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Verse 1 — Surah Al-Isra 17:1

Praise/glory (to) who went/moved/traveled/departed by night with/by His worshipper/slave at night/nightly from the Mosque the Respected/Sacred to the Mosque the Farthest/Remotest/Most Distant which We blessed around/surrounding it, to show him/make him understand from Our verses/signs/evidences, that He is the hearing/listening, the seeing/knowing/understanding

Verse 2 — Surah Al-Isra 17:2

And We gave/brought Moses The Book, and We made it guidance to Israel`s sons and daughters; that you do not take from other than Me a guardian/protector

Verse 3 — Surah Al-Isra 17:3

Descendants (of) whom We carried/loaded with Noah, that he truly was a thankful/grateful worshipper/slave

Verse 4 — Surah Al-Isra 17:4

And We informed/carried out/completed to Israel`s sons and daughters in The Book/destiny/term ,(that) you will corrupt/disorder (E) in the earth/Planet Earth twice, and you will become high and mighty (E) great height, might and dignity

Verse 5 — Surah Al-Isra 17:5

So if their (B)`s first/beginning (of the two times) came, We sent on (to) you worshippers/slaves for Us of strong (severe) power/mighty, so they went through/corrupting/destroying in between and around the homes/houses , and (it) was a made/done promise

Verse 6 — Surah Al-Isra 17:6

Then We returned to you the repeat/second time/repetition over them, and We extended/spread you with properties/possessions/wealths, and sons/sons and daughters, and We made you more (a larger) supportive tribe/family/group

Verse 7 — Surah Al-Isra 17:7

If you did good, you did good for yourselves, and if you did bad/evil/harm so for it (your selves), so if the last`s/end`s/other`s promise came, they will cause God evil/harm (to) your faces/fronts, they will enter the Mosque like they entered it (on) the first/beginning time , and they will destroy/ruin/break (E) what they (the worshippers/slaves) rose over (with) destruction/ruin/breakage

Verse 8 — Surah Al-Isra 17:8

Maybe/perhaps that (E) your Lord has mercy upon you, and if you returned, We returned, and We made/put Hell confining/surrounding for the disbelievers

Verse 9 — Surah Al-Isra 17:9

That truly this the Koran guides to which it is more just/direct , and it announced good news (to) the believers, those who make/do the correct/righteous deeds, that (E) for them (is) a great reward

Verse 10 — Surah Al-Isra 17:10

And that (E) those who do not believe with the end (other life), We prepared/made ready for them a painful torture

Verse 11 — Surah Al-Isra 17:11

And the human/mankind calls/prays with the bad/evil/harm (as) his call/prayer with the better/wealth , and the human/mankind was hurrying/hastening

Verse 12 — Surah Al-Isra 17:12

And We made/put the night and the daytime (as) two signs/evidences , so We wiped out/erased/eliminated the night`s sign/evidence , and We made/put the daytime`s sign/evidence manifest/clearly visible to the eye and understanding , to wish/desire grace/favour from your Lord, and to know the years` number, and the counting/calculating, and every thing We detailed/explained it detailing/explaining

Verse 13 — Surah Al-Isra 17:13

And every human/mankind We obliged/compelled him his action/anger in his neck (made himresponsible), and We bring out/make emerge for him (on) the Resurrection Day a Book/judgment he finds it spread/publicized

Verse 14 — Surah Al-Isra 17:14

(He is told): "Read your Book/judgment , enough/sufficient with your self today on you counting/calculating

Verse 15 — Surah Al-Isra 17:15

Who was guided, so but he guides for himself, and who misguided, so but he misguides on it (himself) and no sinner/loader/burdener carries/loads/bears another`s sins/load/burden , and We were not torturing until We send a messenger

Verse 16 — Surah Al-Isra 17:16

And if We willed/wanted that (E) We destroy/perish a village/urban city, We ordered/commanded its luxuriated ungrateful and arrogant, so they debauched in it, so the saying/words was deserved on it, so We destroyed it destructively

