1. Praise be to God
who sent down the scripture to His servant, and He did not make in it any crookedness.
2. It is valuable, giving warning of the severe punishment from Him; and it
gives glad tidings to the believers who do good works, that they will have a
fair reward.
3. In which they will abide eternally.
4. And to warn those who said: "God Has taken a son"
5. They have no knowledge of this, nor do their fathers. Mighty indeed is the
word coming out of their mouths. They are but saying a lie!
6. Perhaps you will torment yourself in grief over them, because they will not
believe in this saying at all.
7. We have made what is on earth an adornment for them, so that We will test
them as to which is better in deeds.
8. And We will then make what is on it a barren wasteland.
9. Or did you perceive that the people of the cave and the numbers were of Our
wondrous signs?
10. When the youths hid in the cave, and they said: "Our Lord, bring us
a mercy from Yourself, and help us in our affair!"
11. So We sealed their ears in the cave for a number of years.
12. Then We sent them to know which of the two groups had remained for as long
as they stayed.
13. We narrate to you their news with truth. They were youths who believed in
their Lord, and We increased them in guidance.
14. And We made firm their hearts when they stood and said: "Our Lord,
the Lord of heavens and earth, we will not call besides Him any God. If we have
done so then it was in error"
15. "Here are our people, they have taken gods besides Him, while they
do they not come with any clear authority. Who then is more wicked than one
who invents lies about God?"
16. So when you withdraw from them and what they serve besides God, seek refuge
in the cave, and your Lord will distribute His mercy upon you and prepare for
your problem a solution.
17. And you see the sun when it rises, it visits their cave from the right,
and when it sets, it touches them from the left, while they are in an enclosure
from it. That is from God's signs. Whomever God guides is the guided one, and
whomever He misguides, you will not find for him any ally to lead.
18. And you would think they are awake while they are asleep. And We turn them
on the right-side and on the left-side, and their dog has his legs outstretched
in their midst. If you looked upon them you would have run away from them and
you would have been filled with terror from them!
19. And it was thus that We delivered them so they would ask themselves. A speaker
from amongst them said: "How long have you stayed?" They said: "We
stayed a day or part of a day" He said: "Your Lord is surely aware
how long you stayed, so send one of you with these stamped coins of yours to
the city, and let him see which is the tastiest food, and let him come with
a provision of it. And let him be careful and let no one take notice of you"
20. "If they discover you, they will stone you or return you to their creed.
Then you will never be successful"
21. And as such, We revealed their case so that they would know that God's promise
is true and that there is no doubt regarding the hour. They argued amongst themselves
regarding them, so they said: "Construct a building upon them, their Lord
is fully aware of them" Those who managed to win the argument said: "We
will construct a temple over them"
22. They will say: "Three, the fourth is their dog" And they say:
"Five, the sixth is their dog", guessing at what they do not know.
And they say: "Seven, and the eighth is their dog" Say: "My Lord
is fully aware of their number, none know them except for a few" So do
not debate in them except with proof, and do not seek information regarding
them from anyone.
23. And do not say of anything: "I will do this tomorrow"
24. "Except if God wills" And remember your Lord if you forget and
say: "Perhaps my Lord will guide me to what is nearer to this in wisdom"
25. And they remained in their cave three hundred years, that were increased
by nine.
26. Say: "God is fully aware in what they remained, to Him is the unseen
of heavens and earth, He sees and hears. They do not have besides Him any ally,
nor does He share in His judgment with anyone"
27. And recite what has been inspired to you from your Lord's Scripture, there
is no changing His words, and you will not find besides Him any refuge.
28. And have patience upon yourself regarding those who call their Lord in the
morning and evening seeking His direction, and let not your eyes overlook them
that you seek the beauty of this worldly life. And do not obey the one whom
We have made his heart heedless of Our remembrance and he followed his desire,
and his fate was lost.
29. And say: "The truth is from your Lord, so let whomever desires believe,
and whomever desires reject" We have prepared for the wicked a fire whose
walls will be surrounding them. And if they cry out, they are given a water
like boiling oil which burns their faces. What a miserable place!
30. Those who believe and do good works, We do not waste the reward of he who
has done well.
31. They will have the gardens of Eden with rivers flowing beneath them, and
they will be adorned with bracelets of gold and they will wear green garments
of fine silk. They will sit in it on raised thrones. Beautiful is the reward,
and beautiful is the dwelling place.
