Verses 111 — Makki; Revealed at Mecca —
Sections 12
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious,
Most Merciful
1. Glory to (Allah) Who did take His
servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque,
whose precincts We did bless,— in order that We might show him some of Our
Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things).
2. We gave Moses the Book, and made it
a Guide to the Children of Israel, (commanding): "Take not other than Me
as Disposer of (your) affairs."
3. O ye that are sprung from those whom
We carried (in the Ark) with Noah! Verily he was a devotee most grateful.
4. And We gave (Clear) Warning to the
Children of Israel in the Book, that twice would they do mischief on the earth
and be elated with mighty arrogance (and twice would they be punished)!
5. When the first of the warnings came
to pass, We sent against you Our servants given to terrible warfare: They
entered the very inmost parts of your homes; and it was a warning (completely)
fulfilled.
6. Then did We grant you the Return as
against them: We gave you increase in resources and sons, and made you the more
numerous in man-power.
7. If ye did well, ye did well for
yourselves; if ye did evil, (ye did it) against yourselves. So when the second
of the warnings came to pass, (We permitted your enemies) to disfigure your
faces, and to enter your Temple as they had entered it before, and to visit
with destruction all that fell into their power.
8. It may be that your Lord may (yet)
show Mercy unto you; but if ye revert (to your sins), We shall revert (to Our
punishments): And we have made Hell a prison for those who reject (all Faith).
9. Verily this Qur'an doth guide to
that which is most right (or stable), and giveth the Glad Tidings to the
Believers who work deeds of righteousness, that they shall have a magnificent
reward;
10. And to those who believe not in the
Hereafter, (it announceth) that We have prepared for them a Penalty Grievous
(indeed).
11. The prayer that man should make for
good, he maketh for evil; for man is given to hasty (deeds).
12. We have made the Night and the Day
as two (of Our) Signs: the Sign of the Night have We obscured, while the Sign
of the Day We have made to enlighten you; that ye may seek bounty from your
Lord, and that ye may know the number and count of the years: all things have
We explained in detail.
13. Every man's fate We have fastened
on his own neck: On the Day of Judgment We shall bring out for him a scroll,
which he will see spread open.
14. (It will be said to him:)
"Read thine (own) record: Sufficient is thy soul this day to make out an
account against thee."
15. Who receiveth guidance, receiveth
it for his own benefit: who goeth astray doth so to his own loss: No bearer of
burdens can bear the burden of another: nor would We visit with Our Wrath until
We had sent an apostle (to give warning).
16. When We decide to destroy a
population, We (first) send a definite order to those among them who are given
the good things of this life and yet transgress; so that the word is proved
true against them: then (it is) We destroy them utterly.
17. How many generations have We
destroyed after Noah? and enough is thy Lord to note and see the sins of His
servants.
18. If any do wish for the transitory
things (of this life), We readily grant them— such things as We will, to such
person as We will: in the end have We provided Hell for them: they will burn
therein, disgraced and rejected.
19. Those who do wish for the (things
of) the Hereafter, and strive therefor with all due striving, and have Faith,— they
are the ones whose striving is acceptable (to Allah).
20. Of the bounties of thy Lord We
bestow freely on all— These as well as those: The bounties of thy Lord are not
closed (to anyone).
21. See how We have bestowed more on
some than on others; but verily the Hereafter is more in rank and gradation and
more in excellence.
22. Take not with Allah another object
of worship; or thou (O man!) wilt sit in disgrace and destitution.
23. Thy Lord hath decreed that ye
worship none but Him, and that ye be kind to parents. Whether one or both of
them attain old age in thy life, say not to them a word of contempt, nor repel
them, but address them in terms of honour.
24. And, out of kindness, lower to them
the wing of humility, and say: "My Lord! bestow on them thy Mercy even as
they cherished me in childhood."
25. Your Lord knoweth best what is in
your hearts: If ye do deeds of righteousness, verily He is Most Forgiving to
those who turn to Him again and again (in true penitence).
26. And render to the kindred their due
rights, as (also) to those in want, and to the wayfarer: But squander not (your
wealth) in the manner of a spendthrift.
27. Verily spendthrifts are brothers of
the Evil Ones; and the Evil One is to his Lord (himself) ungrateful.
