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English - Chapter 35 - Fatir

Translation by Muhammad Taqi Usmani — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Fatir 35:1

All praise belongs to Allah, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, who appoints the angels as messengers having wings, in twos, threes and fours. He adds to the creation what He wills. Indeed, Allah is powerful to do every thing

Verse 2 — Surah Fatir 35:2

Whatever blessing Allah opens for the people, there is none to hold it back, and whatever He holds back, there is none to release it thereafter. He is the Mighty, the Wise

Verse 3 — Surah Fatir 35:3

O mankind, remember Allah‘s blessing upon you. Is there any creator other than Allah who gives you provision from the sky and the earth? There is no god but He. So, to where are you being turned around (by your desires)

Verse 4 — Surah Fatir 35:4

(O Prophet,) if they reject you, (it is not something new, because) many messengers have been rejected before you. It is to Allah that all matters are to be referred

Verse 5 — Surah Fatir 35:5

O mankind, Allah‘s promise is definitely true, therefore, the worldly life must not deceive you, nor should you be deceived about Allah by the big deceiver (Satan)

Verse 6 — Surah Fatir 35:6

Surely ShaiTan (Satan) is an enemy for you. So, take him as an enemy. He only invites his group (to falsehood) so that they become inmates of the blazing fire

Verse 7 — Surah Fatir 35:7

Those who disbelieve will have a severe punishment; and those who believe and do righteous deeds will have forgiveness and a great reward

Verse 8 — Surah Fatir 35:8

Then, can the one whose evil deed is so much adorned for him that he deems it really good (be equal to the one who differentiates between good and evil)? The fact, therefore, is that Allah lets go astray whomsoever He wills, and leads to the right path whomsoever He wills. So, (O Prophet,) let not your soul collapse in grief for them. Surely Allah knows well what they are doing

Verse 9 — Surah Fatir 35:9

Allah is the One who sends the winds, then they raise up the clouds, then We drive them to a dead land and revive the land through them after its death. In similar way shall be the Resurrection

Verse 10 — Surah Fatir 35:10

Whoever desires honor, then all honor lies with Allah alone. Towards Him ascends the pure word, and the righteous deed uplifts it. As for those who plot evils, for them there is a severe punishment, and their plot itself will perish

Verse 11 — Surah Fatir 35:11

Allah has created you from dust, then from a drop of semen, then He made you couples. No female conceives (a baby) nor gives birth (to it) without His knowledge; and no aged person is made to advance in age, nor is a part curtailed from his age, but all this is (recorded) in a book. Surely all this is easy for Allah

Verse 12 — Surah Fatir 35:12

And two seas are not alike; this one is sweet, saturating, pleasant to drink, and that one is salt, bitter. But from each, you eat fresh meat, and derive ornaments that you wear. And you see the boats therein cleaving through water, so that you may search for His grace, and that you may be grateful

Verse 13 — Surah Fatir 35:13

He makes the night enter into the day and makes the day enter into the night, and He has subjugated the sun and the moon; each one of them is running towards an appointed time. That is Allah, your Lord. To Him belongs the kingdom. And those whom you invoke beside Him do not own even the membrane on a date-stone

Verse 14 — Surah Fatir 35:14

If you call them, they do not hear your call, and even if they were to hear, they would not respond to you. And on the Day of Judgment they will deny your having held them as Allah‘s partners. And none can inform you like Him who is Aware

Verse 15 — Surah Fatir 35:15

O men, you are the ones who need Allah, and Allah is Free-of-All-Needs, the Ever-Praised

Verse 16 — Surah Fatir 35:16

If He so wills, He can do away with you and bring a new creation

Verse 17 — Surah Fatir 35:17

For Allah, that is not something difficult

Verse 18 — Surah Fatir 35:18

No bearer will bear the burden of any other person. If a person carrying a heavy load calls (someone) to (share) his load, nothing from it shall be carried (by the latter), even though he be a near of kin. You can warn only those who fear their Lord, while He is unseen, and establish Salah. Whoever gets purified gets purified for his own benefit. And to Allah is the final return

Verse 19 — Surah Fatir 35:19

The blind and the sighted are not equal

Verse 20 — Surah Fatir 35:20

nor are darkness and light

Verse 21 — Surah Fatir 35:21

nor shade and heat of the sun

Verse 22 — Surah Fatir 35:22

And the living and the dead are not alike. Allah makes to hear whomsoever He wills. And you cannot make to hear those who are in the graves

Verse 23 — Surah Fatir 35:23

You are but a warner

Verse 24 — Surah Fatir 35:24

Surely We have sent you with truth as a bearer of good news and as a warner, and there was no community without a warner having passed among them

