al-Furqān ( الفرقان )
77 verses • revealed at Meccan
»The surah proclaiming the Quran that God bestowed upon Muhammad to be, in its finality and totality, The Criterion of everlasting salvation for all humankind until the end of time. It takes its name from
,
which refers to the Quran as “al-Furqān” (lit. “the Distinguisher”,
“the Separator” or “the Differentiator”, i.e. a criterion for
distinguishing between truth and falsehood). The surah starts with a
denunciation of polytheism, then deals with the disbelievers” arguments
against the Prophet, the Quran, and the Day of Judgement. It warns them
of their fate, citing examples of earlier peoples. The surah describes
the power and grace of God, and ends with the qualities of true
believers in
ff.«
The surah is also known as Discrimination, Salvation, The Differentiator, The Standard
The surah is also known as Discrimination, Salvation, The Differentiator, The Standard
بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ
1
تَبارَكَ الَّذي نَزَّلَ الفُرقانَ عَلىٰ عَبدِهِ لِيَكونَ لِلعالَمينَ نَذيرًا
Transliteration
tabāraka lladhī nazzala l-furqāna ʿalā ʿabdihī li-yakūna li-l-ʿālamīna nadhīran-i
Translation
Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion to His servant that he may be a warner to all the nations.
2
الَّذي
لَهُ مُلكُ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضِ وَلَم يَتَّخِذ وَلَدًا وَلَم يَكُن
لَهُ شَريكٌ فِي المُلكِ وَخَلَقَ كُلَّ شَيءٍ فَقَدَّرَهُ تَقديرًا
Transliteration
alladhī
lahū mulku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-lam yattakhidh waladan wa-lam yakun
lahū sharīkun fī l-mulki wa-khalaqa kulla shayʾin fa-qaddarahū taqdīran
Translation
He,
to whom belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth, and who
did not take a son, nor has He any partner in sovereignty, and He
created everything and determined it in a precise measure.
3
وَاتَّخَذوا
مِن دونِهِ آلِهَةً لا يَخلُقونَ شَيئًا وَهُم يُخلَقونَ وَلا يَملِكونَ
لِأَنفُسِهِم ضَرًّا وَلا نَفعًا وَلا يَملِكونَ مَوتًا وَلا حَياةً وَلا
نُشورًا
Transliteration
wa-ttakhadhū
min dūnihī ʾālihatan lā yakhluqūna shayʾan wa-hum yukhlaqūna wa-lā
yamlikūna li-ʾanfusihim ḍarran wa-lā nafʿan wa-lā yamlikūna mawtan wa-lā
ḥayātan wa-lā nushūran
Translation
Yet
they have taken gods besides Him who create nothing and have themselves
been created, and who have no control over their own harm or benefit
and have no control over [their own] death, or life, or resurrection.
4
وَقالَ الَّذينَ كَفَروا إِن هٰذا إِلّا إِفكٌ افتَراهُ وَأَعانَهُ عَلَيهِ قَومٌ آخَرونَ ۖ فَقَد جاءوا ظُلمًا وَزورًا
Transliteration
wa-qāla lladhīna kafarū ʾin hādhā ʾillā ʾifkun-i ftarāhu wa-ʾaʿānahū ʿalayhi qawmun ʾākharūna fa-qad jāʾū ẓulman wa-zūran
Translation
The
faithless say, ‘This is nothing but a lie that he has fabricated, and
other people have abetted him in it.’ Thus they have certainly come out
with wrongdoing and falsehood.
5
وَقالوا أَساطيرُ الأَوَّلينَ اكتَتَبَها فَهِيَ تُملىٰ عَلَيهِ بُكرَةً وَأَصيلًا
Transliteration
wa-qālū ʾasāṭīru l-ʾawwalīna ktatabahā fa-hiya tumlā ʿalayhi bukratan wa-ʾaṣīlan
Translation
They say, ‘He has taken down myths of the ancients, and they are dictated to him morning and evening.’
6
قُل أَنزَلَهُ الَّذي يَعلَمُ السِّرَّ فِي السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضِ ۚ إِنَّهُ كانَ غَفورًا رَحيمًا
Transliteration
qul ʾanzalahu lladhī yaʿlamu s-sirra fī s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi ʾinnahū kāna ghafūran raḥīman
Translation
Say, ‘It has been sent down by Him who knows the hidden in the heavens and the earth. Indeed He is all-forgiving, all-merciful.’
7
وَقالوا مالِ هٰذَا الرَّسولِ يَأكُلُ الطَّعامَ وَيَمشي فِي الأَسواقِ ۙ لَولا أُنزِلَ إِلَيهِ مَلَكٌ فَيَكونَ مَعَهُ نَذيرًا
Transliteration
wa-qālū mā-li hādhā r-rasūli yaʾkulu ṭ-ṭaʿāma wa-yamshī fī l-ʾaswāqi law-lā ʾunzila ʾilayhi malakun fa-yakūna maʿahū nadhīran
Translation
And
they say, ‘What sort of apostle is this who eats food and walks in the
marketplaces? Why has not an angel been sent down to him so as to be a
warner along with him?’
