and what they request", "Peace from a Merciful Lord", "A separation at the account", "The remembered charge against Satan", "The straight path of worship", "Many misled, yet reason still asked for", "The warning now encountered", "The consequence of refusal", "Bodies bearing witness", "The dependence of sight", "The dependence of movement", "Age and returning weakness", "A reminder rather than poetry", "Warning addressed to the living", "Animals entrusted to human use", "Riding and nourishment", "Benefits that should awaken thanks", "Other gods chosen for help", "Protectors who need defending", "Words that need not consume the messenger", "A humble beginning and a bold objection", "The question about decayed bones", "The first Creator can restore", "Fire from the green tree", "The scale of heaven and earth", "A command without resistance", "Sovereignty and the final return" ], "notes": [ "The chapter begins with the separate letters Ya and Sin. Their definitive expansion is not supplied by the text. They introduce a solemn affirmation of the Quran and the messenger, inviting attention before the argument about revelation and return unfolds.", "The Quran is described through wisdom at the opening of the oath. Its message is therefore presented as purposeful guidance. The following affirmation of the messenger belongs to that setting rather than depending on the audience's social approval.", "The addressed messenger is affirmed as belonging to those sent by Allah. The statement places him within a wider succession without giving a full historical list. It directly answers the rejection and ridicule that the chapter will later describe.", "The messenger's path is described as straight, continuing the preceding affirmation of his mission. The image gives guidance a direction to follow. Its brevity asks the reader to hear it as part of the connected opening, not an isolated slogan.", "The revelation comes from the Mighty, the Merciful. These names hold authority and compassion together at the beginning of a chapter containing severe warnings. The message's purpose is not exhausted by threat; it also offers guidance, forgiveness, and a promised welcome.", "The messenger warns an audience whose forefathers had not received warning and who live in heedlessness. The verse describes their situation as an urgent reason for communication. It does not give a complete chronology of every earlier community's religious history.", "The warning describes a judgment realized upon many who persist in unbelief. Read within the opening's concern with response, it gives rejection serious weight. The following images explore the condition of resistance rather than treating the message as inconsequential.", "Collars reaching the chin picture people unable or unwilling to turn freely toward the reminder. The image conveys the severity of their condition. It should not be turned into a judgment on physical disability or a design for human punishment.", "A barrier before and behind, together with covering, makes refusal of sight vivid. The verse belongs to the chapter's account of obstructed response. It asks readers to examine what closes attention, rather than claim knowledge of another person's hidden spiritual condition.", "For the described people, hearing a warning or not hearing it produces the same refusal. The verse names a limit to the messenger's immediate influence. It does not make sincere communication worthless, as the next verse identifies a receptive hearer.", "The one who follows the reminder and reveres the Merciful beyond public view receives news of forgiveness and reward. The contrast concerns inward receptivity as well as outward hearing. Faithfulness is meaningful when no audience is present to applaud it.", "Life is restored to the dead, and both what people send ahead and their traces are recorded. The verse invites thought about consequences extending beyond an immediate action. It gives moral significance to the influence a life leaves behind.", "The audience is offered the example of a town receiving messengers. The Quran does not name the place here. Later geographical identifications are interpretive proposals, so this reader keeps the town unnamed rather than turning a disputed tradition into a verified map point.", "Two envoys are rejected and strengthened by a third, who affirm their mission together. Their names are not supplied in the verse. The story emphasizes the message and its reception, rather than details needed to construct a complete historical biography.", "The townspeople reject the envoys because they are human and deny that the Merciful has revealed anything. These are the opponents' claims, not the narrator's conclusion. The objection mistakes a messenger's ordinary humanity for evidence against the possibility of revelation.", "The envoys answer by placing knowledge of their mission with their Lord. They do not claim that the audience's approval creates their authority. Their confidence prepares a clear statement of the responsibility they actually bear in the next verse.", "The messengers define their task as plainly conveying the message. This limits both their responsibility and their claim to control the hearers. The verse offers a model of clarity without suggesting that persuasion can compel a willing response.", "The townspeople treat the envoys as a bad omen and threaten stoning and painful harm. The narrative exposes a movement from rejecting words to attacking speakers. It does not endorse the threatened violence or make a messenger's danger proof against his message.", "The messengers reject the accusation that their presence causes misfortune and question hostility merely for receiving a reminder. Responsibility returns to the audience's own response. The verse challenges scapegoating that avoids examining conduct by blaming the person who raises a warning.", "An unnamed man hurries from the farthest part of the town and urges his people to follow the messengers. His intervention brings local moral courage into the scene. The verse does not name his occupation or establish a historical grave.", "The man points to the envoys' lack of a requested payment and their guidance as reasons to listen. His appeal asks the community to examine motives and message. It replaces fear and rumor with considerations the hearers can weigh.", "He asks why he should not worship the One who created him, then includes his people in the final return. The argument is personal without being merely private. He connects his own allegiance with a reality that also concerns his audience.", "Other gods could neither intercede effectively nor rescue him if the Merciful intended harm. The speaker tests worship by actual dependence rather than inherited confidence. His argument asks whether a supposed protector has the power that its followers assign to it.", "The man concludes that such misplaced worship would leave him in clear error. The short statement completes his reasoning from creation and protection. It models a conviction reached through the connected argument rather than an insult aimed at the townspeople.", "The man openly affirms belief in their Lord and asks to be heard. The declaration