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English - Chapter 50 - Qaf

Translation by A. J. Arberry — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Qaf 50:1

Qaf. By the glorious Koran

Verse 2 — Surah Qaf 50:2

Nay, but they marvel that a warner has come to them from among them; and the unbelievers say, 'This is a marvellous thing

Verse 3 — Surah Qaf 50:3

What, when we are dead and become dust? That is a far returning

Verse 4 — Surah Qaf 50:4

We know what the earth diminishes of them; with Us is a book recording

Verse 5 — Surah Qaf 50:5

Nay, but they cried lies to the truth when it came to them, and so they are in a case confused

Verse 6 — Surah Qaf 50:6

What, have they not beheld heaven above them, how We have built it, and decked it out fair, and it has no cracks

Verse 7 — Surah Qaf 50:7

And the earth -- We stretched it forth, and cast on it firm mountains, and We caused to grow therein of every joyous kind

Verse 8 — Surah Qaf 50:8

for an insight and a reminder to every penitent servant

Verse 9 — Surah Qaf 50:9

And We sent down out of heaven water blessed, and caused to grow thereby gardens and grain of harvest

Verse 10 — Surah Qaf 50:10

and tall palm-trees with spathes compact

Verse 11 — Surah Qaf 50:11

a provision for the servants, and thereby We revived a land that was dead. Even so is the coming forth

Verse 12 — Surah Qaf 50:12

Cried lies before them the people of Noah and the men of Er-Rass, and Thamood

Verse 13 — Surah Qaf 50:13

and Ad and Pharaoh, the brothers of Lot

Verse 14 — Surah Qaf 50:14

the men of the Thicket, the people of Tubba'. Every one cried lies to the Messengers, and My threat came true

Verse 15 — Surah Qaf 50:15

What, were We wearied by the first creation? No indeed; but they are in uncertainty as to the new creation

Verse 16 — Surah Qaf 50:16

We indeed created man; and We know what his soul whispers within him, and We are nearer to him than the jugular vein

Verse 17 — Surah Qaf 50:17

When the two angels meet together, sitting one on the right, and one on the left

Verse 18 — Surah Qaf 50:18

not a word he utters, but by him is an observer ready

Verse 19 — Surah Qaf 50:19

And death's agony comes in truth; that is what thou wast shunning

Verse 20 — Surah Qaf 50:20

And the Trumpet shall be blown; that is the Day of the Threat

Verse 21 — Surah Qaf 50:21

And every soul shall come, and with it a driver and a witness

Verse 22 — Surah Qaf 50:22

Thou wast heedless of this; therefore We have now removed from thee thy covering, and so thy sight today is piercing

Verse 23 — Surah Qaf 50:23

And his comrade shall say, 'This is what I have, made ready

Verse 24 — Surah Qaf 50:24

Cast, you twain, into Gehenna every froward unbeliever

Verse 25 — Surah Qaf 50:25

every hinderer of the good, transgressor, disquieter

Verse 26 — Surah Qaf 50:26

who set up with God another god; therefore, you twain, cast him into the terrible chastisement

Verse 27 — Surah Qaf 50:27

And his comrade shall say, 'Our Lord, I made him not insolent, but he was in far error

Verse 28 — Surah Qaf 50:28

He shall say, 'Dispute not before Me! For I sent you beforehand -- the threat

Verse 29 — Surah Qaf 50:29

The Word is not changed with Me; I wrong not My servants

Verse 30 — Surah Qaf 50:30

Upon the day We shall say unto Gehenna, 'Art thou filled?' And it shall say, 'Are there any more to come

Verse 31 — Surah Qaf 50:31

And Paradise shall be brought forward to the godfearing, not afar

Verse 32 — Surah Qaf 50:32

This is that you were promised; it is for every mindful penitent

Verse 33 — Surah Qaf 50:33

Whosoever fears the All-merciful in the Unseen, and comes with a penitent heart

Verse 34 — Surah Qaf 50:34

Enter it in peace! This is the Day of Eternity

Verse 35 — Surah Qaf 50:35

Therein they shall have whatever they will; and with Us there is yet more

Verse 36 — Surah Qaf 50:36

How many a generation We destroyed before them that was stronger in valour than they, then they searched about in the land; was there any asylum

Verse 37 — Surah Qaf 50:37

Surely in that there is a reminder to him who has a heart, or will give ear with a present mind

Verse 38 — Surah Qaf 50:38

We created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, in six days, and no weariness touched Us

Verse 39 — Surah Qaf 50:39

So be thou patient under what they say, and proclaim thy Lord's praise before the rising of the sun, and before its setting

Verse 40 — Surah Qaf 50:40

and proclaim thy Lord's praise in the night, and at the ends of the prostrations

Verse 41 — Surah Qaf 50:41

And listen thou for the day when the caller shall call from a near place

Verse 42 — Surah Qaf 50:42

On the day they hear the Cry in truth, that is the day of coming forth

Verse 43 — Surah Qaf 50:43

It is We who give life, and make to die, and to Us is the homecoming

Verse 44 — Surah Qaf 50:44

Upon the day when the earth is split asunder from about them as they hasten forth; that is a mustering easy for Us

Verse 45 — Surah Qaf 50:45

We know very well what they say; thou art not a tyrant over them. Therefore remind by the Koran him who fears My threat