28. And even if thou hast to turn away
from them in pursuit of the Mercy from thy Lord which thou dost expect, yet
speak to them a word of easy kindness.
29. Make not thy hand tied (like a
niggard's) to thy neck, nor stretch it forth to its utmost reach, so that thou
become blameworthy and destitute.
30. Verily thy Lord doth provide
sustenance in abundance for whom He pleaseth, and He provideth in a just measure.
For He doth know and regard all His servants.
31. Kill not your children for fear of
want: We shall provide sustenance for them as well as for you. Verily the
killing of them is a great sin.
32. Nor come nigh to adultery: for it
is a shameful (deed) and an evil, opening the road (to other evils).
33. Nor take life— which Allah has made
sacred— except for just cause. And if anyone is slain wrongfully, we have given
his heir authority (to demand qisas or to forgive): but let him nor exceed
bounds in the matter of taking life; for he is helped (by the Law).
34. Come not nigh to the orphan's
property except to improve it, until he attains the age of full strength; and
fulfil (every) engagement, for (every) engagement will be enquired into (on the
Day of Reckoning).
35. Give full measure when ye measure,
and weigh with a balance that is straight: that is the most fitting and the
most advantageous in the final determination.
36. And pursue not that of which thou
hast no knowledge; for every act of hearing, or of seeing or of (feeling in)
the heart will be enquired into (on the Day of Reckoning).
37. Nor walk on the earth with
insolence: for thou canst not rend the earth asunder, nor reach the mountains
in height.
38. Of all such things the evil is hateful
in the sight of thy Lord.
39. These are among the (precepts of)
wisdom, which thy Lord has revealed to thee. Take not, with Allah, another
object of worship, lest thou shouldst be thrown into Hell, blameworthy and
rejected.
40. Has then your Lord (O Pagans!)
preferred for you sons, and taken for Himself daughters among the angels? Truly
ye utter a most dreadful saying!
41. We have explained (things) in
various (ways) in this Qur'an, in order that they may receive admonition, but
it only increases their flight (from the Truth)!
42. Say: If there had been (other) gods
with Him, as they say,— behold, they would certainly have sought out a way to
the Lord of the Throne!
43. Glory to Him! He is high above all
that they say!— Exalted and Great (beyond measure)!
44. The seven heavens and the earth,
and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates
His praise; And yet ye understand not how they declare His glory! Verily He is
Oft-Forbear, Most Forgiving!
45. When thou dost recite the Qur'an,
We put, between thee and those who believe not in the Hereafter, a veil
invisible:
46. And We put coverings over their
hearts (and minds) lest they should understand the Qur'an, and deafness into
their ears: when thou dost commemorate thy Lord and Him alone in the Qur'an,
they turn on their backs, fleeing (from the Truth).
47. We know best why it is they listen,
when they listen to thee; and when they meet in private conference, behold, the
wicked say, "Ye follow none other than a man bewitched!"
48. See what similes they strike for
thee: but they have gone astray, and never can they find a way.
49. They say: "What! when we are
reduced to bones and dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new
creation?"
50. Say: "(Nay!) be ye stones or
iron,
51. "Or created matter which, in
your minds, is hardest (to be raised up),— (Yet shall ye be raised up)!"
then will they say: "Who will cause us to return?" Say: "He who
created you first!" Then will they wag their heads towards thee, and say,
"When will that be?" Say, "May be it will be quite soon!
52. "It will be on a Day when He
will call you, and ye will answer (His call) with (words of) His praise, and ye
will think that ye tarried but a little while!"
53. Say to My servants that they should
(only) say those things that are best: for Satan doth sow dissensions among
them: For Satan is to man an avowed enemy.
54. It is your Lord that knoweth you
best: If He please, He granteth you mercy, or if He please, punishment: We have
not sent thee to be a disposer of their affairs for them.
55. And it is your Lord that knoweth
best all beings that are in the heavens and on earth: We did bestow on some
prophets more (and other) gifts than on others: and We gave to David (the gift
of) the Psalms.
56. Say: "Call on those— besides
Him— whom ye fancy: they have neither the power to remove your troubles from
you nor to change them."