turns his argument into personal commitment. The narrative does not give all the details of what follows immediately, and the reader should not invent them.", "The scene moves to an invitation into the Garden, where the man wishes his people knew his outcome. The Quran's transition is concise. His concern remains directed toward them, and this reader does not add a graphic account absent from the verse.", "What he wishes his people knew is his Lord's forgiveness and the honor bestowed on him. The emphasis falls on grace rather than revenge. The verse gives the earlier courageous testimony a conclusion marked by gratitude and continuing concern for others.", "The narrative says that no host was sent down against the town after him. This stresses that divine judgment is not dependent on military scale. The verse does not invite a depiction of angels or a reconstruction of an unseen battle.", "One cry ends the town's resistance, leaving its people still. The narrative's brevity contrasts with the threats and arguments that preceded it. The verse supplies no date or archaeological site through which a modern ruin can be identified with certainty.", "The exclamation laments servants who habitually mocked the messengers sent to them. It widens the town's story into a recurring human pattern. The tone asks the reader to recognize wasted opportunity rather than take pleasure in another community's loss.", "The disappearance of earlier generations becomes a reason to reflect. Their absence from present worldly life does not, in the chapter's argument, settle the question of resurrection. The following verse directs attention toward the gathering beyond that ordinary historical observation.", "All will be brought before Allah, completing the contrast with generations no longer present on earth. The statement makes accountability universal. No community's strength, age, or historical prestige places it outside the future encounter the chapter repeatedly asks its audience to consider.", "Dry earth is revived and produces grain that people eat. The sign begins with a basic human dependence rather than a remote spectacle. Everyday nourishment becomes a reason to consider the power that can bring life where life appears absent.", "Date palms, vines, and flowing springs extend the image of provision. The landscape combines cultivated abundance with the water that sustains it. Its purpose is gratitude and reflection, not the identification of one particular orchard mentioned by a named historical witness.", "The fruit feeds people, while the verse asks them to recognize a source beyond their own making. Human work does not originate every condition of growth. Gratitude can acknowledge cultivation and effort without mistaking them for complete self sufficiency.", "Creation includes pairs among plants, humanity, and things people do not know. The final category keeps human knowledge open ended. The verse praises the Creator's range rather than supplying an exhaustive biological classification or a simple rule for every scientific phenomenon.", "Daylight is described as stripped away, leaving people in darkness. The image makes an ordinary transition newly noticeable. It belongs to a sequence of signs that invite reflection on the dependable rhythms surrounding human work, rest, and perception.", "The sun follows its appointed course under divine determination. The verse's concern is ordered creation and sovereignty. This reader does not turn its concise language into a full modern astronomical model or claim that one illustration can resolve every interpretive question.", "The moon passes through appointed stages until its thin shape is compared with an old curved palm stalk. The familiar comparison rewards careful looking. The verse draws everyday observation into reflection on order without offering a detailed calendar calculation.", "Sun, moon, night, and day are described through their ordered relations, each moving in its course. The image emphasizes dependable boundaries rather than rivalry. The listener is invited to recognize an order that does not depend on human management.", "A loaded vessel carrying people is offered as another sign. The verse places human journeys and vulnerability beside the celestial images. It does not provide a named harbor, ship plan, or archaeological identification, so the artwork remains a general maritime interpretation.", "Further vessels or means of riding extend the provision described in the previous verse. Mobility is a received possibility, not simply an achievement of control. The sequence prepares the reminder that travelers remain vulnerable even when their transport appears reliable.", "The possibility of drowning confronts the assumption that a vessel guarantees safety. The verse concerns dependence on Allah within the surrounding signs. It is not a judgment assigning spiritual guilt to actual victims of shipwreck or other ordinary accidents.", "Rescue and continued enjoyment are attributed to mercy for a limited time. The short verse keeps the maritime warning from ending only in fear. Safety becomes an occasion for gratitude, while the temporary character of earthly life remains in view.", "The hearers are told to be mindful of what lies before and behind them so that they may receive mercy. The purpose of caution is constructive. The passage asks whether warnings are being treated as interruptions rather than opportunities to change direction.", "Signs repeatedly arrive, and the audience repeatedly turns aside. The verse identifies a habit rather than one isolated moment. Reflection can begin by noticing whether the refusal to consider has itself become automatic, independent of the particular reminder offered.", "The objection asks why people should feed those whom Allah could feed. It is quoted as an excuse against giving. The verse exposes a misuse of divine power to evade human responsibility for sharing the provision already entrusted to them.", "The opponents demand to know when the promise will arrive if the messenger is truthful. The question follows their refusal of practical responsibility. The narrative shifts from speculation about timing to the suddenness of an event that interrupts ordinary dispute.", "The single cry catches people while they are disputing. Their confidence in having more time is overturned within the scene. The verse supplies no prediction date; its warning concerns the fragility of making present responsibility depend on an imagined later opportunity.", "The event leaves no time for a bequest or return to one's people. These familiar tasks make the sudden interruption concrete. The warning asks readers to value the present opportunity for responsible action without pretending to know when their own life will end.", "The trumpet and the movement from graves introduce the resurrection scene. It belongs to revelation's account of the unseen. An illustration can suggest awakening and gathering without claiming to show the actual event or its angelic participants.", "Those raised ask who awakened them and then recognize the Merciful's promise and the messengers' truth. The scene contrasts earlier denial with unavoidable recognition. Its