1. A. L. M.
2. These are the signs of the wise scripture.
3. A guide and a mercy for the good doers.
4. Those who uphold the salat, and contribute to the zakat and regarding the
hereafter they are certain.
5. These are on a guidance from their Lord, and they are the successful ones.
6. And from the people, there are those who accept baseless narrations to mislead
from the path of God without knowledge, and they take it as entertainment. These
will have a humiliating retribution.
7. And when Our revelations are recited to him, he turns away arrogantly as
if he did not hear them, as if there is a deafness in his ears. So announce
to him a painful retribution.
8. Those who believe and do good works, for them will be gardens of bliss.
9. Abiding eternally therein with certainly, as promised by God. He is the Noble,
the Wise.
10. He created the heavens without pillars that you can see. And He placed in
the earth firm stabilizers so that it would not tumble with you, and He spread
on it all kinds of creatures. And We sent down water from the sky, thus We caused
to grow all kinds of good plants.
11. This is God's creation, so show me what those besides Him have created?
Indeed, the transgressors are far astray.
12. And We had given Luqmaan the wisdom: "You shall be thankful to God,
and whoever is thankful is being thankful for his own good. As for whosoever
rejects, then God is Rich, Praiseworthy"
13. And Luqmaan said to his son, while he was advising him: "O my son,
do not set up any partners with God; for setting up partners is an immense wrongdoing"
14. And We enjoined the human being regarding his parents. His mother bore him
with hardship upon hardship, and his weaning takes two lunar years. You shall
give thanks to Me, and to your parents. To Me is the final destiny.
15. If they try to force you to set up any partners beside Me, do not obey them.
But continue to treat them amicably in this world. You shall follow only the
path of those who have submitted to Me. Ultimately, you all return to Me, then
I will inform you of everything you have done.
16. "O my son, if it be anything even as the weight of a mustard seed,
be it deep inside a rock, or be it in the heavens or the earth, God will bring
it. God is Sublime, Expert"
17. "O my son, uphold the salat and advocate righteousness and forbid evil,
and bear with patience whatever befalls you. These are the most honourable traits"
18. "And do not turn your cheek arrogantly from people, nor shall you roam
the earth insolently. For God does not like the arrogant show offs"
19. "And be humble in how you walk and lower your voice. For the harshest
of all voices is the donkey's voice"
20. Did you not see that God has committed in your service everything in the
heavens and the earth, and has showered you with His blessings, both apparent
and hidden? Yet from the people are some who argue about God without knowledge,
without guidance, and without the enlightening scripture.
21. And if they are told: "Follow that which God has sent down" They
say: "No, we will follow what we found our fathers doing" What if
the devil is leading them to the agony of Hell?
22. And whosoever complies himself completely to God, while he is righteous,
then he has taken hold of the strongest bond. And to God all matters will return.
23. And whosoever rejects, then do not be saddened by his rejection. To us is
their ultimate return, then We will inform them of what they had done. God is
fully aware of what is inside the chests.
24. We let them enjoy for a while, then We commit them to severe retribution.
25. And if you ask them: "Who created the heavens and the earth?"
They will say: "God" Say: "Praise be to God" Yet, most of
them do not know.
26. To God belongs everything in the heavens and the earth. God is the Rich,
the Praiseworthy.
27. And if all the trees on earth were made into pens, and the ocean were supplied
by seven more oceans, the words of God would not run out. God is Noble, Wise.
28. Your creation and your resurrection is all as one breath. God is Hearer,
Seer.
29. Have you not seen that God merges the night into the day and merges the
day into the night, and that He has committed the sun and the moon, each running
to a predetermined term; and that God is expert of everything you do?
30. That is because God is the truth, and that which they call on besides Him
is falsehood, and that God is the High, the Great.
31. Have you not seen the ships sailing the sea, carrying God's provisions,
to show you some of His signs? In that are signs for every one who is patient,
thankful.
32. And when waves surround them like mountains, they call on God, sincerely
devoting the system to Him. But when He saves them to the shore, some of them
revert. None discard Our signs except those who are betrayers, unappreciative.
33. O mankind, you shall reverence your Lord, and fear a day when a father cannot
help his own child, nor can a child help his father. Certainly, God's promise
is truth. Therefore, do not be deceived by this worldly life; and do not be
deceived from God by arrogance.
34. With God is the knowledge regarding the Hour. And He sends down the rain,
and He knows what is inside the wombs. No soul knows what it may gain tomorrow,
nor does any soul know in which land it will die. God is Knowledgeable, Expert.