Glory be to Him who conveyed His servant by night from the inviolable place of worship to the furthest place of worship, which We blessed round about him, that We might show him some of Our proofs! He is the Hearing, the Seeing.

And We gave Moses the Writ, and made it a guide for the children of Israel: “Take not instead of Me as disposer of affairs

“Progeny of those We bore with Noah; he was a grateful servant.”

And We decreed for the children of Israel in the Writ: “You will work corruption in the land twice, and wax high to a great height.”

Then when the promise came of the first of the two, We raised up against you servants of Ours of severe might who conducted a search within the homes; and it was a promise fulfilled.

Then We returned to you a turn over them, and supplied you with wealth and sons, and made you greater in influence.

If you do good, you do good to your souls; and if you do evil, it is to them. Then when the promise of the latter came, that they should disgrace your faces, and enter the place of worship as they entered it the first time, and destroy all that they overcame with destruction.

It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you; but if you return, We will return; and We have made Gehenna a prison-bed for the false claimers of guidance.

This Qur’an guides to what is most upright, and brings glad tidings to the believers who do righteous deeds, that they have a great reward,

And that those who believe not in the Hereafter: — We have prepared for them a painful punishment.

And man supplicates for evil by his supplication for good; and man is ever hasty.

And We appointed the night and the day as two proofs; and We erase the proof of the night and make the proof of day sight-giving, that you might seek favour of your Lord, and that you might know the number of years and the reckoning; and everything have We set out and detailed with full explanation.

And every man: We have attached his fate to his neck; and We will bring forth for him on the Day of Resurrection a writ which he will find unrolled:

“Read thou thy writ! Thy soul this day suffices as reckoner against thee.”

Whoso is guided, he is but guided for his soul; and whoso strays, he but strays against it; and no bearer bears the burden of another. And We do not punish until We have raised up a messenger.

And when We intend to destroy a city, We command its opulent ones, but they are perfidious therein; so the word becomes binding upon it, and We annihilate it utterly.

And how many generations have We destroyed after Noah? And thy Lord suffices as one aware, seeing the transgressions of His servants.

Whoso desires this fleeting life, We hasten for him therein what We will to whom We wish; then have We appointed for him Gehenna wherein he will burn, condemned and banished.

And whoso desires the Hereafter and strives for it as he should, and is a believer — those, their striving is appreciated.

To each do We extend — to these and to those — from the gift of thy Lord; and the gift of thy Lord is not restricted.

See thou how We have preferred some of them over others; but the Hereafter is greater in degrees and greater in preferment.

Make thou not with God another god lest thou sit down condemned and forsaken.

And thy Lord has decreed that you serve not save Him; and towards parents good conduct. Whether one or both of them reaches old age with thee, say thou not: “Fie,” to them, nor repel thou them; but speak thou to them a noble word,

And lower thou to them the wing of gentleness out of mercy, and say thou: “My Lord: have mercy on them, as they brought me up when I was small.”

Your Lord best knows what is in your souls; if you are righteous, He is to those oft-returning and forgiving.

And give thou the relative his due, and the needy, and the wayfarer; but squander thou not wastefully,

The squanderers are brothers of the satans, and the satan is to his Lord ungrateful.

But if thou turnest away from them, seeking the mercy from thy Lord that thou expectest, then speak thou to them a gentle word.

And make thou not thy hand chained to thy neck; nor extend thou it to its full extent, then sit down blameworthy and denuded.

Thy Lord expands provision for whom He wills, and He straitens; He is of His servants aware and seeing.

And kill not your children for fear of poverty — We will provide for them and for you; the killing of them is a great offence —

And approach not unlawful sexual intercourse — it is sexual immorality, and evil as a path —

And kill not the soul which God has made unlawful save with justice; and whoso is killed wrongfully, We have given authority to his ally; but let him not commit excess in killing; he is supported.

And approach not the property of the fatherless save with what is better before he reaches maturity. And fulfil the covenant; the covenant is to be questioned.

And fulfil the measure when you measure, and weigh with the straight balance; that is better, and best in respect of result.

And follow thou not that whereof thou hast no knowledge; the hearing and the sight and the heart, each of those will be questioned.

And walk thou not in the earth exultantly; thou wilt not cleave open the earth, nor wilt thou reach the mountains in height.

