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"title": "A report concerning 39:53 · Sahih al-Bukhari 4810", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4810" }, { "title": "622 CE period boundary · Britannica (1911)", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "titles": [ "Revelation from wisdom and might", "Sincerity in worship", "The claim of intermediaries", "The One beyond attributed offspring", "Night, day and appointed courses", "Origins held in care", "Gratitude and personal responsibility", "The prayer forgotten after relief", "Night worship and understanding", "A spacious earth, a steadfast heart", "The messenger's own command", "First in surrender", "Accountability close to oneself", "A clear declaration of worship", "What counts as the greatest loss?", "A warning before it is too late", "Turning away and turning toward", "Listening that becomes action", "The limit of a messenger's power", "A promise of lofty dwellings", "Rain, springs and passing crops", "A heart opened to light", "Awe that softens the heart", "The vulnerability of judgment", "Consequence from an unexpected direction", "Beyond a worldly measure", "Parables that invite reflection", "Clarity for mindful conduct", "One allegiance or quarrelling claims?", "A shared mortality", "Disputes before the Lord", "The wrong of fabricating and denying", "Bringing and believing truth", "The reward of doing good", "Mercy beyond a bare tally", "Sufficiency amid intimidation", "Guidance beyond a rival's reach", "Does trust match belief?", "Acting after the message is heard", "The outcome will disclose", "Guidance and personal choice", "Sleep, death and an appointed term", "Who can truly intercede?", "All intercession belongs to Allah", "What the heart welcomes", "A prayer amid disagreement", "Wealth cannot buy an escape", "What was mocked becomes visible", "Relief claimed as self-sufficiency", "An old boast repeated", "No generation is exempt", "Provision is not a simple ranking", "Do not despair of mercy", "Begin the return now", "Follow the guidance while there is time", "The regret of neglected duty", "An excuse examined", "The wish for another chance", "The signs had arrived", "The disgrace of false claims", "Deliverance from harm and grief", "Creator and Guardian of all", "The keys of heaven and earth", "A demand firmly refused", "No exemption from sincere worship", "Worship joined with gratitude", "Sovereignty beyond human estimation", "The trumpet and the rising", "A judgment without injustice", "Every soul paid in full", "Groups face the warning they heard", "The end of arrogant refusal", "Groups welcomed in peace", "The promise received with praise", "Truthful judgment and universal praise" ], "notes": [ "The scripture is introduced as revelation from the Mighty and Wise. This opening places its authority beyond human prestige while associating strength with wisdom. The Surah will ask what a life looks like when worship is directed sincerely toward that source.", "Truth in revelation calls for sincerity in worship. The verse moves directly from what has been given to how the recipient should respond. Devotion is more than outward participation; it requires examining the motives and loyalties carried into religious practice.", "The claim that intermediaries bring worshippers nearer to Allah is challenged. Final judgment of the dispute belongs to Him. The verse asks whether a practice actually follows divine guidance, or merely borrows religious language to justify an inherited attachment.", "The assertion of divine oneness rejects the attribution of a child to Allah. The hypothetical opening does not affirm such a relationship; the verse closes by declaring His transcendence. Its theological claim should be conveyed respectfully without denigrating other communities.", "Night and day wrap around one another, while sun and moon follow their appointed courses. Creation's order is joined to divine forgiveness. The signs invite wonder and gratitude, rather than requiring this edition to extract a modern scientific formula from the language.", "Common human origin, paired life, livestock and development in the womb are gathered into one account of dependence. Sovereignty belongs to the Lord who sustains these beginnings. The verse dignifies shared creatureliness without supplying a modern anatomical diagram of its threefold darkness.", "Allah's independence does not make human gratitude irrelevant; thankfulness is welcomed, and each soul carries its own responsibility. Knowledge of the heart completes the verse. No one can transfer their moral burden simply through family membership, status or inherited religious identity.", "Distress prompts prayer, but relief is followed by forgetfulness and competing loyalties. The verse exposes inconsistency at the point where gratitude should begin. It invites readers to remember a need honestly after it passes, rather than rewriting relief as complete self-sufficiency.", "Night worship combines fear of accountability with hope for mercy. The question about knowledge places understanding within this reflective life. Knowledge is not merely accumulated information here; it should deepen awareness, direct action and help a person respond to what matters.", "Believers are called to mindfulness, good action and steadfastness, with the spacious earth opening a horizon beyond constriction. The verse can encourage seeking conditions in which faith is lived well. It does not itself name a particular migration or departure date.", "Muhammad is commanded to worship sincerely, making the messenger subject to the same central demand he conveys. The verse resists treating religious authority as exemption from devotion. Its first-person declaration models accountability before becoming an instruction addressed to others.", "Being first in surrender presents leadership through personal response. The messenger does not ask others to enter a path he refuses himself. The verse emphasizes the order of commitment and example, rather than worldly rank or an inherited claim to superiority.", "The messenger's declaration of fear if he disobeys keeps accountability close to his own person. Reverence is not used only to warn an audience. The verse joins responsibility with sincerity, making obedience a real demand even for the one who teaches.", "The declaration returns to its simple center: Allah alone is worshipped with sincere devotion. Repetition strips away distraction and compromise. The reader can ask whether the same clarity appears in practice, especially when praise, advantage or approval compete for attention.", "The command to worship alternatives functions as a warning, not approval of them. The greatest loss concerns the self and household at resurrection. The verse changes the measure of success from present possession to the enduring consequences of allegiance and conduct.", "Fire above and below creates an image of inescapable loss. Yet the address still speaks to servants who can respond now. The warning's purpose is preventive: to awaken reverence while the hearer still has an opportunity to change course.", "Turning away from false objects of worship is joined to returning toward Allah. The movement is both refusal and renewed direction. Good news meets that choice, preventing the Surah's warnings from obscuring the welcome available to those who sincerely turn.", "The praised listeners attend carefully and follow what is best. Understanding becomes visible in discernment and action, not merely in hearing many words. The verse encourages a thoughtful receptiveness that can recognize guidance and allow it to alter one's conduct.", "The messenger cannot rescue someone by overriding divine judgment. This limit matters within the invitation to hear and respond: guidance is conveyed, but another person's choice cannot be possessed. Compassion does not grant a human being control over ultimate outcomes.", "Elevated chambers and flowing rivers answer the earlier image of fire above and below. The promise belongs to Allah, whose word does not fail. These are descriptions of the Hereafter, not a plan for locating a garden within earthly geography.", "Rain enters the earth, emerges as springs and supports crops before their colors fade into chaff. The sequence invites attention to growth and impermanence together. A living landscape can teach gratitude without hiding the passing nature of its beauty.", "An opened heart receives light, while a hardened heart resists remembrance. The contrast concerns receptivity rather than physical anatomy. The verse invites a reader to examine what softens or closes their attention when truth challenges a familiar habit or settled self-image.", "The Quran is described as a harmonious, recurring message that first awakens awe and then softens hearts. The response involves feeling and understanding together. Its repeated themes are not merely repetition; they return the listener to guidance from different angles.", "The image of meeting