English - Chapter 55 - Ar-Rahman

The RaHman (The All-Merciful Allah)

has taught the Qur‘an

He has created man

He has taught him (how) to express himself

The sun and the moon are (bound) by a (fixed) calculation

And the vine and the tree both prostrate (to Allah)

He raised the sky high, and has placed the scale

so that you should not be wrongful in weighing

Observe the correct weight with fairness, and do not make weighing deficient

As for the earth, He has placed it for creatures

in which there are fruits and date palms having sheaths

and the grain having chaff, and fragrant flowers

So, (O mankind and Jinn,) which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

He has created man from dry clay, ringing like pottery

and created Jann (father of the Jinn) from a smokeless flame of fire

So, (O mankind and Jinn,) which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

He is the Lord of both points of sunrise and both points of sunset

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

He let forth the two seas to meet together

while there is a barrier between them; they do not encroach (upon one another)

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

From both of them come forth the pearl and the coral

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

And His are the sailing ships raised up in the sea like mountains

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

Every one who is on it (the earth) has to perish

And your Lord‘s Countenance will remain, full of majesty, full of honour

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

All those in the heavens and the earth beseech Him (for their needs.) Every day He is in a state of action

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

Soon We are going to spare Ourselves for you (to reckon your deeds), O two heavy species (of Jinn and mankind)

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

O genera of Jinn and mankind, If you are able to penetrate beyond the realms of the heavens and the earth, then penetrate. You cannot penetrate without power

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

A flame of fire and a smoke will be loosed against you, and you will not (be able) to defend

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

So, (it will be a terrible event) when the sky will be split apart and will become rosy, like (red) hides

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

The guilty ones will be recognized (by angels) through their marks and will be seized by foreheads and feet

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

This is Jahannam (Hell) that the guilty people deny

They will circle around between it and between hot, boiling water

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

And for the one who is fearful of having to stand before his Lord, there are two gardens

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

both having branches

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

In both there are two flowing springs

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

In both there are two kinds of every fruit

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

(The people of these gardens will be) reclining on floorings whose (even) linings will be of thick silk, and the fruits plucked from the two gardens will be at hand

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

In them there will be maidens restraining (their) glances, whom neither a man might have touched before them, nor a Jinn

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

They will look like rubies and corals

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

Is there any reward for goodness other than goodness

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

And besides these two, there are two other gardens (for the second category of the God-fearing)

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

both (gardens are) dark green

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

In both there are two springs gushing forth profusely

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

In both there are fruits and date-palms and pomegranates

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

In them there will be women, good and gorgeous

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

the houris, kept guarded in pavilions

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

whom neither a man might have touched before them, nor a Jinn

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

(The people of these gardens will be) reclining on green cushions and marvelously beautiful mattresses

So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny

Glorious is the name of your Lord, the Lord of Majesty, the Lord of Honour