Verse 17 — Surah Al-Isra 17:17

And how many We destroyed/perished from the generations/peoples of eras from after Noah, and enough/sufficient with your Lord with His worshippers`/slaves` crimes, (He is) expert/experienced, seeing/knowing/understanding

Verse 18 — Surah Al-Isra 17:18

Who was wanting the present world/worldly life, We hurried/hastened for him in it what We will/want to whom We will/want, then We made/put for him Hell, he roasts/suffers/burns (in) it, blamed/made lowly , expelled/driven away

Verse 19 — Surah Al-Isra 17:19

And who wanted the end (other life) and strived/tended to it its striving/hastiness , and he is believing, so those their striving/hastiness was thanked

Verse 20 — Surah Al-Isra 17:20

Each/all We extend/spread, those and these, from your Lord`s gift/grant, and your Lord`s gift/grant was not forbidden/restrained

Verse 21 — Surah Al-Isra 17:21

Look/wonder about how We preferred/favoured some of them over some, and the end (other life) (E) (is) greater steps/stages/degrees, and greater preference/favour

Verse 22 — Surah Al-Isra 17:22

Do not make/put with God another god, so you sit/remain blamed/lowly abandoned/deserted

Verse 23 — Surah Al-Isra 17:23

And your Lord passed judgment/ordered that you not worship except (only) Him, and with the (B) parents/father and mother a goodness if the old age reaches (E) one of them or both of them at/by/near you ,so do not say to them (B): "Ugh !" And do not deprive/yell at them (B) , and say to them (B) a gracious/kind saying/word

Verse 24 — Surah Al-Isra 17:24

And be lenient/comforting/lower to them (B) the humility`s/humbleness`s wing/side from the mercy (be kind), and say: "My Lord have mercy upon them (B) as they (B) brought me up young

Verse 25 — Surah Al-Isra 17:25

Your Lord (is) more knowledgeable with what (is) in your selves, if you be correct/righteous, so that He truly is to the repentant a forgiving

Verse 26 — Surah Al-Isra 17:26

And give/bring (to) of the relations his right/share , and the poorest of poor/poor oppressed, and the traveler/stranded traveler, and do not waste/squander, wastefully/squanderingly

Verse 27 — Surah Al-Isra 17:27

That (E) the wasters/squanderers were the devils` brothers, and the devil was to his Lord (an insisting) disbeliever

Verse 28 — Surah Al-Isra 17:28

And If/whenever you object/turn away (E) from them asking/desiring mercy you hope/expect for it from your Lord, so say to them: "An easy/little saying/word

Verse 29 — Surah Al-Isra 17:29

And do not make/put your hand chained or tied to your neck and do not spread/extend/widen it all the expansion/extension , so you sit/remain blameworthy/blamed grieving/sad

Verse 30 — Surah Al-Isra 17:30

That your Lord spreads/extends the provision to whom He wills/wants, and He is capable/able , that He truly was with His worshippers/slaves an expert/experienced, seeing/knowing/understanding

Verse 31 — Surah Al-Isra 17:31

And do not kill your children fearing poverty, We provide for them and you, that truly killing them was/is a great/large sin/crime/wrong

Verse 32 — Surah Al-Isra 17:32

And do not approach/near the adultery/fornication , that it truly was/is an enormous/atrocious deed , and a bad/evil/harmful way/path

Verse 33 — Surah Al-Isra 17:33

And do not kill the self that God forbade/prohibited except with the truth/right (justice) , and who was killed unjustly/oppressively, so We had made for his guardian a power/authority , so he does not waste/exceed the limit in the killing/murder , that he truly was/is victorious

Verse 34 — Surah Al-Isra 17:34

And do not approach/near the orphan`s property/possession/wealth except with which it is best until he reaches his maturity/strength, and fulfill/complete with the promise/contract , that (E) the promise/contract was/is questioned

Verse 35 — Surah Al-Isra 17:35

And fulfill/complete the measurement/weight if you measured/weighed, and weigh/measure with the scale/balance the balanced , that (is) best , and (a) better interpretation/explanation

