English - Chapter 15 - Al-Hijr

Alif. Lam. Ra. These are the verses of the Book, and a Qur'an luminous

Oft times would those who disbelieve fain that they had been Muslims

Leave them thou to eat and to enjoy, and let vain hope divert them; presently they will know

And We have not destroyed a town but there was therefor a decree known

No community precedeth the term thereof nor doth it fall behind

And they say: O thou unto whom the Admonition hath been sent down! verily thou art possessed

Why bringest thou not angels unto us if thou art of the truthtellers

We send not the angels down save with judgment, and then they would not be respited

Verily We! it is We who have revealed the Admonition, and verily We are the guardians thereof

And assuredly We have sent apostles before thee among the sects of the ancients

And not an apostle came unto them but at him they were wont to mock

Even so we make a way for it in the hearts of the culprits

They believe not therein, and already the example of the ancients hath gone forth

And if We opened upon them a door of the heaven, and they passed the day mounting thereto

They would surely say: intoxicated have been our sights; aye! we are a people enchanted

And assuredly We have set constellations in the heaven and made it fairseeming unto the beholders

And We have guarded it from every Satan damned

Save him who stealeth the hearing, and him there followeth a flame gleaming

And the earth! We have stretched it out and have cast thereon mountains firm, and We have caused to spring up thereon everything weighed

And We have appointed thereon for you livelihoods and also for those of whom ye are not the providers

And there is not of aught but with Us are the treasures thereof, and We send it not down save in a measure known

And We send the winds fertilizing, then We send down water from the heaven and We give it to you to drink, and thereof ye could not be the treasurers

And verily We! it is We who give life and death, and We shall be the survivors

And assuredly We know those of you who have gone before and those who will come hereafter

And veriiy thy Lord! He will gather them, and verily He is Wise. Knowing

And assuredly We have created human being from ringing clay of loam moulded

And the Jinn, We had created them afore of the fire of the scroching wind

And recall what time thy Lord said unto the angels: verily I am about to createa man from ringing clay of loam moulded

Then when I have formed him and breathed into him of My Spirit fall down unto him prostrate

So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together

But Iblis did not; he refused to be with the prostrates

Allah said: O Iblis! what aileth thou that thou art not with the prostrates

He said it was not for me that should prostrate myself unto a human being whom Thou hast created from ringing clay of loam moulded

Allah said: then get thee forth therefrom; verily thou art one damned

And verily on thee shall be the curse till the Day of Requital

He said: my Lord! respite me then till the Day whereon they will be raised up

Allah said: verily then thou art of the respited

Till the Day of the Time known

He said: my Lord! because Thou hast led me to err I will surely make things fairseeming unto them on the earth and will surely seduce them all

But not such of them as are Thy bondmen single-hearted

Allah said: this is the path leeding unto Me straight

Verily as for My bondmen, no authority shalt thou have over them, except the erring one who follow thee

And verily Hell is the place promised unto them all

Unto it are seven portals; unto each portal is a Portion of them assigned

Verily the God-fearing shall be amidst gardens and springs

Enter therein in peace, secure

And We shall have removed whatsoever of grudge may be in their breasts: brethren they. sitting upon couches facing each other

There shall touch them no toil therein, nor therefrom they shall ever be driven out

Declare thou unto My bondmen: verily I! I am the Forgiver, the Merciful

And verily My torment! that is the torment afflictive

And declare thou unto them of Ibrahim's guests

When they entered unto him, and said; peace! He said: verily we are afraid of you

They said: be not afraid; verily we bear thou the glad tidings of a boy knowing

He said: bear ye me glad tidings when old age hath touched me? of what then ye bear me glad tidings

They said: we bear tidings of a truth; be then thou not of the desponding

He said: and who despondeth of the mercy of his Lord except the astray

He said: what is your errand, sent ones

They said: verily we have been sent unto a people guilty

All except the household of Lut; surely we are going to deliver all of them

But not his wife; we have decreed that she will be of those staying behind

Then when the sent ones entered unto the household of Lut

He said: verily ye are a people stranger

They said: nay! we have come to thee with that whereof they have been dubitating

And we have brought unto thee the truth, and verily we say sooth

And We decreed unto him this commandment because the last of those was to be cut off in the early morning

And there came the people of the city rejoicing

He said: verily these are my guests, so disgace me not

And fear Allah, and humiliate me not

They said: forbade we not thee against the worlds

He said: these are my daughters, if act ye must

By thy life, in their intoxication they were wandering bewildered

Then the shout took hold of them at the sunrise

And We made the upside there of downwards, and We rained on them stones of baked clay

Verily therein are signs for men of sagacity

And verily they are on a pathway lasting

Verily in that is a sign for the believers

And the dwellers of the wood surely were wrong-doers

So We took vengeance on them. And verily both are on a high-road open

And assuredly the dwellers of Hijr belied the sent ones

And We brought Our signs unto them, yet they were averting themselves therefrom

And they were hewing out houses from mountains feeling secure

Then the shout took hold of them in the early morn

Then availed them not that which they had been earning

And We have not created the heaven and the earth and that which is in between them save with a purpose. And verily the Hour is surely coming; so overlook thou with a seemly overlooking

Verify thy Lord! He is the Great Creator, the Knower

And assuredly We have vouchsafed unto thee seven of the repetitions and the mighty Qur'an

Cast not thine eyes toward that which We have let classes of them to enjoy; and grieve not over them, and lower thy wing unto the believers

And say thou: verily I! I am a plain warner

Even as We sent down on the dividers

Those who have made the scripture bits

By thy Lord, We will question them all

For that which they have been working

Promulgate thou that which thou art commanded, and turn away from the associaters

Verily We will suffice unto thee against the mockers

Who set up along with Allah anot her god; presently they shall know

And assuredly We know that thou straitenest thy breast by that which they say

So hallow thou the praise of thy Lord, and be thou of the prostrate

And worship thy Lord until there cometh unto thee the certainty