purpose is to encourage attention before the promise is encountered as an already present reality.", "A single cry brings the people together before Allah. The brevity emphasizes that the gathering does not depend on the mechanisms people associate with assembling a vast crowd. The verse does not specify its earthly location or offer a logistical description.", "The day is defined by freedom from injustice and recompense connected to actual deeds. This statement frames the contrasting outcomes that follow. It asks the reader to understand accountability as truthful assessment rather than arbitrary power or inherited social status.", "The people of the Garden are occupied in happiness. The description begins with their state of ease rather than an inventory of possessions. It introduces a promise in which relief, companionship, provision, and peace belong together.", "The Garden's inhabitants and their spouses recline in pleasant shade. Familiar images communicate ease and being together. They belong to the unseen promise and do not establish portraits, earthly architectural plans, or a location that can be mapped.", "Provision and fulfilled desire extend the description of the Garden. The imagery answers familiar experiences of need and limitation. Read with the following greeting, abundance is held within peace and mercy rather than competition for scarce resources or social rank.", "The welcome reaches its center in a word of peace from the Merciful Lord. The verse's simplicity gives that greeting prominence over outward abundance. It is a promise of the unseen, not an invitation to depict the divine speaker.", "The guilty are told to stand apart, marking a transition from welcome to warning. The distinction belongs to the final judgment scene. It does not authorize readers to decide that present neighbors belong to a fixed category beyond repentance or mercy.", "The descendants of Adam are reminded not to worship Satan, identified as an open enemy. The verse makes the warning shared across humanity. It asks about the direction of allegiance rather than encouraging speculation about the appearance of unseen beings.", "The positive command is to worship Allah, which is identified as the straight path. It follows the warning against Satan so that rejection of an enemy is joined to a clear allegiance. Guidance is presented through direction, not fear alone.", "The passage recalls that many were led astray and asks whether they used understanding. Numbers do not make a direction trustworthy. The verse invites examination of popular habits and persuasive influences without assuming that confidence or majority acceptance establishes truth.", "The condemned face the Hell they had been warned about. The verse connects outcome with an earlier message rather than presenting judgment as unannounced. Its present function is to make that warning worth hearing while a response can still be chosen.", "The severe address places the threatened outcome beside their prior rejection. It is part of an unseen judgment narrative, not an instruction for human punishment. The reader is called to recognize responsibility without claiming authority to imitate the scene.", "Mouths are sealed while hands and feet testify to what people did. The image removes the possibility of managing an account through persuasive speech alone. It belongs to the unseen; its purpose is the completeness of responsibility, not a physiological explanation.", "The possibility of sight being removed challenges confidence in finding one's way unaided. The verse concerns divine power and human dependence within the argument. It does not judge the worth or spiritual condition of people who live with visual impairment.", "The possibility of being fixed in place makes human mobility appear as a gift rather than an absolute possession. The verse continues the preceding reminder of vulnerability. It should not be turned into a judgment about disability or an excuse for neglecting accessibility.", "Growing old may reverse strength into weakness, and the verse asks people to reflect. The observation challenges the illusion of permanent self sufficiency. It calls for humility about one's own condition, not diminished respect or care for older people.", "The Quran distinguishes the messenger's revelation from poetry and identifies it as a clear reminder. The point concerns the source and purpose of this message. It is not a general condemnation of every poem or a denial of language's beauty.", "The message warns those able to respond and establishes accountability for rejection. Placed after the denial that it is poetry, the verse emphasizes practical moral purpose. The living hearer is invited into an opportunity that should not be merely admired as language.", "The audience is asked to notice the cattle provided for its benefit. Ownership does not make people their ultimate creator. The verse prepares a list of uses that should awaken gratitude for dependence embedded in ordinary material life.", "Some animals carry people, while others provide food. These familiar benefits continue the chapter's attention to received provisions. The verse asks the hearer to recognize what makes daily life possible rather than treating practical usefulness as something entirely self produced.", "Further benefits and drinks complete the account of cattle, followed by the recurring question about gratitude. The repetition gives ordinary dependence moral significance. Receiving useful things well includes recognizing their source and considering the responsibilities that accompany their use.", "The audience chooses supposed gods in the hope of receiving assistance. The verse states the expectation before testing it. It asks whether worship is grounded in a real source of help or in a promise maintained by the worshippers themselves.", "The supposed gods cannot help their followers, while the worshippers stand as a supporting host for them. The contrast exposes a reversed dependence. What is defended through human effort is being treated as though it independently guaranteed its defenders' safety.", "The messenger is told not to be overwhelmed by their speech, because Allah knows both concealment and disclosure. The assurance places opposition within a wider knowledge. Faithful communication does not require carrying every accusation as though human words settle the truth.", "Humanity's beginning from a small drop is set beside the confidence of open disputation. The contrast is not an attack on sincere inquiry. It challenges the forgetfulness that argues about ultimate power while ignoring one's own received existence.", "The opponent asks who could revive decomposed bones while forgetting his first creation. The verse makes that omission central to the argument. The question will be answered through the Creator's power rather than a date or a demand for immediate demonstration.", "The answer identifies the One who originated life as able to revive it, with knowledge of every creation. Restoration is placed within the same divine power as beginning. The verse offers a theological argument rather than a mechanical model of resurrection.", "The familiar production of fire from living wood provides another striking sign of contrasting qualities within creation. The verse invites attention to possibilities that ordinary assumptions may overlook. It supports the larger argument about power without specifying a modern scientific mechanism.", "The creation of heaven and earth is presented as grounds for confidence in renewed human creation. The argument moves from the greater scale to the particular question. Divine ability is not restricted by the difficulty humans experience imagining the outcome.", "The concise command to be expresses the effectiveness of divine will. The verse does not describe a human sound process or a delay measured by ordinary time. Its purpose is to affirm that creation does not resist the Creator's intention.", "The chapter closes in glorification of the One who holds dominion over all things, with the return to Him reaffirmed. The final statement gathers revelation, natural signs, and resurrection into one direction. Human life remains within that sovereignty from beginning to end." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 12, "title": "The message and the traces of a life", "summary": "Revelation calls for attentive response, while deeds and their continuing traces remain within the record.", "reflection": "What influence might an ordinary action leave beyond its immediate moment?" }, { "start": 13, "end": 32, "title": "The town and a courageous voice", "summary": "Unnamed messengers face rejection, and a man from the city's edge gives a reasoned, public testimony.", "reflection": "How can concern for a community survive disagreement with it?" }, { "start": 33, "end": 50, "title": "Grain, moonlight, and the laden ship", "summary": "The natural world and human journeys offer signs, while refusal to give exposes a failure to respond gratefully.", "reflection": "Choose one familiar provision and consider what makes it possible." }, { "start": 51, "end": 68, "title": "Awakening, witness, and a word of peace", "summary": "The final gathering reveals deeds, contrasts outcomes, and promises a peaceful welcome from the Merciful Lord.", "reflection": "Let the image of a truthful account guide a choice that no one else sees." }, { "start": 69, "end": 83, "title": "The One who first creates can restore", "summary": "The Quran's purpose, everyday provisions, and the beginnings of life answer the objection about decayed bones.", "reflection": "What changes when your own existence is received as a gift rather than assumed?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification", "year": 622, "body": "Ya-Sin is classified as Makkan. The Hijrah marks a broad period boundary, not a verified exact date for the whole chapter.", "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" }, { "title": "The town's messengers · undated example", "year": null, "body": "Verses 13–32 give no town name or calendar year. Later identifications of its messengers and location remain commentary rather than direct Quranic naming.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/036.htm" }, { "title": "Antioch · a disputed identification", "year": null, "body": "Ibn Kathir records the Antioch proposal but also argues against identifying the narrative with the familiar Christian Antioch. No definite date or map point is assigned here.", "source": "https://quran.com/36:29/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Resurrection and the final return", "year": null, "body": "The trumpet, gathering, and judgment are future promises without a date supplied to the reader. The chapter explicitly directs attention toward response rather than calculation.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/036.htm" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · broad revelation setting", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "body": "The chapter's Makkan classification gives general context. It does not establish a specific recitation house or date for its individual passages.", "source": "https://quran.com/36/info", "image": 0 }, { "id": "town", "name": "The unnamed town", "body": "The Quran's example leaves the town unnamed. Antioch appears in commentary but is disputed even within Ibn Kathir's discussion, so the illustrated streets are not labeled as a verified reconstruction.", "source": "https://quran.com/36:29/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir", "image": 1 }, { "id": "orchards", "name": "Gardens, grain, and springs", "body": "Verses 33–35 describe a fertile landscape without identifying a particular orchard. The scene invites gratitude and reflection rather than archaeological claims.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/036.htm", "image": 2 }, { "id": "ship", "name": "The laden ship", "body": "Verses 41–44 describe being carried, vulnerability, and mercy without giving a named harbor or a recoverable vessel design. The maritime scene is illustrative.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/036.htm", "image": 2 } ], "people": [ { "id": "muhammad", "title": "Muhammad · recipient of the reminder", "body": "The opening affirms his mission, and verse 69 distinguishes the Quran from poetry. His role is represented through revelation and setting, without a portrait.", "verse": 3, "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/036.htm" }, { "id": "messengers", "title": "The unnamed messengers", "body": "Two envoys are reinforced by a third. Their names and a definite link to Jesus' disciples are not stated in the verse; commentary preserves competing accounts.", "verse": 14, "url": "https://quran.com/36:13/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "id": "believer", "title": "The man from the city's edge", "body": "He argues for following the messengers and continues to wish good for his people after being welcomed into the Garden. The Quran gives no personal name, occupation, or verified grave.", "verse": 20, "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/036.htm" }, { "id": "listeners", "title": "Those who receive the reminder", "body": "Verse 11 contrasts private reverence and receptivity with settled refusal. The reader is invited to examine personal attention rather than diagnose other people's hearts.", "verse": 11, "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/036.htm" } ], "history": [ { "title": "A Makkan message", "body": "The chapter introduction identifies a Makkan setting. The reader does not repeat unverified special reward claims or turn a traditional revelation order into an exact calendar date.", "source": "https://quran.com/36/info" }, { "title": "Keeping the town uncertain", "body": "Ibn Kathir records names and the Antioch tradition, then questions the identification and its link to Christian disciples. The reader therefore preserves the Quran's anonymity and does not present a named church, tomb, or city as established.", "source": "https://quran.com/36:29/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "The natural signs", "body": "Rain fed crops, celestial rhythms, and ships belong to the chapter's argument about provision and renewed life. The notes offer original theological reflection without converting concise images into exhaustive scientific models.