8
أَو يُلقىٰ إِلَيهِ كَنزٌ أَو تَكونُ لَهُ جَنَّةٌ يَأكُلُ مِنها ۚ وَقالَ الظّالِمونَ إِن تَتَّبِعونَ إِلّا رَجُلًا مَسحورًا
Transliteration
ʾaw yulqā ʾilayhi kanzun ʾaw takūnu lahū jannatun yaʾkulu minhā wa-qāla ẓ-ẓālimūna ʾin tattabiʿūna ʾillā rajulan masḥūran-i
Translation
Or,
‘[Why is not] a treasure thrown to him, or [why does] he [not] have a
garden from which he may eat?’ And the wrongdoers say, ‘You are just
following a bewitched man.’
9
انظُر كَيفَ ضَرَبوا لَكَ الأَمثالَ فَضَلّوا فَلا يَستَطيعونَ سَبيلًا
Transliteration
unẓur kayfa ḍarabū laka l-ʾamthāla fa-ḍallū fa-lā yastaṭīʿūna sabīlan
Translation
Look, how they draw comparisons for you; so they go astray, and cannot find the way.
10
تَبارَكَ الَّذي إِن شاءَ جَعَلَ لَكَ خَيرًا مِن ذٰلِكَ جَنّاتٍ تَجري مِن تَحتِهَا الأَنهارُ وَيَجعَل لَكَ قُصورًا
Transliteration
tabāraka lladhī ʾin shāʾa jaʿala laka khayran min dhālika jannātin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru wa-yajʿal laka quṣūran
Translation
Blessed is He who will grant you better than that if He wishes —gardens with streams running in them, and He will make for you palaces.
11
بَل كَذَّبوا بِالسّاعَةِ ۖ وَأَعتَدنا لِمَن كَذَّبَ بِالسّاعَةِ سَعيرًا
Transliteration
bal kadhdhabū bi-s-sāʿati wa-ʾaʿtadnā li-man kadhdhaba bi-s-sāʿati saʿīran
Translation
Rather they deny the Hour, and We have prepared a Blaze for those who deny the Hour.
12
إِذا رَأَتهُم مِن مَكانٍ بَعيدٍ سَمِعوا لَها تَغَيُّظًا وَزَفيرًا
Transliteration
ʾidhā raʾathum min makānin baʿīdin samiʿū lahā taghayyuẓan wa-zafīran
Translation
When it1 sights them from a distant place, they will hear it raging and roaring.
- That is, hell.
13
وَإِذا أُلقوا مِنها مَكانًا ضَيِّقًا مُقَرَّنينَ دَعَوا هُنالِكَ ثُبورًا
Transliteration
wa-ʾidhā ʾulqū minhā makānan ḍayyiqan muqarranīna daʿaw hunālika thubūran
Translation
And when they are cast into a narrow place in it, bound together [in chains], they will pray for [their own] annihilation.1
- Cf.
- .
14
لا تَدعُوا اليَومَ ثُبورًا واحِدًا وَادعوا ثُبورًا كَثيرًا
Transliteration
lā tadʿū l-yawma thubūran wāḥidan wa-dʿū thubūran kathīran
Translation
[They will be told:] ‘Do not pray for a single annihilation today, but pray for many annihilations!’
15
قُل أَذٰلِكَ خَيرٌ أَم جَنَّةُ الخُلدِ الَّتي وُعِدَ المُتَّقونَ ۚ كانَت لَهُم جَزاءً وَمَصيرًا
Transliteration
qul ʾa-dhālika khayrun ʾam jannatu l-khuldi llatī wuʿida l-muttaqūna kānat lahum jazāʾan wa-maṣīran
Translation
Say, ‘Is that better, or the everlasting paradise promised to the Godwary, which will be their reward and destination?’
16
لَهُم فيها ما يَشاءونَ خالِدينَ ۚ كانَ عَلىٰ رَبِّكَ وَعدًا مَسئولًا
Transliteration
lahum fīhā mā yashāʾūna khālidīna kāna ʿalā rabbika waʿdan masʾūlan
Translation
There they will have whatever they wish, abiding [forever], a promise [much] besought, [binding] on your Lord.1
- Cf.
- : ‘Our Lord, grant us what You have promised us through Your apostles.’
17
وَيَومَ يَحشُرُهُم وَما يَعبُدونَ مِن دونِ اللَّهِ فَيَقولُ أَأَنتُم أَضلَلتُم عِبادي هٰؤُلاءِ أَم هُم ضَلُّوا السَّبيلَ
Transliteration
wa-yawma yaḥshuruhum wa-mā yaʿbudūna min dūni llāhi fa-yaqūlu ʾa-ʾantum ʾaḍlaltum ʿibādī hāʾulāʾi ʾam hum ḍallū s-sabīla
Translation
On
the day that He will muster them and those whom they worship besides
Allah, He will say, ‘Was it you who led astray these servants of Mine,
or did they themselves stray from the way?’