All that — its evil is hateful in the sight of thy Lord.

That is from what thy Lord has revealed to thee of wisdom. And make thou not with God another god lest thou be cast into Gehenna, blameworthy and banished.

Has then your Lord chosen for you sons and taken from among the angels females? You speak a monstrous word.

And We have expounded in this Qur’an, that they take heed; but it increases them only in aversion.

Say thou: “If there had been gods with Him, as they say, then would they have sought a path against the Lord of the Throne.”

Glory be to Him, and greatly exalted is He above what they say!

The seven heavens and the earth and whoso is in them glorify Him; nothing is save that gives glory with His praise, but you understand not their glorification; He is clement and forgiving.

And when thou recitest the Qur’an, We place between thee and those who believe not in the Hereafter a hidden partition,

And We have placed upon their hearts coverings lest they should understand it, and in their ears deafness. And when thou rememberest thy Lord alone in the Qur’an, they turn their backs in aversion.

We best know for what they are listening when they listen to thee, and when they are in private conversation, when the wrongdoers say: “You follow only a man taken by sorcery.”

See thou how they strike similitudes for thee; then have they strayed and are not able to find a path.

And they say: “When we are bones and dust, will we be raised up as a new creation?”

Say thou: “Be you stones or iron

“Or a creation of what is great within your breasts!” And they will say: “Who will bring us back?” Say thou: “He who created you the first time.” Then they will shake their heads at thee and say: “When is it?” Say thou: “It may be that it is near:

“The day He will call you, and you will answer with His praise, and you will think that you tarried only a little.”

And say thou to My servants, that they say that which is best. The satan provokes to evil between them; the satan is to man an open enemy.

Your Lord knows you best; if He wills, He will have mercy on you or, if He wills, He will punish you. And We have not sent thee as a guardian over them.

And thy Lord best knows who is in the heavens and the earth. And We have preferred some prophets over others; and We gave to David Psalms.

Say thou: “Call to those whom you claim besides Him — they have no power over the removal of affliction from you, or of alteration.”

Those to whom they call seek the means of approach to their Lord, which of them should be nearest, and hope for His mercy and fear His punishment; the punishment of thy Lord is to be feared.

And there is no city save We will destroy it before the Day of Resurrection, or punish it with severe punishment; that is in the Writ inscribed.

And there prevented Us from sending proofs only that the former peoples denied them. And We gave Thamūd the she-camel as a visible proof, but they wronged her. And We send the proofs only to put in dread.

And when We said to thee: “Thy Lord encompasses mankind,” and We made the vision which We showed thee only a means of denial for mankind, and also the accursed tree in the Qur’an. And We put them in dread, but it increases them not save in great inordinacy.

And when We said to the angels: “Submit to Adam,” then they submitted. Not so Iblīs; he said: “Shall I submit to one Thou hast created of clay?”

He said: “Hast Thou seen this whom Thou hast honoured above me? If Thou grant me respite until the Day of Resurrection, I will master his progeny save a few.”

Said He: “Depart thou! And whoso follows thee of them: Gehenna will be your reward; an ample reward.

“And incite thou whom thou canst of them with thy voice, and rally thou horse and foot against them, and partner thou them in their wealth and children, and promise thou them,” — but the satan promises them only delusion —

“My servants: over them thou hast no authority.” And thy Lord suffices as disposer of affairs:

Your Lord is who drives for you the ships upon the sea, that you might seek of His bounty; He is merciful towards you.

But when affliction touches you upon the sea, strayed have those to whom you call save He. Then when He delivers you to the land, you turn away; and man is ungrateful.

Do you feel secure that He will not cause a portion of the land to swallow you, or send against you a storm of stones? Then would you not find for you a guardian.

Or do you feel secure that He would not return you to it a second time, and send against you a raging storm of wind, and drown you for what you denied? Then would you not find for you against Us an adherent.

We have honoured the children of Adam, and carried them on land and sea, and provided them with good things, and preferred them greatly above many of those We created.

The day We call each people with their record, then whoso is given his writ in his right hand, those will read their writ, and they will not be wronged a hair upon a date-stone.

And whoso is blind in the World will be blind in the Hereafter, and further astray in the path.

And they had almost seduced thee away from that We revealed to thee, that thou invent about Us other than it — and then would they have taken thee as a friend.

