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Al-Isra
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Glorified be He Who carried His servant by
night from the Inviolable Place of Worship to the Far
Distant place of worship the neighbourhood whereof We have
blessed, that We might show him of Our tokens! Lo! He, only
He, is the Hearer, the Seer. (1)
We gave unto Moses the Scripture, and We
appointed it a guidance for the children of Israel, saying:
Choose no guardian beside Me. (2)
(They were) the seed of those whom We
carried (in the ship) along with Noah. Lo! he was a grateful
slave. (3)
And We decreed for the Children of Israel
in the Scripture: Ye verily will work corruption in the
earth twice, and ye will become great tyrants. (4)
So when the time for the first of the two
came, We roused against you slaves of Ours of great might
who ravaged (your) country, and it was a threat performed.
(5)
Then we gave you once again your turn
against them, and We aided you with wealth and children and
made you more in soldiery. (6)
(Saying): If ye do good, ye do good for
your own souls, and if ye do evil, it is for them (in like
manner). So, when the time for the second (of the judgments)
came (We roused against you others of Our slaves) to ravage
you, and to enter the Temple even as they entered it the
first time, and to lay waste all that they conquered with an
utter wasting. (7)
It may be that your Lord will have mercy
on you, but if ye repeat (the crime) We shall repeat (the
punishment), and We have appointed hell a dungeon for the
disbelievers. (8)
Lo! this Qur'an guideth unto that which is
straightest, and giveth tidings unto the believers who do
good works that theirs will be a great reward. (9)
And that those who believe not in the
Hereafter, for them We have prepared a painful doom. (10)
Man prayeth for evil as he prayeth for
good; for man was ever hasty. (11)
And We appoint the night and the day two
portents. Then We effact the portent of the night, and We
make the portent of the day sight-giving, that ye may seek
bounty from your Lord, and that ye may know the computation
of the years, and the reckoning; and everything have We
expounded with a clear expounding. (12)
And every man's augury have We fastened
to his own neck, and We shall bring forth for him on the Day
of Resurrection a book which he will find wide open. (13)
(And it will be said unto him): Read thy
Book. Thy soul sufficeth as reckoner against thee this day.
(14)
Whosoever goeth right, it is only for (the
good of) his own soul that he goeth right, and whosoever
erreth, erreth only to its hurt. No laden soul can bear
another's load, We never punish until we have sent a
messenger. (15)
And when We would destroy a township We
send commandment to its folk who live at ease, and afterward
they commit abomination therein, and so the Word (of doom)
hath effect for it, and we annihilate it with complete
annihilation. (16)
How many generations have We destroyed
since Noah! And Allah sufficeth as Knower and Beholder of
the sins of His slaves. (17)
Whoso desireth that (life) which
hasteneth away, We hasten for him therein that We will for
whom We please. And afterward We have appointed for him
hell; he will endure the heat thereof, condemned, rejected.
(18)
And whoso desireth the Hereafter and
striveth for it with the effort necessary, being a believer;
for such, their effort findeth favour (with their Lord).
(19)
Each do We supply, both these and those,
from the bounty of thy Lord. And the bounty of thy Lord can
never be walled up. (20)
See how We prefer one of them above
another, and verily the Hereafter will be greater in degrees
and greater in preferment. (21)
Set not up with Allah any other god (O
man) lest thou sit down reproved, forsaken. (22)
Thy Lord hath decreed, that ye worship
none save Him, and (that ye show) kindness to parents. If
one of them or both of them attain old age with thee, say
not "Fie" unto them nor repulse them, but speak unto them a
gracious word. (23)
And lower unto them the wing of
submission through mercy, and say: My Lord! Have mercy on
them both as they did care for me when I was little. (24)
Your Lord is best aware of what is in
your minds. If ye are righteous, then lo! He was ever
Forgiving unto those who turn (unto Him). (25)
Give the kinsman his due, and the needy,
and the wayfarer, and squander not (thy wealth) in
wantonness. (26)
Lo! the squanderers were ever brothers of
the devils, and the devil was ever an ingrate to his Lord.