punishment with one's face conveys extreme vulnerability. It contrasts with the guided heart of the preceding passage. The verse presses the reader to consider how present deeds prepare either exposure or security at the final accounting.", "Earlier deniers were overtaken from an unexpected direction. Confidence about the future had not protected them. The warning asks readers to recognize the limits of prediction, while avoiding the assumption that every unexpected hardship reveals a known divine verdict about its victims.", "Worldly humiliation is followed by a warning of greater consequence beyond it. The verse separates present appearance from the full scale of accountability. Its concern is to awaken understanding before a limited view of success makes correction seem unnecessary.", "Parables offer multiple ways to consider the Quran's message. They invite reflection rather than demanding one kind of audience or one style of argument. The reader is encouraged to notice how an everyday comparison can reveal an otherwise hidden moral pattern.", "Arabic speech without crookedness is directed toward mindful conduct. Clarity has a purpose beyond elegance: the listener should be able to recognize a straight course. The verse connects understanding a message with the responsibility to respond to its direction.", "The comparison contrasts a servant claimed by quarrelling owners with one serving a single master. It illustrates divided and unified allegiance using an institution familiar to the first audience. The image does not establish a model for owning people today.", "The messenger and his opponents alike will die. The plainness of the statement interrupts the argument with a shared human limit. No reputation or hostility changes mortality, and this common destination should temper the urgency of winning every present dispute.", "Disputes ultimately come before the Lord at resurrection. The verse does not deny the need to seek truth now, but limits human claims to final judgment. It invites seriousness in disagreement alongside humility about what remains unresolved within this life.", "Inventing a lie about Allah and denying truth are presented as grave wrongs. Both misuse religious authority: one fabricates, the other refuses what arrives. The verse challenges the reader's honesty before it becomes a convenient label applied only to an opponent.", "Bringing truth and affirming it belong to the portrait of those mindful of Allah. Integrity therefore concerns both speaking and receiving. A person can be responsible for what they claim while remaining willing to recognize truth when someone else presents it.", "The promise grants the doers of good what they desire from their Lord. Its generosity follows the description of truthfulness and reverence. The verse links hope to a moral direction, without treating goodness as a way to control the Giver.", "Mercy removes evil and rewards according to the best of good deeds. The contrast exceeds a bare tally of equivalent outcomes. It encourages sincere effort and repentance, showing that divine generosity can transform a record that human calculation would regard with despair.", "Allah's sufficiency is set against intimidation through supposed rivals. The question confronts fear that would redirect devotion away from Him. The verse does not promise the absence of difficulty; it asks where ultimate reliance belongs when threats pressure a conscience.", "Guidance cannot be overturned by a rival authority when Allah grants it. Divine might and the ability to requite wrongdoing reinforce the assurance. The verse continues the invitation to trust without imagining that every loud or influential voice possesses equal power.", "Acknowledging Allah as Creator is tested against reliance on other powers. Can they remove harm or block mercy independently? The questions draw belief toward its practical consequences, asking whether trust matches the confession already made about the source of the world.", "The messenger declares that both sides will act, and knowledge of the outcome will follow. The verse marks a boundary after the argument has been conveyed. It calls for steadiness without requiring endless contention or control of another person's response.", "The coming outcome will reveal whose course leads to disgrace and lasting punishment. This completes the preceding declaration about acting and coming to know. Its warning gives the present choice weight while leaving final judgment with the Lord.", "Scripture is revealed for people in truth, and guidance or error returns to the person choosing it. Muhammad is not appointed as their controller. The verse balances the universal address of the message with the personal responsibility of its hearers.", "Sleep and death are brought together as signs of dependence on Allah. Some souls are retained and others returned for an appointed term. The verse invites reflection on vulnerability and renewed life, without prescribing a medical explanation of sleep or consciousness.", "Chosen intercessors are questioned through their lack of independent power or understanding. The challenge asks what justifies the authority being assigned to them. It directs attention away from an assumed religious arrangement toward the actual capacity of those invoked.", "All intercession belongs to Allah, together with the sovereignty of heaven and earth. Return to Him remains the final horizon. The verse prevents help or mediation from being imagined as an independent power capable of overruling the One who judges.", "Different names evoke opposite responses in hearts attached to rival worship. The verse examines emotional allegiance, not just outward doctrine. A reader can ask what brings relief or resistance within them, and whether those reactions reveal loyalties that deserve reconsideration.", "The prayer turns disputed matters over to the Creator who knows both hidden and visible reality. It models a response after prolonged argument: speak to Allah with trust in His judgment. Human uncertainty does not require inventing certainty about every other person's fate.", "Even doubled possession of the whole earth could not purchase escape from final judgment. The image exposes the limits of wealth as protection. The unexpected disclosure also warns that a person's own confident estimate may not match the full moral reality.", "Previously earned evils become visible, and what was mocked surrounds its mockers. The verse reverses a stance of detached superiority. Its challenge is to consider what joking dismissal can conceal when a serious obligation is treated as something beneath attention.", "Hardship produces prayer, while relief is credited entirely to personal knowledge. The verse calls that relief a test. Skill and effort need not be denied; the error is treating them as complete self-sufficiency that owes nothing to gifts or circumstances.", "Earlier people made the same claim, and their accumulated gains could not protect them. The verse gives self-congratulation a history. Recognizing that repetition can help a reader question a boast that feels uniquely modern or personally justified by visible success.", "The consequences of wrongdoing reach earlier and present people alike. The warning refuses the belief that one's own generation is exempt from accountability. It directs attention to what is being earned through conduct, rather than to confidence about escaping its effects.", "Provision may widen or narrow according to divine knowledge and will. These variations are signs, not a simple ranking of human worth. The verse challenges the assumption that wealth proves approval or that limited means necessarily reveal spiritual failure.", "The address reaches servants who have harmed themselves through excess and forbids despair of mercy. Ibn Kathir reads it with the following call to repentance. Hope is expansive here: a damaged past need not prevent an honest return.", "The open invitation becomes an instruction to turn and surrender before the opportunity closes. Mercy and action are therefore connected. The verse does not ask a person to wait until they feel worthy; it calls them to begin returning now.", "Following revealed guidance is the practical shape of return. The warning about an unexpected end gives urgency without supplying a date. A sincere response can begin with the next available decision, rather than postponing change until an imagined ideal moment.", "One possible future regret concerns neglect of duty and participation in mockery. The verse lets the reader hear that sorrow in advance. This imagined confession can become useful now, if it prompts attention to obligations still within reach.", "Another imagined plea places the failure entirely outside the speaker's responsibility. The surrounding verses answer by recalling that guidance did arrive. The passage asks readers to distinguish genuine confusion from an explanation that prevents them from responding to what they already understand.", "The wish for