32. And give them the example of two men. We made for one of them two gardens
of grapes, and We surrounded them with palm trees, and We made between them
a green field.
33. Both gardens brought forth their fruit, and none failed in the least. And
We caused a river to pass through them.
34. And he had fruit, so he said to his friend while discussing with him: "I
am better off than you financially, and of great influence"
35. And he went back into his garden while he had wronged himself. He said:
"I do not think that this will ever perish"
36. "And I do not think that the hour is coming. And if I do go back to
my Lord, then I am sure to find with him even better than this as a reward"
37. His friend said to him while discussing with him: "Have you disbelieved
in the One who created you from dirt, then from a seed, then He evolved you
into a man?"
38. "But He is God, my Lord, and I do not place any partners at all with
my Lord"
39. "And if you enter your garden, you should have said: "This is
what God Has given, there is no power except by God" You see me as being
less than you in wealth and in children?"
40. "Perhaps my Lord will give me better than your garden, and He should
send upon it a violent storm from the sky, so it becomes completely barren"
41. "Or that its water becomes under-ground, so you will not be able to
seek it"
42. So his fruits were ruined, and he began turning his hands at that which
he has spent on it while it remained destroyed upon its foundations. And he
says: "I wish I did not make any partner with my Lord!"
43. And he had no group which could help against God, and he would not have
had victory.
44. Such is the true authority of God. He is best to reward, and best to punish.
45. And give them the example of this worldly life is like a water which We
have sent down from the sky, so that the plants of the earth mix with it and
it becomes murky being moved by the wind. And God is capable of all things.
46. Wealth and buildings are the beauty of this life. But the good that remains
behind is better with your Lord for a reward, and better for hope.
47. And the day We move the mountains, and you see the earth barren, and We
gather them. We did not leave out anyone of them.
48. And they are displayed before your Lord as a column: "You have come
to Us as We had created you the first time. No, you claimed We would not make
for you an appointed time!"
49. And the record was displayed, so you see the criminals fearful of what is
in it. And they say: "Woe to us!, what is wrong with this record that it
does not leave out anything small or large except that it has counted it"
And they found what they had done present. And your Lord does not wrong anyone.
50. And We said to the Angels: "Submit to Adam" So they all submitted
except for Satan, he was of the Jinn, so he disobeyed the order of his Lord.
Will you take him and his progeny as allies besides Me, while they are your
enemy? Miserable for the wicked is the substitute!
51. I did not make them witness the creation of heavens and earth, nor the creation
of themselves. Nor do I take the misleaders as helpers.
52. The day when He says: "Call on your partners that you had claimed"
So they called them, but they did not respond to them. And We made between them
a barrier.
53. And the criminals saw the Fire, and they realized they will be placed in
it, and they did not find any way to avert it.
54. And We have cited in this Quran every example for the people. But man was
always most argumentative.
55. And what prevented the people from believing when the guidance came to them,
and to seek forgiveness from their Lord? Are they waiting for what happened
to the people of old to come to them, or that the retribution be brought to
them face to face?
56. And We do not send the messengers except as bearers of good news and warners.
But those who reject will argue using falsehood to overshadow the truth with
it. And they took My revelations and what they have been warned with as a joke!
57. And who is more wicked than one who is reminded of his Lord's revelations
but he turned away from them, and he forgot what his hands had done. We have
made veils upon their hearts from understanding it, and a deafness in their
ears. And if you invite them to the guidance, they will never then be guided.
58. And your Lord is forgiving, with mercy. If He were to judge the people for
what they had already earned, He would hasten for them the retribution. No,
they have an appointment, beyond which they will find no escape.
59. And such are the towns which We had destroyed when they transgressed. And
We made for their destruction an appointed time.
60. And Moses said to his youth: "I will not stop until I reach the junction
of the two seas, or I spend a lifetime trying"
61. But when they did reach the junction between, they forgot their fish, and
it was able to make its way back to the sea in a stream.
62. And when they had passed further on, he said to his youth: "Bring us
our lunch; we have found much fatigue in this journey of ours"
63. He said: "Do you remember when we rested upon the rock? I forgot the
fish, and it was the devil that made me forget to remember it. It made its way
back to the sea amazingly!"
64. He said: "That is what we have been seeking!" So they went back
retracing their steps.
65. So they came upon a servant of Ours whom We had given him mercy from Us
and We taught him knowledge from Us.
66. Moses said to him: "Can I follow you so that you will teach me from
the guidance you have been taught?"