Verse 36 — Surah Al-Isra 17:36

And do not follow the tracks/accuse of evil deeds what knowledge is not for you with it (you have no knowledge of), that the hearing/listening, and the eye sight/knowledge, and the heart , all (of) those are/were about it questioned

Verse 37 — Surah Al-Isra 17:37

And do not walk in the earth/Planet Earth showing superiority, happiness and over confidence , that you will never reach (the) end (of)/tear apart the earth/Planet Earth, and you will never reach the mountains (in) height/length (be as tall as the mountains)

Verse 38 — Surah Al-Isra 17:38

All (of) that its bad/evil/harm was/is at God hated

Verse 39 — Surah Al-Isra 17:39

That (is) from what your Lord inspired/transmitted to you from the wisdom, and do not make/create with God another god, so you will be thrown/thrown away in Hell, blameworthy/blamed, expelled/driven away

Verse 40 — Surah Al-Isra 17:40

Did your Lord choose/purify (specialize) you with the sons, and He took/received from the angels females? That you are saying (E) a great saying/word/opinion and belief

Verse 41 — Surah Al-Isra 17:41

And We had laid out/detailed linguistically in this the Koran, (so) they mention/remember (E) , and it does not increase them except hastening away with aversion

Verse 42 — Surah Al-Isra 17:42

Say: "If there were/are gods with Him as/like they say, then they would have wished/desired a way/path to (the owner) of the throne

Verse 43 — Surah Al-Isra 17:43

His praise/glory, and high, mighty, exalted and dignified, about what they say great height, might and dignity

Verse 44 — Surah Al-Isra 17:44

The skies/space the seven, and the earth/Planet Earth, they praise/glorify to Him, and who (is) in them, and that (E) (there is not) from a thing except (it) praises/glorifies with His praise/gratitude/thanks, and but you do not understand their praise/glorification, that He was/is clement/patient powerful and capable, a forgiving

Verse 45 — Surah Al-Isra 17:45

And if you read the Koran, We made/put between you and between those who do not believe with the end (other193life) a barrier/partition/protection , hidden/covered (invisible)

Verse 46 — Surah Al-Isra 17:46

And We made/put on their hearts covers/protections that (E) they understand/learn/know it, and in their ears a heavy weight, and if you mentioned/remembered your Lord in the Koran alone, they turned away on their backs/ends hastening away with aversion

Verse 47 — Surah Al-Isra 17:47

We (are) more knowledgeable with what they hear/listen with it, when they hear/listen to you, and when they are confidentially talking/secretly conversing, when the unjust/oppressive say: "That (E) you follow except a bewitched/enchanted man

Verse 48 — Surah Al-Isra 17:48

Look/see/wonder about how they gave to you the examples/proverbs, so they became misguided, so they are not able (of) a way/path

Verse 49 — Surah Al-Isra 17:49

And they said: "Is (it that) if we were bones and debris/fragments/broken pieces are we being resurrected/revived (E) (in) a new creation

Verse 50 — Surah Al-Isra 17:50

Say: "Be stones or iron

Verse 51 — Surah Al-Isra 17:51

Or a creation from what enlarges in your chests (innermosts). So they will say: "Who returns/repeats us?" Say: "Who created you/brought you into life (the) first time." So they will shake/shiver their heads to you in wonderment and say: "When/at what time it is?" Say: "Maybe/perhaps (it) becomes near/close

Verse 52 — Surah Al-Isra 17:52

A day/time He calls (to) you so you answer/reply with His praise/gratitude/thanks, and you think/assume that truly you stayed/remained except little (you think you did not stay except little)

Verse 53 — Surah Al-Isra 17:53

And say to My worshippers/slaves, they (should) say which it is best , that the devil spoils/urges to evil between them, that the devil was/is to the human/mankind (a) clear/evident enemy

Verse 54 — Surah Al-Isra 17:54

Your Lord (is) more knowledgeable with (of) you, if He wills/wants He has mercy upon you, and if He wills/wants He tortures you, and We did not send you (as) a guardian/protector/keeper on them

Verse 55 — Surah Al-Isra 17:55

And your Lord (is) more knowledgeable with (of) who (is) in the skies/space and the earth/Planet Earth, and We had preferred/favoured some (of) the prophets over some, and We gave/brought David a Book