And were it not that We had made thee firm, thou wouldst have relied upon them a little,

Then would We have let thee taste double in life, and double in death; then wouldst thou not find for thee against Us a helper.

And they had almost driven thee out of the land, to turn thee out therefrom; and then would they not have tarried after thee save a little.

The practice of those We sent before thee of Our messengers; and thou wilt not find in Our practice any alteration.

Uphold thou the duty at the merging of the sun until the dark of night, and the recitation of dawn — the recitation of dawn is witnessed —

And some of the night, keep thou vigil with it, as an addition for thee; it may be that thy Lord will raise thee to a praised station.

And say thou: “My Lord: cause Thou me to enter at a true entrance, and to leave at a true exit; and appoint Thou for me from Thyself a helping authority.”

And say thou: “Truth has come, and vanity has passed away; vanity is to pass away.”

And We send down of the Qur’an what is a healing and mercy for the believers; but it increases not the wrongdoers save in loss.

And when We favour a man, he turns away and distances himself; and when evil touches him, he is without hope.

Say thou: “Each does as he sees fit, but your Lord best knows him who is guided in the path.”

And they ask thee about the Spirit. Say thou: “The Spirit is by command of my Lord; and you have been given of knowledge only a little

(And if We willed, We would take away that We have revealed to thee; then wouldst thou not find for thee therein against Us a guardian)

“Only by mercy from thy Lord”; His kindness to thee is great.

Say thou: “If the servi and the domini gathered to produce the like of this Qur’an, they would not produce the like thereof, though they were helpers one of another.”

And We have expounded for men in this Qur’an every similitude, but most men refuse save denial.

And they say: “We will not believe thee until thou cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us,

“Or thou have a garden of date-palms and grapevines, and thou cause rivers to gush forth in the midst thereof abundantly,

“Or thou cause the sky to fall — as thou hast claimed — upon us in pieces, or thou bring God and the angels before us face to face,

“Or thou have a house of finery, or thou ascend into the sky; and we will not believe thy ascension until thou bring down upon us a writ we may read.” Say thou: “Glory be to my Lord! Am I anything save a mortal messenger!”

And there prevented men from believing when the guidance came to them only that they said: “Has God raised up a mortal as messenger?”

Say thou: “Had there been in the earth angels walking securely, We would have sent down upon them from the sky an angel as messenger.”

Say thou: “Sufficient is God as witness between me and you; He is of His servants aware and seeing.”

And whom God guides, he is guided; and whom He sends astray, for them thou wilt find no allies besides Him. And We will gather them on the Day of Resurrection on their faces — blind and dumb and deaf — their shelter is Gehenna; whenever it subsides, We will increase for them an inferno.

That is their reward because they denied Our proofs and said: “When we are bones and dust, will we be raised up as a new creation?”

Have they not considered that God, who created the heavens and the earth, has power to create the like of them? And He has made for them a term whereof there is no doubt; but the wrongdoers refuse save denial.

Say thou: “If you possessed the treasuries of the mercy of my Lord, then would you hold them back for fear of spending”; and man is miserly.

And We gave Moses nine clear proofs, so ask thou the children of Israel. When he came to them, and Pharaoh said to him: “I consider thee, O Moses, one taken by sorcery,”

He said: “Thou hast known that there sends these down only the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth as a means of insight; and I consider thee, O Pharaoh, destroyed.”

And he wished to turn them out of the land; and We drowned him and those with him all together.

And We said, after him, to the children of Israel: “Dwell in the land; and when there comes the promise of the Hereafter, We will bring you in a mixed multitude.”

And with the truth have We sent it down, and with the truth has it come down — and We sent thee only as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner —

And as a recitation We divided, that thou recite it to men in stages; and We have sent it down as a successive revelation.

Say thou: “Believe in it, or believe not”; those given knowledge before it, when it is recited to them, they fall on their faces in submission,

And they say: “Glory be to our Lord! The promise of our Lord is fulfilled!”

And they fall on their faces weeping; and it increases them in humility.

Say thou: “Call to God, or call to the Almighty; by whichever you call, to Him belong the most beautiful names.” And be thou not loud in thy duty, nor quiet therein, but follow thou a path in-between,

And say thou: “Praise belongs to God who has not taken a son, and who has no partner in dominion, nor ally from weakness,” and magnify thou Him with glorification.