English - Chapter 55 - Ar-Rahman

The Compassionate (Allah)

Who taught the Qur’an

created man

and taught him how to convey his feelings and thoughts

The sun and the moon move along their computed courses

The shrubs and the trees prostrate in adoration

He has raised the heaven on high and created the balance

don’t ever tamper with this balance

Therefore, you also establish weight with justice and do not give less measure

He laid out the earth for His creatures

with all its fruits and palms having sheathed clusters

and grain with husk and scented herbs

So, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

He created man from sounding clay similar to pottery

and created jinns from smokeless fire

So, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

He is Lord of the two easts and the Lord of the two wests

He has made the two oceans apparently meeting together

yet between them is a barrier which they cannot cross

So, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

He produces pearls and coral from both of them

So, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

His are the ships looming up like mountains on the sea

So, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

All that exists on the earth will perish

but the Face of your Lord will remain full of Majesty and Glory

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s glories will both of you deny

All who dwell in the heavens and the earth, implore Him for their needs, every moment He is busy in some mighty task

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s honors will both of you deny

O you, the two burdens (jinns and mankind)! Soon We shall find the time to call you to account

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

O you, the assembly of jinns and men! If you have the power to get away from the boundaries of the heavens and the earth (to escape from His punishment), then get away! You cannot get away except with Our Own authority

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s authorities will both of you deny

The flames of fire and molten brass will be unleashed on you both, jinn and men, and you will not be able to defend yourselves

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

When the heaven will burst and will become red like red hide

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

On that Day neither man nor jinn will need be asked about his sins

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Because the sinners will be recognized by their faces and they shall be seized by their forelocks and their feet

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

It will be said to them: "This is the hell which the culprits denied

They shall wander to and fro between fire and hot boiling water

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s warnings will both of you deny

For those who fear the time when they will have to stand before their Lord there are two gardens

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Having shady trees with lush green branches

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Each of them will be watered by two flowing springs

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

In both of them there will be two pairs of every fruit

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

They will recline on couches upholstered with rich brocade while the fruit of the gardens will be within their easy reach

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Therein will be bashful virgins, whom neither any man nor jinn has touched before

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

So beautiful as though they were rubies and corals

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Could the reward for goodness be anything but goodness

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

And besides these two there shall be two other gardens

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Densely shaded with dark green trees

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

In both of them there will be two gushing springs

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Each planted with fruit trees, dates and pomegranates

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

In each of them, there will be chaste and beautiful virgins

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Huris (beautiful damsels) sheltered in their tents

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Whom neither man nor Jinn has ever touched before

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Reclining on green cushions and beautiful fine carpets

Then, O jinn and men, which of your Lord’s favors will both of you deny

Blessed be the name of your Lord, His Majesty and His Honor