English - Chapter 55 - Ar-Rahman

The Most Beneficent (Allah)

Has taught (you mankind) the Quran (by His Mercy)

He created man

He taught him eloquent speech

The sun and the moon run on their fixed courses (exactly) calculated with measured out stages for each (for reckoning, etc)

And the herbs (or stars) and the trees both prostrate

And the heaven He has raised high, and He has set up the Balance

In order that you may not transgress (due) balance

And observe the weight with equity and do not make the balance deficient

And the earth He has put for the creatures

Therein are fruits, date-palms producing sheathed fruit-stalks (enclosing dates)

And also corn, with (its) leaves and stalk for fodder, and sweet-scented plants

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery

And the jinns did He create from a smokeless flame of fire

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

(He is) the Lord of the two easts (places of sunrise during early summer and early winter) and the Lord of the two wests (places of sunset during early summer and early winter)

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

He has let loosed the two seas (the salt water and the sweet) meeting together

Between them is a barrier which none of them can transgress

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Out of them both come out pearl and coral

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

And His are the ships going and coming in the seas, like mountains

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Whatsoever is on it (the earth) will perish

And the Face of your Lord full of Majesty and Honour will abide forever

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Whosoever is in the heavens and on earth begs of Him (its needs from Him). Every day He has a matter to bring forth (such as giving honour to some, disgrace to some, life to some, death to some, etc)

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

We shall attend to you, O you two classes (jinns and men)

O assembly of jinns and men! If you have power to pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, then pass (them)! But you will never be able to pass them, except with authority (from Allah)

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

There will be sent against you both, smokeless flames of fire and (molten) brass, and you will not be able to defend yourselves

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Then when the heaven is rent asunder, and it becomes rosy or red like red-oil, or red hide

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

So on that Day no question will be asked of man or jinn as to his sin, (because they have already been known from their faces either white or black)

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

The Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, sinners, etc.) will be known by their marks (black faces), and they will be seized by their forelocks and their feet

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

This is Hell which the Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, sinners, etc.) denied

They will go between it (Hell) and the boiling hot water

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

But for him who [the true believer of Islamic Monotheism who performs all the duties ordained by Allah and His Messenger Muhammad SAW, and keeps away (abstain) from all kinds of sin and evil deeds prohibited in Islam and] fears the standing before his Lord, there will be two Gardens (i.e. in Paradise)

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

With spreading branches

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

In them (both) will be two springs flowing (free)

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

In them (both) will be every kind of fruit in pairs

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Reclining upon the couches lined with silk brocade, and the fruits of the two Gardens will be near at hand

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Wherein both will be those (maidens) restraining their glances upon their husbands, whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

(In beauty) they are like rubies and coral

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Is there any reward for good other than good

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

And besides these two, there are two other Gardens (i.e. in Paradise)

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Dark green (in colour)

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

In them (both) will be two springs gushing forth water

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

In them (both) will be fruits, and date- palms and pomegranates

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Therein (gardens) will be fair (wives) good and beautiful

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Houris (beautiful, fair females) restrained in pavilions

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Reclining on green cushions and rich beautiful mattresses

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny

Blessed be the Name of your Lord (Allah), the Owner of Majesty and Honour