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/036.htm" }, { "title": "The Juz boundary", "body": "Ya-Sin begins in Juz 22; verse 28 begins its portion in Juz 23. This reading division is independent of the five thematic passages used in the illustrated reader.", "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_36.json" } ], "revelationNote": "Makkan. Before 622 CE is a period boundary only. The town, envoys, and local believer remain unnamed where the Quran leaves them so; later identifications are explicitly qualified. Juz 23 begins at verse 28.", "translationNote": "English translation: Sahih International, via AlQuran Cloud. Original source wording is preserved.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "يسٓ", "translation": "Ya, Seen." }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "وَٱلْقُرْءَانِ ٱلْحَكِيمِ", "translation": "By the wise Qur'an." }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "إِنَّكَ لَمِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ", "translation": "Indeed you, [O Muhammad], are from among the messengers," }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "عَلَىٰ صِرَٰطٍۢ مُّسْتَقِيمٍۢ", "translation": "On a straight path." }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "تَنزِيلَ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ", "translation": "[This is] a revelation of the Exalted in Might, the Merciful," }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "لِتُنذِرَ قَوْمًۭا مَّآ أُنذِرَ ءَابَآؤُهُمْ فَهُمْ غَٰفِلُونَ", "translation": "That you may warn a people whose forefathers were not warned, so they are unaware." }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "لَقَدْ حَقَّ ٱلْقَوْلُ عَلَىٰٓ أَكْثَرِهِمْ فَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "Already the word has come into effect upon most of them, so they do not believe." }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا فِىٓ أَعْنَٰقِهِمْ أَغْلَٰلًۭا فَهِىَ إِلَى ٱلْأَذْقَانِ فَهُم مُّقْمَحُونَ", "translation": "Indeed, We have put shackles on their necks, and they are to their chins, so they are with heads [kept] aloft." }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَا مِنۢ بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ سَدًّۭا وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ سَدًّۭا فَأَغْشَيْنَٰهُمْ فَهُمْ لَا يُبْصِرُونَ", "translation": "And We have put before them a barrier and behind them a barrier and covered them, so they do not see." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "وَسَوَآءٌ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَأَنذَرْتَهُمْ أَمْ لَمْ تُنذِرْهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "And it is all the same for them whether you warn them or do not warn them - they will not believe." }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "إِنَّمَا تُنذِرُ مَنِ ٱتَّبَعَ ٱلذِّكْرَ وَخَشِىَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنَ بِٱلْغَيْبِ ۖ فَبَشِّرْهُ بِمَغْفِرَةٍۢ وَأَجْرٍۢ كَرِيمٍ", "translation": "You can only warn one who follows the message and fears the Most Merciful unseen. So give him good tidings of forgiveness and noble reward." }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "إِنَّا نَحْنُ نُحْىِ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ وَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَدَّمُوا۟ وَءَاثَٰرَهُمْ ۚ وَكُلَّ شَىْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَٰهُ فِىٓ إِمَامٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ", "translation": "Indeed, it is We who bring the dead to life and record what they have put forth and what they left behind, and all things We have enumerated in a clear register." }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "وَٱضْرِبْ لَهُم مَّثَلًا أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلْقَرْيَةِ إِذْ جَآءَهَا ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ", "translation": "And present to them an example: the people of the city, when the messengers came to it -" }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَآ إِلَيْهِمُ ٱثْنَيْنِ فَكَذَّبُوهُمَا فَعَزَّزْنَا بِثَالِثٍۢ فَقَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّآ إِلَيْكُم مُّرْسَلُونَ", "translation": "When We sent to them two but they denied them, so We strengthened them with a third, and they said, \"Indeed, we are messengers to you.\"" }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ مَآ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا بَشَرٌۭ مِّثْلُنَا وَمَآ أَنزَلَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ مِن شَىْءٍ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا تَكْذِبُونَ", "translation": "They said, \"You are not but human beings like us, and the Most Merciful has not revealed a thing. You are only telling lies.\"" }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ رَبُّنَا يَعْلَمُ إِنَّآ إِلَيْكُمْ لَمُرْسَلُونَ", "translation": "They said, \"Our Lord knows that we are messengers to you," }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "وَمَا عَلَيْنَآ إِلَّا ٱلْبَلَٰغُ ٱلْمُبِينُ", "translation": "And we are not responsible except for clear notification.\"" }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا تَطَيَّرْنَا بِكُمْ ۖ لَئِن لَّمْ تَنتَهُوا۟ لَنَرْجُمَنَّكُمْ وَلَيَمَسَّنَّكُم مِّنَّا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۭ", "translation": "They said, \"Indeed, we consider you a bad omen. If you do not desist, we will surely stone you, and there will surely touch you, from us, a painful punishment.\"" }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ طَٰٓئِرُكُم مَّعَكُمْ ۚ أَئِن ذُكِّرْتُم ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌۭ مُّسْرِفُونَ", "translation": "They said, \"Your omen is with yourselves. Is it because you were reminded? Rather, you are a transgressing people.\"" }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَجَآءَ مِنْ أَقْصَا ٱلْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌۭ يَسْعَىٰ قَالَ يَٰقَوْمِ ٱتَّبِعُوا۟ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ", "translation": "And there came from the farthest end of the city a man, running. He said, \"O my people, follow the messengers." }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "ٱتَّبِعُوا۟ مَن لَّا يَسْـَٔلُكُمْ أَجْرًۭا وَهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ", "translation": "Follow those who do not ask of you [any] payment, and they are [rightly] guided." }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "وَمَا لِىَ لَآ أَعْبُدُ ٱلَّذِى فَطَرَنِى وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ", "translation": "And why should I not worship He who created me and to whom you will be returned?" }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "ءَأَتَّخِذُ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ ءَالِهَةً إِن يُرِدْنِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ بِضُرٍّۢ لَّا تُغْنِ عَنِّى شَفَٰعَتُهُمْ شَيْـًۭٔا وَلَا يُنقِذُونِ", "translation": "Should I take other than Him [false] deities [while], if the Most Merciful intends for me some adversity, their intercession will not avail me at all, nor can they save me?" }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "إِنِّىٓ إِذًۭا لَّفِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ مُّبِينٍ", "translation": "Indeed, I would then be in manifest error." }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "إِنِّىٓ ءَامَنتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ فَٱسْمَعُونِ", "translation": "Indeed, I have believed in your Lord, so listen to me.