another chance arises when consequence is finally visible. The verse makes present opportunity emotionally concrete: what is easily deferred now may later seem priceless. Repentance matters because the reader still occupies the time in which choices can change.", "The response recalls received signs, denial and arrogance. Regret alone cannot rewrite that history at the final reckoning. Within the present reading, however, the warning can interrupt the same pattern before refusal becomes the final description of a life.", "Darkened faces depict disgrace at resurrection for those who lied about Allah. The imagery concerns a judgment scene, not skin color, ancestry or racial worth. The verse challenges arrogance and fabricated religious claims rather than any human physical identity.", "Those mindful of Allah are delivered into safety, free from harm and grief. This promise answers the preceding warning and keeps hope in view. The contrast directs readers toward a lived response to guidance, rather than fascination with the fate of others.", "Creation and guardianship belong together: Allah originates all things and remains their keeper. The concise verse gathers the Surah's many examples of dependence. No part of life is outside this horizon, whether it appears ordinary, powerful, secure or vulnerable.", "The keys of heaven and earth symbolize complete sovereignty. Refusing the signs means misunderstanding the very source of what sustains life. The warning asks the reader to look beyond ownership and access as humans measure them toward their deeper dependence.", "The messenger rejects the demand to worship another than Allah. The sharp address belongs to a specific confrontation over devotion. Its force should be understood within that exchange, not turned into a general permission to insult people of other beliefs.", "The warning against associating partners is addressed to Muhammad and linked to earlier revelation. Its seriousness is not confined to an out-group. The verse makes sincere worship a demand upon the messenger himself, preventing status from being treated as spiritual exemption.", "Worship and gratitude form the positive answer to the preceding rejection. Devotion is not only a boundary against false claims; it is an active turning toward the Giver. Thankfulness gives that turning a daily expression in attention, speech and conduct.", "The earth and heavens are described within divine grasp, exposing the inadequacy of human estimates. This sacred language affirms overwhelming sovereignty. The reader should not mistake an illustration for a physical portrait of Allah or a diagram of divine reality.", "The trumpet's two soundings move the scene from collapse to resurrection. What seemed stable cannot resist the divine summons, and the dead stand again. The verse gives no earthly date or observable mechanism for the transition it announces.", "The earth shines, the record is placed, and prophets and witnesses are brought for truthful judgment. The explicit denial of injustice is central. The scene emphasizes a complete and fair accounting, rather than an arbitrary exercise of overwhelming power.", "Every soul receives in full for what it did, under perfect knowledge. The short verse concentrates the judgment scene on individual responsibility. No overlooked action or missing human witness can prevent the complete truth of a life from being known.", "Groups arrive at hell and are asked about messengers who warned them. Their answer acknowledges that the message had reached them. The Surah's title emerges from these final gatherings, where former responses to guidance become a shared destination.", "The final instruction to enter completes the warning about arrogant refusal. The emphasis on pride connects this scene with the Surah's earlier confrontations. It is divine judgment within the text, not a verdict readers are authorized to pronounce over named individuals.", "The contrasting groups reach the garden and receive a greeting of peace and welcome. Their arrival answers the anxiety of the preceding scene. The promise presents lasting belonging, while leaving the reality of the Hereafter beyond an earthly map or literal reconstruction.", "Praise answers the fulfilled promise, and the garden is received as an inheritance and reward. The inhabitants recognize the Giver rather than congratulating themselves on independent achievement. Gratitude, urged throughout the Surah, becomes the language of arrival.", "Angelic praise surrounds the Throne as judgment is completed in truth. The final words return all praise to the Lord of the worlds. Revelation, sincere worship, repentance and accountability have converged in a closing scene of justice and gratitude." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 10, "title": "Sincerity beneath the turning sky", "summary": "Creation, common human origin and changing circumstances challenge divided worship. Night devotion and steadfastness show a different response to knowledge and dependence.", "reflection": "Does gratitude during ease match the sincerity of prayer during need?" }, { "start": 11, "end": 20, "title": "One devotion, two horizons", "summary": "The messenger declares his own responsibility to worship sincerely. Warnings of loss are balanced by good news for thoughtful listeners and a promise that does not fail.", "reflection": "Which competing demand most often pulls your attention away from what you know matters?" }, { "start": 21, "end": 31, "title": "Rain, remembrance and the passing of life", "summary": "Springs, crops and their fading colors invite reflection. The Quran softens receptive hearts, parables clarify allegiance, and shared mortality puts dispute into perspective.", "reflection": "What can the changing landscape teach you about holding gifts with gratitude?" }, { "start": 32, "end": 52, "title": "Truth, trust and the limits of possession", "summary": "Truthful response receives mercy. Questions about protection, sleep, intercession and provision challenge intimidation, self-sufficiency and the belief that wealth can secure every outcome.", "reflection": "Where does your practical trust differ from what you say you believe?" }, { "start": 53, "end": 63, "title": "The door of mercy is open", "summary": "Those who have harmed themselves are told not to despair. Repentance and following guidance are urged before regret arrives too late, with deliverance promised to the mindful.", "reflection": "What honest step of return is possible now, without waiting to feel perfect?" }, { "start": 64, "end": 75, "title": "The gathering of groups", "summary": "Sincere worship leads into scenes of resurrection and truthful judgment. Groups reach contrasting destinations, and the Surah ends in praise for justice and a fulfilled promise.", "reflection": "What would it mean to live toward a welcome marked by peace and gratitude?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · generally Makkan", "year": 622, "body": "Quran.com gives the majority Makkan classification. The 622 CE marker is the Hijrah boundary, not a precise year assigned to the Surah.", "source": "https://quran.com/az-zumar/info" }, { "title": "622 CE · the Hijrah reference", "year": 622, "body": "The Hijrah is dated to 622 CE. This reference distinguishes broad revelation periods without claiming that a particular verse was revealed at the boundary.", "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" }, { "title": "A question about a sinful past · reported, undated", "year": null, "body": "Bukhari 4810 records people asking whether their serious past wrongdoing could be expiated, and connects the response with 39:53. The cited report gives no exact date.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4810" }, { "title": "The groups at judgment · future, undated", "year": null, "body": "Verses 68–75 describe resurrection, accounting and groups arriving at their destinations. No human calendar date or earthly location is supplied.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/039.htm" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · broad revelation setting", "body": "The Surah is generally classified as Makkan. The city marker is contextual orientation and does not identify a specific revelation site for its individual passages.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/az-zumar/info", "image": 0 }, { "id": "spacious-earth", "name": "Allah's spacious earth", "body": "Verse 10 opens a horizon beyond constricting circumstances. It names no departure route or destination; this edition does not turn it into a precisely dated migration itinerary.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/039.htm", "image": 0 }, { "id": "springs-fields", "name": "Springs and changing fields", "body": "Verse 21 follows rain into springs and crops that eventually fade. The landscape is a general sign of provision and impermanence, not a claimed historical farm or spring.