(27)
But if thou turn away from them, seeking
mercy from thy Lord, for which thou hopest, then speak unto
them a reasonable word. (28)
And let not thy hand be chained to thy
neck nor open it with a complete opening, lest thou sit down
rebuked, denuded. (29)
Lo! thy Lord enlargeth the provision for
whom He will, and straiteneth (it for whom He will). Lo, He
was ever Knower, Seer of His slaves. (30)
Slay not your children, fearing a fall to
poverty, We shall provide for them and for you. Lo! the
slaying of them is great sin. (31)
And come not near unto adultery. Lo! it
is an abomination and an evil way. (32)
And slay not the life which Allah hath
forbidden save with right. Whoso is slain wrongfully, We
have given power unto his heir, but let him not commit
excess in slaying. Lo! he will be helped. (33)
Come not near the wealth of the orphan
save with that which is better till he come to strength; and
keep the covenant. Lo! of the covenant it will be asked.
(34)
Fill the measure when ye measure, and
weigh with a right balance; that is meet, and better in the
end. (35)
(O man), follow not that whereof thou
hast no knowledge. Lo! the hearing and the sight and the
heart - of each of these it will be asked. (36)
And walk not in the earth exultant. Lo!
thou canst not rend the earth, nor canst thou stretch to the
height of the hills. (37)
The evil of all that is hateful in the
sight of thy Lord. (38)
This is (part) of that wisdom wherewith
thy Lord hath inspired thee (O Muhammad). And set not up
with Allah any other god, lest thou be cast into hell,
reproved, abandoned. (39)
Hath your Lord then distinguished you (O
men of Makka) by giving you sons, and hath chosen for
Himself females from among the angels? Lo! verily ye speak
an awful word! (40)
We verily have displayed (Our warnings)
in this Qur'an that they may take heed, but it increaseth
them in naught save aversion. (41)
Say (O Muhammad, to the disbelievers): If
there were other gods along with Him, as they say, then had
they sought a way against the Lord of the Throne. (42)
Glorified is He, and High Exalted above
what they say! (43)
The seven heavens and the earth and all
that is therein praise Him, and there is not a thing but
hymneth His praise; but ye understand not their praise. Lo!
He is ever Clement, Forgiving. (44)
And when thou recitest the Qur'an we
place between thee and those who believe not in the
Hereafter a hidden barrier; (45)
And We place upon their hearts veils lest
they should understand it, and in their ears a deafness; and
when thou makest mention of thy Lord alone in the Qur'an,
they turn their backs in aversion. (46)
We are best aware of what they wish to
hear when they give ear to thee and when they take secret
counsel, when the evil-doers say: Ye follow but a man
bewitched. (47)
See what similitudes they coin for thee,
and thus are all astray, and cannot find a road! (48)
And they say: When we are bones and
fragments, shall we forsooth, be raised up as a new creation?
(49)
Say: Be ye stones or iron (50)
Or some created thing that is yet greater
in your thoughts! Then they will say: Who shall bring us
back (to life). Say: He Who created you at the first. Then
will they shake their heads at thee, and say: When will it
be? Say: It will perhaps be soon; (51)
A day when He will call you and ye will
answer with His praise, and ye will think that ye have
tarried but a little while. (52)
Tell My bondmen to speak that which is
kindlier. Lo! the devil soweth discord among them. Lo! the
devil is for man an open foe. (53)
Your Lord is best aware of you. If He
will, He will have mercy on you, or if He will, He will
punish you. We have not sent thee (O Muhammad) as a warden
over them. (54)
And thy Lord is best aware of all who are
in the heavens and the earth. And we preferred some of the
prophets above others, and unto David We gave the Psalms.