\"" }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "قِيلَ ٱدْخُلِ ٱلْجَنَّةَ ۖ قَالَ يَٰلَيْتَ قَوْمِى يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "It was said, \"Enter Paradise.\" He said, \"I wish my people could know" }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "بِمَا غَفَرَ لِى رَبِّى وَجَعَلَنِى مِنَ ٱلْمُكْرَمِينَ", "translation": "Of how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the honored.\"" }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "۞ وَمَآ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَىٰ قَوْمِهِۦ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ مِن جُندٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا كُنَّا مُنزِلِينَ", "translation": "And We did not send down upon his people after him any soldiers from the heaven, nor would We have done so." }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "إِن كَانَتْ إِلَّا صَيْحَةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ فَإِذَا هُمْ خَٰمِدُونَ", "translation": "It was not but one shout, and immediately they were extinguished." }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "يَٰحَسْرَةً عَلَى ٱلْعِبَادِ ۚ مَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ", "translation": "How regretful for the servants. There did not come to them any messenger except that they used to ridicule him." }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "أَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْقُرُونِ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ", "translation": "Have they not considered how many generations We destroyed before them - that they to them will not return?" }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "وَإِن كُلٌّۭ لَّمَّا جَمِيعٌۭ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ", "translation": "And indeed, all of them will yet be brought present before Us." }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "وَءَايَةٌۭ لَّهُمُ ٱلْأَرْضُ ٱلْمَيْتَةُ أَحْيَيْنَٰهَا وَأَخْرَجْنَا مِنْهَا حَبًّۭا فَمِنْهُ يَأْكُلُونَ", "translation": "And a sign for them is the dead earth. We have brought it to life and brought forth from it grain, and from it they eat." }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "وَجَعَلْنَا فِيهَا جَنَّٰتٍۢ مِّن نَّخِيلٍۢ وَأَعْنَٰبٍۢ وَفَجَّرْنَا فِيهَا مِنَ ٱلْعُيُونِ", "translation": "And We placed therein gardens of palm trees and grapevines and caused to burst forth therefrom some springs -" }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "لِيَأْكُلُوا۟ مِن ثَمَرِهِۦ وَمَا عَمِلَتْهُ أَيْدِيهِمْ ۖ أَفَلَا يَشْكُرُونَ", "translation": "That they may eat of His fruit. And their hands have not produced it, so will they not be grateful?" }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "سُبْحَٰنَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلْأَزْوَٰجَ كُلَّهَا مِمَّا تُنۢبِتُ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَمِنْ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَمِمَّا لَا يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "Exalted is He who created all pairs - from what the earth grows and from themselves and from that which they do not know." }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "وَءَايَةٌۭ لَّهُمُ ٱلَّيْلُ نَسْلَخُ مِنْهُ ٱلنَّهَارَ فَإِذَا هُم مُّظْلِمُونَ", "translation": "And a sign for them is the night. We remove from it [the light of] day, so they are [left] in darkness." }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "وَٱلشَّمْسُ تَجْرِى لِمُسْتَقَرٍّۢ لَّهَا ۚ ذَٰلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْعَلِيمِ", "translation": "And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing." }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "وَٱلْقَمَرَ قَدَّرْنَٰهُ مَنَازِلَ حَتَّىٰ عَادَ كَٱلْعُرْجُونِ ٱلْقَدِيمِ", "translation": "And the moon - We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk." }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "لَا ٱلشَّمْسُ يَنۢبَغِى لَهَآ أَن تُدْرِكَ ٱلْقَمَرَ وَلَا ٱلَّيْلُ سَابِقُ ٱلنَّهَارِ ۚ وَكُلٌّۭ فِى فَلَكٍۢ يَسْبَحُونَ", "translation": "It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming." }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "وَءَايَةٌۭ لَّهُمْ أَنَّا حَمَلْنَا ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ فِى ٱلْفُلْكِ ٱلْمَشْحُونِ", "translation": "And a sign for them is that We carried their forefathers in a laden ship." }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "وَخَلَقْنَا لَهُم مِّن مِّثْلِهِۦ مَا يَرْكَبُونَ", "translation": "And We created for them from the likes of it that which they ride." }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "وَإِن نَّشَأْ نُغْرِقْهُمْ فَلَا صَرِيخَ لَهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنقَذُونَ", "translation": "And if We should will, We could drown them; then no one responding to a cry would there be for them, nor would they be saved" }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "إِلَّا رَحْمَةًۭ مِّنَّا وَمَتَٰعًا إِلَىٰ حِينٍۢ", "translation": "Except as a mercy from Us and provision for a time." }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ٱتَّقُوا۟ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَمَا خَلْفَكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ", "translation": "But when it is said to them, \"Beware of what is before you and what is behind you; perhaps you will receive mercy... \"" }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "وَمَا تَأْتِيهِم مِّنْ ءَايَةٍۢ مِّنْ ءَايَٰتِ رَبِّهِمْ إِلَّا كَانُوا۟ عَنْهَا مُعْرِضِينَ", "translation": "And no sign comes to them from the signs of their Lord except that they are from it turning away." }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ أَنفِقُوا۟ مِمَّا رَزَقَكُمُ ٱللَّهُ قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ أَنُطْعِمُ مَن لَّوْ يَشَآءُ ٱللَّهُ أَطْعَمَهُۥٓ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا فِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ", "translation": "And when it is said to them, \"Spend from that which Allah has provided for you,\" those who disbelieve say to those who believe, \"Should we feed one whom, if Allah had willed, He would have fed? You are not but in clear error.\"" }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَىٰ هَٰذَا ٱلْوَعْدُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ", "translation": "And they say, \"When is this promise, if you should be truthful?