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/039.htm", "image": 2 }, { "id": "gates", "name": "The gates and groups of the Hereafter", "body": "Verses 71–74 contrast judgment with a welcome of peace. These destinations belong to the unseen account, so their illustrations are symbolic and have no terrestrial map pins.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/039.htm", "image": 5 } ], "people": [ { "id": "muhammad", "title": "Muhammad · sincerity and limited guardianship", "body": "The messenger declares his own duty to worship in verses 11–14. Verse 41 makes clear that he conveys guidance but does not control the response of every hearer.", "verse": 41 }, { "id": "listeners", "title": "Listeners who follow what is best", "body": "Verses 17–18 praise turning toward Allah and a thoughtful response to what is heard. The focus is a quality of understanding, not a named historical group.", "verse": 18 }, { "id": "returning-servants", "title": "Those returning from a harmful past", "body": "Verse 53 addresses servants who have transgressed against themselves. Ibn Kathir connects its hope with the following command to repent, rather than reading it as approval of continuing harm.", "url": "https://quran.com/39:53/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir", "label": "Read the repentance commentary" }, { "id": "questioners", "title": "The questioners in Ibn Abbas's report", "body": "Bukhari 4810 records people asking Muhammad about expiation after serious wrongdoing. The report connects their question to 39:53 without giving their names or an exact date.", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4810", "label": "Read the primary report" }, { "id": "groups", "title": "The groups at the final gathering", "body": "The Surah's closing people are grouped by their response and outcome. The scenes concern divine judgment and welcome, not permission to classify named living individuals as destined for punishment.", "verse": 73 } ], "history": [ { "title": "Why Az-Zumar?", "body": "The title refers to the groups in the closing scenes. Their arrivals draw together the Surah's earlier themes of sincere worship, hearing guidance, repentance and accountability.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/039.htm" }, { "title": "Makkan classification and cautious dating", "body": "Quran.com's introduction discusses the Surah as generally Makkan and relates verse 10 to conditions encouraging migration. This reader preserves the broad classification without converting that interpretation into an exact revelation year.", "source": "https://quran.com/az-zumar/info" }, { "title": "Hope that leads into repentance", "body": "Ibn Kathir reads 39:53–59 as an invitation for sinners to return. The promise of mercy is expansive, while the following verses call for surrender and changed conduct before the opportunity closes.", "source": "https://quran.com/39:53/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "A primary report about the invitation", "body": "Bukhari 4810 attributes to Ibn Abbas a report linking 39:53 to people troubled by their past wrongdoing. It provides an occasion reported in tradition, rather than a complete biography of the questioners.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4810" } ], "revelationNote": "Generally classified as Makkan. The 622 CE date is a boundary only; no exact revelation year or dated migration is inferred. The chapter begins in Juz 23, with Juz 24 starting at 39:32. Reports about 39:53 are attributed explicitly.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "تَنزِيلُ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْحَكِيمِ", "translation": "The revelation of the Qur'an is from Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Wise." }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "إِنَّآ أَنزَلْنَآ إِلَيْكَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ بِٱلْحَقِّ فَٱعْبُدِ ٱللَّهَ مُخْلِصًۭا لَّهُ ٱلدِّينَ", "translation": "Indeed, We have sent down to you the Book, [O Muhammad], in truth. So worship Allah, [being] sincere to Him in religion." }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "أَلَا لِلَّهِ ٱلدِّينُ ٱلْخَالِصُ ۚ وَٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ أَوْلِيَآءَ مَا نَعْبُدُهُمْ إِلَّا لِيُقَرِّبُونَآ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ زُلْفَىٰٓ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَهُمْ فِى مَا هُمْ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى مَنْ هُوَ كَٰذِبٌۭ كَفَّارٌۭ", "translation": "Unquestionably, for Allah is the pure religion. And those who take protectors besides Him [say], \"We only worship them that they may bring us nearer to Allah in position.\" Indeed, Allah will judge between them concerning that over which they differ. Indeed, Allah does not guide he who is a liar and [confirmed] disbeliever." }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "لَّوْ أَرَادَ ٱللَّهُ أَن يَتَّخِذَ وَلَدًۭا لَّٱصْطَفَىٰ مِمَّا يَخْلُقُ مَا يَشَآءُ ۚ سُبْحَٰنَهُۥ ۖ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْوَٰحِدُ ٱلْقَهَّارُ", "translation": "If Allah had intended to take a son, He could have chosen from what He creates whatever He willed. Exalted is He; He is Allah, the One, the Prevailing." }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ بِٱلْحَقِّ ۖ يُكَوِّرُ ٱلَّيْلَ عَلَى ٱلنَّهَارِ وَيُكَوِّرُ ٱلنَّهَارَ عَلَى ٱلَّيْلِ ۖ وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ ۖ كُلٌّۭ يَجْرِى لِأَجَلٍۢ مُّسَمًّى ۗ أَلَا هُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْغَفَّٰرُ", "translation": "He created the heavens and earth in truth. He wraps the night over the day and wraps the day over the night and has subjected the sun and the moon, each running [its course] for a specified term. Unquestionably, He is the Exalted in Might, the Perpetual Forgiver." }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍۢ وَٰحِدَةٍۢ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَأَنزَلَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ ثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَزْوَٰجٍۢ ۚ يَخْلُقُكُمْ فِى بُطُونِ أُمَّهَٰتِكُمْ خَلْقًۭا مِّنۢ بَعْدِ خَلْقٍۢ فِى ظُلُمَٰتٍۢ ثَلَٰثٍۢ ۚ ذَٰلِكُمُ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ لَهُ ٱلْمُلْكُ ۖ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ فَأَنَّىٰ تُصْرَفُونَ", "translation": "He created you from one soul. Then He made from it its mate, and He produced for you from the grazing livestock eight mates. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, within three darknesses. That is Allah, your Lord; to Him belongs dominion. There is no deity except Him, so how are you averted?" }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "إِن تَكْفُرُوا۟ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَنِىٌّ عَنكُمْ ۖ وَلَا يَرْضَىٰ لِعِبَادِهِ ٱلْكُفْرَ ۖ وَإِن تَشْكُرُوا۟ يَرْضَهُ لَكُمْ ۗ وَلَا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌۭ وِزْرَ أُخْرَىٰ ۗ ثُمَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُم مَّرْجِعُكُمْ فَيُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ عَلِيمٌۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ", "translation": "If you disbelieve - indeed, Allah is Free from need of you. And He does not approve for His servants disbelief. And if you are grateful, He approves it for you; and no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another. Then to your Lord is your return, and He will inform you about what you used to do. Indeed, He is Knowing of that within the breasts." }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "۞ وَإِذَا مَسَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ ضُرٌّۭ دَعَا رَبَّهُۥ مُنِيبًا إِلَيْهِ ثُمَّ إِذَا خَوَّلَهُۥ نِعْمَةًۭ مِّنْهُ نَسِىَ مَا كَانَ يَدْعُوٓا۟ إِلَيْهِ مِن قَبْلُ وَجَعَلَ لِلَّهِ أَندَادًۭا لِّيُضِلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ ۚ قُلْ تَمَتَّعْ بِكُفْرِكَ قَلِيلًا ۖ إِنَّكَ مِنْ أَصْحَٰبِ ٱلنَّارِ", "translation": "And when adversity touches man, he calls upon his Lord, turning to Him [alone]; then when He bestows on him a favor from Himself, he forgets Him whom he called upon before, and he attributes to Allah equals to mislead [people] from His way. Say, \"Enjoy your disbelief for a little; indeed, you are of the companions of the Fire.\"" }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "أَمَّنْ هُوَ قَٰنِتٌ ءَانَآءَ ٱلَّيْلِ سَاجِدًۭا وَقَآئِمًۭا يَحْذَرُ ٱلْءَاخِرَةَ وَيَرْجُوا۟ رَحْمَةَ رَبِّهِۦ ۗ قُلْ هَلْ يَسْتَوِى ٱلَّذِينَ يَعْلَمُونَ وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ۗ إِنَّمَا يَتَذَكَّرُ أُو۟لُوا۟ ٱلْأَلْبَٰبِ", "translation": "Is one who is devoutly obedient during periods of the night, prostrating and standing [in prayer], fearing the Hereafter and hoping for the mercy of his Lord, [like one who does not]? Say, \"Are those who know equal to those who do not know?\" Only they will remember [who are] people of understanding." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "قُلْ يَٰعِبَادِ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱتَّقُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ ۚ لِلَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا۟ فِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةٌۭ ۗ وَأَرْضُ ٱللَّهِ وَٰسِعَةٌ ۗ إِنَّمَا يُوَفَّى ٱلصَّٰبِرُونَ أَجْرَهُم بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍۢ", "translation": "Say, \"O My servants who have believed, fear your Lord. For those who do good in this world is good, and the earth of Allah is spacious. Indeed, the patient will be given their reward without account.\"" }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "قُلْ إِنِّىٓ أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أَعْبُدَ ٱللَّهَ مُخْلِصًۭا لَّهُ ٱلدِّينَ", "translation": "Say, [O Muhammad], \"Indeed, I have been commanded to worship Allah, [being] sincere to Him in religion." }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "وَأُمِرْتُ لِأَنْ أَكُونَ أَوَّلَ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ", "translation": "And I have been commanded to be the first [among you] of the Muslims.\"" }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "قُلْ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ إِنْ عَصَيْتُ رَبِّى عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍۢ", "translation": "Say, \"Indeed I fear, if I should disobey my Lord, the punishment of a tremendous Day.\"" }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "قُلِ ٱللَّهَ أَعْبُدُ مُخْلِصًۭا لَّهُۥ دِينِى", "translation": "Say, \"Allah [alone] do I worship, sincere to Him in my religion," }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "فَٱعْبُدُوا۟ مَا شِئْتُم مِّن دُونِهِۦ ۗ قُلْ إِنَّ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَأَهْلِيهِمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ ۗ أَلَا ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلْخُسْرَانُ ٱلْمُبِينُ", "translation": "So worship what you will besides Him.\" Say, \"Indeed, the losers are the ones who will lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection. Unquestionably, that is the manifest loss.\"" }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "لَهُم مِّن فَوْقِهِمْ ظُلَلٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلنَّارِ وَمِن تَحْتِهِمْ ظُلَلٌۭ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ يُخَوِّفُ ٱللَّهُ بِهِۦ عِبَادَهُۥ ۚ يَٰعِبَادِ فَٱتَّقُونِ", "translation": "They will have canopies of fire above them and below them, canopies. By that Allah threatens His servants. O My servants, then fear Me." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ ٱجْتَنَبُوا۟ ٱلطَّٰغُوتَ أَن يَعْبُدُوهَا وَأَنَابُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ لَهُمُ ٱلْبُشْرَىٰ ۚ فَبَشِّرْ عِبَادِ", "translation": "But those who have avoided Taghut, lest they worship it, and turned back to Allah - for them are good tidings. So give good tidings to My servants" }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ يَسْتَمِعُونَ ٱلْقَوْلَ فَيَتَّبِعُونَ أَحْسَنَهُۥٓ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ هَدَىٰهُمُ ٱللَّهُ ۖ وَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمْ أُو۟لُوا۟ ٱلْأَلْبَٰبِ", "translation": "Who listen to speech and follow the best of it. Those are the ones Allah has guided, and those are people of understanding." }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "أَفَمَنْ حَقَّ عَلَيْهِ كَلِمَةُ ٱلْعَذَابِ أَفَأَنتَ تُنقِذُ مَن فِى ٱلنَّارِ", "translation": "Then, is one who has deserved the decree of punishment [to be guided]? Then, can you save one who is in the Fire?" }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "لَٰكِنِ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَوْا۟ رَبَّهُمْ لَهُمْ غُرَفٌۭ مِّن فَوْقِهَا غُرَفٌۭ مَّبْنِيَّةٌۭ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ ۖ وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ لَا يُخْلِفُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْمِيعَادَ", "translation": "But those who have feared their Lord - for them are chambers, above them chambers built high, beneath which rivers flow. [This is] the promise of Allah. Allah does not fail in [His] promise." }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ فَسَلَكَهُۥ يَنَٰبِيعَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ثُمَّ يُخْرِجُ بِهِۦ زَرْعًۭا مُّخْتَلِفًا أَلْوَٰنُهُۥ ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ فَتَرَىٰهُ مُصْفَرًّۭا ثُمَّ يَجْعَلُهُۥ حُطَٰمًا ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَذِكْرَىٰ لِأُو۟لِى ٱلْأَلْبَٰبِ", "translation": "Do you not see that Allah sends down rain from the sky and makes it flow as springs [and rivers] in the earth; then He produces thereby crops of varying colors; then they dry and you see them turned yellow; then He makes them [scattered] debris. Indeed in that is a reminder for those of understanding." }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "أَفَمَن شَرَحَ ٱللَّهُ صَدْرَهُۥ لِلْإِسْلَٰمِ فَهُوَ عَلَىٰ نُورٍۢ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦ ۚ فَوَيْلٌۭ لِّلْقَٰسِيَةِ قُلُوبُهُم مِّن ذِكْرِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ مُّبِينٍ", "translation": "So is one whose breast Allah has expanded to [accept] Islam and he is upon a light from his Lord [like one whose heart rejects it]? Then woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance of Allah. Those are in manifest error." }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "ٱللَّهُ نَزَّلَ أَحْسَنَ ٱلْحَدِيثِ كِتَٰبًۭا مُّتَشَٰبِهًۭا مَّثَانِىَ تَقْشَعِرُّ مِنْهُ جُلُودُ ٱلَّذِينَ يَخْشَوْنَ رَبَّهُمْ ثُمَّ تَلِينُ جُلُودُهُمْ وَقُلُوبُهُمْ إِلَىٰ ذِكْرِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُدَى ٱللَّهِ يَهْدِى بِهِۦ مَن يَشَآءُ ۚ وَمَن يُضْلِلِ ٱللَّهُ فَمَا لَهُۥ مِنْ هَادٍ", "translation": "Allah has sent down the best statement: a consistent Book wherein is reiteration. The skins shiver therefrom of those who fear their Lord; then their skins and their hearts relax at the remembrance of Allah. That is the guidance of Allah by which He guides whom He wills. And one whom Allah leaves astray - for him there is no guide." }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "أَفَمَن يَتَّقِى بِوَجْهِهِۦ سُوٓءَ ٱلْعَذَابِ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ ۚ وَقِيلَ لِلظَّٰلِمِينَ ذُوقُوا۟ مَا كُنتُمْ تَكْسِبُونَ", "translation": "Then is he who will shield with his face the worst of the punishment on the Day of Resurrection [like one secure from it]? And it will be said to the wrongdoers, \"Taste what you used to earn.\"" }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "كَذَّبَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَىٰهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ", "translation": "Those before them denied, and punishment came upon them from where they did not perceive." }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "فَأَذَاقَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْخِزْىَ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَلَعَذَابُ ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ ۚ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "So Allah made them taste disgrace in worldly life. But the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew." }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ ضَرَبْنَا لِلنَّاسِ فِى هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانِ مِن كُلِّ مَثَلٍۢ لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ", "translation": "And We have certainly presented for the people in this Qur'an from every [kind of] example - that they might remember." }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "قُرْءَانًا عَرَبِيًّا غَيْرَ ذِى عِوَجٍۢ لَّعَلَّهُمْ يَتَّقُونَ", "translation": "[It is] an Arabic Qur'an, without any deviance that they might become righteous." }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "ضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًۭا رَّجُلًۭا فِيهِ شُرَكَآءُ مُتَشَٰكِسُونَ وَرَجُلًۭا سَلَمًۭا لِّرَجُلٍ هَلْ يَسْتَوِيَانِ مَثَلًا ۚ ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ۚ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "Allah presents an example: a slave owned by quarreling partners and another belonging exclusively to one man - are they equal in comparison? Praise be to Allah! But most of them do not know." }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "إِنَّكَ مَيِّتٌۭ وَإِنَّهُم مَّيِّتُونَ", "translation": "Indeed, you are to die, and indeed, they are to die." }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ عِندَ رَبِّكُمْ تَخْتَصِمُونَ", "translation": "Then indeed you, on the Day of Resurrection, before your Lord, will dispute." }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "۞ فَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّن كَذَبَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ وَكَذَّبَ بِٱلصِّدْقِ إِذْ جَآءَهُۥٓ ۚ أَلَيْسَ فِى جَهَنَّمَ مَثْوًۭى لِّلْكَٰفِرِينَ", "translation": "So who is more unjust than one who lies about Allah and denies the truth when it has come to him? Is there not in Hell a residence for the