English - Chapter 55 - Ar-Rahman

THE MOST GRACIOUS

has imparted this Qur’an [unto man]

He has created man

He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech

[At His behest] the sun and the moon run their appointed courses

[before Him] prostrate themselves the stars and the trees

And the skies has He raised high, and has devised [for all things] a measure

so that you [too, O men,] might never transgress the measure [of what is right]

weigh, therefore, [your deeds] with equity, and cut not the measure short

And the earth has He spread out for all living beings

with fruit thereon, and palm trees with sheathed clusters [of dates]

and grain growing tall on its stalks, and sweet-smelling plants

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

He has created man out of sounding clay, like pottery

whereas the invisible beings He has created out of a confusing flame of fire

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

[He is] the Sustainer of the two farthest points of sunrise, and the Sustainer of the two farthest points of sunset

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

He has given freedom to the two great bodies of water, so that they might meet

[yet] between them is a barrier which they may not transgress

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

Out of these two [bodies of water] come forth pearls, both great and small

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

And His are the lofty ships that sail like [floating] mountains through the seas

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

All that lives on earth or in the heavens is bound to pass away

but forever will abide thy Sustainer’s Self, full of majesty and glory

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

On Him depends all creatures in the heavens and on earth; [and] every day He manifests Himself in yet another [wondrous] way

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

[ONE DAY] We shall take you to task, O you sin-laden two

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

O you who live in close communion with [evil] invisible beings and humans! If you [think that you] can pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, pass beyond them! [But] you cannot pass beyond them, save by a sanction [from God]

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

A flash of fire will be let loose upon you, and smoke, and you will be left without succour

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

And when the sky is rent asunder and becomes red like [burning] oil

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

For on that Day neither man nor invisible being will be asked about his sins

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

All who were lost in sin shall by their marks be known, and shall by their forelocks and their feet be seized

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

This will be the hell which those who are lost in sin [now] call a lie

between it and [their own] burning-hot despair will they wander to and fro

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –

[two gardens] of many wondrous hues

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

In [each of] these two [gardens] two springs will flow

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

In [each of] these two will two kinds of every fruit be [found]

Which, then, of your Sustainer s powers can you disavow

[In such a paradise the blest will dwell,] reclining upon carpets lined with rich brocade; and the fruit of both these gardens will be within easy reach

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

In these [gardens] will be mates of modest gaze, whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

[When you are promised splendours] as though [of] rubies and [of] pearls –

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

Could the reward of good be aught but good

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

And besides those two will be yet two [other] gardens

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –

two [gardens] of the deepest green

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

In [each of] these two [gardens] will two springs gush forth

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

In both of them will be [all kinds of] fruit, and date-palms and pomegranates

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

In these [gardens] will be [all] things most excellent and beautiful

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

[There the blest will live with their] companions pure and modest, in pavilions [splendid]

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –

[companions] whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

[In such a paradise will they dwell,] reclining upon meadows green and carpets rich in beauty

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

HALLOWED be thy Sustainer’s name, full of majesty and glory