English - Chapter 32 - As-Sajdah

ELIF. LAM. MIM

This Book is without a doubt a Revelation sent down from the Lord of the Worlds

Will they say, He hath forged it? Nay, it is the truth from thy Lord that thou mayest warn a people to whom no warner hath come before thee, that haply they may be guided

God it is who hath created the Heavens and the Earth and all that is between them in six days; then ascended his throne. Save Him ye have no patron, and none to plead for you. Will ye not then reflect

From the Heaven to the Earth He governeth all things: hereafter shall they come up to him on a day whose length shall be a thousand of such years as ye reckon

This is He who knoweth the unseen and the seen; the Mighty, the Merciful

Who hath made everything which he hath created most good; and began the creation of man with clay

Then ordained his progeny from germs of life, from sorry water

Then shaped him, and breathed of His Spirit into him, and gave you hearing and seeing and hearts: what little thanks do ye return

And they say, "What! when we shall have lain hidden in the earth, shall we become a new creation?" Yea, they deny that they shall meet their Lord

SAY: The angel of death who is charged with you shall cause you to die: then shall ye be returned to your Lord

Couldst thou but see when the guilty shall droop their heads before their Lord, and cry, "O our Lord! we have seen and we have heard: return us then to life: we will do that which is right. Verily we believe firmly

Had we pleased we had certainly given to every soul its guidance. But true shall be the word which hath gone forth from me - I will surely fill hell with Djinn and men together

Taste then the recompense of your having forgotten the meeting with this your day. We, too, we have forgotten you: taste then an eternal punishment for that which ye have wrought

They only believe in our signs, who, when mention is made of them, fall down in ADORATION, and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and are not puffed up with disdain

Who, as they raise them from their couches, call on their Lord with fear and desire, and give alms of that with which we have supplied them

No soul knoweth what joy of the eyes is reserved for the good in recompense of their works

Shall he then who is a believer be as he who sinneth grossly? they shall not be held alike

As to those who believe and do that which is right, they shall have gardens of eternal abode as the meed of their works

But as for those who grossly sin, their abode shall be the fire: so oft as they shall desire to escape out of it, back shall they be turned into it. And it shall be said to them, Taste ye the torment of the fire, which ye treated as a lie

And we will surely cause them to taste a punishment yet nearer at hand, besides the greater punishment, that haply they may turn to us in penitence

We heretofore gave the Book of the law to Moses: have thou no doubt as to our meeting with him: and we appointed it for the guidance of the children of Israel

And we appointed Imams from among them who should guide after our command when they had themselves endured with constancy, and had firmly believed in our signs

Now thy Lord! He will decide between them on the day of resurrection as to the subject of their disputes

Is it not notorious to them how many generations, through whose abodes they walk, we have destroyed before them? Truly herein are sings: will they not then hear

See they not how we drive the rain to some parched land and thereby bring forth corn of which their cattle and themselves do eat? Will they not then behold

They say, "When will this decision take place? Tell us, if ye are men of truth

SAY: On the day of that decision, the faith of infidels shall not avail them, and they shall have no further respite

Stand aloof from them then, and wait thou, for they too wait