\"" }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "مَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا صَيْحَةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ تَأْخُذُهُمْ وَهُمْ يَخِصِّمُونَ", "translation": "They do not await except one blast which will seize them while they are disputing." }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ تَوْصِيَةًۭ وَلَآ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِمْ يَرْجِعُونَ", "translation": "And they will not be able [to give] any instruction, nor to their people can they return." }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "وَنُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَإِذَا هُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ يَنسِلُونَ", "translation": "And the Horn will be blown; and at once from the graves to their Lord they will hasten." }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ يَٰوَيْلَنَا مَنۢ بَعَثَنَا مِن مَّرْقَدِنَا ۜ ۗ هَٰذَا مَا وَعَدَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَصَدَقَ ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ", "translation": "They will say, \"O woe to us! Who has raised us up from our sleeping place?\" [The reply will be], \"This is what the Most Merciful had promised, and the messengers told the truth.\"" }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "إِن كَانَتْ إِلَّا صَيْحَةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ فَإِذَا هُمْ جَمِيعٌۭ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ", "translation": "It will not be but one blast, and at once they are all brought present before Us." }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "فَٱلْيَوْمَ لَا تُظْلَمُ نَفْسٌۭ شَيْـًۭٔا وَلَا تُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ", "translation": "So today no soul will be wronged at all, and you will not be recompensed except for what you used to do." }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "إِنَّ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ ٱلْيَوْمَ فِى شُغُلٍۢ فَٰكِهُونَ", "translation": "Indeed the companions of Paradise, that Day, will be amused in [joyful] occupation -" }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "هُمْ وَأَزْوَٰجُهُمْ فِى ظِلَٰلٍ عَلَى ٱلْأَرَآئِكِ مُتَّكِـُٔونَ", "translation": "They and their spouses - in shade, reclining on adorned couches." }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "لَهُمْ فِيهَا فَٰكِهَةٌۭ وَلَهُم مَّا يَدَّعُونَ", "translation": "For them therein is fruit, and for them is whatever they request [or wish]" }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "سَلَٰمٌۭ قَوْلًۭا مِّن رَّبٍّۢ رَّحِيمٍۢ", "translation": "[And] \"Peace,\" a word from a Merciful Lord." }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "وَٱمْتَٰزُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ", "translation": "[Then He will say], \"But stand apart today, you criminals." }, { "n": 60, "arabic": "۞ أَلَمْ أَعْهَدْ إِلَيْكُمْ يَٰبَنِىٓ ءَادَمَ أَن لَّا تَعْبُدُوا۟ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنَ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّۭ مُّبِينٌۭ", "translation": "Did I not enjoin upon you, O children of Adam, that you not worship Satan - [for] indeed, he is to you a clear enemy -" }, { "n": 61, "arabic": "وَأَنِ ٱعْبُدُونِى ۚ هَٰذَا صِرَٰطٌۭ مُّسْتَقِيمٌۭ", "translation": "And that you worship [only] Me? This is a straight path." }, { "n": 62, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنكُمْ جِبِلًّۭا كَثِيرًا ۖ أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُوا۟ تَعْقِلُونَ", "translation": "And he had already led astray from among you much of creation, so did you not use reason?" }, { "n": 63, "arabic": "هَٰذِهِۦ جَهَنَّمُ ٱلَّتِى كُنتُمْ تُوعَدُونَ", "translation": "This is the Hellfire which you were promised." }, { "n": 64, "arabic": "ٱصْلَوْهَا ٱلْيَوْمَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ", "translation": "[Enter to] burn therein today for what you used to deny.\"" }, { "n": 65, "arabic": "ٱلْيَوْمَ نَخْتِمُ عَلَىٰٓ أَفْوَٰهِهِمْ وَتُكَلِّمُنَآ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَتَشْهَدُ أَرْجُلُهُم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ", "translation": "That Day, We will seal over their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will testify about what they used to earn." }, { "n": 66, "arabic": "وَلَوْ نَشَآءُ لَطَمَسْنَا عَلَىٰٓ أَعْيُنِهِمْ فَٱسْتَبَقُوا۟ ٱلصِّرَٰطَ فَأَنَّىٰ يُبْصِرُونَ", "translation": "And if We willed, We could have obliterated their eyes, and they would race to [find] the path, and how could they see?" }, { "n": 67, "arabic": "وَلَوْ نَشَآءُ لَمَسَخْنَٰهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِهِمْ فَمَا ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟ مُضِيًّۭا وَلَا يَرْجِعُونَ", "translation": "And if We willed, We could have deformed them, [paralyzing them] in their places so they would not be able to proceed, nor could they return." }, { "n": 68, "arabic": "وَمَن نُّعَمِّرْهُ نُنَكِّسْهُ فِى ٱلْخَلْقِ ۖ أَفَلَا يَعْقِلُونَ", "translation": "And he to whom We grant long life We reverse in creation; so will they not understand?" }, { "n": 69, "arabic": "وَمَا عَلَّمْنَٰهُ ٱلشِّعْرَ وَمَا يَنۢبَغِى لَهُۥٓ ۚ إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌۭ وَقُرْءَانٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ", "translation": "And We did not give Prophet Muhammad, knowledge of poetry, nor is it befitting for him. It is not but a message and a clear Qur'an" }, { "n": 70, "arabic": "لِّيُنذِرَ مَن كَانَ حَيًّۭا وَيَحِقَّ ٱلْقَوْلُ عَلَى ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ", "translation": "To warn whoever is alive and justify the word against the disbelievers." }, { "n": 71, "arabic": "أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَا لَهُم مِّمَّا عَمِلَتْ أَيْدِينَآ أَنْعَٰمًۭا فَهُمْ لَهَا مَٰلِكُونَ", "translation": "Do they not see that We have created for them from what Our hands have made, grazing livestock, and [then] they are their owners?" }, { "n": 72, "arabic": "وَذَلَّلْنَٰهَا لَهُمْ فَمِنْهَا رَكُوبُهُمْ وَمِنْهَا يَأْكُلُونَ", "translation": "And We have tamed them for them, so some of them they ride, and some of them they eat." }, { "n": 73, "arabic": "وَلَهُمْ فِيهَا مَنَٰفِعُ وَمَشَارِبُ ۖ أَفَلَا يَشْكُرُونَ", "translation": "And for them therein are [other] benefits and drinks, so will they not be grateful?" }, { "n": 74, "arabic": "وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ ءَالِهَةًۭ لَّعَلَّهُمْ يُنصَرُونَ", "translation": "But they have taken besides Allah [false] deities that perhaps they would be helped." }, { "n": 75, "arabic": "لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ نَصْرَهُمْ وَهُمْ لَهُمْ جُندٌۭ مُّحْضَرُونَ", "translation": "They are not able to help them, and they [themselves] are for them soldiers in attendance." }, { "n": 76, "arabic": "فَلَا يَحْزُنكَ قَوْلُهُمْ ۘ إِنَّا نَعْلَمُ مَا يُسِرُّونَ وَمَا يُعْلِنُونَ", "translation": "So let not their speech grieve you. Indeed, We know what they conceal and what they declare." }, { "n": 77, "arabic": "أَوَلَمْ يَرَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُ مِن نُّطْفَةٍۢ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ", "translation": "Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once he is a clear adversary?" }, { "n": 78, "arabic": "وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلًۭا وَنَسِىَ خَلْقَهُۥ ۖ قَالَ مَن يُحْىِ ٱلْعِظَٰمَ وَهِىَ رَمِيمٌۭ", "translation": "And he presents for Us an example and forgets his [own] creation. He says, \"Who will give life to bones while they are disintegrated?