Blessed be He who has sent down the Division upon His servant, that he might be a warner to all mankind,

He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and has not taken a son or had a partner in dominion, but created everything, then ordained it entirely.

And they have taken, besides Him, gods which create nothing, but are created, and possess for themselves neither harm nor benefit; and they possess neither death nor life nor resurrection.

And those who ignore warning say: “This is only a falsehood; he invented it, and other people assisted him in it.” And they have brought injustice and falsehood.

And they say: “Legends of the former peoples he has written, and they are dictated to him morning and evening.”

Say thou: “He sent it down who knows the secret in the heavens and the earth; He is forgiving and merciful.”

And they say: “What is this messenger that eats food and walks in the markets? Oh, that an angel were but sent down to him to be a warner with him!

“Or a treasure were but sent to him! Or there were for him but a garden from which he ate!” And the wrongdoers say: “You follow only a man taken by sorcery.”

See thou how they strike similitudes for thee, and go astray, and cannot find a path.

Blessed be He who, if He wills, will make for thee better than that, — gardens beneath which rivers flow — and will make for thee palaces!

The truth is, they have denied the Hour; and We have prepared for him who denies the Hour an inferno.

When it sees them from a place far away, they will hear the fury and the roaring thereof.

And when they are cast therefrom into a narrow place bound together, they will call thereupon for destruction.

“Call not this day for one destruction, but call for many destructions!”

Say thou: “Is that better, or the Garden of Eternity which is promised to those of prudent fear?” It will be for them a reward and a journey’s end.

They have therein all that they desire, they abiding eternally; it is upon thy Lord a promise requested.

And the day He gathers them and what they serve, besides God, and says: “Was it you who led astray these My servants, or did they stray from the path?”

They will say: “Glory be to Thee! It behoved us not to take, besides Thee, any allies! But Thou didst give them and their fathers enjoyment until they forgot the remembrance and became a people ruined.”

“They have denied you for what you say,” — and you are able neither to avert nor to find help; and whoso does wrong among you, We will let him taste a great punishment.

And We sent not before thee any emissaries, but that they ate food and walked in the markets. And We made some of you a means of denial for others. Will you be patient? And thy Lord is seeing.

And those who look not for a meeting with Us say: “Oh, that the angels were but sent down upon us, or we but saw our Lord!” They have waxed proud concerning themselves, and scornful with great scorn.

The day they see the angels: — no glad tidings, that day, for the lawbreakers; and they will say: “A complete partition!”

And We will come to what they did of deeds, and make it scattered dust.

The companions of the Garden, that day, are better in dwelling-place and better in resting-place.

And the day the sky is rent asunder with the clouds, and the angels are sent down in successive descent,

True dominion, that day, belongs to the Almighty; and it will be a difficult day for the false claimers of guidance.

And the day the wrongdoer will bite his hands, he will say: “Would that I had taken with the Messenger a path!

“Woe is me! Would that I had not taken such-and-such for a friend!

“He led me astray from the remembrance after it reached me.” And the satan is to man a traitor.

And the Messenger will say: “O my Lord: my people took this Qur’an as a thing abandoned.”

And thus We appointed for every prophet an enemy from among the lawbreakers; but thy Lord suffices as a guide and a helper.

And those who ignore warning say: “Oh, that the Qur’an were but sent down upon him all at once!” Thus — that We might strengthen thy heart thereby; and We have recited it distinctly.

And they bring thee not a similitude save We bring thee the truth and better in explanation.

Those who are gathered on their faces into Gehenna: those are worse in position, and further astray in the path.

And We gave Moses the Writ, and appointed with him his brother Aaron as an assistant.

And We said: “Go to the people who have denied Our proofs”; then We annihilated them completely.

And the people of Noah: when they denied the messengers, We drowned them, and made of them for mankind a proof; and We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment.

And ʿĀd, and Thamūd, and the companions of Al-Rass, and many generations in-between,

And for each We struck similitudes; and each We destroyed utterly.

And they have passed by the city whereon rained a rain of evil; so did they not see it? The truth is, they expect not a resurrection.

And when they see thee, they only take thee in mockery: “Is this he whom God sent as messenger?

“He had almost led us astray from our gods, were we not steadfast towards them.” And they will know, when they see the punishment, who is further astray in the path.

Hast thou seen him who has taken as his god his vain desire? Wouldst thou then be a guardian over him?

If thou thinkest that most of them hear or reason — they are only as the cattle; nay, they are further astray in the path.

Hast thou not considered thy Lord, how He spread the shadow? And had He willed, He would have made it still. Then We made the sun its guide;

Then We took it to Ourselves in an easy taking.

And He it is that appointed for you the night as a covering, and sleep as a rest, and appointed the day as a resurrection.

And He it is that sends the winds as glad tidings at the time of His mercy. And We send down from the sky pure water,

That We might give life thereby to a dead land, and give it as drink to many of what We have created of cattle and men.

(And We have expounded it among them that they might take heed; but most men refuse save denial.

And had We willed, We would have raised up in every city a warner;

So obey thou not the false claimers of guidance, and strive thou against them thereby with a great striving.)

And He it is that loosed the two seas: the one fresh and sweet, and the other salty and bitter, and made between them a barrier, and a complete partition.

And He it is that created from water a mortal, and made for him blood relations and marriage relations; and thy Lord is powerful.

And they serve, besides God, what neither benefits them nor harms them; and the false claimer of guidance is a helper against his Lord.

And We sent thee only as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner.

Say thou: “I ask not of you for it any reward save that whoso wills might take to his Lord a path.”

And place thou thy trust in the Living, who dies not; and give thou glory with His praise. And sufficient is He, of the transgressions of His servants, as one aware

Who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days, then established Himself upon the Throne — the Almighty — so ask thou about it one aware.

And when it is said to them: “Submit to the Almighty,” they say: “And what is the Almighty? Are we to submit to what thou commandest us?” And it increases them in aversion.

Blessed be He who has made in the sky constellations, and made therein a torch, and an illuminating moon.

And He it is that made the night and the day a succession for him who desires to take heed, or desires gratitude.

And the servants of the Almighty are they who walk upon the earth modestly, and when the ignorant address them, they speak peace;

And who spend the night to their Lord submitting and standing;

And who say: “Our Lord: avert Thou from us the punishment of Gehenna”; (the punishment thereof is unrelenting,

Evil is it as a dwelling-place and a residence)

And who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor miserly; — and there is a place in-between —

And who call not, with God, to another god, nor kill the soul which God has made unlawful save with justice, nor commit unlawful sexual intercourse; (and whoso does that will meet with a penalty,

The punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide eternally therein, humiliated,

Save he who repents and believes and works righteousness, and those: God will change their evil deeds to good deeds; and God is forgiving and merciful;

And whoso repents and works righteousness, it is he who repents to God completely.)

And who do not bear witness to falsehood, and when they pass by vain speech, pass by with dignity;

And who when they are reminded of the proofs of their Lord, fall not down upon them deaf and blind;

And who say: “Our Lord: give Thou to us from our wives and our progeny a comfort of the eyes, and make Thou us a model for those of prudent fear,”

Those will be rewarded with the upper chamber because they were patient, and they will be met therein with greetings and peace,

They abiding eternally therein; good as a dwelling-place and a residence.

Say thou: “My Lord would not concern Himself with you were it not for your call; but you have denied, so it will be requisite.”