18
قالوا
سُبحانَكَ ما كانَ يَنبَغي لَنا أَن نَتَّخِذَ مِن دونِكَ مِن أَولِياءَ
وَلٰكِن مَتَّعتَهُم وَآباءَهُم حَتّىٰ نَسُوا الذِّكرَ وَكانوا قَومًا
بورًا
Transliteration
qālū
subḥānaka mā kāna yanbaghī lanā ʾan nattakhidha min dūnika min
ʾawliyāʾa wa-lākin mattaʿtahum wa-ʾābāʾahum ḥattā nasū dh-dhikra wa-kānū
qawman būran
Translation
They
will say, ‘Immaculate are You! It does not behoove us to take any
guardians in Your stead! But You provided for them and their fathers
until they forgot the Reminder, and they were a ruined lot.’
19
فَقَد كَذَّبوكُم بِما تَقولونَ فَما تَستَطيعونَ صَرفًا وَلا نَصرًا ۚ وَمَن يَظلِم مِنكُم نُذِقهُ عَذابًا كَبيرًا
Transliteration
fa-qad kadhdhabūkum bi-mā taqūlūna fa-mā tastaṭīʿūna ṣarfan wa-lā naṣran wa-man yaẓlim minkum nudhiqhu ʿadhāban kabīran
Translation
So
they will certainly impugn you in what you say, and you will neither be
able to circumvent [punishment] nor find help, and whoever of you does
wrong, We shall make him taste a terrible punishment.
20
وَما
أَرسَلنا قَبلَكَ مِنَ المُرسَلينَ إِلّا إِنَّهُم لَيَأكُلونَ الطَّعامَ
وَيَمشونَ فِي الأَسواقِ ۗ وَجَعَلنا بَعضَكُم لِبَعضٍ فِتنَةً أَتَصبِرونَ
ۗ وَكانَ رَبُّكَ بَصيرًا
Transliteration
wa-mā
ʾarsalnā qablaka mina l-mursalīna ʾillā ʾinnahum la-yaʾkulūna ṭ-ṭaʿāma
wa-yamshūna fī l-ʾaswāqi wa-jaʿalnā baʿḍakum li-baʿḍin fitnatan
ʾa-taṣbirūna wa-kāna rabbuka baṣīran
Translation
We did not send any apostles before you
but that they indeed ate food and walked in marketplaces. We have made
you a trial for one another, [to see] if you will be patient, and your Lord is all-seeing.
21
۞
وَقالَ الَّذينَ لا يَرجونَ لِقاءَنا لَولا أُنزِلَ عَلَينَا المَلائِكَةُ
أَو نَرىٰ رَبَّنا ۗ لَقَدِ استَكبَروا في أَنفُسِهِم وَعَتَوا عُتُوًّا
كَبيرًا
Transliteration
wa-qāla
lladhīna lā yarjūna liqāʾanā law-lā ʾunzila ʿalaynā l-malāʾikatu ʾaw
narā rabbanā la-qadi stakbarū fī ʾanfusihim wa-ʿataw ʿutuwwan kabīran
Translation
Those
who do not expect to encounter Us say, ‘Why have angels not been sent
down to us, or why do we not see our Lord?’ Certainly they are full of
arrogance within their souls and have become terribly defiant.
22
يَومَ يَرَونَ المَلائِكَةَ لا بُشرىٰ يَومَئِذٍ لِلمُجرِمينَ وَيَقولونَ حِجرًا مَحجورًا
Transliteration
yawma yarawna l-malāʾikata lā bushrā yawmaʾidhin li-l-mujrimīna wa-yaqūlūna ḥijran maḥjūran
Translation
The day when they see the angels, there will be no good news for the guilty that day, and they1 will say, ‘Keep off [from paradise]!’
- That is, the angels, who will say this to the faithless. According to another interpretation, during pre-Islamic days, whenever, during one of the holy months in which warfare was prohibited by custom, an Arab felt threatened by someone belonging to a belligerent tribe, he would say, Ḥijran maḥjūrā, thus telling the member of the hostile tribe to keep distance by appealing to the sanctity of the holy month. On this basis, it is the faithless who ask the angels to keep off.
23
وَقَدِمنا إِلىٰ ما عَمِلوا مِن عَمَلٍ فَجَعَلناهُ هَباءً مَنثورًا
Transliteration
wa-qadimnā ʾilā mā ʿamilū min ʿamalin fa-jaʿalnāhu habāʾan manthūran
Translation
Then We shall attend to the works they have done and then turn them into scattered dust.
24
أَصحابُ الجَنَّةِ يَومَئِذٍ خَيرٌ مُستَقَرًّا وَأَحسَنُ مَقيلًا
Transliteration
ʾaṣḥābu l-jannati yawmaʾidhin khayrun mustaqarran wa-ʾaḥsanu maqīlan
Translation
On that day the inhabitants of paradise will be in the best abode and an excellent resting place.