67. He said: "You will not be able to have patience with me"
68. "And how can you be patient about that which you have not been given
any news?"
69. He said: "You will find me, God willing, to be patient. And I will
not disobey any command of yours"
70. He said: "If you follow me, then do not ask about anything until I
relate it to you"
71. So they ventured forth until they rode in a boat and he put a hole in it.
He said: "Did you put a hole in it to drown its people? You have done something
dreadful!"
72. He said: "Did I not tell you that you will not be able to have patience
with me?"
73. He said: "Forgive me for what I forgot, and do not be hard upon my
request with you"
74. So they ventured forth until they found a boy, and he killed him. He said:
"Have you killed an innocent person without it having killed anyone? You
have truly come with something awful!"
75. He said: "Did I not tell you that you will not be able to have patience
with me?"
76. He said: "If I ask you about anything after this, then do not keep
me in your company. You will then have a reason over me"
77. So they ventured forth until they came to the people of a town. They requested
food from its people but they refused to host them. Then they found a wall which
was close to collapsing, so he built it. He said: "If you wished, you could
have asked a wage for it!"
78. He said: "For this, we will now part ways. I will inform you of the
meanings of those things that you could not have patience over"
79. "As for the boat, it belonged to some poor people who were working
the sea, so I wanted to damage it as there was a king coming who takes every
boat by force"
80. "And as for the boy, his parents were believers, so we feared that
he would oppress them by transgression and disbelief"
81. "So we wanted their Lord to replace for them with one who is better
than him in purity and closer to mercy"
82. "And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphaned boys in the city,
and underneath it was a treasure for them, and their father was a good person,
so your Lord wanted that they would reach their maturity and take out their
treasure as a mercy from your Lord. And none of what I did was of my own accord.
That is the meaning of what you could not have patience for"
83. And they ask you about Zul Qarn'ain, say: "I will recite to you a memory
from him"
84. We had established him in the land, and We had given him the means of everything.
85. So he followed the means.
86. Until he reached the setting of the sun, and he found it setting in a boiling
lake, and he found near it a people. We said: "O Zul Qarn'ain, either you
are to punish, or you are to do them good"
87. He said: "As for he who has transgressed, we will punish him then he
will be returned to his Lord and He will punish him an awful punishment"
88. "And as for he who believes and does good, then he will have the reward
of goodness, and we will speak to him simply of our plan"
89. Then he followed the means.
90. So when he reached the rising of the sin, he found it rising on a people
whom We did not make for them any cover except it.
91. So it was, and We knew ahead of time about what he intended.
92. Then he followed the means.
93. Until he reached the area between the two barriers, he found no one beside
it except a people who could barely understand anything said.
94. They said: "O Zul Qarn'ain, Gog and Magog are destroyers of the land,
so shall we make a tribute for you that you will make between us and them a
barrier?"
95. He said: "What my Lord has given me is far better. So help me with
strength and I will make between you and them a construct."
96. "Bring me pieces of iron" So, when he filled the gaps he said:
"Blow", until he made it fire, then he said: "Bring me molten
copper so I can pour over it"
97. So they could not come over it, and they could not penetrate it.
98. He said: "This is a mercy from my Lord. But when the promise of my
Lord comes, he will make it rubble. And the promise of my Lord is truth"
99. And We left them till that day to surge like waves on one another. And the
horn was blown so We gathered them together.
100. And We displayed Hell on that day to the disbelievers openly.
101. Those whose eyes were closed from My remembrance, and they were unable
to hear.
102. Did those who reject think that they can take My servants as allies besides
Me? We have prepared Hell for the rejecters as a dwelling place.
103. Say: "Shall we inform you of the greatest losers?"
104. "Those whose efforts in the worldly life were wasted while they thought
they were doing good!"
105. These are the ones who rejected the revelations of their Lord and His meeting.
So their works were in vain, and We will not give them any weight on the day
of judgment.
106. That is their recompense, Hell; for what they rejected and for taking My
revelations and My messengers for mockery!
107. Those who believe and do good works, they will have gardens of Paradise
as a dwelling place.
108. Abiding therein. They will not want to be moved from it.
109. Say: "If the sea were an inkwell for the words of my Lord, then the
sea would run out before the words of my Lord run out; even if we were to bring
another like it for its aid"
110. Say: "I am but a human being like you, being inspired that your God
is One God. So whoever looks forward to meeting his Lord, then let him do good
works and not set-up any partner in the service of his Lord."