English - Chapter 55 - Ar-Rahman

The Merciful

taught the Qur'an

He created man

taught him plain speech

The sun and the moon have their appointed time

The herbs and the trees adore

And the heavens, He raised them and set the balance

that ye should not be outrageous in the balance

But weigh ye aright, and stint not the balance

And the earth He has set it for living creatures

therein are fruits and palms, with sheaths

and grain with chaff and frequent shoots

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

He created men of crackling clay like the potters

And He created the ginn from smokeless fire

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

The Lord of the two easts and the Lord of the two wests

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

He has let loose the two seas that meet together

between them is a barrier they cannot pass

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

He brings forth from each pearls both large and small

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

His are the ships which rear aloft in the sea like mountains

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

Every one upon it is transient

but the face of thy Lord endowed with majesty and honour shall endure

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

Of Him whosoever is in the heaven and the earth does beg; every day He is in (some fresh) business

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

We shall be at leisure for you, O ye two weighty ones

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

O assembly of ginns and mankind! if ye are able to pass through the confines of heaven and earth then pass through them!- ye cannot pass through save by authority

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

There shall be sent against you a flash or fire, and molten copper, and ye shall not be helped

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

And when the heaven is rent asunder and become rosy red - (melting) like grease

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

On that day neither man nor ginn shall be asked about his crime

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

The sinners shall be known by their marks, and shall be seized by the forelock and the feet

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

This is hell, which the sinners did call a lie

they shall circulate between it and water boiling quite

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

But for him who fears the station of his Lord are gardens twain

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

Both furnished with branching trees

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

In each are flowing springs

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

In each are, of every fruit, two kinds

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

Reclining on beds the linings of which are of brocade, and the fruit of the two gardens within reach to cull

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

Therein are maids of modest glances whom no man nor ginn has deflowered before

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

As though they were rubies and pearls

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

Is the reward of goodness aught but goodness

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

And besides these, are gardens twain

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

With dark green foliage

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

In each two gushing springs

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

In each fruit and palms and pomegranates

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

In them maidens best and fairest

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

Bright and large-eyed maids kept in their tents

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

Whom no man nor ginn has deflowered before them

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

Reclining on green cushions and beautiful carpets

Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny

Blessed be the name of thy Lord possessed of majesty and honour