25
وَيَومَ تَشَقَّقُ السَّماءُ بِالغَمامِ وَنُزِّلَ المَلائِكَةُ تَنزيلًا
Transliteration
wa-yawma tashaqqaqu s-samāʾu bi-l-ghamāmi wa-nuzzila l-malāʾikatu tanzīlan-i
Translation
The day when the sky with its clouds will split open, and the angels will be sent down [in a majestic] descent,
26
المُلكُ يَومَئِذٍ الحَقُّ لِلرَّحمٰنِ ۚ وَكانَ يَومًا عَلَى الكافِرينَ عَسيرًا
Transliteration
al-mulku yawmaʾidhin-i l-ḥaqqu li-r-raḥmāni wa-kāna yawman ʿalā l-kāfirīna ʿasīran
Translation
on that day true sovereignty will belong to the All-beneficent, and it will be a hard day for the faithless.1
- Cf.
- .
27
وَيَومَ يَعَضُّ الظّالِمُ عَلىٰ يَدَيهِ يَقولُ يا لَيتَنِي اتَّخَذتُ مَعَ الرَّسولِ سَبيلًا
Transliteration
wa-yawma yaʿaḍḍu ẓ-ẓālimu ʿalā yadayhi yaqūlu yā-laytanī ttakhadhtu maʿa r-rasūli sabīlan
Translation
A day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands, saying, ‘I wish I had followed the Apostle’s way!
28
يا وَيلَتىٰ لَيتَني لَم أَتَّخِذ فُلانًا خَليلًا
Transliteration
yā-waylatā laytanī lam ʾattakhidh fulānan khalīlan
Translation
Woe to me! I wish I had not taken so and so as a friend!
29
لَقَد أَضَلَّني عَنِ الذِّكرِ بَعدَ إِذ جاءَني ۗ وَكانَ الشَّيطانُ لِلإِنسانِ خَذولًا
Transliteration
la-qad ʾaḍallanī ʿani dh-dhikri baʿda ʾidh jāʾanī wa-kāna sh-shayṭānu li-l-ʾinsāni khadhūlan
Translation
Certainly he led me astray from the Reminder after it had come to me, and Satan is a deserter of man.’
30
وَقالَ الرَّسولُ يا رَبِّ إِنَّ قَومِي اتَّخَذوا هٰذَا القُرآنَ مَهجورًا
Transliteration
wa-qāla r-rasūlu yā-rabbi ʾinna qawmī ttakhadhū hādhā l-qurʾāna mahjūran
Translation
And the Apostle will say, ‘O my Lord! Indeed my people consigned this Qurʾān to oblivion.’
31
وَكَذٰلِكَ جَعَلنا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوًّا مِنَ المُجرِمينَ ۗ وَكَفىٰ بِرَبِّكَ هادِيًا وَنَصيرًا
Transliteration
wa-ka-dhālika jaʿalnā li-kulli nabiyyin ʿaduwwan mina l-mujrimīna wa-kafā bi-rabbika hādiyan wa-naṣīran
Translation
That is how for every prophet We assigned an enemy from among the guilty, and your Lord suffices as helper and guide.
32
وَقالَ
الَّذينَ كَفَروا لَولا نُزِّلَ عَلَيهِ القُرآنُ جُملَةً واحِدَةً ۚ
كَذٰلِكَ لِنُثَبِّتَ بِهِ فُؤادَكَ ۖ وَرَتَّلناهُ تَرتيلًا
Transliteration
wa-qāla
lladhīna kafarū law-lā nuzzila ʿalayhi l-qurʾānu jumlatan wāḥidatan
ka-dhālika li-nuthabbita bihī fuʾādaka wa-rattalnāhu tartīlan
Translation
The faithless say, ‘Why has not the Qurʾān been sent down to him all at once?’ So it is, that We may strengthen your heart with it, and We have recited it [to you] in a measured tone.
33
وَلا يَأتونَكَ بِمَثَلٍ إِلّا جِئناكَ بِالحَقِّ وَأَحسَنَ تَفسيرًا
Transliteration
wa-lā yaʾtūnaka bi-mathalin ʾillā jiʾnāka bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-ʾaḥsana tafsīran-i
Translation
They do not bring you any poser but that We bring you the truth [in reply to them] and the best exposition.
34
الَّذينَ يُحشَرونَ عَلىٰ وُجوهِهِم إِلىٰ جَهَنَّمَ أُولٰئِكَ شَرٌّ مَكانًا وَأَضَلُّ سَبيلًا
Transliteration
alladhīna yuḥsharūna ʿalā wujūhihim ʾilā jahannama ʾulāʾika sharrun makānan wa-ʾaḍallu sabīlan
Translation
Those who will be mustered on their faces toward hell, they are the worse situated and further astray from the [right] way.
35
وَلَقَد آتَينا موسَى الكِتابَ وَجَعَلنا مَعَهُ أَخاهُ هارونَ وَزيرًا
Transliteration
wa-la-qad ʾātaynā mūsā l-kitāba wa-jaʿalnā maʿahū ʾakhāhu hārūna wazīran
Translation
Certainly We gave Moses the Book and We made Aaron, his brother, accompany him as a minister.
36
فَقُلنَا اذهَبا إِلَى القَومِ الَّذينَ كَذَّبوا بِآياتِنا فَدَمَّرناهُم تَدميرًا
Transliteration
fa-qulnā dhhabā ʾilā l-qawmi lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā fa-dammarnāhum tadmīran
Translation
Then We said, ‘Let the two of you go to the people who have denied Our signs.’ Then We destroyed them utterly.