(55)
Say: Cry unto those (saints and angels)
whom ye assume (to be gods) beside Him, yet they have no
power to rid you of misfortune nor to change. (56)
Those unto whom they cry seek the way of
approach to their Lord, which of them shall be the nearest;
they hope for His mercy and they fear His doom. Lo! the doom
of thy Lord is to be shunned. (57)
There is not a township but We shall
destroy it ere the Day of Resurrection, or punish it with
dire punishment. That is set forth in the Book (of Our
decrees). (58)
Naught hindereth Us from sending portents
save that the folk of old denied them. And We gave Thamud
the she-camel - a clear portent--but they did wrong in
respect of her. We send not portents save to warn. (59)
And (it was a warning) when we told thee:
Lo! thy Lord encompasseth mankind, and We appointed the
vision which We showed thee as an ordeal for mankind, and (likewise)
the Accursed Tree in the Qur'an. We warn them, but it
increaseth them in naught save gross impiety. (60)
And when We said unto the angels: Fall
down prostrate before Adam and they fell prostrate all save
Iblis, he said: Shall I fall prostrate before that which
Thou hast created of clay? (61)
He said: Seest Thou this (creature) whom
Thou hast honoured above me, if Thou give me grace until the
Day of Resurrection I verily will seize his seed, save but a
few. (62)
He said: Go, and whosoever of them
followeth thee - lo! hell will be your payment, ample
payment. (63)
And excite any of them whom thou canst
with thy voice, and urge thy horse and foot against them,
and be a partner in their wealth and children, and promise
them. Satan promiseth them only to deceive. (64)
Lo! My (faithful) bondmen - over them
thou hast no power, and thy Lord sufficeth as (their)
guardian. (65)
(O mankind), your Lord is He Who driveth
for you the ship upon the sea that ye may seek of His bounty.
Lo! He was ever Merciful toward you. (66)
And when harm toucheth you upon the sea,
all unto whom ye cry (for succour) fail save Him (alone),
but when He bringeth you safe to land, ye turn away, for man
was ever thankless. (67)
Feel ye then secure that He will not
cause a slope of the land to engulf you, or send a
sand-storm upon you, and then ye will find that ye have no
protector? (68)
Or feel ye secure that He will not return
you to that (plight) a second time, and send against you a
hurricane of wind and drown you for your thanklessness, and
then ye will not find therein that ye have any avenger
against Us? (69)
Verily we have honoured the children of
Adam. We carry them on the land and the sea, and have made
provision of good things for them, and have preferred them
above many of those whom We created with a marked preferment.
(70)
On the day when We shall summon all men
with their record, whoso is given his book in his right hand
- such will read their book and they will not be wronged a
shred. (71)
Whoso is blind here will be blind in the
Hereafter, and yet further from the road. (72)
And they indeed strove hard to beguile
thee (Muhammad) away from that wherewith We have inspired
thee, that thou shouldst invent other than it against Us;
and then would they have accepted thee as a friend. (73)
And if We had not made thee wholly firm
thou mightest almost have inclined unto them a little. (74)
Then had we made thee taste a double (punishment)
of living and a double (punishment) of dying, then hadst
thou found no helper against Us. (75)
And they indeed wished to scare thee from
the land that they might drive thee forth from thence, and
then they would have stayed (there) but a little after thee.
(76)
(Such was Our) method in the case of
those whom We sent before thee (to mankind), and thou wilt
not find for Our method aught of power to change. (77)
Establish worship at the going down of
the sun until the dark of night, and (the recital of) the
Qur'an at dawn. Lo! (the recital of) the Qur'an at dawn is
ever witnessed. (78)
And some part of the night awake for it,
a largess for thee. It may be that thy Lord will raise thee
to a praised estate. (79)
And say: My Lord! Cause me to come in
with a firm incoming and to go out with a firm outgoing. And
give me from Thy presence a sustaining Power. (80)
And say: Truth hath come and falsehood
hath vanished away. Lo! falsehood is ever bound to vanish.
(81)
And We reveal of the Qur'an that which is
a healing and a mercy for believers though it increase the
evil-doers in naught save ruin. (82)
And when We make life pleasant unto man,
he turneth away and is averse; and when ill toucheth him he
is in despair. (83)
Say: Each one doth according to his rule
of conduct, and thy Lord is best aware of him whose way is
right. (84)
They will ask thee concerning the Spirit.