disbelievers?" }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِى جَآءَ بِٱلصِّدْقِ وَصَدَّقَ بِهِۦٓ ۙ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُتَّقُونَ", "translation": "And the one who has brought the truth and [they who] believed in it - those are the righteous." }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "لَهُم مَّا يَشَآءُونَ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ جَزَآءُ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ", "translation": "They will have whatever they desire with their Lord. That is the reward of the doers of good -" }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "لِيُكَفِّرَ ٱللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ أَسْوَأَ ٱلَّذِى عَمِلُوا۟ وَيَجْزِيَهُمْ أَجْرَهُم بِأَحْسَنِ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ", "translation": "That Allah may remove from them the worst of what they did and reward them their due for the best of what they used to do." }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "أَلَيْسَ ٱللَّهُ بِكَافٍ عَبْدَهُۥ ۖ وَيُخَوِّفُونَكَ بِٱلَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِۦ ۚ وَمَن يُضْلِلِ ٱللَّهُ فَمَا لَهُۥ مِنْ هَادٍۢ", "translation": "Is not Allah sufficient for His Servant [Prophet Muhammad]? And [yet], they threaten you with those [they worship] other than Him. And whoever Allah leaves astray - for him there is no guide." }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "وَمَن يَهْدِ ٱللَّهُ فَمَا لَهُۥ مِن مُّضِلٍّ ۗ أَلَيْسَ ٱللَّهُ بِعَزِيزٍۢ ذِى ٱنتِقَامٍۢ", "translation": "And whoever Allah guides - for him there is no misleader. Is not Allah Exalted in Might and Owner of Retribution?" }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ ٱللَّهُ ۚ قُلْ أَفَرَءَيْتُم مَّا تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ إِنْ أَرَادَنِىَ ٱللَّهُ بِضُرٍّ هَلْ هُنَّ كَٰشِفَٰتُ ضُرِّهِۦٓ أَوْ أَرَادَنِى بِرَحْمَةٍ هَلْ هُنَّ مُمْسِكَٰتُ رَحْمَتِهِۦ ۚ قُلْ حَسْبِىَ ٱللَّهُ ۖ عَلَيْهِ يَتَوَكَّلُ ٱلْمُتَوَكِّلُونَ", "translation": "And if you asked them, \"Who created the heavens and the earth?\" they would surely say, \"Allah.\" Say, \"Then have you considered what you invoke besides Allah? If Allah intended me harm, are they removers of His harm; or if He intended me mercy, are they withholders of His mercy?\" Say, \"Sufficient for me is Allah; upon Him [alone] rely the [wise] reliers.\"" }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "قُلْ يَٰقَوْمِ ٱعْمَلُوا۟ عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِكُمْ إِنِّى عَٰمِلٌۭ ۖ فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "Say, \"O my people, work according to your position, [for] indeed, I am working; and you are going to know" }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "مَن يَأْتِيهِ عَذَابٌۭ يُخْزِيهِ وَيَحِلُّ عَلَيْهِ عَذَابٌۭ مُّقِيمٌ", "translation": "To whom will come a torment disgracing him and on whom will descend an enduring punishment.\"" }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "إِنَّآ أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْكَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ لِلنَّاسِ بِٱلْحَقِّ ۖ فَمَنِ ٱهْتَدَىٰ فَلِنَفْسِهِۦ ۖ وَمَن ضَلَّ فَإِنَّمَا يَضِلُّ عَلَيْهَا ۖ وَمَآ أَنتَ عَلَيْهِم بِوَكِيلٍ", "translation": "Indeed, We sent down to you the Book for the people in truth. So whoever is guided - it is for [the benefit of] his soul; and whoever goes astray only goes astray to its detriment. And you are not a manager over them." }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "ٱللَّهُ يَتَوَفَّى ٱلْأَنفُسَ حِينَ مَوْتِهَا وَٱلَّتِى لَمْ تَمُتْ فِى مَنَامِهَا ۖ فَيُمْسِكُ ٱلَّتِى قَضَىٰ عَلَيْهَا ٱلْمَوْتَ وَيُرْسِلُ ٱلْأُخْرَىٰٓ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍۢ مُّسَمًّى ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَٰتٍۢ لِّقَوْمٍۢ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ", "translation": "Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that do not die [He takes] during their sleep. Then He keeps those for which He has decreed death and releases the others for a specified term. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought." }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "أَمِ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ شُفَعَآءَ ۚ قُلْ أَوَلَوْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ شَيْـًۭٔا وَلَا يَعْقِلُونَ", "translation": "Or have they taken other than Allah as intercessors? Say, \"Even though they do not possess [power over] anything, nor do they reason?\"" }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "قُل لِّلَّهِ ٱلشَّفَٰعَةُ جَمِيعًۭا ۖ لَّهُۥ مُلْكُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ", "translation": "Say, \"To Allah belongs [the right to allow] intercession entirely. To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. Then to Him you will be returned.\"" }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "وَإِذَا ذُكِرَ ٱللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ ٱشْمَأَزَّتْ قُلُوبُ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْءَاخِرَةِ ۖ وَإِذَا ذُكِرَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ إِذَا هُمْ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ", "translation": "And when Allah is mentioned alone, the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter shrink with aversion, but when those [worshipped] other than Him are mentioned, immediately they rejoice." }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "قُلِ ٱللَّهُمَّ فَاطِرَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ عَٰلِمَ ٱلْغَيْبِ وَٱلشَّهَٰدَةِ أَنتَ تَحْكُمُ بَيْنَ عِبَادِكَ فِى مَا كَانُوا۟ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ", "translation": "Say, \"O Allah, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, You will judge between your servants concerning that over which they used to differ.\"" }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "وَلَوْ أَنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ مَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًۭا وَمِثْلَهُۥ مَعَهُۥ لَٱفْتَدَوْا۟ بِهِۦ مِن سُوٓءِ ٱلْعَذَابِ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ ۚ وَبَدَا لَهُم مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يَكُونُوا۟ يَحْتَسِبُونَ", "translation": "And if those who did wrong had all that is in the earth entirely and the like of it with it, they would [attempt to] ransom themselves thereby from the worst of the punishment on the Day of Resurrection. And there will appear to them from Allah that which they had not taken into account." }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "وَبَدَا لَهُمْ سَيِّـَٔاتُ مَا كَسَبُوا۟ وَحَاقَ بِهِم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ", "translation": "And there will appear to them the evils they had earned, and they will be enveloped by what they used to ridicule." }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "فَإِذَا مَسَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ ضُرٌّۭ دَعَانَا ثُمَّ إِذَا خَوَّلْنَٰهُ نِعْمَةًۭ مِّنَّا قَالَ إِنَّمَآ أُوتِيتُهُۥ عَلَىٰ عِلْمٍۭ ۚ بَلْ هِىَ فِتْنَةٌۭ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "And when adversity touches man, he calls upon Us; then when We bestow on him a favor from Us, he says, \"I have only been given it because of [my] knowledge.\" Rather, it is a trial, but most of them do not know." }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "قَدْ قَالَهَا ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَمَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ", "translation": "Those before them had already said it, but they were not availed by what they used to earn." }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "فَأَصَابَهُمْ سَيِّـَٔاتُ مَا كَسَبُوا۟ ۚ وَٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ مِنْ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ سَيُصِيبُهُمْ سَيِّـَٔاتُ مَا كَسَبُوا۟ وَمَا هُم بِمُعْجِزِينَ", "translation": "And the evil consequences of what they earned struck them. And those who have wronged of these [people] will be afflicted by the evil consequences of what they earned; and they will not cause failure." }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "أَوَلَمْ يَعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَيَقْدِرُ ۚ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَٰتٍۢ لِّقَوْمٍۢ يُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "Do they not know that Allah extends provision for whom He wills and restricts [it]? Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe." }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "۞ قُلْ يَٰعِبَادِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا۟ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا۟ مِن رَّحْمَةِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ ٱلذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ", "translation": "Say, \"O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.