37
وَقَومَ نوحٍ لَمّا كَذَّبُوا الرُّسُلَ أَغرَقناهُم وَجَعَلناهُم لِلنّاسِ آيَةً ۖ وَأَعتَدنا لِلظّالِمينَ عَذابًا أَليمًا
Transliteration
wa-qawma nūḥin lammā kadhdhabū r-rusula ʾaghraqnāhum wa-jaʿalnāhum li-n-nāsi ʾāyatan wa-ʾaʿtadnā li-ẓ-ẓālimīna ʿadhāban ʾalīman
Translation
And
Noah’s people, We drowned them when they impugned the apostles, and We
made them a sign for mankind, and We have prepared for the wrongdoers a
painful punishment.
38
وَعادًا وَثَمودَ وَأَصحابَ الرَّسِّ وَقُرونًا بَينَ ذٰلِكَ كَثيرًا
Transliteration
wa-ʿādan wa-thamūda wa-ʾaṣḥāba r-rassi wa-qurūnan bayna dhālika kathīran
Translation
And ʿĀd and Thamūd, and the inhabitants of Rass, and many generations between them.
39
وَكُلًّا ضَرَبنا لَهُ الأَمثالَ ۖ وَكُلًّا تَبَّرنا تَتبيرًا
Transliteration
wa-kullan ḍarabnā lahu l-ʾamthāla wa-kullan tabbarnā tatbīran
Translation
For each of them We drew examples, and each We destroyed utterly.
40
وَلَقَد أَتَوا عَلَى القَريَةِ الَّتي أُمطِرَت مَطَرَ السَّوءِ ۚ أَفَلَم يَكونوا يَرَونَها ۚ بَل كانوا لا يَرجونَ نُشورًا
Transliteration
wa-la-qad ʾataw ʿalā l-qaryati llatī ʾumṭirat maṭara s-sawʾi ʾa-fa-lam yakūnū yarawnahā bal kānū lā yarjūna nushūran
Translation
Certainly
they must have passed the town on which an evil shower was rained. Have
they not seen it? Rather they did not expect resurrection.
41
وَإِذا رَأَوكَ إِن يَتَّخِذونَكَ إِلّا هُزُوًا أَهٰذَا الَّذي بَعَثَ اللَّهُ رَسولًا
Transliteration
wa-ʾidhā raʾawka ʾin yattakhidhūnaka ʾillā huzuwan ʾa-hādhā lladhī baʿatha llāhu rasūlan
Translation
When they see you they just take you in derision: ‘Is this the one whom Allah has sent as an apostle!?
42
إِن كادَ لَيُضِلُّنا عَن آلِهَتِنا لَولا أَن صَبَرنا عَلَيها ۚ وَسَوفَ يَعلَمونَ حينَ يَرَونَ العَذابَ مَن أَضَلُّ سَبيلًا
Transliteration
ʾin kāda la-yuḍillunā ʿan ʾālihatinā law-lā ʾan ṣabarnā ʿalayhā wa-sawfa yaʿlamūna ḥīna yarawna l-ʿadhāba man ʾaḍallu sabīlan
Translation
Indeed
he was about to lead us astray from our gods, had we not stood by
them.’ Soon they will know, when they sight the punishment, who is
further astray from the [right] way.
43
أَرَأَيتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلٰهَهُ هَواهُ أَفَأَنتَ تَكونُ عَلَيهِ وَكيلًا
Transliteration
ʾa-raʾayta mani ttakhadha ʾilāhahū hawāhu ʾa-fa-ʾanta takūnu ʿalayhi wakīlan
Translation
Have you seen him who has taken his desire to be his god? Is it your duty to watch over him?
44
أَم تَحسَبُ أَنَّ أَكثَرَهُم يَسمَعونَ أَو يَعقِلونَ ۚ إِن هُم إِلّا كَالأَنعامِ ۖ بَل هُم أَضَلُّ سَبيلًا
Transliteration
ʾam taḥsabu ʾanna ʾaktharahum yasmaʿūna ʾaw yaʿqilūna ʾin hum ʾillā ka-l-ʾanʿāmi bal hum ʾaḍallu sabīlan
Translation
Do you suppose that most of them listen or apply reason? They are just like cattle; rather they are further astray from the way.
45
أَلَم تَرَ إِلىٰ رَبِّكَ كَيفَ مَدَّ الظِّلَّ وَلَو شاءَ لَجَعَلَهُ ساكِنًا ثُمَّ جَعَلنَا الشَّمسَ عَلَيهِ دَليلًا
Transliteration
ʾa-lam tara ʾilā rabbika kayfa madda ẓ-ẓilla wa-law shāʾa la-jaʿalahū sākinan thumma jaʿalnā sh-shamsa ʿalayhi dalīlan
Translation
Have you not regarded how your Lord spreads the twilight?1 (Had He wished He would have made it still.) Then We made the sun a beacon for it.