Say: The Spirit is by command of my Lord, and of knowledge
ye have been vouchsafed but little. (85)
And if We willed We could withdraw that
which We have revealed unto thee, then wouldst thou find no
guardian for thee against Us in respect thereof. (86)
(It is naught) save mercy from thy Lord.
Lo! His kindness unto thee was ever great. (87)
Say: Verily, though mankind and the jinn
should assemble to produce the like of this Qur'an, they
could not produce the like thereof though they were helpers
one of another. (88)
And verily We have displayed for mankind
in this Qur'an all kinds of similitudes, but most of mankind
refuse aught save disbelief. (89)
And they say: We will not put faith in
thee till thou cause a spring to gush forth from the earth
for us; (90)
Or thou have a garden of date-palms and
grapes, and cause rivers to gush forth therein abundantly;
(91)
Or thou cause the heaven to fall upon us
piecemeal, as thou hast pretended, or bring Allah and the
angels as a warrant; (92)
Or thou have a house of gold; or thou
ascend up into heaven, and even then we will put no faith in
thine ascension till thou bring down for us a book that we
can read. Say (O Muhammad): My Lord be glorified! Am I aught
save a mortal messenger? (93)
And naught prevented mankind from
believing when the guidance came unto them save that they
said: Hath Allah sent a mortal as (His) messenger? (94)
Say: If there were in the earth angels
walking secure, We had sent down for them from heaven an
angel as messenger. (95)
Say: Allah sufficeth for a witness
between me and you. Lo! He is Knower, Seer of His slaves.
(96)
And he whom Allah guideth, he is led
aright; while, as for him whom He sendeth astray, for them
thou wilt find no protecting friends beside Him, and We
shall assemble them on the Day of Resurrection on their
faces, blind, dumb and deaf; their habitation will be hell;
whenever it abateth, We increase the flame for them. (97)
That is their reward because they
disbelieved Our revelations and said: When we are bones and
fragments shall we, forsooth, be raised up as a new creation?
(98)
Have they not seen that Allah Who created
the heavens and the earth is Able to create the like of them,
and hath appointed for them an end whereof there is no doubt?
But the wrong-doers refuse aught save disbelief. (99)
Say (unto them): If ye possessed the
treasures of the mercy of my Lord, ye would surely hold them
back for fear of spending, for man was ever grudging. (100)
And verily We gave unto Moses nine
tokens, clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty). Do but ask
the Children of Israel how he came unto them, then Pharaoh
said unto him: Lo! I deem thee one bewitched, O Moses. (101)
He said: In truth thou knowest that none
sent down these (portents) save the Lord of the heavens and
the earth as proofs, and lo! (for my part) I deem thee lost,
O Pharaoh. (102)
And he wished to scare them from the
land, but We drowned him and those with him, all together.
(103)
And We said unto the Children of Israel
after him: Dwell in the land; but when the promise of the
Hereafter cometh to pass We shall bring you as a crowd
gathered out of various nations. (104)
With truth have We sent it down, and
with truth hath it descended. And We have sent thee as
naught else save a bearer of good tidings and a warner.
(105)
And (it is) a Qur'an that We have
divided, that thou mayst recite it unto mankind at intervals,
and We have revealed it by (successive) revelation. (106)
Say: Believe therein or believe not, lo!
those who were given knowledge before it, when it is read
unto them, fall down prostrate on their faces, adoring,
(107)
Saying: Glory to our Lord! Verily the
promise of our Lord must be fulfilled. (108)
They fall down on their faces, weeping,
and it increaseth humility in them. (109)
Say (unto mankind): Cry unto Allah, or
cry unto the Beneficent, unto whichsoever ye cry (it is the
same). His are the most beautiful names. And thou
(Muhammad), be not loud-voiced in thy worship nor yet silent
therein, but follow a way between. (110)
And say: Praise be to Allah, Who hath
not taken unto Himself a son, and Who hath no partner in the
Sovereignty, nor hath He any protecting friend through
dependence. And magnify Him with all magnificence. (111)
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