57. Those whom they call upon do desire
(for themselves) means of access to their Lord,— even those who are nearest:
they hope for His Mercy and fear His Wrath: for the Wrath of thy Lord is
something to take heed of.
58. There is not a population but We
shall destroy it before the Day of Judgment or punish it with a dreadful
Penalty: that is written in the (eternal) Record.
59. And We refrain from sending the
signs, only because the men of former generations treated them as false: We
sent the she-camel to the Thamud to open their eyes, but they treated her
wrongfully: We only send the Signs by way of terror (and warning from evil).
60. Behold! We told thee that thy Lord
doth encompass mankind round about: We granted the vision which We showed thee,
but as a trial for men,— as also the Cursed Tree (mentioned) in the Qur'an: We
put terror (and warning) into them, but it only increases their inordinate
transgression!
61. Behold! We said to the angels:
"Bow down unto Adam": They bowed down except Iblis: He said,
"Shall I bow down to one whom Thou didst create from clay?"
62. He said: "Seest Thou? this is
the one whom Thou hast honoured above me! If Thou wilt but respite me to the
Day of Judgment, I will surely bring his descendants under my sway— all but a
few!"
63. (Allah) said: "Go thy way; if
any of them follow thee, verily Hell will be the recompense of you (all)— an
ample recompense.
64. "Lead to destruction those
whom thou canst among them, with thy (seductive) voice; make assaults on them
with thy cavalry and thy infantry; mutually share with them wealth and
children; and make promises to them." But Satan promises them nothing but
deceit.
65. "As for My servants, no
authority shalt thou have over them:" Enough is thy Lord for a Disposer of
affairs.
66. Your Lord is He That maketh the
Ship go smoothly for you through the sea, in order that ye may seek of his
Bounty. For he is unto you most Merciful.
67. When distress seizes you at sea,
those that ye call upon— besides Himself— leave you in the lurch! but when He
brings you back safe to land, ye turn away (from Him). Most ungrateful is man!
68. Do ye then feel secure that He will
not cause you to be swallowed up beneath the earth when ye are on land, or that
He will not send against you a violent tornado (with showers of stones) so that
ye shall find no one to carry out your affairs for you?
69. Or do ye feel secure that He will
not send you back a second time to sea and send against you a heavy gale to
drown you because of your ingratitude, so that ye find no helper. Therein
against Us?
70. We have honoured the sons of Adam;
provided them with transport on land and sea; given them for sustenance things
good and pure; and conferred on them special favours, above a great part of our
creation.
71. One day We shall call together all
human beings with their (respective) Imams: those who are given their record in
their right hand will read it (with pleasure), and they will not be dealt with
unjustly in the least.
72. But those who were blind in this
world, will be blind in the hereafter, and most astray from the Path.
73. And their purpose was to tempt thee
away from that which We had revealed unto thee, to substitute in our name
something quite different; (in that case), behold! they would certainly have
made thee (their) friend!
74. And had We not given thee strength,
thou wouldst nearly have inclined to them a little.
75. In that case We should have made
thee taste an equal portion (of punishment) in this life, and an equal portion
in death: and moreover thou wouldst have found none to help thee against Us!
76. Their purpose was to scare thee off
the land, in order to expel thee; but in that case they would not have stayed
(therein) after thee, except for a little while.
77. (This was Our) way with the apostles
We sent before thee: thou wilt find no change in Our ways.
78. Establish regular prayers— at the
sun's decline till the darkness of the night, and the morning prayer and
reading: for the prayer and reading in the morning carry their testimony.
79. And pray in the small watches of
the morning: (it would be) an additional prayer (or spiritual profit) for thee:
soon will thy Lord raise thee to a Station of Praise and Glory!
80. Say: "O my Lord! Let my entry
be by the Gate of Truth and Honour, and likewise my exit by the Gate of Truth
and Honour; and grant me from Thy Presence an authority to aid (me)."
81. And say: "Truth has (now)
arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is (by its nature) bound to
perish."
82. We send down (stage by stage) in the
Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe: to the unjust
it causes nothing but loss after loss.
83. Yet when We bestow Our favours on
man, he turns away and becomes remote on his side (instead of coming to Us),
and when evil seizes him he gives himself up to despair!
84. Say: "Everyone acts according
to his own disposition: But your Lord knows best who it is that is best guided
on the Way."
