Al-Hujurat
( 1 )
O you who have believed, do not put [yourselves] before Allah and His Messenger
but fear Allah. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.
( 2 )
O you who have believed, do not raise your voices above the voice of the
Prophet or be loud to him in speech like the loudness of some of you to others,
lest your deeds become worthless while you perceive not.
( 3 )
Indeed, those who lower their voices before the Messenger of Allah - they are
the ones whose hearts Allah has tested for righteousness. For them is
forgiveness and great reward.
( 4 )
Indeed, those who call you, [O Muhammad], from behind the chambers - most of them
do not use reason.
( 5 )
And if they had been patient until you [could] come out to them, it would have
been better for them. But Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
( 6 )
O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one with
information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become,
over what you have done, regretful.
( 7 )
And know that among you is the Messenger of Allah. If he were to obey you in
much of the matter, you would be in difficulty, but Allah has endeared to you
the faith and has made it pleasing in your hearts and has made hateful to you
disbelief, defiance and disobedience. Those are the [rightly] guided.
( 8 )
[It is] as bounty from Allah and favor. And Allah is Knowing and Wise.
( 9 )
And if two factions among the believers should fight, then make settlement
between the two. But if one of them oppresses the other, then fight against the
one that oppresses until it returns to the ordinance of Allah. And if it
returns, then make settlement between them in justice and act justly. Indeed,
Allah loves those who act justly.
( 10 )
The believers are but brothers, so make settlement between your
brothers. And fear Allah that you may receive mercy.
( 11 )
O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people;
perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule [other] women;
perhaps they may be better than them. And do not insult one another and do not
call each other by [offensive] nicknames. Wretched is the name of disobedience
after [one's] faith. And whoever does not repent - then it is those who are the
wrongdoers.
( 12 )
O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some
assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like
to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah;
indeed, Allah is Accepting of repentance and Merciful.
( 13 )
O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you
peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you
in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and
Acquainted.
( 14 )
The bedouins say, "We have believed." Say, "You have not
[yet] believed; but say [instead], 'We have submitted,' for faith has not yet
entered your hearts. And if you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not
deprive you from your deeds of anything. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and
Merciful."
( 15 )
The believers are only the ones who have believed in Allah and His
Messenger and then doubt not but strive with their properties and their lives
in the cause of Allah. It is those who are the truthful.
( 16 )
Say, "Would you acquaint Allah with your religion while Allah knows
whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth, and Allah is Knowing
of all things?"
( 17 )
They consider it a favor to you that they have accepted Islam. Say,
"Do not consider your Islam a favor to me. Rather, Allah has conferred
favor upon you that He has guided you to the faith, if you should be
truthful."
( 18 )
Indeed, Allah knows the unseen [aspects] of the heavens and the earth.
And Allah is Seeing of what you do.
Qaf
( 1 )
Qaf. By the honored Qur'an...
( 2 )
But they wonder that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, and
the disbelievers say, "This is an amazing thing.
( 3 )
When we have died and have become dust, [we will return to life]? That is a
distant return."
( 4 )
We know what the earth diminishes of them, and with Us is a retaining record.
( 5 )
But they denied the truth when it came to them, so they are in a confused condition.
( 6 )
Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and
adorned it and [how] it has no rifts?
( 7 )
And the earth - We spread it out and cast therein firmly set mountains and made
grow therein [something] of every beautiful kind,
( 8 )
Giving insight and a reminder for every servant who turns [to Allah].
( 9 )
And We have sent down blessed rain from the sky and made grow thereby gardens
and grain from the harvest
( 10 )
And lofty palm trees having fruit arranged in layers -
( 11 )
As provision for the servants, and We have given life thereby to a dead
land. Thus is the resurrection.
( 12 )
The people of Noah denied before them, and the companions of the well
and Thamud
( 13 )
And 'Aad and Pharaoh and the brothers of Lot
( 14 )
And the companions of the thicket and the people of Tubba'. All denied
the messengers, so My threat was justly fulfilled.
( 15 )
Did We fail in the first creation? But they are in confusion over a new
creation.
( 16 )
And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him,
and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein
( 17 )
When the two receivers receive, seated on the right and on the left.
( 18 )
Man does not utter any word except that with him is an observer prepared
[to record].
( 19 )
And the intoxication of death will bring the truth; that is what you
were trying to avoid.
( 20 )
And the Horn will be blown. That is the Day of [carrying out] the
threat.
( 21 )
And every soul will come, with it a driver and a witness.
( 22 )
[It will be said], "You were certainly in unmindfulness of this, and
We have removed from you your cover, so your sight, this Day, is sharp."
( 23 )
And his companion, [the angel], will say, "This [record] is what is
with me, prepared."
( 24 )
[Allah will say], "Throw into Hell every obstinate disbeliever,
( 25 )
Preventer of good, aggressor, and doubter,
( 26 )
Who made [as equal] with Allah another deity; then throw him into the
severe punishment."
( 27 )
His [devil] companion will say, "Our Lord, I did not make him
transgress, but he [himself] was in extreme error."
( 28 )
[Allah] will say, "Do not dispute before Me, while I had already
presented to you the warning.
( 29 )
The word will not be changed with Me, and never will I be unjust to the
servants."
( 30 )
On the Day We will say to Hell, "Have you been filled?" and it
will say, "Are there some more,"
( 31 )
And Paradise will be brought near to the righteous, not far,
( 32 )
[It will be said], "This is what you were promised - for every
returner [to Allah] and keeper [of His covenant]
( 33 )
Who feared the Most Merciful unseen and came with a heart returning [in
repentance].