- This is in accordance with a tradition of al-Imam al-Bāqir (ʿa) in which ẓill is explained as the light during the hours between daybreak and sunrise (see Tafsīr al-Qummī). Or ‘extends the shadow.’
46
ثُمَّ قَبَضناهُ إِلَينا قَبضًا يَسيرًا
Transliteration
thumma qabaḍnāhu ʾilaynā qabḍan yasīran
Translation
Then We retract it toward Ourselves, with a gentle retracting.
47
وَهُوَ الَّذي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ اللَّيلَ لِباسًا وَالنَّومَ سُباتًا وَجَعَلَ النَّهارَ نُشورًا
Transliteration
wa-huwa lladhī jaʿala lakumu l-layla libāsan wa-n-nawma subātan wa-jaʿala n-nahāra nushūran
Translation
It is He who made for you the night as a covering and sleep for rest and He made the day a recall to life.
48
وَهُوَ الَّذي أَرسَلَ الرِّياحَ بُشرًا بَينَ يَدَي رَحمَتِهِ ۚ وَأَنزَلنا مِنَ السَّماءِ ماءً طَهورًا
Transliteration
wa-huwa lladhī ʾarsala r-riyāḥa bushran bayna yaday raḥmatihī wa-ʾanzalnā mina s-samāʾi māʾan ṭahūran
Translation
And it is He who sends the winds as harbingers of His mercy, and We send down from the sky purifying water,
49
لِنُحيِيَ بِهِ بَلدَةً مَيتًا وَنُسقِيَهُ مِمّا خَلَقنا أَنعامًا وَأَناسِيَّ كَثيرًا
Transliteration
li-nuḥyiya bihī baldatan maytan wa-nusqiyahū mimmā khalaqnā ʾanʿāman wa-ʾanāsiyya kathīran
Translation
with which We revive a dead country and provide water to many of the cattle and humans We have created.
50
وَلَقَد صَرَّفناهُ بَينَهُم لِيَذَّكَّروا فَأَبىٰ أَكثَرُ النّاسِ إِلّا كُفورًا
Transliteration
wa-la-qad ṣarrafnāhu baynahum li-yadhdhakkarū fa-ʾabā ʾaktharu n-nāsi ʾillā kufūran
Translation
Certainly We distribute it among them so that they may take admonition. But most people are only intent on ingratitude.
51
وَلَو شِئنا لَبَعَثنا في كُلِّ قَريَةٍ نَذيرًا
Transliteration
wa-law shiʾnā la-baʿathnā fī kulli qaryatin nadhīran
Translation
Had We wished, We would have sent a warner to every town.
52
فَلا تُطِعِ الكافِرينَ وَجاهِدهُم بِهِ جِهادًا كَبيرًا
Transliteration
fa-lā tuṭiʿi l-kāfirīna wa-jāhidhum bihī jihādan kabīran
Translation
So do not obey the faithless, but wage against them a great jihād with it.1
- That is, with the help of the Qurʾān.
53
۞ وَهُوَ الَّذي مَرَجَ البَحرَينِ هٰذا عَذبٌ فُراتٌ وَهٰذا مِلحٌ أُجاجٌ وَجَعَلَ بَينَهُما بَرزَخًا وَحِجرًا مَحجورًا
Transliteration
wa-huwa lladhī maraja l-baḥrayni hādhā ʿadhbun furātun wa-hādhā milḥun ʾujājun wa-jaʿala baynahumā barzakhan wa-ḥijran maḥjūran
Translation
It
is He who merged the two seas: this one sweet and agreeable, and that
one briny and bitter, and between the two He set a barrier and a
forbidding hindrance.
54
وَهُوَ الَّذي خَلَقَ مِنَ الماءِ بَشَرًا فَجَعَلَهُ نَسَبًا وَصِهرًا ۗ وَكانَ رَبُّكَ قَديرًا
Transliteration
wa-huwa lladhī khalaqa mina l-māʾi basharan fa-jaʿalahū nasaban wa-ṣihran wa-kāna rabbuka qadīran
Translation
It is He who created the human being from water, then invested him with ties of blood and marriage, and your Lord is all-powerful.
55
وَيَعبُدونَ مِن دونِ اللَّهِ ما لا يَنفَعُهُم وَلا يَضُرُّهُم ۗ وَكانَ الكافِرُ عَلىٰ رَبِّهِ ظَهيرًا
Transliteration
wa-yaʿbudūna min dūni llāhi mā lā yanfaʿuhum wa-lā yaḍurruhum wa-kāna l-kāfiru ʿalā rabbihī ẓahīran
Translation
They
worship besides Allah that which neither brings them any benefit nor
causes them any harm, and the faithless one is ever an abettor against
his Lord.
56
وَما أَرسَلناكَ إِلّا مُبَشِّرًا وَنَذيرًا
Transliteration
wa-mā ʾarsalnāka ʾillā mubashshiran wa-nadhīran
Translation
We did not send you except as a bearer of good news and as a warner.