85. They ask thee concerning the Spirit
(of inspiration). Say: "The Spirit (cometh) by command of my Lord: of
knowledge it is only a little that is communicated to you, (O men!)"
86. If it were Our Will, We could take
away that which We have sent thee by inspiration:then wouldst thou find none to
plead thy affair in that matter as against Us,—
87. Except for Mercy from thy Lord: for
his bounty is to thee (indeed) great.
88. Say: "If the whole of mankind
and Jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they
could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help
and support.
89. And We have explained to man, in
this Qur'an, every kind of similitude: yet the greater part of men refuse (to
receive it) except with ingratitude!
90. They say: "We shall not
believe in thee, until thou cause a spring to gush forth for us from the earth,
91. "Or (until) thou have a garden
of date trees and vines, and cause rivers to gush forth in their midst,
carrying abundant water;
92. "Or thou cause the sky to fall
in pieces, as thou sayest (will happen), against us; or thou bring Allah and
the angels before (us) face to face:
93. "Or thou have a house adorned
with gold, or thou mount a ladder right into the skies. No, we shall not even
believe in thy mounting until thou send down to us a book that we could
read." Say: "Glory to my Lord! Am I aught but a man,— an
apostle?"
94. What kept men back from belief when
Guidance came to them, was nothing but this: they said, "Has Allah sent a
man (like us) to be (His) Messenger."
95. Say, "If there were settled,
on earth, angels walking about in peace and quiet, We should certainly have
sent them down from the heavens an angel for an apostle."
96. Say: "Enough is Allah for a
witness between me and you: for He is well acquainted with His servants, and He
sees (all things).
97. It is he whom Allah guides, that is
on true Guidance; but he whom He leaves astray— for such wilt thou find no
protector besides Him. On the Day of Judgment We shall gather, them together,
prone on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf: their abode will be Hell: every
time it shows abatement, We shall increase from them the fierceness of the
Fire.
98. That is their recompense, because
they rejected Our signs, and said, "When we are reduced to bones and
broken dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new Creation?"
99. See they not that Allah, Who
created the heavens and the earth, has power to create the like of them (anew)?
Only He has decreed a term appointed, of which there is no doubt. But the
unjust refuse (to receive it) except with ingratitude.
100. Say: "If ye had control of
the Treasures of the Mercy of my Lord, behold, ye would keep them back, for
fear of spending them: for man is (every) niggardly!"
101. To Moses We did give Nine Clear
Signs: As the Children of Israel: when he came to them, Pharaoh said to him:
"O Moses! I consider thee, indeed, to have been worked upon by sorcery!
102. Moses said, "Thou knowest
well that these things have been sent down by none but the Lord of the heavens
and the earth as eye-opening evidence: and I consider thee indeed, O Pharaoh,
to be one doomed to destruction!"
103. So he resolved to remove them from
the face of the earth: but We did drown him and all who were with him.
104. And We said thereafter to the
Children of Israel, "Dwell securely in the land (of promise)": but
when the second of the warnings came to pass, We gathered you together in a
mingled crowd.
105. We sent down the (Qur'an) in
Truth, and in Truth has it descended: and We sent thee but to give Glad Tidings
and to warn (sinners).
106. (It is) a Qur'an which We have
divided (into parts from time to time), in order that thou mightest recite it
to men at intervals: We have revealed it by stages.
107. Say: "Whether ye believe in
it or not, it is true that those who were given knowledge beforehand, when it
is recited to them, fall down on their faces in humble prostration,
108. "And they say: 'Glory to our
Lord! Truly has the promise of our Lord been fulfilled!'"
109. They fall down on their faces in
tears, and it increases their (earnest) humility.
110. Say: "Call upon Allah, or
call upon Rahman: by whatever name ye call upon Him, (it is well): for to Him
belong the Most Beautiful Names. Neither speak thy Prayer aloud, nor speak it
in a low tone, but seek a middle course between."
111. Say: "Praise be to Allah, who
begets no son, and has no partner in (His) dominion: Nor (needs) He any to
protect Him from humiliation: yea, magnify Him for His greatness and
glory!"
The Holy Qur'an
Translated by Abdullah
Yusuf Ali
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