Verse 56 — Surah Al-Isra 17:56

Say: "Call those whom you claimed/alleged from other than Him, so they do not own/posses the harm`s removals from you, and nor a change/movement

Verse 57 — Surah Al-Isra 17:57

Those are those who call, they desire the means/way of approach to their Lord, which of them (is) nearer/closer, and they hope/expect His mercy, and they fear His torture, that your Lord`s torture was/is cautioned/warned/feared of

Verse 58 — Surah Al-Isra 17:58

And (there is) none from a village/urban city, except (that) We are making it die/destroying it before the Resurrection Day, or torturing it strong (severe) torture, that was/is in The Book written/inscribed/drafted

Verse 59 — Surah Al-Isra 17:59

And nothing prevented/prohibited us that (E) We send with the verses/evidences except that the first/beginners lied/denied/falsified with it, and We gave/brought Thamud the (F) camel manifest/clearly visible to the eye and understanding/clear evidence , so they caused injustice with it, and We do not sent with the verses/evidences/signs except frightening

Verse 60 — Surah Al-Isra 17:60

And when We said to you that your Lord took care of/was aware with the people, and We did not make the dream which We showed you except (as) a test to the people, and the tree the cursed in the Koran, and We194frighten them, so it does not increase them except great tyranny

Verse 61 — Surah Al-Isra 17:61

And when We said to the angels: "Prostrate to Adam." So they prostrated except Satan/Iblis, he said: "Do I prostrate to who you created (from) mud/clay

Verse 62 — Surah Al-Isra 17:62

He said: "Did I show You, that which you honoured on me, If (E), You delayed me, to the Resurrection Day, I will possess/take over (all) their descendants except little/few

Verse 63 — Surah Al-Isra 17:63

He said: "Go/go away so who followed you from them, so that (E) Hell (is) your reimbursement , a reimbursement completed/abundant

Verse 64 — Surah Al-Isra 17:64

And harass/disturb with your voice/noise whom you were able from them, and gather/urge on them with your horses/horsemen, and your men, and share them/be a partner with them in the properties/possessions/wealths, and the children, and promise them. And the devil does not promise them except deceit/temptation

Verse 65 — Surah Al-Isra 17:65

That (E) My worshippers/slaves power/control is not for you over them (you have no power/control over My worshippers/slaves). And enough/sufficient with God (as) a guardian/protector

Verse 66 — Surah Al-Isra 17:66

Your Lord (is) who drives/pushes for you the ships in the sea/ocean , to desire on them from His grace/favour , that He truly was/is with you merciful

Verse 67 — Surah Al-Isra 17:67

And if the harm touched you in the sea/ocean , whom you call (was) lost, except (only) Him, so when He saved/rescued you to the shore/land, you objected/turned away; and the human/mankind was/is (an insistent) disbeliever

Verse 68 — Surah Al-Isra 17:68

So (did) you become safe/secure that (E) he caves in with you the land`s/shore`s side/direction, or He sends on you a violent wind carrying pebbles and hail , then you do not find for you a guardian/protector

Verse 69 — Surah Al-Isra 17:69

Or (did) you become safe/secure that (E) He returns/repeats you in it once/another again? So He sends on you a severe wind that breaks every thing in its path from the wind, so He drowns/sinks you because (of) what you disbelieved, then you do not find on Us with it a victorior/follower

Verse 70 — Surah Al-Isra 17:70

And We had honoured Adam`s sons and daughters, and We carried/lifted them in the land/shore, and the sea/ocean , and We provided for them from the goodnesses , and We preferred/favoured them over many from whom We created preference/favour

Verse 71 — Surah Al-Isra 17:71

A day/time We call every people with their leader/example, so who was given/brought his Book/judgment with his right (hand), so those read their Book/judgment , and they are not being caused injustice to/oppressed (the equivalent of) a cleft in a seed/a twine/a wick

Verse 72 — Surah Al-Isra 17:72

And who was in this blind/confused , so he is in the end (other life) blind/confused, and more misguided (in) a way/path