57
قُل ما أَسأَلُكُم عَلَيهِ مِن أَجرٍ إِلّا مَن شاءَ أَن يَتَّخِذَ إِلىٰ رَبِّهِ سَبيلًا
Transliteration
qul mā ʾasʾalukum ʿalayhi min ʾajrin ʾillā man shāʾa ʾan yattakhidha ʾilā rabbihī sabīlan
Translation
Say, ‘I do not ask you any reward for it, except that anyone who wishes should take the way to his Lord.’
58
وَتَوَكَّل عَلَى الحَيِّ الَّذي لا يَموتُ وَسَبِّح بِحَمدِهِ ۚ وَكَفىٰ بِهِ بِذُنوبِ عِبادِهِ خَبيرًا
Transliteration
wa-tawakkal ʿalā l-ḥayyi lladhī lā yamūtu wa-sabbiḥ bi-ḥamdihī wa-kafā bihī bi-dhunūbi ʿibādihī khabīran-i
Translation
Put your trust in the Living One who does not die, and celebrate His praise. He suffices as one all-aware of the sins of His servants.
59
الَّذي
خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ وَما بَينَهُما في سِتَّةِ أَيّامٍ ثُمَّ
استَوىٰ عَلَى العَرشِ ۚ الرَّحمٰنُ فَاسأَل بِهِ خَبيرًا
Transliteration
alladhī
khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-mā baynahumā fī sittati ʾayyāmin
thumma stawā ʿalā l-ʿarshi r-raḥmānu fa-sʾal bihī khabīran
Translation
He,
who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in
six days, and then settled on the Throne, the All-beneficent; so ask
someone who is well aware about Him.1
- Or, ‘about it,’ that is, about the creation of the heavens and the earth, or the meaning of the Throne.
60
وَإِذا قيلَ لَهُمُ اسجُدوا لِلرَّحمٰنِ قالوا وَمَا الرَّحمٰنُ أَنَسجُدُ لِما تَأمُرُنا وَزادَهُم نُفورًا ۩
Transliteration
wa-ʾidhā qīla lahumu sjudū li-r-raḥmāni qālū wa-mā r-raḥmānu ʾa-nasjudu li-mā taʾmurunā wa-zādahum nufūran
Translation
When
they are told: ‘Prostrate yourselves before the All-beneficent,’ they
say, ‘What is “the All-beneficent”? Shall we prostrate ourselves before
whatever you bid us?’ And it increases their aversion.
61
تَبارَكَ الَّذي جَعَلَ فِي السَّماءِ بُروجًا وَجَعَلَ فيها سِراجًا وَقَمَرًا مُنيرًا
Transliteration
tabāraka lladhī jaʿala fī s-samāʾi burūjan wa-jaʿala fīhā sirājan wa-qamaran munīran
Translation
Blessed is He who appointed houses in the sky and set in it a lamp and a shining moon.
62
وَهُوَ الَّذي جَعَلَ اللَّيلَ وَالنَّهارَ خِلفَةً لِمَن أَرادَ أَن يَذَّكَّرَ أَو أَرادَ شُكورًا
Transliteration
wa-huwa lladhī jaʿala l-layla wa-n-nahāra khilfatan li-man ʾarāda ʾan yadhdhakkara ʾaw ʾarāda shukūran
Translation
It is He who made the night and the day alternate for one who desires to take admonition, or desires to give thanks.
63
وَعِبادُ الرَّحمٰنِ الَّذينَ يَمشونَ عَلَى الأَرضِ هَونًا وَإِذا خاطَبَهُمُ الجاهِلونَ قالوا سَلامًا
Transliteration
wa-ʿibādu r-raḥmāni lladhīna yamshūna ʿalā l-ʾarḍi hawnan wa-ʾidhā khāṭabahumu l-jāhilūna qālū salāman
Translation
The servants of the All-beneficent are those who walk humbly on the earth, and when the ignorant address them, say, ‘Peace!’
64
وَالَّذينَ يَبيتونَ لِرَبِّهِم سُجَّدًا وَقِيامًا
Transliteration
wa-lladhīna yabītūna li-rabbihim sujjadan wa-qiyāman
Translation
Those who spend the night for their Lord, prostrating and standing [in worship].
65
وَالَّذينَ يَقولونَ رَبَّنَا اصرِف عَنّا عَذابَ جَهَنَّمَ ۖ إِنَّ عَذابَها كانَ غَرامًا
Transliteration
wa-lladhīna yaqūlūna rabbanā ṣrif ʿannā ʿadhāba jahannama ʾinna ʿadhābahā kāna gharāman
Translation
Those who say, ‘Our Lord! Turn away from us the punishment of hell. Indeed its punishment is enduring.
66
إِنَّها ساءَت مُستَقَرًّا وَمُقامًا
Transliteration
ʾinnahā sāʾat mustaqarran wa-muqāman
Translation
Indeed it is an evil abode and place.’
67
وَالَّذينَ إِذا أَنفَقوا لَم يُسرِفوا وَلَم يَقتُروا وَكانَ بَينَ ذٰلِكَ قَوامًا
Transliteration
wa-lladhīna ʾidhā ʾanfaqū lam yusrifū wa-lam yaqturū wa-kāna bayna dhālika qawāman
Translation
Those who, when spending, are neither wasteful nor tightfisted, and moderation lies between these [extremes].