\"" }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "وَأَنِيبُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُمْ وَأَسْلِمُوا۟ لَهُۥ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَكُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ ثُمَّ لَا تُنصَرُونَ", "translation": "And return [in repentance] to your Lord and submit to Him before the punishment comes upon you; then you will not be helped." }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "وَٱتَّبِعُوٓا۟ أَحْسَنَ مَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكُم مِّن رَّبِّكُم مِّن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِيَكُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ بَغْتَةًۭ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَشْعُرُونَ", "translation": "And follow the best of what was revealed to you from your Lord before the punishment comes upon you suddenly while you do not perceive," }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "أَن تَقُولَ نَفْسٌۭ يَٰحَسْرَتَىٰ عَلَىٰ مَا فَرَّطتُ فِى جَنۢبِ ٱللَّهِ وَإِن كُنتُ لَمِنَ ٱلسَّٰخِرِينَ", "translation": "Lest a soul should say, \"Oh [how great is] my regret over what I neglected in regard to Allah and that I was among the mockers.\"" }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "أَوْ تَقُولَ لَوْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ هَدَىٰنِى لَكُنتُ مِنَ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ", "translation": "Or [lest] it say, \"If only Allah had guided me, I would have been among the righteous.\"" }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "أَوْ تَقُولَ حِينَ تَرَى ٱلْعَذَابَ لَوْ أَنَّ لِى كَرَّةًۭ فَأَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ", "translation": "Or [lest] it say when it sees the punishment, \"If only I had another turn so I could be among the doers of good.\"" }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "بَلَىٰ قَدْ جَآءَتْكَ ءَايَٰتِى فَكَذَّبْتَ بِهَا وَٱسْتَكْبَرْتَ وَكُنتَ مِنَ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ", "translation": "But yes, there had come to you My verses, but you denied them and were arrogant, and you were among the disbelievers." }, { "n": 60, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ تَرَى ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَبُوا۟ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ وُجُوهُهُم مُّسْوَدَّةٌ ۚ أَلَيْسَ فِى جَهَنَّمَ مَثْوًۭى لِّلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ", "translation": "And on the Day of Resurrection you will see those who lied about Allah [with] their faces blackened. Is there not in Hell a residence for the arrogant?" }, { "n": 61, "arabic": "وَيُنَجِّى ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَوْا۟ بِمَفَازَتِهِمْ لَا يَمَسُّهُمُ ٱلسُّوٓءُ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ", "translation": "And Allah will save those who feared Him by their attainment; no evil will touch them, nor will they grieve." }, { "n": 62, "arabic": "ٱللَّهُ خَٰلِقُ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ ۖ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ وَكِيلٌۭ", "translation": "Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is, over all things, Disposer of affairs." }, { "n": 63, "arabic": "لَّهُۥ مَقَالِيدُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۗ وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْخَٰسِرُونَ", "translation": "To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth. And they who disbelieve in the verses of Allah - it is those who are the losers." }, { "n": 64, "arabic": "قُلْ أَفَغَيْرَ ٱللَّهِ تَأْمُرُوٓنِّىٓ أَعْبُدُ أَيُّهَا ٱلْجَٰهِلُونَ", "translation": "Say, [O Muhammad], \"Is it other than Allah that you order me to worship, O ignorant ones?\"" }, { "n": 65, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ أُوحِىَ إِلَيْكَ وَإِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكَ لَئِنْ أَشْرَكْتَ لَيَحْبَطَنَّ عَمَلُكَ وَلَتَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ", "translation": "And it was already revealed to you and to those before you that if you should associate [anything] with Allah, your work would surely become worthless, and you would surely be among the losers.\"" }, { "n": 66, "arabic": "بَلِ ٱللَّهَ فَٱعْبُدْ وَكُن مِّنَ ٱلشَّٰكِرِينَ", "translation": "Rather, worship [only] Allah and be among the grateful." }, { "n": 67, "arabic": "وَمَا قَدَرُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ حَقَّ قَدْرِهِۦ وَٱلْأَرْضُ جَمِيعًۭا قَبْضَتُهُۥ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ وَٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتُ مَطْوِيَّٰتٌۢ بِيَمِينِهِۦ ۚ سُبْحَٰنَهُۥ وَتَعَٰلَىٰ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ", "translation": "They have not appraised Allah with true appraisal, while the earth entirely will be [within] His grip on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His right hand. Exalted is He and high above what they associate with Him." }, { "n": 68, "arabic": "وَنُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَصَعِقَ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ إِلَّا مَن شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۖ ثُمَّ نُفِخَ فِيهِ أُخْرَىٰ فَإِذَا هُمْ قِيَامٌۭ يَنظُرُونَ", "translation": "And the Horn will be blown, and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth will fall dead except whom Allah wills. Then it will be blown again, and at once they will be standing, looking on." }, { "n": 69, "arabic": "وَأَشْرَقَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ بِنُورِ رَبِّهَا وَوُضِعَ ٱلْكِتَٰبُ وَجِا۟ىٓءَ بِٱلنَّبِيِّۦنَ وَٱلشُّهَدَآءِ وَقُضِىَ بَيْنَهُم بِٱلْحَقِّ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ", "translation": "And the earth will shine with the light of its Lord, and the record [of deeds] will be placed, and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought, and it will be judged between them in truth, and they will not be wronged." }, { "n": 70, "arabic": "وَوُفِّيَتْ كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ مَّا عَمِلَتْ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَفْعَلُونَ", "translation": "And every soul will be fully compensated [for] what it did; and He is most knowing of what they do." }, { "n": 71, "arabic": "وَسِيقَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ زُمَرًا ۖ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءُوهَا فُتِحَتْ أَبْوَٰبُهَا وَقَالَ لَهُمْ خَزَنَتُهَآ أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ رُسُلٌۭ مِّنكُمْ يَتْلُونَ عَلَيْكُمْ ءَايَٰتِ رَبِّكُمْ وَيُنذِرُونَكُمْ لِقَآءَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَٰذَا ۚ قَالُوا۟ بَلَىٰ وَلَٰكِنْ حَقَّتْ كَلِمَةُ ٱلْعَذَابِ عَلَى ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ", "translation": "And those who disbelieved will be driven to Hell in groups until, when they reach it, its gates are opened and its keepers will say, \"Did there not come to you messengers from yourselves, reciting to you the verses of your Lord and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?\" They will say, \"Yes, but the word of punishment has come into effect upon the disbelievers." }, { "n": 72, "arabic": "قِيلَ ٱدْخُلُوٓا۟ أَبْوَٰبَ جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا ۖ فَبِئْسَ مَثْوَى ٱلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ", "translation": "[To them] it will be said, \"Enter the gates of Hell to abide eternally therein, and wretched is the residence of the arrogant.\"" }, { "n": 73, "arabic": "وَسِيقَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَوْا۟ رَبَّهُمْ إِلَى ٱلْجَنَّةِ زُمَرًا ۖ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَآءُوهَا وَفُتِحَتْ أَبْوَٰبُهَا وَقَالَ لَهُمْ خَزَنَتُهَا سَلَٰمٌ عَلَيْكُمْ طِبْتُمْ فَٱدْخُلُوهَا خَٰلِدِينَ", "translation": "But those who feared their Lord will be driven to Paradise in groups until, when they reach it while its gates have been opened and its keepers say, \"Peace be upon you; you have become pure; so enter it to abide eternally therein,\" [they will enter]." }, { "n": 74, "arabic": "وَقَالُوا۟ ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ٱلَّذِى صَدَقَنَا وَعْدَهُۥ وَأَوْرَثَنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ نَتَبَوَّأُ مِنَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ حَيْثُ نَشَآءُ ۖ فَنِعْمَ أَجْرُ ٱلْعَٰمِلِينَ", "translation": "And they will say, \"Praise to Allah, who has fulfilled for us His promise and made us inherit the earth [so] we may settle in Paradise wherever we will. And excellent is the reward of [righteous] workers.\"" }, { "n": 75, "arabic": "وَتَرَى ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ حَآفِّينَ مِنْ حَوْلِ ٱلْعَرْشِ يُسَبِّحُونَ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّهِمْ ۖ وَقُضِىَ بَيْنَهُم بِٱلْحَقِّ وَقِيلَ ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ", "translation": "And you will see the angels surrounding the Throne, exalting [Allah] with praise of their Lord. 