Verse 73 — Surah Al-Isra 17:73

And if they were about to/almost to misguide/seduce/mislead you (E) (away) from what We inspired/transmitted to you, to fabricate/cut and split on (about) Us other than it, and then they would have taken you (as) a faithful , close friend

Verse 74 — Surah Al-Isra 17:74

And were it not for that We encouraged/stabilized you, you would have (E) (been) almost to lean towards to them a little/small thing

Verse 75 — Surah Al-Isra 17:75

Then We would have made you taste/experience double the life , and double the death/time of death, then you do not find a victorior/savior on (from) Us

Verse 76 — Surah Al-Isra 17:76

And if they were about to/almost to scare to drive you out from the land to bring/drive you out from it, and then they do not remain/wait behind you except little

Verse 77 — Surah Al-Isra 17:77

A law/manner (of) whom We had sent before you from Our messengers, and you do not find for Our law/manner a change/removal

Verse 78 — Surah Al-Isra 17:78

Start/keep up the prayers to the sun`s nearing setting to the night`s darkness, and the dawn`s Koran, that the dawn`s Koran was/is being witnessed

Verse 79 — Surah Al-Isra 17:79

And from the night so wake up and pray with it, done above the call of duty for you, maybe/perhaps that (E) your Lord sends/resurrects you a praised/thanked position/residence

Verse 80 — Surah Al-Isra 17:80

And say: "My Lord enter me a truthful entrance, and bring me out (in) a truthful exit, and make/put for me from at you a victorious/supportive proof/power/authority

Verse 81 — Surah Al-Isra 17:81

And say: "The truth came and the falsehood vanished/perished , that (E) the falsehood was/is vanishing/perishing

Verse 82 — Surah Al-Isra 17:82

And We descend from the Koran what it is a cure/recovery and mercy to the believers, and the unjust/oppressive do not increase except loss/misguidance and perishment

Verse 83 — Surah Al-Isra 17:83

And if We blessed on the human, he objected/turned away and he went far with his side/direction, and if the bad/evil/harm touched him, (he) was/is despairing/hopeless

Verse 84 — Surah Al-Isra 17:84

Say: "Each/every makes/does on his nature/disposition , so your Lord (is) more knowledgeable with whom he is more guided (in) a way/path

Verse 85 — Surah Al-Isra 17:85

And they ask/question you about the Soul/Spirit , say: "The Soul/Spirit (is) from my Lord`s matter/affair, and you were not given from the knowledge except little

Verse 86 — Surah Al-Isra 17:86

And if (E) We willed wanted We will take away/eliminate with what We inspired/transmitted to you, then you do not find for you with it on (against) Us a guardian/protector

Verse 87 — Surah Al-Isra 17:87

Except mercy from your Lord, that (E) His grace/favour/blessing was great on you

Verse 88 — Surah Al-Isra 17:88

Say: "If (E) the human/mankind and the Jinns gathered/unified on that (E) they come with similar/equal/alike (to) this the Koran, they do not come with similar/equal/alike to it, and even if some of them were to some, (were to each other) supporting/helping

Verse 89 — Surah Al-Isra 17:89

And We had laid out/detailed linguistically to the people in this the Koran from every example/proverb, so most of the people refused/hated except (insisting) disbelief

Verse 90 — Surah Al-Isra 17:90

And they said: "We will never/not believe to you until you cause a water spring/well to flow/burst from the land

Verse 91 — Surah Al-Isra 17:91

Or a treed garden of palm trees and grapes/fruits of the vine be for you, so you cause the rivers/waterways to flow/burst in between and round it flowing/bursting

Verse 92 — Surah Al-Isra 17:92

Or you drop the sky pieces on us as you claimed/alleged , or you come with God and the angels facing/from front

Verse 93 — Surah Al-Isra 17:93

Or (a) house/home from ornament/gold be for you, or you ascend/climb in the sky , and We will never/not believe to your ascent/climb until you descend on us a book we read it. Say: "My Lord`s praise/glory, have I been except a human, a messenger