\"" }, { "n": 79, "arabic": "قُلْ يُحْيِيهَا ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنشَأَهَآ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍۢ ۖ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ خَلْقٍ عَلِيمٌ", "translation": "Say, \"He will give them life who produced them the first time; and He is, of all creation, Knowing.\"" }, { "n": 80, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلشَّجَرِ ٱلْأَخْضَرِ نَارًۭا فَإِذَآ أَنتُم مِّنْهُ تُوقِدُونَ", "translation": "[It is] He who made for you from the green tree, fire, and then from it you ignite." }, { "n": 81, "arabic": "أَوَلَيْسَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ بِقَٰدِرٍ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُم ۚ بَلَىٰ وَهُوَ ٱلْخَلَّٰقُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ", "translation": "Is not He who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the likes of them? Yes, [it is so]; and He is the Knowing Creator." }, { "n": 82, "arabic": "إِنَّمَآ أَمْرُهُۥٓ إِذَآ أَرَادَ شَيْـًٔا أَن يَقُولَ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ", "translation": "His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, \"Be,\" and it is." }, { "n": 83, "arabic": "فَسُبْحَٰنَ ٱلَّذِى بِيَدِهِۦ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ", "translation": "So exalted is He in whose hand is the realm of all things, and to Him you will be returned." } ], "glosses": [ [ "Ya Seen." ], [ "By the Quran", "the Wise." ], [ "Indeed, you", "(are) among", "the Messengers," ], [ "On", "a Path", "Straight." ], [ "A revelation", "(of) the All-Mighty,", "the Most Merciful," ], [ "That you may warn", "a people", "not", "were warned", "their forefathers,", "so they", "(are) heedless." ], [ "Certainly,", "(has) proved true", "the word", "upon", "most of them", "so they", "(do) not", "believe." ], [ "Indeed, We", "[We] have placed", "on", "their necks", "iron collars,", "and they", "(are up) 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"receive mercy.\"" ], [ "And not", "comes to them", "of", "a Sign", "from", "(the) Signs", "(of) their Lord,", "but", "they", "from it", "turn away." ], [ "And when", "it is said", "to them,", "\"Spend", "from what", "(has) provided you", "Allah.\"", "Said", "those who", "disbelieved", "to those who", "believed,", "\"Should we feed", "whom", "if", "willed", "Allah", "He would have fed him?\"", "Not", "(are) you", "except", "in", "an error", "clear." ], [ "And they say,", "\"When (is)", "this", "promise,", "if", "you are", "truthful?\"" ], [ "Not", "they await", "except", "a shout", "one,", "it will seize them", "while they", "are disputing." ], [ "Then not", "they will be able", "(to) make a will,", "and not", "to", "their people", "they (can) return." ], [ "And will be blown", "[in]", "the trumpet,", "and behold!", "They", "from", "the graves", "to", "their Lord", "[they] will hasten." ], [ "They [will] say,", "\"O woe to us!", "Who", "has raised us", "from", "our sleeping place?\"", "\"This (is)", "what", "(had) promised", "the Most Gracious,", "and told (the) truth", "the Messengers.\"" ], [ "Not", "it will be", "but", "a shout", "single,", "so behold!", "They", "all", "before Us", "(will be) brought." ], [ "So this Day", "not", "will be wronged", "a soul", "(in) anything", "and not", "you will be recompensed", "except", "(for) what", "you used (to)", "do." ], [ "Indeed,", "(the) companions", "(of) Paradise", "this Day", "[in]", "will be occupied", "(in) amusement," ], [ "They", "and their spouses", "in", "shades,", "on", "[the] couches", "reclining." ], [ "For them", "therein", "(are) fruits,", "and for them", "(is) whatever", "they call for." ], [ "\"Peace.\"", "A word", "from", "a Lord", "Most Merciful." ], [ "\"But stand apart", "today", "O you", "criminals" ], [ "Did not", "I enjoin", "upon you", "O children of", "Adam", "That", "(do) not", "worship", "the Shaitaan,", "indeed, he", "(is) for you", "an enemy", "clear," ], [ "And that", "you worship Me?", "This", "(is) a Path", "Straight." ], [ "And indeed,", "he led astray", "from you", "a multitude", "great.", "Then did not", "you", "use reason?" ], [ "This (is)", "(the) Hell", "which", "you were", "promised." ], [ "Burn therein", "today", "because", "you used to", "disbelieve.\"" ], [ "This Day", "We will seal", "[on]", "their mouths,", "and will speak to Us", "their hands,", "and will bear witness", "their feet", "about what", "they used to", "earn." ], [ "And if", "We willed,", "We (would have) surely obliterated", "[over]", "their eyes,", "then they (would) race", "(to find) the path,", "then how", "(could) they see?" ], [ "And if", "We willed", "surely, We (would have) transformed them", "in", "their places", "then not", "they would have been able", "to proceed", "and not", "return." ], [ "And (he) whom", "We grant him long life,", "We reverse him", "in", "the creation.", "Then will not", "they use intellect?" ], [ "And not", "We taught him", "[the] poetry,", "and not", "it is befitting", "for him.", "Not", "it", "(is) except", "a Reminder", "and a Quran", "clear," ], [ "To warn", "(him) who", "is", "alive", "and may be proved true", "the Word", "against", "the disbelievers." ], [ "Do not", "they see", "that We", "[We] created", "for them", "from what", "have made", "Our hands,", "cattle,", "then they", "[for them]", "(are the) owners?" ], [ "And We have tamed them", "for them,", "so some of them -", "they ride them,", "and some of them", "they eat." ], [ "And for them", "therein", "(are) benefits", "and drinks,", "so (will) not", "they give thanks?" ], [ "But they have taken", "besides", "besides", "Allah", "gods,", "that they may", "be helped." ], [ "Not", "they are able", "to help them,", "but they -", "for them", "(are) hosts", "(who will) be brought." ], [ "So (let) not", "grieve you", "their speech.", "Indeed, We", "[We] know", "what", "they conceal", "and what", "they declare." ], [ "Does not", "see", "[the] man", "that We", "[We] created him", "from", "a semen-drop", "Then behold!", "He", "(is) an opponent", "clear." ], [ "And he sets forth", "for Us", "an example", "and forgets", "his (own) creation.", "He says,", "\"Who", "will give life", "(to) the bones", "while they", "(are) decomposed?\"" ], [ "Say,", "\"He will give them life", "Who", "produced them", "(the) first", "time;", "and He", "(is) of every", "creation", "All-Knower.\"" ], [ "The One Who", "made", "for you", "from", "the tree", "[the] green -", "fire,", "and behold!", "You", "from it", "ignite." ], [ "Is it not", "(He) Who", "created", "the heavens", "and the earth", "Able", "to", "[that]", "create", "(the) like of them.", "Yes, indeed!", "and He", "(is) the Supreme Creator,", "the All-Knower." ], [ "Only", "His Command", "when", "He intends", "a thing", "that", "He says", "to it,", "\"Be,\"", "and it is." ], [ "So glory be", "(to) the One who", "in Whose hand", "is (the) dominion", "(of) all", "things,", "and to Him", "you will be returned." ] ], "juz": 22, "glossNote": "Word meanings follow the Quranic Arabic Corpus. Repeated phrase glosses are divided into individual word senses for the displayed Arabic; exact adjustments are saved in the source audit. Stray Image labels from source rendering are removed." }