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English - Chapter 76 - Al-Insan
Translation by Dr Laleh Bakhtiar — Permalink
Verse 1 — Surah Al-Insan 76:1
Approached the human being a long course of time when he will be nothing remembered
Verse 2 — Surah Al-Insan 76:2
Truly, We made the human being of a mingling of seminal fluid that We may test him. So We made him hearing, seeing
Verse 3 — Surah Al-Insan 76:3
Truly, We guided him on the way, whether he be one who is thankful or ungrateful
Verse 4 — Surah Al-Insan 76:4
Truly, We made ready for ones who are ungrateful chains and yokes and a blaze
Verse 5 — Surah Al-Insan 76:5
Truly, the pious will drink from a cup that had been a mixture of camphor
Verse 6 — Surah Al-Insan 76:6
a spring where the servants of God will drink, causing it to gush forth, a great gushing
Verse 7 — Surah Al-Insan 76:7
They live up to their vows and they fear a Day when the worst will be that which flies far and wide
Verse 8 — Surah Al-Insan 76:8
In spite of their love for it, they feed with food one who is needy and the orphan and the prisoner of war saying
Verse 9 — Surah Al-Insan 76:9
We feed you only for the Countenance of God. We want no recompense from you nor any thankfulness
Verse 10 — Surah Al-Insan 76:10
Truly, we fear our Lord on a frowning, inauspicious Day
Verse 11 — Surah Al-Insan 76:11
So God would protect them from worse on that day, and would make them find radiancy and joyfulness
Verse 12 — Surah Al-Insan 76:12
And He will give them recompense for their enduring patiently with a Garden and silk
Verse 13 — Surah Al-Insan 76:13
and ones who are reclining in it on raised benches. In it they will see neither sun nor excessive cold of the moon
Verse 14 — Surah Al-Insan 76:14
And that which draws near them is its shade and clusters of grapes will be subdued, a subduing
Verse 15 — Surah Al-Insan 76:15
And are passed around among them receptacles of silver and goblets that had been of crystal
Verse 16 — Surah Al-Insan 76:16
crystal like silver, and that they calculated a calculating
Verse 17 — Surah Al-Insan 76:17
And they are given to drink in it a cup that had been with a mixture of ginger
Verse 18 — Surah Al-Insan 76:18
There is a spring in it named Salsabil
Verse 19 — Surah Al-Insan 76:19
And ones who are immortal youths will go around them whom, when thou hadst seen them, thou wouldst assume them to be scattered pearls
Verse 20 — Surah Al-Insan 76:20
And when thou hadst seen them, again, thou wilt have seen bliss and a great dominion
Verse 21 — Surah Al-Insan 76:21
Upon them are garments of fine green silk and brocade. And they will be adorned with bracelets of silver. Their Lord will give to drink undefiled drink
Verse 22 — Surah Al-Insan 76:22
Truly, this had been your recompense. What had been that which is your endeavoring
Verse 23 — Surah Al-Insan 76:23
Truly, We sent down to thee the Quran, a sending down successively
Verse 24 — Surah Al-Insan 76:24
So have thou patience for the determination of thy Lord and obey not any one of them, not the ones who are perverted nor the ungrateful
Verse 25 — Surah Al-Insan 76:25
And remember thou the Name of thy Lord at early morning dawn and eventide
Verse 26 — Surah Al-Insan 76:26
And during the night, prostrate thyself to Him and glorify Him a lengthy part of the night
Verse 27 — Surah Al-Insan 76:27
Truly, these are they who love that which hastens away and they forsake a weighty day behind them
Verse 28 — Surah Al-Insan 76:28
We created them and We strengthened their frame. And when We willed, We will substitute their likes with a substitution
Verse 29 — Surah Al-Insan 76:29
Truly, this is an admonition. And whoever willed, he took himself on a way to his Lord
Verse 30 — Surah Al-Insan 76:30
But you will it not unless God wills it. For God had been Knowing, Wise
Verse 31 — Surah Al-Insan 76:31
He causes to enter whom He wills into His mercy. And the ones who are unjust, He prepared for them a painful punishment