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due", "for (the) best", "(of) what", "they used to", "do." ], [ "Is not", "Allah", "sufficient", "(for) His slave?", "And they threaten you", "with those", "[from]", "besides Him", "And whoever", "lets go astray", "Allah", "then not", "for him", "any", "guide." ], [ "And whoever", "guides", "Allah", "then not", "for him", "any", "misleader.", "Is not", "Allah", "All-Mighty,", "Possessor of", "retribution" ], [ "And if", "you ask them", "who", "created", "the heavens", "and the earth?", "Surely, they will say,", "\"Allah.\"", "Say,", "\"Then do you see", "what", "you invoke", "[from]", "besides", "Allah?", "if", "intended for me", "Allah", "harm,", "are", "they", "removers", "(of) harm (from) Him;", "or", "if He intended for me", "mercy,", "are", "they", "withholders", "(of) His mercy?\"", "Say,", "Sufficient for me is", "Allah", "upon Him", "put trust", "those who trust.\"" ], [ "Say,", "\"O my people!", "Work", "(according) to", "your position,", "indeed, I am", "working;", "then soon", "you will know" ], [ "(Upon) whom", "will come", "a punishment", "disgracing him", "and descends", "on him", "a punishment", "everlasting.\"" ], [ "Indeed We,", "We revealed", "to you", "the Book", "for [the] mankind", "in truth.", "So whoever", "accepts guidance,", "then (it is) for his soul;", "and whoever", "goes astray", "then only", "he strays", "against his (soul).", "And not", "you", "(are) over them", "a manager." ], [ "Allah", "takes", "the souls", "(at the) time", "(of) their death,", "and the one who", "(does) not", "die", "in", "their sleep.", "Then He keeps", "the one whom,", "He has decreed", "for them", "the death,", "and sends", "the others", "for", "a term", "specified.", "Indeed,", "in", "that", "surely (are) signs", "for a people", "who ponder." ], [ "Or", "have they taken", "[from]", "besides", "Allah", "intercessors?", "Say,", "\"Even though", "they were", "not", "possessing", "anything,", "and not", "they understand?\"" ], [ "Say,", "\"To Allah (belongs)", "the intercession", "all.", "For Him", "(is the) dominion", "(of) the heavens", "and the earth.", "Then", "to Him", "you will be returned.\"" ], [ "And when", "is mentioned", "Allah", "Alone,", "shrink with aversion", "(the) hearts", "(of) those who", "(do) not", "believe", "in the Hereafter,", "and when", "are mentioned", "those", "[from]", "besides Him", "behold!", "They", "rejoice." ], [ "Say,", "\"O Allah!", "Creator", "(of) the heavens", "and the earth,", "Knower", "(of) the unseen", "and the witnessed,", "You", "will judge", "between", "Your slaves", "in", "what", "they used to", "therein", "differ.\"" ], [ "And if", "indeed", "those who", "did wrong", "(had) whatever", "(is) in", "the earth", "all", "and (the) like of it", "with it,", "they would ransom", "with it", "from", "(the) evil", "(of) the punishment", "(on the) Day", "(of) the Resurrection.", "And (will) appear", "to them", "from", "Allah", "what", "not", "they had", "taken into account." ], [ "And will become apparent", "to them", "(the) evils", "(of) what", "they earned,", "and will surround", "them", "what", "they used to", "[in it]", "mock." ], [ "So when", "touches", "[the] man", "adversity,", "he calls upon Us;", "then", "when", "We bestow (on) him", "a favor", "from Us,", "he says,", "\"Only,", "I have been given it", "for", "knowledge.\"", "Nay,", "it", "(is) a trial,", "but", "most of them", "(do) not", "know." ], [ "Indeed,", "said it", "those", "[from]", "before them", "but (did) not", "avail", "them", "what", "they used to", "earn." ], [ "Then struck them", "(the) evils", "(of) what", "they earned.", "And those who", "have wronged", "of", "these,", "will strike them", "(the) evils", "(of) what", "they earned;", "and not", "they", "will be able to escape." ], [ "Do not", "they know", "that", "Allah", "extends", "the provision", "for whom", "He wills", "and restricts.", "Indeed,", "in", "that", "surely (are) signs", "for a people", "who believe." ], [ "Say,", "\"O My slaves!", "Those who", "have transgressed", "against", "themselves,", "(do) not", "despair", "of", "(the) Mercy", "(of) Allah.", "Indeed,", "Allah", "forgives", "the sins", "all.", "Indeed He,", "He", "(is) the Oft-Forgiving,", "the Most Merciful." ], [ "And turn", "to", "your Lord", "and submit", "to Him", "[from]", "before", "[that]", "comes to you", "the punishment;", "then", "not", "you will be helped." ], [ "And follow", "(the) best", "(of) what", "is revealed", "to you", "from", "your Lord", "[from]", "before", "[that]", "comes to you", "the punishment", "suddenly,", "while you", "(do) not", "perceive," ], [ "Lest", "should say", "a soul,", "\"Oh! My regret", "over", "what", "I neglected", "in", "regard (to)", "Allah", "and that", "I was", "surely, among", "the mockers.\"" ], [ "Or", "it should say,", "If", "that", "Allah", "(had) guided me,", "surely, I (would) have been", "among", "the righteous.\"" ], [ "Or", "it should say", "when", "it sees", "the punishment,", "\"If", "only", "for me", "another chance", "then I could be", "among", "the good-doers.\"" ], [ "\"Yes,", "verily", "came to you", "My Verses,", "but you denied", "them", "and were arrogant,", "and you were", "among", "the disbelievers." ], [ "And (on the) Day", "(of) the Resurrection", "you will see", "those who", "lied", "about", "Allah,", "their faces", "(will be) blackened.", "Is (there) not", "in", "Hell", "an abode", "for the arrogant?" ], [ "And will deliver", "Allah", "those who", "feared (Him)", "to their place of salvation;", "not", "will touch them", "the evil,", "and not", "they", "will grieve." ], [ "Allah", "(is the) Creator", "(of) all", "things,", "and He", "(is) over", "all", "things", "a Guardian." ], [ "For Him", "(are the) keys", "(of) the heavens", "and the earth.", "And those who", "disbelieve", "in (the) Verses", "(of) Allah,", "those -", "they", "(are) the losers." ], [ "Say,", "\"Is (it) other than", "Allah", "you order me", "(to) worship,", "O", "ignorant ones?\"" ], [ "And verily,", "it has been revealed", "to you", "and to", "those who", "[from]", "before you", "if", "you associate (with Allah)", "surely, will become worthless", "your deeds", "and you will surely be", "among", "the losers." ], [ "Nay!", "Allah", "then worship", "and be", "among", "the thankful ones." ], [ "And not", "they appraised", "Allah", "(with) true", "appraisal,", "while the earth", "entirely", "(will be) in His Grip", "(on the) Day", "(of) the Resurrection,", "and the heavens", "(will be) folded", "in His Right Hand.", "Glory be to Him!", "And High is He", "above what", "they associate (with Him)." ], [ "And (will) be blown", "[in]", "the trumpet,", "then (will) fall dead", "whoever", "(is) in", "the heavens", "and whoever", "(is) on", "the earth", "except", "whom", "wills", "Allah", "Then", "(it will) be blown", "[in it]", "a second time,", "and behold!", "They", "(will be) standing", "waiting." ], [ "And (will) shine", "the earth", "with (the) light", "(of) its Lord", "and (will) be placed", "the Record", "and (will) be brought", "the Prophets", "and the witnesses,", "and it (will) be judged", "between them", "in truth,", "and they", "not", "will they be wronged" ], [ "And (will) be paid in full", "every", "soul", "what", "it did;", "and He", "(is the) Best-Knower", "of what", "they do." ], [ "And (will) be driven", "those who", "disbelieve", "to", "Hell", "(in) groups", "until", "when", "they reach it,", "(will) be opened", "its gates", "and (will) say", "to them", "its keepers,", "\"Did not", "come to you", "Messengers", "from you", "reciting", "to you", "(the) Verses", "(of) your Lord", "and warning you", "(of the) meeting", "(of) your Day", "this?\"", "They (will) say,", "\"Yes!\"", "But", "has been justified", "(the) word", "(of) punishment", "against", "the disbelievers." ], [ "It will be said,", "\"Enter", "(the) gates", "(of) Hell", "(to) abide eternally", "therein,", "and wretched is", "(the) abode", "(of) the arrogant.\"" ], [ "And (will) be driven", "those who", "feared", "their Lord,", "to", "Paradise", "(in) groups", "until", "when", "they reach it", "and (will) be opened", "its gates", "and (will) say", "to them", "its keepers,", "\"Peace be", "upon you,", "you have done well,", "so enter it", "(to) abide eternally.\"" ], [ "And they will say,", "\"All praise", "(be) to Allah,", "Who", "has fulfilled for us", "His promise", "and has made us inherit", "the earth,", "we may settle", "[from]", "(in) Paradise", "wherever", "we wish.", "So excellent", "(is the) reward", "(of) the workers.\"" ], [ "And you will see", "the Angels", "surrounding", "[from]", "around", "the Throne", "glorifying", "(the) praise", "(of) their Lord.", "And (will) be judged", "between them", "in truth,", "and it will be said,", "\"All praise be", "to Allah,", "(the) Lord", "(of) the worlds.\"" ] ], "glossNote": "English word hints follow the Quranic Arabic Corpus. Where the Corpus repeats a phrase across adjacent Arabic words, it is divided into individual word meanings for hover and audio; these editorial splits are recorded in the source audit. Brackets identify connective or grammatical senses that English does not translate separately." }