68
وَالَّذينَ
لا يَدعونَ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلٰهًا آخَرَ وَلا يَقتُلونَ النَّفسَ الَّتي
حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ إِلّا بِالحَقِّ وَلا يَزنونَ ۚ وَمَن يَفعَل ذٰلِكَ يَلقَ
أَثامًا
Transliteration
wa-lladhīna
lā yadʿūna maʿa llāhi ʾilāhan ʾākhara wa-lā yaqtulūna n-nafsa llatī
ḥarrama llāhu ʾillā bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-lā yaznūna wa-man yafʿal dhālika yalqa
ʾathāman
Translation
Those
who do not invoke another god besides Allah, and do not kill a soul
[whose life] Allah has made inviolable, except with due cause, and do
not commit fornication. (Whoever does that shall encounter its
retribution,
69
يُضاعَف لَهُ العَذابُ يَومَ القِيامَةِ وَيَخلُد فيهِ مُهانًا
Transliteration
yuḍāʿaf lahu l-ʿadhābu yawma l-qiyāmati wa-yakhlud fīhi muhānan
Translation
the punishment being doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection. In it he will abide in humiliation forever,
70
إِلّا
مَن تابَ وَآمَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلًا صالِحًا فَأُولٰئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ اللَّهُ
سَيِّئَاتِهِم حَسَناتٍ ۗ وَكانَ اللَّهُ غَفورًا رَحيمًا
Transliteration
ʾillā
man tāba wa-ʾāmana wa-ʿamila ʿamalan ṣāliḥan fa-ʾulāʾika yubaddilu
llāhu sayyiʾātihim ḥasanātin wa-kāna llāhu ghafūran raḥīman
Translation
excepting those who repent, attain faith, and act righteously. For such, Allah will replace their misdeeds with good deeds,1 and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.
- Or ‘their vices with virtues.’
71
وَمَن تابَ وَعَمِلَ صالِحًا فَإِنَّهُ يَتوبُ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَتابًا
Transliteration
wa-man tāba wa-ʿamila ṣāliḥan fa-ʾinnahū yatūbu ʾilā llāhi matāban
Translation
And whoever repents and acts righteously indeed turns to Allah with due penitence).
72
وَالَّذينَ لا يَشهَدونَ الزّورَ وَإِذا مَرّوا بِاللَّغوِ مَرّوا كِرامًا
Transliteration
wa-lladhīna lā yashhadūna z-zūra wa-ʾidhā marrū bi-l-laghwi marrū kirāman
Translation
Those who do not give false testimony,1 and when they come upon vain talk, pass by nobly.
- Or, ‘those who do not participate in humbug.’ That is, those who do not attend music parties or take part in senseless and sinful gatherings and amusements. (See Tafsīr al-Qummī, Manhaj al-Ṣādiqīn).
73
وَالَّذينَ إِذا ذُكِّروا بِآياتِ رَبِّهِم لَم يَخِرّوا عَلَيها صُمًّا وَعُميانًا
Transliteration
wa-lladhīna ʾidhā dhukkirū bi-ʾāyāti rabbihim lam yakhirrū ʿalayhā ṣumman wa-ʿumyānan
Translation
Those who, when reminded of the signs of their Lord, do not turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to them.
74
وَالَّذينَ يَقولونَ رَبَّنا هَب لَنا مِن أَزواجِنا وَذُرِّيّاتِنا قُرَّةَ أَعيُنٍ وَاجعَلنا لِلمُتَّقينَ إِمامًا
Transliteration
wa-lladhīna yaqūlūna rabbanā hab lanā min ʾazwājinā wa-dhurriyyātinā qurrata ʾaʿyunin wa-jʿalnā li-l-muttaqīna ʾimāman
Translation
And those who say, ‘Our Lord! Grant us comfort in our spouses and descendants, and make us imams of the Godwary.’
75
أُولٰئِكَ يُجزَونَ الغُرفَةَ بِما صَبَروا وَيُلَقَّونَ فيها تَحِيَّةً وَسَلامًا
Transliteration
ʾulāʾika yujzawna l-ghurfata bi-mā ṣabarū wa-yulaqqawna fīhā taḥiyyatan wa-salāman
Translation
Those shall be rewarded with sublime abodes for their patience, and they shall be met there with greetings and ‘Peace,’
76
خالِدينَ فيها ۚ حَسُنَت مُستَقَرًّا وَمُقامًا
Transliteration
khālidīna fīhā ḥasunat mustaqarran wa-muqāman
Translation
to abide in them [forever], an excellent abode and place.
77
قُل ما يَعبَأُ بِكُم رَبّي لَولا دُعاؤُكُم ۖ فَقَد كَذَّبتُم فَسَوفَ يَكونُ لِزامًا
Transliteration
qul mā yaʿbaʾu bikum rabbī law-lā duʿāʾukum fa-qad kadhdhabtum fa-sawfa yakūnu lizāman
Translation
Say, ‘What store my Lord would set by you were it not for your supplication?1 But you impugned [me and my advice], so that will continue to haunt you.’
- Or ‘were it not for your invitation.’
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