Verse 25 — Surah Fatir 35:25

If they reject you, (it is not something new, because) those before them have (also) rejected (messengers). Their messengers came to them with clear proofs and with scriptures and with the enlightening book

Verse 26 — Surah Fatir 35:26

Then I seized those who disbelieved. So, how was My censure

Verse 27 — Surah Fatir 35:27

Did you not see that Allah has sent down water from the sky? Then We brought forth with it fruits having different colours. And among the mountains there are tracks, white and red— of different colours, and ( others) utterly black

Verse 28 — Surah Fatir 35:28

And among humans and beasts and cattle, there are those having different colours as well. Only those of His slaves fear Allah who are knowledgeable. Surely Allah is Mighty, Forgiving

Verse 29 — Surah Fatir 35:29

Surely those who recite Allah‘s Book and have established Salah and have spent, secretly and openly, from what We have provided to them –— they hope for a trade that will never crash

Verse 30 — Surah Fatir 35:30

so that He pays them their rewards in full, and gives them more out of His grace. Surely He is Most-Forgiving, Very-Appreciative

Verse 31 — Surah Fatir 35:31

The Book We have revealed to you is the Truth, confirming what was (revealed) before it. Surely Allah, in respect of His slaves, is All-Aware, All-Seeing

Verse 32 — Surah Fatir 35:32

Then We conveyed the Book as an heritage to those of Our slaves whom We chose. Now, some of them are those who wrong their own selves, and some of them are mediocre, and some of them are those who outpace (others) in righteous deeds with Allah‘s permission. That is the great bounty

Verse 33 — Surah Fatir 35:33

gardens of eternity they enter. They will be ornamented with bracelets of gold and with pearls, and their dress therein will be (of) silk

Verse 34 — Surah Fatir 35:34

And they will say, .Praise be to Allah who has removed all sorrow from us. Surely our Lord is Most-Forgiving, Very-Appreciative

Verse 35 — Surah Fatir 35:35

who, out of His grace, has made us land at a home of eternal living where we are neither touched by weariness, nor are we touched by boredom

Verse 36 — Surah Fatir 35:36

As for those who disbelieve, for them shall be the fire of Jahannam; neither they will be sentenced to death, so that they could die, nor will its torment be lightened for them. It is in this way that We punish every infidel

Verse 37 — Surah Fatir 35:37

And they will be crying therein, .Our Lord, take us out (from here), and we will act righteously, not in the way we have been doing before. (Allah will say to them,) .Did We not give you an age in your life in which lesson could have been learnt by the one who wished to take lesson? And (furthermore) the warner had (also) come to you. So, have a taste, because the wrongdoers will have no supporter

Verse 38 — Surah Fatir 35:38

Surely Allah is the Knower of the unseen in the heavens and the earth. Indeed He fully knows what lies in the hearts

Verse 39 — Surah Fatir 35:39

He is the One who has made you successors (of the past generations) on the earth. So the one who becomes infidel, his infidelity will go against himself. Their infidelity adds nothing to the infidels but anger from their Lord, and their infidelity adds nothing to the infidels but loss

Verse 40 — Surah Fatir 35:40

Say, .Tell me about your (presumed) co-gods whom you invoke beside Allah. Show me that part of the earth that they have created. Or do they have a share in the (creation) of the heavens?. Or have We given them a book so that they are upon a clear proof from it? No, but the wrongdoers promise one another nothing but delusion

Verse 41 — Surah Fatir 35:41

Undoubtedly, Allah holds back the heavens and the earth from leaving their existing state, and if they were to leave, there is none who can hold them back, except Him. Surely He is Forbearing, Most-Forgiving

Verse 42 — Surah Fatir 35:42

They had sworn forceful oaths that if a warner would come to them, they would be more receptive to guidance than any other community. But when a warner came to them, it added nothing to them but aversion

Verse 43 — Surah Fatir 35:43

because of their showing arrogance in the land and plotting of evil. And the evil plot engulfs none but its own people (who make it). So, they are looking for nothing but the (divine) practice with the earlier people. So you will never find in Allah‘s practice any change, and you will never find in Allah‘s practice any diversion

Verse 44 — Surah Fatir 35:44

Did they not travel in the land and see how was the end of those before them? They were stronger than these in power. Allah is not such that something in the heavens or the earth can frustrate Him. Surely He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful

Verse 45 — Surah Fatir 35:45

If Allah were to take mankind to task for what they did, He would have not left a living creature on its back, but He delays them upto an appointed time. So when their time will come, then Allah is the One who will see His slaves