( 34 )
Enter it in peace. This is the Day of Eternity."
( 35 )
They will have whatever they wish therein, and with Us is more.
( 36 )
And how many a generation before them did We destroy who were greater
than them in [striking] power and had explored throughout the lands. Is there
any place of escape?
( 37 )
Indeed in that is a reminder for whoever has a heart or who listens
while he is present [in mind].
( 38 )
And We did certainly create the heavens and earth and what is between
them in six days, and there touched Us no weariness.
( 39 )
So be patient, [O Muhammad], over what they say and exalt [Allah] with
praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting,
( 40 )
And [in part] of the night exalt Him and after prostration.
( 41 )
And listen on the Day when the Caller will call out from a place that is
near -
( 42 )
The Day they will hear the blast [of the Horn] in truth. That is the Day
of Emergence [from the graves].
( 43 )
Indeed, it is We who give life and cause death, and to Us is the
destination
( 44 )
On the Day the earth breaks away from them [and they emerge] rapidly;
that is a gathering easy for Us.
( 45 )
We are most knowing of what they say, and you are not over them a
tyrant. But remind by the Qur'an whoever fears My threat.
Az-Zariyat
( 1 )
By those [winds] scattering [dust] dispersing
( 2 )
And those [clouds] carrying a load [of water]
( 3 )
And those [ships] sailing with ease
( 4 )
And those [angels] apportioning [each] matter,
( 5 )
Indeed, what you are promised is true.
( 6 )
And indeed, the recompense is to occur.
( 7 )
By the heaven containing pathways,
( 8 )
Indeed, you are in differing speech.
( 9 )
Deluded away from the Qur'an is he who is deluded.
( 10 )
Destroyed are the falsifiers
( 11 )
Who are within a flood [of confusion] and heedless.
( 12 )
They ask, "When is the Day of Recompense?"
( 13 )
[It is] the Day they will be tormented over the Fire
( 14 )
[And will be told], "Taste your torment. This is that for which you
were impatient."
( 15 )
Indeed, the righteous will be among gardens and springs,
( 16 )
Accepting what their Lord has given them. Indeed, they were before that
doers of good.
( 17 )
They used to sleep but little of the night,
( 18 )
And in the hours before dawn they would ask forgiveness,
( 19 )
And from their properties was [given] the right of the [needy]
petitioner and the deprived.
( 20 )
And on the earth are signs for the certain [in faith]
( 21 )
And in yourselves. Then will you not see?
( 22 )
And in the heaven is your provision and whatever you are promised.
( 23 )
Then by the Lord of the heaven and earth, indeed, it is truth - just as
[sure as] it is that you are speaking.
( 24 )
Has there reached you the story of the honored guests of Abraham? -
( 25 )
When they entered upon him and said, "[We greet you with]
peace." He answered, "[And upon you] peace, [you are] a people
unknown.
( 26 )
Then he went to his family and came with a fat [roasted] calf
( 27 )
And placed it near them; he said, "Will you not eat?"
( 28 )
And he felt from them apprehension. They said, "Fear not," and
gave him good tidings of a learned boy.
( 29 )
And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and
said, "[I am] a barren old woman!"
( 30 )
They said, "Thus has said your Lord; indeed, He is the Wise, the
Knowing."
( 31 )
[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O
messengers?"
( 32 )
They said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals
( 33 )
To send down upon them stones of clay,
( 34 )
Marked in the presence of your Lord for the transgressors."
( 35 )
So We brought out whoever was in the cities of the believers.
( 36 )
And We found not within them other than a [single] house of Muslims.
( 37 )
And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment.
( 38 )
And in Moses [was a sign], when We sent him to Pharaoh with clear
authority.
( 39 )
But he turned away with his supporters and said," A magician or a
madman."
( 40 )
So We took him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea, and he was
blameworthy.
( 41 )
And in 'Aad [was a sign], when We sent against them the barren wind.
( 42 )
It left nothing of what it came upon but that it made it like disintegrated
ruins.
( 43 )
And in Thamud, when it was said to them, "Enjoy yourselves for a
time."
( 44 )
But they were insolent toward the command of their Lord, so the
thunderbolt seized them while they were looking on.
( 45 )
And they were unable to arise, nor could they defend themselves.
( 46 )
And [We destroyed] the people of Noah before; indeed, they were a people
defiantly disobedient.
( 47 )
And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its]
expander.
( 48 )
And the earth We have spread out, and excellent is the preparer.
( 49 )
And of all things We created two mates; perhaps you will remember.
( 50 )
So flee to Allah. Indeed, I am to you from Him a clear warner.
( 51 )
And do not make [as equal] with Allah another deity. Indeed, I am to you
from Him a clear warner.
( 52 )
Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that
they said, "A magician or a madman."
( 53 )
Did they suggest it to them? Rather, they [themselves] are a
transgressing people.
( 54 )
So leave them, [O Muhammad], for you are not to be blamed.
( 55 )
And remind, for indeed, the reminder benefits the believers.
( 56 )
And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.
( 57 )
I do not want from them any provision, nor do I want them to feed Me.
( 58 )
Indeed, it is Allah who is the [continual] Provider, the firm possessor
of strength.
( 59 )
And indeed, for those who have wronged is a portion [of punishment] like
the portion of their predecessors, so let them not impatiently urge Me.
( 60 )
And woe to those who have disbelieved from their Day which they are
promised.
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