Verse 94 — Surah Al-Isra 17:94

And what prevented/forbid the people that (E) they believe when the guidance came to them, except that (E) they said: "Did God send a human, messenger

Verse 95 — Surah Al-Isra 17:95

Say: "If there were in the earth/Planet Ea rth angels walking assured/secured , We would have descended on them from the sky/space an angel (as) a messenger

Verse 96 — Surah Al-Isra 17:96

Say: "Enough/sufficient with God, (as) a witness/testifier between me and between you, that He truly was/is with His worshippers/slaves expert/experienced, seeing/knowing

Verse 97 — Surah Al-Isra 17:97

And whom God guides so he is the guided, and whom He misguides, so you will never/not find for them guardians/protectors from other than Him, and We gather them (on) the Resurrection Day on their faces/fronts, blind, and mute, and deaf, their shelter/refuge (is) Hell, whenever (it) became humble/tranquil (subsided), We increased them blazing/inflaming

Verse 98 — Surah Al-Isra 17:98

That (is) their reward because they (E) disbelieved with Our verses/evidences and they said: "Is (it that) if we were bones and debris/fragments , are we being resurrected/revived (E) (as a) new creation

Verse 99 — Surah Al-Isra 17:99

Did they not see/understand that God (is) who created the skies/space and the Earth/Planet Earth (and is) capable on that (E) (He) creates similar/equal to them, and He made/put for them a term/time no doubt/suspicion in it, so the unjust/oppressive refused/hated except (insisting) disbelief

Verse 100 — Surah Al-Isra 17:100

Say: "If you own/possess my Lord`s safes/storages (of) mercy, then you would have held/seized (E) fear (of) the spending/expenditure (poverty), and the human was/is miserly/stingy

Verse 101 — Surah Al-Isra 17:101

And We had given/brought to Moses nine evidences/signs evidences, so ask/question Israel`s sons and daughters, when (he) came to them, so Pharaoh said to him: "That I, I think/suspect you (E) you, Moses, (are) bewitched/enchanted

Verse 102 — Surah Al-Isra 17:102

He Said: "You had known none descended those, except the skies`/space`s and the earth`s/Planet Earth`s Lord, evidences , and that I think/suspect you (E) , you Pharaoh, (are) destroyed/cursed

Verse 103 — Surah Al-Isra 17:103

So he wanted/intended that (E) he harasses/scares them away from the land so We drowned/sunk him and who (is) with him all together

Verse 104 — Surah Al-Isra 17:104

And We said from after him to Israel`s sons and daughters: "Reside/inhabit the land/Planet Earth , so if the ends` (other life`s) promise came, We came with you (in) mixed crowds/huge gatherings

Verse 105 — Surah Al-Isra 17:105

And by the truth We descended it, and by the truth it descended, and We did not send you except (as an) announcer of good news and (a) warner/giver of notice

Verse 106 — Surah Al-Isra 17:106

And a Koran We distinguished it to read it on (to) the people on slow deliberation/comprehension , and We descended it descending

Verse 107 — Surah Al-Isra 17:107

Say: "Believe with it or do not believe, that (E) those who were given/brought to the knowledge, from before it, if (it) is being read/recited on them, they fall down to the chins/beards prostrating

Verse 108 — Surah Al-Isra 17:108

And they say: "Praise/glory (to) our Lord that truly our Lord`s promise was made/done (E)

Verse 109 — Surah Al-Isra 17:109

And they fall down to the chins/beards weeping and He/it (the weeping) increases them humbleness/submission

Verse 110 — Surah Al-Isra 17:110

Say: "Call God, or call the merciful, whichever you call, so for Him (are) the names the best/most beautiful (the good names), and do not publicize/declare/raise (voice) with your prayers, and do not silence/lower and hide with it, and wish/desire between that a way/method

Verse 111 — Surah Al-Isra 17:111

And say: "The praise/gratitude (is) to God who did not take (a) child (son), and (there) had not been/is not a partner for Him in the ownership/kingdom , and (there) had not been/is not for Him (a) guardian/protector from the humbleness/weakness , and greaten/magnify Him , greatness/enlargement