1. A.L.M.R. These
are the signs of the scripture. And what has been sent down to you from your
Lord is the truth; but most of mankind do not believe.
2. God, Who raised the skies without any pillars that you can see, then He settled
to the throne, and He commissioned the sun and the moon; each running to a fixed
destiny. He manages all affairs, and He details the signs so that you will be
aware of the meeting with your Lord.
3. And He is the One who stretched-out the land, and made in it stabilizers
and rivers, and from every fruit he made a pair of two; the night covers the
day. In that are signs for a people who will think.
4. And on earth are neighbouring pieces of land with gardens of grape and plants
and palm trees, some of which may be twin sharing the same root, or single,
even though they are being watered with the same water source; and We make preference
for some of them over others in what is eaten. In that are signs for a people
who comprehend.
5. And if you are surprised, then what is surprising is their saying: "Can
it be that when we are dust, we will be created anew!" These are the ones
who rejected their Lord, and they will have chains around their necks, and they
are the dwellers of the Fire, in it they will abide.
6. And they hasten towards you with sin before good, and the examples of those
before them have already been given. Your Lord is with great forgiveness to
mankind for their transgression, and your Lord is severe in retribution.
7. And those who reject say: "If only a sign was sent down to him from
his Lord" You are but a warner, and to every nation is a guide.
8. God knows what every female carries, and how short her pregnancy or how long.
And everything with Him is measured.
9. The knower of the unseen and the seen, the Great, the most High.
10. It is the same whether any of you openly declares his words, or conceals
them; whether he is hiding in the night or going openly in the day.
11. Present with him and behind him are retainers, they guard him by God's command.
God is not to change what is in a people until they change what is within themselves.
And if God wanted to harm a people, then there is no turning Him back, nor will
they have any protector against Him.
12. He is the One who shows you the lightning, giving you fear and hope. And
He establishes the heavy clouds.
13. And the thunder glorifies with His praise, and the Angels from His Awe,
and He sends the thunderbolts, and strikes with it whom He will. Yet they are
still arguing regarding God, while He is severe in punishment.
14. To Him is the call of truth. And those who are called on besides Him, they
will not respond to them in anything; like one who places his hands openly in
the water to drink, but it never reaches his mouth. The call of the rejecters
is nothing but in misguidance.
15. And to God submit all that are in heavens and the earth, willingly and unwillingly,
as do their shadows in the morning and the evening.
16. Say: "Who is the Lord of the heavens and earth", say: "God"
Say: "Have you taken besides Him allies who do not posses for themselves
any benefit or harm?" Say: "Is the blind and the seer the same?, or
does the darkness and the light equate? Or have they made partners with God
who have created like His creation, so the creations all seemed the same to
them?" Say: "God Has created all things, and He is the One, the Supreme"
17. He sent down water from the sky, so valleys flowed according to their capacity,
and the flood produces foam. And from what they burn to smelt jewellery or goods
is produced a similar foam. It is in such a manor that God strikes the falsehood
with the truth. As for the foam, it passes away, and as for what benefits mankind,
it remains in the earth. It is such that God strikes the examples.
18. For those who responded to their Lord is goodness. As for those who did
not respond to Him, if they had all that is in the earth twice over, they would
offer it to be saved. To these will be a terrible reckoning, and their abode
is Hell; what a miserable abode.
19. Is one who knows that the truth has been sent down to you from your Lord
like one who is blind? Only those with understanding will remember.
20. Those who fulfill God's pledge, and they do not break the Covenant.
21. And those who deliver what God Has ordered be delivered, and they revere
their Lord and they fear the terrible reckoning.
22. And those who are patient seeking their Lord's direction; and they uphold
the salat, and they spend from what We bestowed upon them secretly and openly,
and they counter sin with good; these will have an excellent abode.
23. The gardens of Eden, they will enter it and those who are good doers of
their fathers and their mates, and their progeny. And the Angels will enter
upon them from every gate.
24. "Peace be upon you for what you have been patient for. Excellent indeed
is the final abode"
25. As for those who break the pledge of God after making its covenant, and
they sever what God ordered that it be delivered, and they corrupt in the earth;
to those is a curse and they will have a miserable abode.
26. God gives the provisions for whom He wishes, and He is able. And they were
happy with the worldly life, but the worldly life compared to the Hereafter
was nothing but an enjoyment.
27. And those who have rejected say: "If only a sign were sent down to
him from his Lord!" Say: "God misguides whom He wishes and guides
to Him whoever is repenting"
28. The ones who believed and their hearts are relieved by the remembrance of
God; for in God's remembrance are the hearts relieved.
29. And those who believed, and did good works, there will be happiness for
them and a good abode.
30. And as such, We have sent you to a nation to whom other nations have passed
away before, so that you may recite for them that which has been inspired to
you; while they reject in the Almighty. Say: "He is my Lord, there is no
god but He, to Him I place my trust and to Him is my repentance"
31. And if a Quran were to be used to move mountains, or to cut away the land,
or the dead were spoken to with it. No, to God is all matters. Did not those
who believe know that if God wished He would have guided all the people? As
for those who reject, they continue to be stricken with disaster or it comes
near to their homes, until God's promise comes true. God does not break His
appointment.
32. And messengers before you were ridiculed, but I gave time to those who rejected,
then I took them. Then how was My punishment?
33. The One who is standing over every soul for what it has earned; yet they
made partners to God. Say: "Name them?, or do you inform Him of what He
does not know on earth or is it just a show of words?" But to the rejecters,
their scheming is made to appear clever, and they are turned away from the path.
And whoever God misguides will have no guide.
34. They will have a punishment in the worldly life, and the punishment of the
Hereafter is more difficult. And they will have no defender against God.
35. The example of Paradise that the righteous have been promised, is that rivers
flow beneath it, and its provisions are continuous as is its shade. Such is
the abode of those who were righteous, while the abode of the rejecters is the
Fire.
36. And those to whom We have previously given the scripture rejoice at what
has been sent down to you, but there are some of the groups that reject parts
of it. Say: "I am only ordered to serve God and not join any partner with
Him. To Him I pray and to Him is the return"
37. And as such, We have sent down a law in Arabic. And if you follow their
desires after what has come to you of the knowledge, then you will not have
any ally or defender against God.
38. And We have sent messengers before you and We have made for them mates and
offspring. It was not for a messenger to come with any sign except by God's
leave, but for every time there is a decree.
39. God erases what He wishes and affirms, and with Him is the source of the
scripture.
40. And if We show you some of what We promise them or if We let you die, then
you are only to deliver while for Us is the reckoning.
41. Do they not see that We come to the land and reduce it from its ends? And
God gives judgment and there is none to override His judgment. And He is quick
to reckoning.
42. And those before them have schemed, but to God is all scheming. He knows
what every soul earns and the rejecters will come to know to whom is the better
abode.
43. And those who reject say: "You are not a messenger" Say: "God
is sufficient as a witness between me and you, the One who has the knowledge
of the scripture"